I love baby play and baby toys, and Anna has many more of them than she needs. I get them as hand-me-downs, find them at yard sales, and occasionally get them as review items (like the cute ALEX Toys Max Round the Farm ball sitting in the box with her). I even splurged and bought Sophie the Giraffe and this Baby Banana Bendable Training Toothbrush. Does a baby toothbrush count as a toy? Anna thinks so!
But the humble cardboard box is one of Anna’s favorite toys! Here you can see her playing with her first-ever cardboard box – a new flat-rate box I had put together to ship this weighted blanket in. Which is why she got away with eating it as much as she did…
Do you have an orange box? Turn it into a non-shape sorter! Cutting holes in a regular box works, too!
As Anna gets older, I expect she will use cardboard boxes as push toys as well! Maybe this summer she will be ready to paint her first cardboard canvas! Then this fall I can make her a cardboard washer/dryer, and maybe Johnny can help me make her a cardboard laptop for one of her birthdays. Pretty soon, she will be building her own cardboard houses, and I’m already on the lookout for a box large enough to build a light-up cardboard space shuttle for all four kids!
What is your favorite baby toy? How about your baby’s favorite?
Alicia McCandlish says
As a person who has worked at UPS for 15 yrs I would never let my baby play with a cardboard box that has been shipped. These boxes are exposed to so much filth from people’s boots, sweat, snot rockets, spit, spills from other packages inside the trucks ( some of which could be hazardous material). To stabilize my daughter I use a square laundry basket, the same one I keep her toys in and that she uses to practice walking and that we sit her in to push her around for a ride.