https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:16:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-household-items-have-you-turned-into-unconventional-toys-lately#post-2620980 Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:00:16 +0000 808love 2620980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: Baster in the tub! I need to do this again! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-household-items-have-you-turned-into-unconventional-toys-lately#post-2620747 Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:15:21 +0000 KayKay 2620747@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Laundry basket == makeshift walker for the littles; boat/rocket/etc for the toddler/preschool ages</p> <p>Broom == they just sweep with it. We even have a good mini kids version, and they both fight over the adult-sized one.</p> <p>Round brush == for some reason, both of my girls are convinced this is a play "trumpet" and walk around pretending to play! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-household-items-have-you-turned-into-unconventional-toys-lately#post-2620719 Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:39:19 +0000 looch 2620719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son uses his solid surface diaper changing pad (like a keekaroo peanut) as a race track for his hotwheels cars.</p> <p>He uses a baster and a silicone basting brush in the tub, along with plastic coffee cans as buckets.</p> <p>I've made sponges into sponge bombs for the pool. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-household-items-have-you-turned-into-unconventional-toys-lately#post-2620708 Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:23:31 +0000 LindsayLou 2620708@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>-Tupperware. She loves to take it out of the drawer and put it back in, stack it, carry the tiny kids around, put toys in the Tupperware, etc.<br /> -spoons, all spoons.<br /> -measuring cups and spoons, instant stacking toy, great for rattling and shaking around.<br /> -all boxes<br /> -laundry baskets<br /> -paper bags, putting toys in, carrying them around<br /> -shoe boxes<br /> -hairbrushes and combs<br /> -pillows, climb on them, hide behind them<br /> -travel shampoo bottles filled with dried beans for a shaker </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-household-items-have-you-turned-into-unconventional-toys-lately#post-2620617 Tue, 13 Sep 2016 11:39:16 +0000 codeitall 2620617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Flyswatter and a mini kickball. Way better than the traditional hard plastic golf set when he hits something/someone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-household-items-have-you-turned-into-unconventional-toys-lately#post-2620522 Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:51:07 +0000 LuLu Mom 2620522@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Whisk in the bathtub with bubble bath...automatic bubble maker. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-household-items-have-you-turned-into-unconventional-toys-lately#post-2620476 Tue, 13 Sep 2016 06:01:22 +0000 ValentineMommy 2620476@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pots/pans and a wooden spoon. Instant drums. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/which-household-items-have-you-turned-into-unconventional-toys-lately#post-2620445 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 22:28:57 +0000 808love 2620445@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you go to Costco for paper towels....you just bought your kid hours worth of fun!LO opened up our case of individually wrapped paper towels and has been having a blast building, knocking down and imagining worlds of fun with this. Unconventional 'toys' are often more fun than store bought. </p> <p>Another good one when LO was much younger was to turn a strainer upside down and put pipe cleaners or pasta in the holes. </p> <p>Then there are boxes. Anything and everything goes. The most memorable was when LO turned it into a mural and DH turned into a car. </p>