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
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
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
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.
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!
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)
Awesome as!! Thanks guys! I have a list that rivals my arm now
Toys libraries are awesome, we were members of our local one before we moved, but we don't have a car and now being pregnant I think I'd find it too hard to try and transport more than books and dolls etc home and back again.
We have a dress up box, I started it when I was pregnant with DD. it's awesome. The best pieces are crazy 80's ties I collected from op shops. At the moment she just likes sorting them though. We totally do pots and pans, and most of our tupperware lives in the bathroom because they make awesome bath toys. We're also constricting a fort out of all the boxes we have from moving (yep, still unpacking!). I think DD's favourite toy right now are the silicone oven mits that look like puppies She goes 'woob woob woob' every time she sees them, and only Puppy can feed her breakfast at the moment
Thanks for all the awesome suggestions, some things I didn't even think of, but seem obvious now (like chalkboard!).
PZ, all my kids love their "Ball Popper". They absolutely love putting the balls in the machine and then waiting for the to come flying out the top
Also a big hit is:
Hard Cardboard Books - if can get ones they have buttons to push that play music that's even better
Little People Cars and Figurines - These are really good for toddlers as they are large enough for little people but not too big so they can't pick them up
Any Musical Instrument
Tins or containers and blocks - DD loves building towers with the blocks and the twins love knocking them down and then putting them into containers and taking them out again
And at the moment in our lounge room we have our own ball pit (our is huge to cater for 3 kids at once) but you can get small inexpensive ones for 1 baby
Play tunnels
They have lots more toys but that seems to be the favourites at the moment and the twins are 15mths so at the same stage as Miss I.
The things we got the most mileage out of at that age were balloons, seriously. $2 for a bag of 50 balloons would last us for weeks. And books. Use book depository - you can get cardboard varieties of spot, "that's not my **", nursery rhyme books, etc. He also loved balls, and his wooden blocks wagon.
My kids love tupperware, sticks, dirt &" mud, water, blocks, balloons and pretty much anything they can get their hands on that isn't actually a toy - like Daddy's lanyard and keycard clip thingy (that attaches to his belt buckle), an old car phone charger (it doubled as a pretend doppler for a while), anything with a clip on it, and so on. They also like duplo/lego (but real bricks are even better )
pain brushes are great - they can paint water on the bricks outside.
I've found most actual toys to have very short shelf lives, particularly at this age.
Good toys for 1-2 year old?
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