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Fun Around the House
10 Items That Make Great Infant Toys
By I.J. Schecter
6. Television Remote
While watching TV is a passive activity and therefore not ideal for infant development, the remote itself can be a useful toy. Babies love pressing buttons wherever they see them, and this provides them with a self-contained panel of lots of different buttons to press. If you have a remote with an LED (red light) that goes on whenever a button is pressed, the toy becomes even more fun and educational – your infant will be spellbound by the relationship between his effort and the light appearing. 
7. Empty Plastic Bottles
One of the few good things about our society's obsessive consumption of soft drinks is the enjoyment infants get from the bottles they come in, once emptied. The smaller the bottle, the better for little hands to manipulate. The larger ones can provide lots of fun, too, by being rolled back and forth or knocked ahead only to rotate back. Empty shampoo bottles also work well. 
8. Used Toilet Roll Tubes
Part of me thinks the toilet roll tube came first – as a wonderful infant toy – followed by the invention of toilet paper rolls to place around them. These tubes have lots going for them as baby toys. They're an interesting cylindrical shape, but open at the ends and thus easy for little hands to grasp. They're stiff, so your baby won't destroy them in five minutes. They don't look like something that would be interesting to eat, even to an infant. And they can be banged against other objects without harmful consequences. Want to see more?
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