How to Make Baby Toys

Empty plastic bottles are a great start for baby toys. Save bottles of all shapes and sizes as you empty them. Small water bottles that easily roll, large soda bottles that can be hugged, and small medicine bottles that can easily be palmed. Clear bottles work the best (because the baby is visually stimulated by the seeing the contents), but they don't have to be to make great toys. Just be sure to keep the lids as well.

Clean the bottles and the lids thoroughly to make sure all the contents are rinsed out. You don't want your little guy getting any leftovers while he's playing with his new baby toy!

Babies love toys that make noise. Put things in the bottles that can rattle around. You can use marbles, popcorn kernals, rice or uncooked (tri-color is even better) pasta. You don't need a lot of filling, just enough that it will make a noise when your baby plays with his new toy.

Use a hot glue gun before screwing the lids back on each of the bottles. It's extremely important to make sure the lids can not be removed. You don't want your baby removing the lid and getting ahold of the contents of his new toy.

Remote controls also seem to be a favorite toy for many babies. They enjoy pushing the buttons and remotes are often easy to hold. If you don't want your baby messing up your tv, find and clean an old remote from a tape player you don't use or a TV that no longer works.

Remove the batteries. In the empty battery compartment place a few corn kernals or small pieces of pasta. This is so your baby's toy remote attracts his ear as well as his fingers!