What is your toddlers favorite non-toy item to play with?

[gbailey]

DD is fond of my pedometer (thank god it came in the mail for free and i'm not concerned about her breaking it). She uses it as a "cell phone" and uses it to have conversations with her friends.

[JustVanessa]

The bag of potatoes in the kitchen. He plays with them like babies.

[DevaMajka]

ds loves my tongs (what you use to flip food over while cooking) and spatulas.

oh, and the corded phone we keep on hand for emergencies (though obviously we watch him carefully when he has that).

[curiouscanadian]

The stock pot. Seriously. No matter how many times I tell him it's not a toy, and that his (toy) pots are over there, he still wants it.

[curiouscanadian]

Oh, another one is our parmesan cheese grater. DS loves that thing.

[GardenStream]

tongs and the digital camera

[Chamomile Girl]

Cell phone, wooden spoon, pots. And the cat.

[Summersquash]

Pumpkins. We have a few smaller ones inside and she's constantly picking them up, moving them around, hugging them, talking to them, etc. (This our second year of pumpkin obsession. It started last year at 11 months.)

My cell phone

A really old Power Bar she found in our pantry (I think the shiny wrapping is of interest to her...most of our food doesn't have slick packaging like that)

[crunchy_mommy]

The vacuum. Which oddly, he's terrified of, but he loves to push it around turned off and make his own noise. He also loves the spray bottle of cleaning mixture and rags. He "cleans" everything. Weird because DH & I are complete slackers about cleaning so I don't know where he got these ideas

[physmom]

DD loves non-toy toys (but she's also a toy addict too ). Here are some of her favorites:

-stroller (she climbs up it and slides down)
-oven mitts/pots/stove (I keep telling her NOT to play with the stove but she heads straight for it when it's off... at least she stays FAR away from it when it's hot)
-towel bar in the bathroom (she thinks this is GREAT for pull-ups even if DH and I have other opinions...)
-blankets (she makes tents out of them)
-wipes (I swear she purposely draws on the floor so I make her wipe it up afterwards )
-physics/math textbooks (it's insane how many pictures I have of her flipping through a quantum physics book but they do have cool graphs, I guess )
-aluminum foil (it's shiny, enuff said!)
-plastic refill bags of diaper wipes (they apparently make great building blocks)
-step stool (besides for getting to things she shouldn't she likes to turn it upside down because it has a grid that she likes to walk on)
-toothbrushes/backpacks/purses/shoes/hairbrushes
-empty toilet paper rolls (either as trumpets or to play "i spy")
-clocks/bathroom scale/measuring tape (she loves to see the numbers)
-hand weights (nornally only if I forgot to put them away after a work out but she'll carry them around the house and roll them around on the floor)

[1stBabyAt39]

Keys! Cell phone!

Seriously, I wish they made toy keys and phones that looked more like the real things. She has toy keys and two toy phones, none of which she is interested in. I will occasionally hand her a set of keys, and she tries to put them in the front door lock (which she can't reach). So funny how they see us do something and mimic us later!

[gaudynight]

Wooden spoons. She's got her own set.

Baskets full of clean laundry, folded or not. I can't turn my back on it for thirty seconds or she's pulling it out to make piles or try on other people's clothes. Good thing she's cute when I find her in DH's shirt and the cat on big sister's dresses!

[BtotheG]

DD's favorites right now are keys, shoes, wooden spoons, and the dogs' water bowl.

[treeoflife3]

everything. She would play with anything not for kids before she'd play with her toys

remotes, keys, cell phones, computers, cameras, pots and pans and other cooking stuff, she loves climbing in clothes baskets, cloth wipes (she likes to wipe her hands and face and 'clean') she loves to sit in the drivers seat of the car and pretend to drive, dvd cases, shoes, she LOVES tooth brushes, stroller, she tries to climb on the stove...

she is so silly. Most of the time she only plays with her toys if I remind her that she has them to play with... or if she is watching ME play with them.

[Bebe's Mom]

OMG, everything she can get her hands on. The cell phone is tops, followed by the DVD and TV remotes. Plus anything she can get her hands on that she isn't supposed to have...She also loves boxes and tupperware.

[peaceful_mama]

DS2 LOVES to get out all my pots and pans. Lots of times he will do this while I'm cooking, all the ones I'm not using. He says "I makin' noo-ohs" (that's noodles ) Always noo-ohs *occasionally* he gets a toy cup and says he is making coffee

The phone. Obsessed with it. Will come when I'm on it "I wanna talk! I wanna talk!"

[curious&eager]

CD player is his favorite
My computer/laptop
Cell phone, any phone
Remotes
Crock pot, rice cooker- these trump pots and pans any day
Toilet paper
Any paper, magazines, stuff to shred
Baby wipes
Anything in a closet/cabinet
Potholders to open the oven
Ziplock bags can keep him happy for a long time
The vegetables in the veggie drawer in the fridge
The next door neighbor's cat food bowl- ugh.

[babymango]

Recycling! He LOVES anything that's in that bin. I had to start splitting my recycling into toddler friendly (plastic containers, paper,...) and non toddler friendly (glass, metal cans with sharp edges)
He'll empty the bin, fill it up again, stack up the yogourt containers, line up milk bottles...

[~Charlie's~Angel~]

My box of tampons.

One of these times, im gonna take a pic of him surrounded by them with one in his mouth, and show it to him when hes 15.

[handsandfeet]

Big brooms and mops (little replicas won't do)

anything with buttons

dog water dish (he mostly likes to put things into it, which often leads to destruction)