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Need a toy and don't have one? Never fear, here's how to make your very own balloon car from simple everyday household items :D

I had a toy piano as a small child, it was awesome! (Of course, I never sounded quite like this playing it..lol.)

Lincoln Logs are so awesome. I may buy myself some for the Holidays!!!

I have to have one now.

Who doesn't love them??

He works in his kitchen, much the way I now play in mine. I wish my food came out so pretty!

Rubber Ducks can be fun.



Add a cam, a flooded balcony, and a VERY bored individual..and perhaps a little too much fun..

Nothing brings out someone's imagination (adult and child alike) than the more simple of toys. Little wooden blocks, you can do so much with them!



Here's even another application I had never thought of:

I want one of these this Winter!

Garden hoses are some of the neatest toys.



They can be hooked up to gadgets to make spraying fountains of summertime wonder.



They can fill up dug trenches to create moats around sandbox castle creations.



They can fill up the bucket with which to make igloo and fort bricks in the Winter.



They can be attack weapons with which to "surprise" members of family, friends, and poor unsuspecting pets alike.



They can create rainbows for viewing, and when no longer functioning, utilized properly, can even become the snake in the grass with which to avoid during games.



A rather clumsy jump rope. (Oh do be careful, they are heavy.)



They can provide the cable needed for stringing sheets over when building clubhouses..and are very very good for creating lines to serve as nets in various games in which "pieces are missing."



There is no end to a garden hose..well, there is ..but you know what I mean. ;P

Remember someone in your family letting you play with that great big spoon and some bowls or pots and pans as a little kid? Those things were everything from your very own restaurant or kitchen to a drumset to a suit of armor. I can vividly recall a time when my brother and I decided that we would devise a game of trying to spin the mixing bowl on it's side toward one another, rather like a mixed up game of floor frisbee. (Mammall was not so fond of that particular game, something about it being too dangerous in the house.)



Regardless, I recently sat down with my nephew while babysitting, (he's still a toddler) and took out a plastic bowl and spoon for him to play with. He must have fed me the same spoonful of air for about 45min. He would just giggle and giggle whenever I said it was Yum! The look of sheer joy on his face was totally worth dealing with the repetition of the game.



I did eventually get a little bored with it however, and that is when I introduced him to the idea that his bowl and spin could be a drumset. He lost his mind, you could just see the WOW on his face. Within no time he was busy exploring the alternative uses of these magical devices.



I found myself doing the same (because I am essentially a permanent child in that way.)



I had such a good time with him playing with two very simple dishes straight from the cabinet. :D