Popsicle sticks

Popsicles sticks are 99.9% safe.

Hot glue, or elmers glue works. Depends on how patient you are.

this is a great idea! I'm also going to do this

You can make good toys from clothes pegs remove the central spring you can make ladders etc

Also, watch the wood section in the craft stores for close-outs.

I was in Michael's one night and ran across the cutest little wooden train cars on clearance for 20 cents each. They were meant for young children to glue together and paint. The finished car was about 5 inches long and maybe 2 inches wide. It only took a few minutes to glue them together (I didn't paint them, for obvious reasons) and then I gave them to a group of ~2 week old babies, who were just getting up and around good. It was too funny to watch them all pile in the coal car! :lol:

all above pictures of what you guys have made are tremendous, lou that is a great tank with burma bridge must of took ages too make its like the sets you used too see on Michael bentines potty time (when I was a Kid).It takes me ages too eat ice lollies and I am not that regular to amass all the toilet rolls I would need to make towers etc lol

haha i cheated a bit and bought 300 lolly sticks from ebay for about £2 or something. it took two days to make the towers (to allow time for the glue to dry before i added the ladders) and about 15 mins to make the bridge, All good fun!!! its great watching my hoard making full use of the apparatus :lol: :lol: give it a go the possibilities are endless and the meeces think its fantastic!!

I am going to try this! It's a great idea!