What are the favourite "toys" in your house?

Tea-and-Cake_3

My one year old makes a beeline for the cupboard with the pots and pans and the recycling bin, my 3 year old loves the drawer with all the hats scarves and gloves and my eldest is happy with paper, scissors, glue and felt tip pens......

So why have we got all these plastic toys cluttering up the place??!?

What non toys do your kids love to play with? Do a lot of toys get ignored?

kettlefish

My DD (she is 2 next month) does play with her toys, but often not in the way intended! For example she has a toy called Kettle Cottage (a house which happens to be shaped like a kettle) which is her "briefcase", she puts crayons in it and goes to "work". Her toy food becomes instruments or "teddy footballs", and the box is used as a doll's bed. She has a toy kitchen with 2 shelves in the oven: "baby's bunk bed."

She also loves playing "boats" with the laundry basket, and of course dressing up in my shoes and handbags.

So - we've decided for her birthday she's getting a trip to Peppa Pig world rather than more toys :rotfl:

double_mummy

tuppleware boxes are my LOs fave thing to play with atm

**professor~yaffle**

not my house, but my little niece loves ANYTHING to do with Peppa Pig!

notanewuser

Can't bear Peppa Pig - she's a brat with sexist parents.

DD has always loved my pan drawer, whisks and wooden spoons. Kitchen + toilet rolls get stripped so she can have the "telescopes" inside. My laundry basket is a boat, coffee table is a stage, she hides inside her toy oven and her bike is something to stick stickers on, not ride.

Wouldn't change it for the world.

sassyblue

My 7yo is a playmobil freak! (I must admit l love it too ) He also played alot with Tomica which is train and road sets.

Other than that vehicles like tractors, trains, cars, his books and ipad - oh l forgot to mention his bike, he'd be on that all day if he could.

LEJC

Mine used to use the recycling box as a boat or a car and would sit for hours playing in it driving round or sailing on the sea!

Actual toy wise...there was only ever one..knex....theres a wheelie bin full in the loft and even 10 years after the last time it was used...I'm told "not to get rid of my toys"

notanewuser

sassyblue wrote: »

My 7yo is a playmobil freak! (I must admit l love it too ) He also played alot with Tomica which is train and road sets.

Other than that vehicles like tractors, trains, cars, his books and ipad - oh l forgot to mention his bike, he'd be on that all day if he could.

The thread is about non-toys.

Raksha

When mine were small it was Brio, Duplo and Lego.

HPoirot

kettlefish wrote: »

My DD (she is 2 next month) does play with her toys, but often not in the way intended! For example she has a toy called Kettle Cottage (a house which happens to be shaped like a kettle) which is her "briefcase", she puts crayons in it and goes to "work". Her toy food becomes instruments or "teddy footballs", and the box is used as a doll's bed. She has a toy kitchen with 2 shelves in the oven: "baby's bunk bed."

She also loves playing "boats" with the laundry basket, and of course dressing up in my shoes and handbags.

Great imagination there! :T

notanewuser

Tea-and-Cake wrote: »

So why have we got all these plastic toys cluttering up the place??!?

What non toys do your kids love to play with? Do a lot of toys get ignored?

Raksha wrote: »

When mine were small it was Brio, Duplo and Lego.

All (plastic) toys.