What is the toy your child has that has proved best value for money

neneromanova

Mine loves the box her pampers nappies came in. I cut a hole in the side and now it's her helmet. Cheapest present ever!

Janepig

Nintendo DS! Not particularly cheap but a godsend for those moments when you want your children to behave! And they would play with it day and night if I let them!

Other than that I find it's the cheapest tat that seems to go down best. Last christmas they had plenty of more expensive gifts, but it was the 99p pot of fart putty that I got them each that got played with much more than anything else!

Jxx

touch*my*food*feel*myfork

basic lego and the trampoline

custardy

outgrown it now but loved it for months!

pimento

My son is 18 now and hopefully about to go to university, but he loved his Brio train set and used it all the time. When he outgrew it, I donated it to the after school club where as far as I know, they're still using it.

He also loved his Playmobil castle and pirate ship. They're still in the loft looking for a good home.

Tigsteroonie

I'm hoping the V-tech baby walker proves as good an investment for us - littl'un has got one for his birthday on Thursday (It's okay, I can give away that secret, he won't get a chance to log into MSE between now and then )

Threebabes

When my son was small he loved his thomas trains and they were battered and well loved.

I would say the girls their DS and now DSI's.

pigpen

Duplo... DS1 is 19 and STILL will sit for hours and play with it.. though he 'pretends' he is building stuff for the little ones now.. but I know better!!!

Happyland.. got hours of play
fisherprice little people.. we have loads which they love.
fisherprice big animals.. like the ones with the train set.. they spend hours playing with those still

anything ball like.

the bouncy castle.. proper one not one of the cheap rubbish ones like in ELC.. had summers of fun with many more ahead!

Pokemon.. the little ones with balls in the bottom.. they love them

Best toys Ever, in the history of the world... a huge cardboard box or 5... or even several smaller ones..

building_with_lego

Brio and Lego.

Lego is so timeless that OH and I can spend ages playing with it and the children, and when we have kids over and the Lego comes out the parents play just as much as the children!

DD had Brio from about 3 years old, she started off playing with tracks OH and I had built before building her own; now (6) she likes the challenge of building ever more complex ones with sidings and turntables.
DS (just 3) loves playing with the battery- operated engines and longer and longer trains but is not too good at actually joining tracks yet.

It's one of the toys I'm saving for the grandchildren...

Becles

Brio and Lego - usually mixed together with Brio track and station items and a Lego buildings and cars.

My husband boarded out the loft so the boys could make huge layouts up there. My 11 year old still plays up there with it and occasionally my 13 year old joins in.

Play food and kitchenware items. You can't beat moments when you have to pretend to enjoy some invisible coffee, with a plastic carrot and a fried egg, or other such yummy meals