No, I am not talking about expensive or hard-to-find or one-of-a-kind rarities that probably us adults enjoy more than the kids. As I imagine most parents may have discovered by the time their children turn one, Grace and I find that the things that make the best toys are…. ordinary household objects.
Think about it from a child’s perspective: They come in different forms, shapes, functions and colors. Many of them are “durable” (depends on how hard your particular child throws things). And many of them will engage the young minds for a good while. One of the things Bryan enjoys doing is fetching and digging out what he can find from my “office supplies” drawer — which happens to be the bottom drawer. The one thing he enjoys the most (for now) is to put a roll of scotch tape on an upright position and to watch it roll across the floor.
There are some things I don’t allow Bryan to take out of the drawer, though. But sometimes he’ll do it just to see if I’d stop him. One time he saw me observing him taking a few of those objects out of the drawer. He looked at me, and then he looked at those objects and slowly puts them back in the drawer one by one. All that without me saying a word! It was pretty funny when it happened. 😉