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Best 2 toys your child/ren have ever had?

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  • Metranil_Vavin
    Metranil_Vavin Posts: 5,025 Forumite
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    One of my son's other favourite 'toys' are a selection of my plastic mixing bowls! He LOVES spinning things, and likes to put his teddy and jigsaw puzzle pieces into the bowls and spin everything around on the floor!
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  • Lozzy88
    Lozzy88 Posts: 780 Forumite
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    Dd is 4 she loves her huge dolls house and hop on rabbit from elc

    Ds1 is 19 months is a slide and little tikes cozy coupe both are used indoors and out

    Ds2 is 15 weeks and loves mirrors and noisey flashy things
  • victory
    victory Posts: 16,188 Forumite
    I would say lego, so much imagination play, absolutely worth it and not a toy but a play curtain, imagination again, it has been a punch and judy show, a cape, a stage, propped up as a , used for hide and seek, you name it that piece of cloth has been used as:D
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  • onlyroz
    onlyroz Posts: 17,661 Forumite
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    Lego, and the toy kitchen.
  • City_Girl_2
    City_Girl_2 Posts: 299 Forumite
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    The best ever buy for us for our twin boys has has been the Step 2 Deluxe Canyon Train and Track Table which we have had our money's worth of time and time again for the hours and hours that they boys have played with this table which unfortunately needs to now to make room for a football table next month!

    And cars, the boys will play for hours with cars, they love them.

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  • Spendless
    Spendless Posts: 24,800 Forumite
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    DS

    lego

    followed by

    k'nex

    DD
    Play house items (eg kitchen etc)

    Small play sets (eg littlest pet shop, moshi monsters)

    Until the age of 10/11 then it became electrical items.
  • rumncoke
    rumncoke Posts: 233 Forumite
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    For DS it was wooden train set, followed by Knex. Also lots and lots of cardboard, plastic bottles etc for model making, plus numerous books.

    DD as much drawing, painting stuff as possible. Did not really play with many toys. Now 16 and going to college in September for an art & design course.
  • charlieann
    charlieann Posts: 174 Forumite
    For my DS anything that is creative or imaginative play atm.
    He loves his cooker, home-made castle, diggers & 'fixer' cars, trains, dressing up clothes, lego as well as 'mr maker'(craft) box.
    He often gets electronic toys from relatives for birthdays/ xmas. Although he still plays with them its not for long periods of time.

    Edited to add: If buying cars spend bit more money getting metal ones, last longer, even after accidentally being crushed under daddy's feet.
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  • Mrs_Imp
    Mrs_Imp Posts: 1,001 Forumite
    Hmmm...tricky one.

    Probably the cosy coupe (he once spent over an hour in it and wouldn't even come out for chocolate) and his Lego helicopter.
    Not far behind are balloons, wooden train set and the telephone (the real one in the hall!)
  • LannieDuck
    LannieDuck Posts: 2,359 Forumite
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    My LO is 18 months. I'm not kidding when I say her favourite toy is the big box that her second stage car seat came in! My OH cut a hole in the side so she can crawl in through the side and out through the end. And she adores drawing all over the box with her crayons :)

    Whenever she seems to get bored of it, we turn it a different way up, so she can pop her head out of the top or crawl in at the side etc etc.
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