Which toys do you consider essential?

[venus89]

I got a lovely letter from the taxman yesterday telling me that he actually owes me money - only a few pounds but I'd rather that than me owing him..... So the money I had saved up for paying my taxes I figure I can now invest in my business as I've not spent much onm it over the last month at all (the mindee I have had the last few weeks is Barbie obsessed and we have plenty of those)

Do you have any toys you consider indispensible for the 6month to 3 year age range? What couldn't you do without? I plan to replace the toy kitchen crockery and cutlery, would like to get some more Little Peopls - beyond that I'm not sure and I'm happy to spend a couple of hundred pounds

[CCJD]

The most played with toys in my setting:
Outside: Playhouse
Inside: toy kitchen, brio traintrack (which I have stuck down onto an big MDF board to prevent the track breaking up every 5 mins), Dolls house. Arts and crafts - always done at plastic Ikea table which is ideal.
Happy Spending.

[venus89]

Thankyou!

I like the idea of sticking the train track down - we always get our sets pulled apart by the baby as soon as they're made!

[angiemog]

The most played with toys in my setting:
Outside: Playhouse
Inside: toy kitchen, brio traintrack (which I have stuck down onto an big MDF board to prevent the track breaking up every 5 mins), Dolls house. Arts and crafts - always done at plastic Ikea table which is ideal.
Happy Spending.

What did you use to stick your track down with? x

[uf353432]

good quality story books, kitchen and all the bits that go in it, dolls house, cars, trains, wooden blocks, rollarounds and anything they can use for transporting play schema - pushchairs, trolleys, bags, buckets etc.

[margimum]

My favourite is stickle bricks!!
It is durable and it can be anything children want it to be

[Gherkin]

We have:

Duplo - all ages love it
Wooden blocks (ours are ELC ones)
Happyland - again all ages play with it
Click clack dolls - don't think this is there real name but they are fisher price dolls that have plastic clothes to click on them.
Dressing up items - we have loads of hats and masks
I need a new toy kitchen but want one that is compact!!!!
Tent

[Dotty]

The most used toys are the easel from Ikea and cars.

Even the older children use these (and they are 8 and 11!!)

Have a nice spend x

[MissTinkerbell]

In our setting it is

Fairy sets from ELC
Magnetic car sets from ELC
Dolls house
Dolls and dolls clothes
Wooden train set
Duplo and wooden bricks
Wooden geo puzzles

[CCJD]

What did you use to stick your track down with? x

Hi, stuck it down with "no nails" glue. I then painted the mdf board with poster paints and created grass, bushes, flowers and a pond.it took me ages to work the optimum use of track on the board but eventually created a complex but great track which includes circle, 2 bridges, a tunnel and an engine shed. As it is on a board when it is not in use I stand it up beside the sofa against the wall.

[georgie456]

Hi, stuck it down with "no nails" glue. I then painted the mdf board with poster paints and created grass, bushes, flowers and a pond.it took me ages to work the optimum use of track on the board but eventually created a complex but great track which includes circle, 2 bridges, a tunnel and an engine shed. As it is on a board when it is not in use I stand it up beside the sofa against the wall.

This sounds brilliant - I don't suppose you could put a photo of it on here for us?

[Kes]

Our's is cars,
guttering to roll the cars down.
craft stuff, especially air drying clay.
books
wooden post box from ELC.

Have fun spending your money.
Kerry

[The Juggler]

if you've got spare cash, then I always fancied investing in proper outdoor wet weather suits.

[CherryBlossom]

This is a handy post for me, as I have to start from scratch with toys etc..and wasn't sure what to buy!
I have no idea what age my mindees will be..but want to be somewhat prepared.
I like the idea of a toy kitchen as that seems popular, and for various age groups

[SandCastles]

MegaBloks
I have enough maxi bricks to build a house, with garden and trees, fences, arches, bridges and vehicles. I have megablok animals, people, wheels, flag pole and flags and a winnie the pooh train set and track. It is all mixed up in a big box and everyone likes to build. I build towers for the babies to knock over and build blaster guns for my schoolers to role play with. I hope they never grow to big for them.

ELC

The magnetic cars are always pulled out of the toy box along with Thomas and Percy Engines.

I like the idea of gluing some track onto a board, it will save my hours of reconnecting and less tears.

[CCJD]

This sounds brilliant - I don't suppose you could put a photo of it on here for us?

train track.jpg

Hope that worked.

[ZoeAlli]

Wow! Love the train board and track CCJD.
Toys we use most are trains- wooden & take- along, Duplo, cars and the play kitchen and food!

[mspooner]

Hi I have my pre reg visit on Thursday!! So nervous!!

I have 2 sons aged 9 yrs and 17 months! So I have a big gap and a variety of toys.

Any recommendations?

[Dragonfly]

Ccjd guess who’s going to be sticking her train track down?Thank you for sharing with us.