what toys do 3-5 yr old boys love please?

[Lenny]

Sue,
Is this a gift? Or are you trying to build up a collection of toys which will last a three year old for a few years?
Blocks are good as they can use them in more complex ways as their imagination and dexterity matures.

[nickle730]

My DS4 (almost 5) loves balls, Megablocks, Thomas the Tank train tracks and accessories, anything Buzz Lightyear and TOOLS. Any sort of tool. My DH helped my DS build a kid-sized 'woodwork table' where he nails, hammers, measures and screws to his little hearts content. The table is pretty cool, it has holes for the tools, containers for the nails and screws and stuff and a vise to hold stuff. Wood offcuts are available all over the place and he adds bottletops, corks, gumnuts, sticks... you name it! He does have real tools at his woodwork table and we've never had any problems (only hand held though! No electric tools...).

[~clover~]

Lol, tools are a popular one. Garden tools are good. Including pretend mowers etc.
You can get drills, saws, grinders, tool benches, all sorts of things these days.
Motorbikes & cars....DS is obsessed!! Hotwheels, trucks, tractors, Thomas, Diego, scooters, bikes, boats & lego.
DS has a Mega blocks pirate ship & loves it. He also has mega blocks, so can put all sorts of blocks on it, lol.

[krysalyss]

DS (3.5) loves cars, car mats (that have pictures of a town and roads on them to drive cars around), leggo, bikes, scooters.

[sue1386]

thanks so much much appreciated!