Seems like our 3 yo boy plays with a new toy for a day before its discarded and forgotten about. Your toy suggestions are welcome
What Are Some Toys Your Toddlers Enjoyed Playing with Long Term?
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This. When our boys were young, our house was drowning with toys because young boys are not very good at keeping the play area clean. So I kept most of the toys except the ones they still play with in a large storage container in the garage for 6 months, then re-introduce some back as a "treat". The boys felt like they were getting new toys, but the toys were just toys they had forgotten about. Lol.
christmas/birthday time, we ration the opening of presents.. so they'll open one today, and then next month another one etc etc
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No, he means Valium :)
Build a Bear teddies - became their best friends for a few years, wouldn't go anywhere/sleep without them. Was rather cute seeing them through photos :)
Just checked. Bought 4 years ago, my (just about) 5yo still takes hers everywhere and sleeps with it. 7yo still has hers
I made a craft corner for my three year old a few months back. She can take a seat and do something new each day if she likes. We replenish when necessary.
Items include, crayons, paint, Play-Doh and stickers.
Also, loves Lego and dolls. She'll pay with them lots.
Sand toys like bucket, shovel, moulds, spinning things.
Balls.
Frisbee.
Mostly things that require going outside and being active with.
Things requiring sitting down and playing like expensive train sets, Transformers, Light Sabers, mini puzzles are forgotten after a week or so.
bought the kid a train set/table thing, played with it for a couple of months and then he wanted to pack it up and it became his sisters lego table. Recently, the train set has made a resurgence and they both play with it for hours
See if there is a Toy Library in your area.
Lego and Thomas trains.
+1 for Lego
My kid has way too many toys but no matter what he gets, he gravitates back to his "real life" toys
Set of cones, a stop sign, tools and his ride on vehicles. Acts out washing his vehicles or doing construction.
Really need to see what your boy is interested in?
My 4 years old girl love playing with all her little people playset, cars, teaset (with dad), legos and play doh. She got her messy corner for crafts, paints and play doh . At this age they play with whatever you give them. I even see some boys playing with barbies and make up so depends on the kids taste and interest most likely.
what is wrong with boys playing with barbies, my 3yo boy loves them. stacks his sisters barbies up high and shoots them with his nerf gun. i say he does have a pretty steady hand and aim.
haha well that only works as long as they have another sibling to steal their toys from
Agreed, it’s just a toy! Their imagination makes a barbie into anything and a train set into a barbie, who cares!!
Anything they like to play with is fine, I draw the line at weapons. No knives or live ammo lol
Trampoline
A trampoline - got it for my oldest at 3 and still using it at 14.
Agree a trampoline to get them off the ipad :)
Brio - wooden train set.
A box the new washing machine came in
The best toy my kids have are their good quality wooden blocks. They're Haba brand and despite being over 10 years old are still played with by my 9 and 6 year old. They even fight over them. They are versatile, adaptable and almost indestructible. Every time we cull the toys these and Legos are only things that are always a definite keeper.
It all depends on the kid and the toy, most of the toys my kids have owned don't get played with for a long time other than lego. Although we bought my daughter a $3 stuffed toy cow from Target when she was about 2 and it became her favourite toy and would rarely leave her side, she still sleeps with it now that she is nearly 12.
Exactly - "It all depends on the kid and the toy"
If all kids enjoyed only the same toys, what a boring world this would be.
Lego and all his plastic guns
Barbie dolls
A chess set and a copy of Nimzowitsch's My System.
Young kids like to mimic what parents do, my toddlers favourite “toys” have always been versions of real things they see us doing around the house. Stuff like pots and pans to pretend they are cooking, tools to pretend they are fixing things etc, our kids overall favourite toy at the moment has been a mud kitchen we built, complete with little cafe tables for them to serve to, from 2 years to 12 years old they all love it!
A younger sibling
That is almost every child.
My 3 year old likes riding his scooter, playing with his toy kitchen, lego and little people sets. If we go to friends places he either goes to straight to the toy kitchen or finds toys that make noise to play with
The single most played with toy for our kids as toddlers was one of those little plastic cars that they sit inside and push along with their feet. It was very popular with kids who were visiting too.
Limiting to amount of toys they can access at one time will probably limit destruction and them loosing interest.
Toys my 2.5 plays with the most:
• mud kitchen
• duplo
• puzzles
• wooden blocks
• playdough
• cars and trucksTo be honest most kids go on a rampage when they aren’t stimulated enough. Having interaction when playing, new activities and a change of scenery (outside, park etc) goes a long way.
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Out of all the toys my toddler has this has been his favorite! It has given him so many hours of enjoyment playing with the tools and pulling the truck wheels off and taking the motor in and out plus it play music (if you want) and drives around. Awesome investment!!
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Emptying the linen cupboard to turn the dining table into a cubby. Linen cupboard is not so tidy now that they are older.
The box the toys came in. They play with that, not the toy
I buy lots of lol dolls and other junk for my daughter, I only buy them to compensate the fact I can't Afford to ever go on holidays or get her big ticket items, so I don't feel as guilty about that.
But she plays with my kitchen utensils, rocks from the garden, plastic or cardboard packaging, fridge magnets and my clothes pegs.
Always my damn clothes pegs!My twins were into soft, cuddly toys at that age. My eldest, who is almost a teenager now, still has a platypus we got him when he was too young to be able to pronounce the word properly. He called it " 'pus " and over the years, it became known affectionately as "Pus-y" , much to his mother's and my horror.
My youngest , who is your child's age, went through a cars/trucks/trains phase but that only lasted a couple of months. Most of those are now in his toy-box which he seems quite disinterested in. If anything, my eldest son and I spend more time
playing withinspecting his cars and train sets than he does. The one exception is a vintage ride-on car that my wife became obsessed with when she saw it in an OP shop: she just had to buy it! A couple of days later, she found out she was pregnant with him. This car, which looks a bit like this, is his batmobile, his RACV truck, his ambulance, his rabbit-uber car, his I'll-carry-the-laundry-basket-for-mummy car, his favourite chair, his horse, his plane, his magic flying carpet… and not a day goes by that he doesn't play with it.Other things that have lasted the distance are trampolining, monkey bars ( especially if he's allowed to wear his spiderman PJs while on it!), his sandpit, 'bike riding' , music/dancing and being allowed to run wild in the backyard or anywhere, really. Running wild with our dog chasing him is his all-time favourite activity!
The only quiet activities he's into is 'reading' to our dog and rabbit , arts and crafts ( he's a prolific 'artist' and only gifts his work to his favourite people) and listening to Nora Jones. He also likes 'helping out' with laundry , cleaning , cooking , putting out the washing, watering the plants, gardening, telling his siblings that they are in trouble with Mummy/Dadda….etc
Oh , and I almost forgot, the Ipad. Although, I don't know if getting your child one, if he doesn't already have one, is something I can recommend. It becomes an all-consuming obsession after a while.
Toy library?
take all the toys away rewrap them and give back to him a few months later.