Entertaining your children

Yeah my 2 year old is like that. She plays with bags, boxes, paper's wrappers. A lot of time she wants to play little mama so she wants help take care of her little brother. Yeah they grow out of that age so quickly after a few years but it's always fun to watch them use there minds and play with no just toys but other things. Finger painting and homemade play dough is my daughters new favorite thing to do.

It is funny how kids have so many toys and just want to play with the paper or box or something like that. My 9 yr old nephew plays more with the box the toy came in then with the toy sometimes. One time my 9 yr old niece and 4 yr old nephew(they are brother and sister) played in the box something came in and liked it better than any toy. Sometimes my niece will play with paper and make things out of paper rather than play with a toy and i think that is neat like arts and crafts. i tell a lot of stories about my niece and nephews because i do not have kids of my own and am unable to get pregnant so 4 different doctors have told me. So spoil my niece and nephews and that's why i talk about them and how they like to play with cardboard from the paper towels or the box something came in.

I know, right!? It's really funny how many toys my son and my baby brother has yet still, At times, They would play with random things like the clothes hangers, clothes pin, pillow and stuff. I guess when they get tired of playing with their toys, They look for other things they can play with. It's amazing how kids imagination works. They can make anything into whatever they want.

Mine is currently amusing himself by saying 'is it my turn yet?' approximately every 15 seconds. He wants to play on my computer!

It has always amazed me how much imagination children can have. My son seems to enjoy playing with things that are not toys more than his toys, at times. I try to come up with ideas of lesson plans or something creative I think he might enjoy, yet somehow we always end up doing something silly instead.

My son plays all sorts of toys and even not toys. He is fond of playing with tissue paper he will roll it and tear the tissue paper and throw them. He likes to play with cottons too and would like to eat them. :-) It's kind of funny whenever I see him play with them. :-)

Yep. Just like the kids at Christmas. New toys everywhere and what do they do? Play with the empty boxes and wrapping paper! Toys are nice, but they need to be creative, too and things like that allow them to do that.

A disabled child's high chair arrived at my home today. My son and daughter liked playing with the cardboard box and the silver piece of card. With some help my son made it into a monster mask. They had a fantastic time. We went for what would usually be a long and boring appointment at the wheelchair center. The wheelchair center manageress gave two large cardboard boxes for my son and daughter to play with. These kept them busy and very happy. It sounds like your son had a delightful time.

It is great how they can find very simple things to amuse themselves.

I remember way back when I was a child, we had few toys. I actually remember playing Jacks with rocks. Sometimes I had a ball, but other times, I just threw up a rock and tried to pick up the required number of rock jacks before the rock ball hit the ground. My children had more toys than I did, but they'd still play more with other things, like my pots and pans.

I discovered babysitting my grandson that children don`t play. They study as hard as anyone. I remember my grandson had lots of toys. He was not a year old yet. He picked up a toy, tasted it, made it roll, smashed it and put it away. Then he picked another. After he was bored with his toys, I washed an apple and an orange and gave them to him. He did the same. I thought then that that was his way of learning about shapes, odours and tastes. He was using his senses to the utmost. No need, I guess, to buy expensive toys. It`s just a mattrer of giving them a small piece of our world

This was definitely something that I saw my children doing at Christmas. They got a lot of great things for Christmas and yet for the first few days after Christmas, the thing that was their favorite was that they loved the huge cardboard box that their guitars had been shipped to us in. It was a car and it was a bed and then when it started to rip apart, this cardboard box was something that was transformed into a dance floor. They are six and ten years old and they had a blast with a simple cardboard box. I'm so glad that they are both able to use their imaginations so well.

Yeah! So I have noticed! My son is equally creative in making his own toys out of cardboard boxes, cans and other stuff. He would even check on Youtube how to make these toys.

ha ha..so true. my oldest daughter (shes 9 now) was completely obsessed with the boxes rather than the toys. and my baby (shes 7 months old) would rather play with the tags on her stuffed animals.