The Top Ten Toddler Toys
Here they are, in no particular order. Toys ‘R Us, take notice.
These are (from personal experience) the top 10 Toddler Toys
10. Sheer drapes to play peekaboo in. :coffee2:
9. A remote control that powers any electronic device, preferably a television.
8. A set of eyeglasses. Prescription glasses worth over $100 are the best kind.
7. Power cords. Especially when you can gnaw on them and scare Mom within an inch of her life.
6. Trash cans. You can take everything out and strew it around the room. Entertainment!
5. A roll of toilet paper to spin and fling gleefully around the bathroom.
4. Spices. It’s such fun to shake them and leave the paprika and garlic under the living room cushions.
3. Toilets. You can flush any object down them and it’s really great when you flood the bathroom. Puddles for splashing! :headspin:
2. Magazines and newspapers. They’re great to tear up, especially Mommy’s parenting magazines.
1. Mom’s purse. The best part is taking everything out and presenting family guests with special objects like lipstick and tampons. 
What would you add to the list?
Michelle posted in Writing @ 6:00 am | Viewed 1523 times
Bonnie Ferguson Says:
Teresa Says:
LOL! What a great list. No kids here, but lots of neices and nephews.
Jill Says:
The remotes. All those buttons make such fun toys …
Margery Scott Says:
Keys for sticking in sockets to see how electricity works. My kids loved that. Oh wait, I’m dating myself. They have covers these days, don’t they?
Michelle Styles Says:
Key rings — perfect for playing hiding and seek. Very irritating if your key ring has been hidden and another child is at a birthday party and you are running late…
Shoes — again great for hiding. I understand either Prince William or Prince Harry once flushed a new pair down the toilet. Double the fun.
Tori Says:
I don’t recall when I was a toddler, but when I was older empty boxes were great fun to play with. They could be a castle, a ranch house, and if you had a bunch of small boxes you could create an entire town!
Mary Says:
Oh, kids are such a blast. I remeber cleaning the bathroom, and then my daughter dusting the entire room with baby powder. Maybe that’s why I didn’t have any more.:coffee:
kacey Says:
Big boxes to make forts out of. Sheets and blankets to make forts out of. Furniture to move around to make forts out of. Yes, I have boys, why do you ask??? :coffee2:
Danica Says:
Oh I am so glad that my children are not the only ones who pass out tampons to guests.
Cell phones are also a particular hit in my household. Flip phones work the best, and do not try to fool the child with a toy flip phone or an old flip phone that’s been deactivated.
Dirt, dog food, and plants. Not only are they an essential part of any toddler’s diet, but they make for great decorations all over the house.
Laundry. Only when clean and neatly folded thank you very much. It’s used to play, “torment the stupid lady.” She folds it, you tear it up. Keep repeating until she starts screaming, ripping her hair out, and, for extra points, she starts crying.
Books. How can anyone miss the joy of those things? First, you pull them off the shelf. Then when that gets boring, because Mommy has so many, you can build stuff with them. Towers, houses, horse corrals, you name it, you can build it with books. And because there are so many books, and building also gets boring, you can also find some nice markers, crayons, pens, but never pencils, because those erase, and draw something pretty in them. After a while of crazy lady screaming at you and ripping them out of your hands (which is mildly entertaining for a short period of time), start giving her books, along with a cute look (pouty lip works really well) and she’ll pick you up and start reading to you. When that gets boring (ie: she reads more than one word), start pulling on the pages. When either you or crazy lady get bored with that one, you can play the final and bestest game, hide and seek. Find the ones with the prettiest covers and hide them. The best ones to hide are the ones crazy lady has just brought home.
Michele Says:
The Sprayer hose in the sink is a good toy. See how far it sprays straight across! Up is good too.
Yarn is a great toy….Thread works better because depending on the color, it’s invisable..race around unraveling it as you go around the chairs, table, up the stairs , down the stairs and then leave it for a parental unit to find….:roll:
Mom’s scented Hand Creams- they are good ALL OVER!!
Vacuum cleaner - mommies little helpers- How big a thing can you suck and not get it stuck?
Oh Yeah, household toys are the best!:shocked:
Suzanne Says:
Boxes. I mean, why buy toys when you can just give them boxes???
Rene Says:
Today was a typical day with my 2 year old. See how many toys you can spot?
While I was in sorting laundry this morning, used the drawers as a stepladder and climbed onto the kitchen counter to get a bowl from the cabinet. She poured herself a bowl of lucky charms. When I discovered her, I put her at the table with her cereal then went back to the laundry. She proceeded to my bedroom and spilled the cereal all over my bed. Later, I went up to clean the bathrooms and play screaming meanie to the older kids so they would clean up their room. I’d forgotten to replace the lock on my one refrigerator, so she took that as an invitation to get into the fridge, grab a bottle of snow cone syrup and poured it all over my floor. After I cleaned that up, I went back to my laundry and she went upstairs. Not trusting as far as I could throw her, I went upstairs to find her bathing a doll in the toilet–a toilet with toilet bowl cleaner in it still. But at least she splashed water all over the clean floor. Later, she and her sister are watching tv on my cereal-free bed. I went back to the laundry and the phone rang. While talking on the phone, my older daughter rushes in to tell me her sister peed all over the bed. While I went to the laundry room to get a rag, she went into my unfinished bathroom and poured baby shampoo all over the green board and the floor. I don’t know how she got the shampoo–it was up. So I totally lose it and scream words only heard on “Deadwood” and the “Sopranos.” Her sister wisely herds her upstairs. Now I figure it is time for a beer. Get my beer, go back and finish cleaning up the shampoo. I discover the baby with a jar of peanutbutter I’d thrown in the trash can smearing out the last bits of peanutbutter. This is in addition to the stealing of a CapriSun and sneaking it upstairs (I found the evidence later) and grabbing a plum out of the fruit basket that I had place high on the counter but she figured out how to get to. I have plum smearings all over my floor. My pantry has a lock on it, the side-by-side Maytag has a lock on it and I have wrapped a bungie cord around the handles of my Sub Zero reefers so she can’t open those. All interior doors are locked and I have special latch on the one exterior door because she can work a deadbolt.
I wish I could say this day was an anamoly, but it is pretty typical.
Olga Says:
Michelle, that was a great list! You either have a wonderful sense of humor, or kids that keep you busy, or both!
Michelle Says:
Key rings and boxes! So true. Oh, and wrapping paper rolls to use as swords. :starwars:
Cell phones–YES. My daughter can’t keep her hands off them. LOL on the books Danica!
Rene–oh, sounds familiar! This is very much like my life.
Ah, kids! They make our lives so interesting.