Tuesday, August 24, 2010

My son needs to make a safe, homemade toy for an infant or toddler for parenting class, any suggestions?

1.Take an empty clear plastic water bottle. Fill it 4/5 with light Karo Syrup, the rest of the way with water. Put in some shiny or interesting things such as glitter, small beads, tiny animal figures or anything that will fit through the opening. Either hot glue or duct tape the cap back on. Shake. This makes sort of a snow globe, but the things float down slowly. You can roll it back and forth with the child or they can shake it. I've seen a group of toddlers play with these for half an hour.


2. Take those colorful plastic Easter eggs, put some rice, beans, or bells inside. Hot glue them shut . Use them as rattles or musical instruments.My son needs to make a safe, homemade toy for an infant or toddler for parenting class, any suggestions?
Take (about) a 5 x 5 cube of foam. Using small fabric squares of varying colors and textures, help your son seam the fabric together to cover the cube. Each side should be a different color or colorful pattern, and have varying textures.My son needs to make a safe, homemade toy for an infant or toddler for parenting class, any suggestions?
take a small bottle of water (1pint) or Eclipse gum BigePak or any other container (anything that CANNOT fit through a toilet paper roll core=the size of a baby throat) and put some buttons, dry beans, gravel in it, and voila you have a rattle. Super-glue the cap for safety..
With my son we got and old vitamin bottle (one of the bigger ones) filled it with rice or beans and glued the lid on with a glue gun.He still has in 2 years later!
Take an empty clear pop bottle and put water in it. Place small floating toys and glitter in the bottle. Seal this shut with hot glue.

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