Question by Sweet Fanny Adams: Let’s get creative! Do you know any home made baby toys?
My 6 months little boy get tired of his toys quite quickly (like most babies I guess) and I don’t want to buy him new stuff all the time (I buy too much as it is I think). He recently started crawling and I found him going for 1.5 liter water bottles lying on the ground. So I took one, took the label off and a colorful ribbon, some beads and some other things that make a nice rattling sound (you can simply use dry pasta if you have nothing else in the house) inside the bottle. Then I put the cap on with super glue and gave it to him. He loves it! He played with it so much today, crawling after it all over the place.
Does anyone know of similar, easy to make, toys for babies?
Katie W: Not to brag or anything, but he’s standing as well! He’s been in a rush to grow up since he was born. I tell him to take it easy, but does he listen? No way 
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Answer by ♥Ɲɨƈɧơƪα♥ Μʋɱɱʯ Ʈơ Ѕơƥɦɨɘ
empty a plastic bottle of water, fill it with lentils / beans / peas. shut it over tightly.you could paint it or leave it clear, my girl loves them we call the shaker-makers
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We have something similar to those. I took smaller bottles (juice sized or travel sized) and filled them half way with water, added some drops of food coloring, filled the rest up with mineral oil (baby oil works too) and added some beads and glitter. Now we have a few “lava lamp” type bottles. The ones that rattle are awesome, too!
I made a couple of “crinkle bags” when he was younger and enjoyed the sound of plastic and paper crinkling. I made a small “pillow” out of fabric with a few plastic grocery bags as the stuffing. That gave him a safe, fun, crinkling thing to play with.
Some of my favorite home made toys are not really toys. Some of my son’s favorites were old CDs that were scratched, some extra computer cables, tubes of lipgloss (with a screw top, not pop), and more recently the head phones for the computer. Of course we supervise him with these things since they aren’t exactly “baby safe”, but they’ve been a blast.
Making dyed silky scarves looks like a lot of fun too, especially for babies who have an obsession with tags.
http://www.make-baby-stuff.com/play-silks.html
Your 6 month old is crawling!!! my little lazy legs is nearly 7 month & still not rolling over more than once a day, i must stop handing her those toys so quickly!!!
Any way even though she won’t move about she loves me tearing magazines up it really makes her laugh and she also loves sitting in the bath splashing about, sometimes i jump in the bath with her in the afternoon for 20min just to splash about.