tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post1568025983728906820..comments2024-03-20T18:36:43.524-04:00Comments on Thrift at Home: DIY Baby ToysMargohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16345165456341197559noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post-56928243574918918192015-12-25T05:26:39.496-05:002015-12-25T05:26:39.496-05:00Great post. Thanks for your post.Great post. Thanks for your post.Greta M. Davishttp://babyparadisestore.com/best-baby-swing/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post-51592750198312366692015-12-08T13:51:14.756-05:002015-12-08T13:51:14.756-05:00These ideas are wonderful - and our grandson is ju...These ideas are wonderful - and our grandson is just the right age to enjoy them. Thanks so much for posting at just the right time!<br /><br />Phoebe looks like a very happy little soul!jenny_ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475480579733466963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post-12342700288858941732015-12-08T13:50:11.128-05:002015-12-08T13:50:11.128-05:00I love this! One of my niece's favorites was a...I love this! One of my niece's favorites was an empty bottle with dried beans (also glued shut) - such a nice shake!<br /><br />My daughter is 9 1/2 months (9 3/4??) and we also use temporary toys, like boxes, egg cartons, and empty tissue boxes (yes, in spite of hankies on heavy rotation, we do still have tissue boxes) until they start to break down and become too easily edible. They are all fun to put things in and out of, shake around, open and close.<br /><br />Other favorites are a couple small metal bowls to knock around, an empty spice bottle that rolls across the floor, and boxes of tea (blocks!), though she's starting to figure out how to get into those so that may not last much longer ;-)<br /><br />Your cloud lovey is adorable. I'd love to try that, but more likely the bottle with water, oil and color is the most likely thing I'll actually get to!Melaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13675368202521191373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post-51408980506703174632015-12-08T10:53:25.662-05:002015-12-08T10:53:25.662-05:00Your daughter is so precious! I've always enj...Your daughter is so precious! I've always enjoyed seeing the various things you create, and now it's especially delicious to see what you have come up with for a little one! I dream of sewing and making things for babies, but so far mine have come so close together that I'm kind of just surviving and struggle to find time for handicrafts at all. So, I guess I'm also saying thanks for letting me live that joy vicariously through your blog!sarah e.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13716363390221286512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post-23517494246409617382015-12-08T08:55:05.276-05:002015-12-08T08:55:05.276-05:00So clever of you! Great ideas!!So clever of you! Great ideas!!Mother Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04810782815829656395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post-80105483798392651802015-12-08T04:23:37.991-05:002015-12-08T04:23:37.991-05:00She loves those!
One idea I saw once that I tho...She loves those! <br /><br />One idea I saw once that I thought was genius, was making fabric scraps or samples into hemmed pieces, that then were stuffed into an old square tissue box, to allow the toddler to pull out and stuff back in as long as they please. I love it because they so love doing that with real tissue boxes, which of course can't go on.<br /><br />An old Parmesan Cheese container with large plastic pieces in it (very, very oversized 'buttons') also serves first with interest as a rattle, but later as a dumping things out and then carefully placing back in the flip lid opening. Shake, shake, shake, dump out, replace, etc.<br /><br />And those stockings are beautiful!<br /><br />Anoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post-4057646045458116492015-12-06T20:50:41.015-05:002015-12-06T20:50:41.015-05:00These are fun. I think I am going to copy your ide...These are fun. I think I am going to copy your ideas. I made a "pillow" stuffed with crinkled up chip bags when Edwin was a baby, and that toy has been fun for all three of mine, but I haven't make any others. AmyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533253642382255346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post-31995939009707438532015-12-06T16:03:54.769-05:002015-12-06T16:03:54.769-05:00I love this! Those toys are great! Have you seen ...I love this! Those toys are great! Have you seen the documentary "Babies?" I watched it about 3 days before Annie was born. It was fascinating, and I loved seeing how the babies in Africa and Mongolia had completely different 'baby experiences' (things to play with, exploration antics, oversight) than the babies in the first-world countries. Babies need so much less purchased "stuff" than we think they do!! Pollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09403233175071026416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post-21152398109824274432015-12-06T15:04:47.694-05:002015-12-06T15:04:47.694-05:00Third child: eats poison-glued toys and Mom doesn&...Third child: eats poison-glued toys and Mom doesn't care.<br /><br />Fourth child: no toys, just dirt. <br />Jennifer Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15595231987892881691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post-30244220859900847422015-12-06T11:48:22.321-05:002015-12-06T11:48:22.321-05:00One of my daughter's favorite toys as a baby w...One of my daughter's favorite toys as a baby was an empty baking powder can she 'saved' from the recycling bin one day when she was just big enough to pull herself up and look in it. She carted that can around for years.Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13879162672311458964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post-29867853323246098222015-12-06T11:01:34.989-05:002015-12-06T11:01:34.989-05:00Great ideas! I have my 1st grandbaby on the way an...Great ideas! I have my 1st grandbaby on the way and I'd love to make somethings like this...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00576053785355324560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post-49297936363877234362015-12-06T08:45:19.169-05:002015-12-06T08:45:19.169-05:00Great ideas, and what an adorable little girl she ...Great ideas, and what an adorable little girl she is!!Alicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17973714830730420149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956538942392497830.post-15664478549064142862015-12-06T01:18:59.360-05:002015-12-06T01:18:59.360-05:00Such good ideas. Phoebe is growing fast , such a s...Such good ideas. Phoebe is growing fast , such a sweet baby. Leishahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10550858502158736036noreply@blogger.com