Good toys for 1-2 year old?

[PumpkinZulu]

DD is 14 months and I'd like to buy her some new toys...bigger, funner, more interactive toys for the curious little toddler she now is. What toys do you love for your toddler? I'd love some bigger suggestions as well as smaller ones. She's moving right out of her interest in baby toys. We recently got her a wooden cart with lots of toy fruits and veggies (we play 'going to the market' lol), and she loves that...unpacking, repacking, choosing what she wants to take and toddling around with it, so I can see a kitchen for Xmas for her. Also want to get her a baby doll a bit before bub arrives, so she has a baby to care for as well.

So, what are your toddlers (or your!) faves? Both gender recommendations please

[feeb]

DS2 getting toy kitchen at christmas

Tea set
Cash register
Wooden blocks
Mega blocks
Little bike (you know the plastic $20 ones that scoot around on)
Books
Chalk board
Bounce and spin zebra

[PumpkinZulu]

Oooh wooden blocks! So going on my shopping list! How funny is it that I have a toddler and have no idea what to get for her? What's the zebra?

[LuluHB]

Blocks, lego/duplo, wooden jigsaws and peg puzzles, those wire things you feed blocks along, playdough and finger paints were all very popular here. Neither of my girls got into dolls until much later. Also those water and sand tables were great

[PumpkinZulu]

Everybody mentions the water and sand tables! If I google that term will it come up with what they actually are? They sound cool but I have no idea.

ETA sand and water table looks epic!

[LuluHB]

They are so cool PZ. The girls had a Thomas one and they loved it. They were asking the other day if we still have it for Miss A.

Those plastic cubbies are good fun too

[feeb]

Sent you PM with links.

The zebra you can get in sales for $40 - $45.
The spinny things $20

Play doh is also fun

Water play tables are awesome fun!! all sort of different ones out there! We don't have sand one as I don't want the mess LOL

Tunnels and pop up tents!

[PumpkinZulu]

I have such a big list already. Have split it into an Xmas wish list lol. So many things I didn't consider, that made me think of other things. I'm so looking forward to setting up the outdoor area with a cubby and table, a sail etc.

[feeb]

So many things that are so cool and fun and I go ti shops and want a million things!! But need to be realistic LOL

[Rouge]

Cardboard. Seriously. There are some awesome thing she can do without the need for toys. I wish I had my time over my kids would have the basics and we'd so make everything else.

Activity it up baby. Things like water tables and chalk boards are great. A sand pit. A baby swing. A paintbrush to paint water on concrete and wood. These are the things they love. The plastic loses its interest soooo quickly!

Have you seen the kitchens made out of recycled furniture! I wish I had know about these when my babies were little!

And check out idea for kitchenware sets for kids. And a train set! Even the wooden idea ones. Grls like trains too!

[AwesomeFoursome]

My 19 mth old and almost 3yr old favourite toys are their toy kitchen and their fisher price talking tea set.

[HotI]

hats, scarves, towels to make capes or tents, pram/trolley, drawers, bags. dd loves to put things in and out. pockets

torch, things with wheels, balls, tunnel, tent, play telephone, instruments.

dd is only really getting in to puzzles now, before they were just fun to dump everwhere.

[Arimeh]

DD3 (nearly 17 months) likes playing with dolls - but that could be the influence of her older sisters.

She also likes playing in our toy kitchen, lego, anything with wheels that she can push - even garbage bins.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

We had the bounce & spin zebra - DD2 liked it for a bit then it got put aside and sold on e-bay

Wooden jigsaws, crayons, cash register (no matter what age they love it), play-doh, fisher price pig money box - our girls still play with theirs and they love counting along with it.
Dress Ups (as per HotI, hat's scarves etc)

[Cassius2]

This age group they are really getting into make-believe and copying parents etc. A big hit with our girl are bags. Little backpacks, handbags. all kinds of dressups. tutus, crowns, hats, headbands, necklaces.

[Phteven]

Your saucepans.
The contents of your tupperware cupboard.

[Tinks]

I was going to say saucepans and tupperware too. I had a drawer in my kitchen that the kids could play i while I cooked, it contained all those little bits and pieces you pick up at tupperware parties and some wooden spoons etc. It was their most favourite place to play.

[Rouge]

Absolutely! Youve got pretend play. Musical instruments and all sorts of awesome. Just hide the sieve.