Home Sewn Baby Toys

I remember a year or so ago when I read Amanda Soule's The Creative Family thinking that homemade baby toys had to be about the silliest way that one could choose to spend very precious crafting time. I too remember feeling this way when first hearing of people hand knitting socks (and truthfully, I kind of still feel this way about socks).

Over the course though of the past twelve months (much influenced by our 10 months in Portland, Oregon, I am sure), I have come to love the rough around the edges homemadeness of nearly everything in our home, but especially on the bodies or in the hands of our small children. So simple. so sweet. so utterly innocent.

I made a couple of these cubes and filled them with 2 parts bamboo filler and one part rice. I love watching it in the hands of our littlest one.