My kids are 6 and 8 and the two toys that have stood the test of time are playdoh and blocks. They are playing with playdoh as we speak. Everything else had its phase (trains, play kitchen, etc). But building blocks and play doh never lose their luster.
What about you?
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
Kitchen for both boys. They both love pretend play and the kitchen is perfect for that.
pomegranate / 3973 posts
Lego Duplos, Little People Animal Farm, and I think the play food DS just got are going to be a fav. for awhile.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
I'd say play kitchen. We've had ours since DD1 was about 1. DD1 is now 3 and I've seen how her interactions with the play kitchen evolved as she grew. DD2 is loving it also now at 1, more so to just open cabinets and make a mess, but I know as she gets older they'll have tons of imaginative play together!
pomegranate / 3127 posts
Jenga blocks, a few soft toys, and art supplies. It's funny how many different ways you can play with a bunch of blocks.
clementine / 874 posts
This may sound a little odd, but real silicone spatulas for the kitchen (kid-sized). Babies love to teeth on them, use them as drumsticks, and fiddle with the bendy edges, and my toddler now loves to 'help' me in the kitchen with them. As he gets older, I'm sure he will continue to love hanging out in the kitchen with me, making more interesting food. And since the silicone is rated for high heat, it does everything from mixing, to cutting up brownies, to helping stir things in the hot pan.
honeydew / 7463 posts
Matchbox cars. They are the only things that get daily play.
And a playmat with streets and a city to drive them around on.
coconut / 8079 posts
Duplos/Legos LO plays with them daily and my mom even saved some from when we were kids
Other favorites are Hot Wheels size cars and trains
pomelo / 5084 posts
@SweetiePie: Same. Is the play mat used?? I have debated getting one for my hot wheels obsessed two year old!
pomelo / 5084 posts
@Mrs. Bee: A set of colorful plastic stacking cups from Ikea. DS has played with them nearly every day since he was about six months old - now just in the bath, but still!
It's this set: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60294877/
$2.99!!!
pomegranate / 3350 posts
Cars, trucks, train set, blocks of all kinds, kinetic sand, play doh, and outdoor toys like balls, the swing and slide.
Eta puzzles too but we always need newer, more challenging ones
honeydew / 7622 posts
@agold: my sister gave me a hand me down one when DD was around 2. We have 6-7 now. And a house. She’s obsessed.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
Magnatiles and as much as I hate to say it - stuffed animals.
honeydew / 7463 posts
@wrkbrk: we have this one. Seriously used daily. Actually got it when he was like 6 months and still spitting up EVERYWHERE but wanted to be playing on the ground more. This is wipeable and has 2 sides. But he mostly just uses the street side. He’s now nearing 3.5. So 3 years of almost daily use!
It’s starting to peel a little at the edges so I’ll probably replace it soon.
The first pic of the street side is actually still folded in half so it’s double what they show (you can see how the streets at the bottom are cut off).
honeydew / 7463 posts
@wrkbrk: livingroom. But it folds pretty small so we leave it tucked away behind the couch. We put it away every night.
pomelo / 5628 posts
Mostly just art supplies for us. Second would be building stuff but he rotated through the different items. Cars, stuffed animals etc. don’t hold any interest with him! (5yo)
honeydew / 7235 posts
Cars. Matchbox but mainly Disney Cars characters. Played with daily by both kids for years.
pomegranate / 3411 posts
our music table stood the test for a solid 4 years. toys cars or anything that can be pushed (wagon, toy stroller) the kitchen still gets a lot of love too.
nectarine / 2964 posts
For us, just today it has to be that Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube! HAHA! And I bought that way back when, when I read about it right here on hellobee!
DS is going to be 6 in two weeks! No matter how hard I try to convince him to donate that cube that he has since his birth he won't. He sleeps with it on his bed right next to him. I don't get it because sometimes he turns and would hit the cube and it would play music and woke him up (!)
So today we went to DS's first OPERA, Mozart's Magic Flute, at the puppetry arts center. it is intended for kids. Real opera singers performed with aids from puppets. When a familiar tune came along, DS got his eyes big and exclaimed, mommy, I know that song! I thought it was the classical music we sometimes play for him at bedtime, but no, he said it was from that magic cube! He then proclaims it is a magic cube that's why it has music from the Magic Flute. Haha. We then came home and he was obsessed at showing me which songs were from the Magic Flute on his cube.
That has been the winner so far. He is obsessed with trains, and even that he just allowed us to donate his train engineer costume yesterday. Then he sleeps with a gruffalo stuffed animal every night, but we only got it when he was 2-ish. His Lego fire hasn't burned out (yet) but we got it first when he was 1-ish, and there was the Duplo and the real Lego.
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