https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:29:27 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1430407 Tue, 18 Feb 2014 03:22:14 +0000 lamariniere 1430407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 3 and he is obsessed with his wooden train track set and he loves books. Distant favorites are cars/trucks and balls. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1429731 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:55:38 +0000 sandy 1429731@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: yes it's our playroom. It's our formal living room at the front of the house...never used it except for holidays so made sense to convert to a playroom. I love that she's on the same floor as me when I'm cooking or doing laundry. And all the toys stay in that room so we're not overwhelmed with toys everywhere. She loves it :)</p> <p>I have purchased dowels at Fred Meyer which is a kind of like a nicer wal-mart...has a grocery store, shoes/clothing, housewares and also garden/paint/automotive the dowels were near the paint section. So I bet Walmart would have them for cheap too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1429144 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:06:03 +0000 sarac 1429144@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 28 month old is very into pretend play these days. So, she has a lot of dolls and blocks and trains and does infinite cool things with them. She's also gotten really into Mr potato head, so I just bought her some of those. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1429009 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:29:01 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1429009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: is that your playroom? It looks SO FUN! J would love a room like that :)<br /> I will have to stop by a craft store and see if I can get a dowel - shouldn't be too expensive. I'm fairly positive mine didn't come with one. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428823 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:23:50 +0000 lemondrop 1428823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>25 months:<br /> Basketball hoop<br /> Step 2 shopping cart<br /> Vtech Go Go Smart Wheels<br /> (pricey, but he stays busy for HOURS with them! and he's picking up words and songs from them- we are addicted)<br /> Melissa &amp; Doug Alphabet puzzle and colors puzzle (fish)<br /> FP Little People school bus, helicopter, and airplane<br /> Firetrucks and police cars with sirens </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428822 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:23:49 +0000 pinkcupcake 1428822@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>- another vote for the ikea easel! My LO uses hers daily to draw and practice her letters. She's also really into coloring books and ate supplies like markers and crayons<br /> - play kitchen - she loves to cook and "clean" her kitchen<br /> - puzzles- she outgrew the wooden melissa and Doug ones so we have the ones like @sandy mentioned. She plays with those daily.<br /> - fishing game: like this one but it's fish, not ducks. <a href="http://mbeans.com/janod-ducky-fishing-game.html?childid=56951&#038;utm_medium=cse&#038;utm_source=google&#038;gclid=CNXOkprI07wCFQNufgodvSYAfg" rel="nofollow">http://mbeans.com/janod-ducky-fishing-game.html?childid=56951&#038;utm_medium=cse&#038;utm_source=google&#038;gclid=CNXOkprI07wCFQNufgodvSYAfg</a>. It's helped her learn all her colors.<br /> - she loves playing with beans in a huge Rubbermaid tub. It's a pain to clean up but keeps her occupied for a long time.<br /> - she's obsessed w/ anything alphabet or color related, and loves to show off to us. We have the leap frog alphabet laptop and letter factory, and alphabooks. She likes when we ask her to find a specific letter or to line them up. </p> <p>She is turning 2 this wk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428817 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:21:09 +0000 regberadaisy 1428817@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: I'm pretty sure it was assembled. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428805 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:16:21 +0000 sandy 1428805@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@locavore_mama: @Mrs. Pen: did you have to assemble yours? I'm pretty sure ours came assembled and ready to use </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428789 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:10:34 +0000 sandy 1428789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: so it looks like it's definitely part of the easel as it was sold. I tried to take some photos. They sell the rolls of paper at ikea too. And we just feed it through the chalkboard side and clip it up top with binder clips and feed down through the top of the easel </p> [attach=429/14/n15eao.450x600.image.jpg] [attach=429/14/n15ear.450x600.image.jpg] [attach=429/14/n15eat.450x600.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428786 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:08:48 +0000 brownie 1428786@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My almost three year old is really into his peg board and building so we got the Melissa and Doug workbench and a battat build a plane. </p> <p>He's also an active kid so he has a fisher price basketball hoop, three in one tball set (prefers the pop up setting to the tball), and a mini golf set. He just watched the jake pirate that jake did mini golf and now does the exact same thing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428773 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:00:27 +0000 regberadaisy 1428773@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hm. Looks like it no longer comes with the dowel.<br /> <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/assembly_instructions/mala-easel__AA-597115-2_pub.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.ikea.com/us/en/assembly_instructions/mala-easel__AA-597115-2_pub.pdf</a></p> <p>But you can easily pick one up at Michaels/ AC Moore. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428761 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:56:27 +0000 regberadaisy 1428761@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: we bought it for the nieces years ago and I don't remember having to buy a attachment for it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428758 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:55:16 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1428758@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: I don't think that it came with an attachment... unless I somehow missed it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428733 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:47:51 +0000 sandy 1428733@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: @locavore_mama: it's such a great little easel and love the price! And I don't mind if she gets paint or marker on it bc I could just easily paint it myself. We bought I before she was born so kids could play with it when they come over and it's still as sturdy as ever. And folding it flat to put away is the best part of all...super easy. </p> <p>I'm in bed right now but I'll go downstairs and look how it's rigged up in a minute. I just assumed it had some attachment bc we've always has the roll of paper on there but maybe my husband bought something....let me go see </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428721 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:43:50 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1428721@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: oh, I wanted to add - since you posted the shapes puzzle - my mom also bought something similar to this for J: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/School-Specialty-023-8920-Pattern-Blocks/dp/B008C4S0C6/ref=sr_1_3?s=toys-and-games&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1392651695&#038;sr=1-3&#038;keywords=pattern+foam" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/School-Specialty-023-8920-Pattern-Blocks/dp/B008C4S0C6/ref=sr_1_3?s=toys-and-games&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1392651695&#038;sr=1-3&#038;keywords=pattern+foam</a><br /> Foam shapes -and J loves to put them together. At this age though he gets a little frustrated because there is no way to "stick them" together like how he would normally build something, so I think a shapes puzzle is more appropriate. But I am assuming that within the next few months he'll develop the patience and skill to play more abstractly with them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428687 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:33:30 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1428687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@locavore_mama: @sandy: we have the ikea easel as well and J LOVES it! we mostly just use the chalkboard side for now, but I would like to get a roll of paper to attach to the other side. @sandy, how do you attach the roll of paper? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428673 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:28:09 +0000 regberadaisy 1428673@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: the Ikea easel is on my list for our next Ikea trip!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428669 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:26:58 +0000 sandy 1428669@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is a bit older (27 months) and is really into puzzles (see below). When she was younger she loved the wooden alphabet and number puzzles. We have these ones </p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0077RKXWE?cache=fde0f156cec35a5d3a3ca8e11c380868&#038;pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70#ref=mp_s_a_1_7&#038;qid=1392649892&#038;sr=1-7" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0077RKXWE?cache=fde0f156cec35a5d3a3ca8e11c380868&#038;pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70#ref=mp_s_a_1_7&#038;qid=1392649892&#038;sr=1-7</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000FQBCGK?cache=fde0f156cec35a5d3a3ca8e11c380868#ref=mp_s_a_1_1&#038;qid=1392649935&#038;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000FQBCGK?cache=fde0f156cec35a5d3a3ca8e11c380868#ref=mp_s_a_1_1&#038;qid=1392649935&#038;sr=1-1</a></p> <p>Early on she has always loved coloring on her easel. We have a cheap one from ikea but I like it bc it's neutral and easily folds up behind our storage system. We have a giant roll of paper on the chalkboard side and she uses crayons. we just put a small pack of them in a plastic bag and she would take them out and identify the colors. And she would love putting them back in the bag...good practice learning to clean up after herself now she dumps them out to color (there's a little shelf on the easel) but cleans them up when she's done. On the other side she used dry erase markers and she just loved drawing with those ...of course supervised. She still loves markers </p> <p> I also bought a giant flat storage bin (the big ones to put shoes under your bed or something) and a giant bag of rice (like 70 lbs) and let her use that in the garage as a "sandbox". It's easy to clean up (just sweep out of the garage) and she loved digging with her shovels, cups, construction site toys. I read on the YHL blog that play sand isn't that safe so I opted for rice in our home. I don't mind if she plays with sand when we go out. </p> <p>She started out with these giant floor puzzles when she was 24 months. I think it's easier for little ones bc the pieces are big and bc it is pretty easy to figure out bc it's the alphabet...so it's easy to see what's next </p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0057APY1S?cache=fde0f156cec35a5d3a3ca8e11c380868&#038;pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70#ref=mp_s_a_1_13&#038;qid=1392649320&#038;sr=1-13" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0057APY1S?cache=fde0f156cec35a5d3a3ca8e11c380868&#038;pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70#ref=mp_s_a_1_13&#038;qid=1392649320&#038;sr=1-13</a></p> <p>The brand is Innovative Kids and the quality is great. We got our puzzles at costco. This is the other floor puzzle we have </p> <p><a href="http://www.innovativekids.com/buy/0008/on-the-farm" rel="nofollow">http://www.innovativekids.com/buy/0008/on-the-farm</a></p> <p>They have all kinds of puzzles available through their website. I may have to get some more <a href="http://www.innovativekids.com/shop/85/floor-puzzles" rel="nofollow">http://www.innovativekids.com/shop/85/floor-puzzles</a></p> <p>Now she just does other regular puzzles but I think the floor ones were a good starting point. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428593 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:53:32 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1428593@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: oh those are so cute. I'm adding them to J's list. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428571 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:46:16 +0000 littlek 1428571@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: This is his current favorite..</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005O63Q/ref=s9_simh_gw_p21_d0_i5?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;pf_rd_s=center-3&#038;pf_rd_r=0NW5M8Y6Q8197A53PQR8&#038;pf_rd_t=101&#038;pf_rd_p=1688200422&#038;pf_rd_i=507846" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005O63Q/ref=s9_simh_gw_p21_d0_i5?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;pf_rd_s=center-3&#038;pf_rd_r=0NW5M8Y6Q8197A53PQR8&#038;pf_rd_t=101&#038;pf_rd_p=1688200422&#038;pf_rd_i=507846</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428567 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:44:48 +0000 littlek 1428567@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lavender: B actually refuses megablocks now. He will only play with duplos. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428563 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:43:10 +0000 lavender 1428563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh and M has been loving her megablocks, I get a solid 10-15 mins out of those! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428554 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:37:36 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1428554@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@locavore_mama: I wish we had a backyard to get one ha. But this one we're getting for his birthday will be great for indoors. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/SKLZ-Pro-Mini-Basketball-Hoop/dp/B001I912SQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/SKLZ-Pro-Mini-Basketball-Hoop/dp/B001I912SQ</a></p> <p>@littlek: I love M&amp;D toys in general! They're a favorite of mine for sure. The quality is amazing and so is the price.</p> <p>This is the puzzle I want to get him: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hape-HAP-E1502-Alphabet-Puzzle/dp/B0077RKXWE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1392647819&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=hape+abc+puzzle" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Hape-HAP-E1502-Alphabet-Puzzle/dp/B0077RKXWE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1392647819&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=hape+abc+puzzle</a></p> <p>Which ones are your favorite? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428551 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:34:13 +0000 regberadaisy 1428551@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: <a href="http://www.melissaanddoug.com/fishing-magnetic-puzzle-game" rel="nofollow">http://www.melissaanddoug.com/fishing-magnetic-puzzle-game</a></p> <p>She loves them! She goes "ta-da" when she gets a fish LOL </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428541 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:29:33 +0000 littlek 1428541@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@locavore_mama: fishing game? Query, what is that? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428531 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:25:21 +0000 regberadaisy 1428531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: ooh good idea on the basketball hoop!! M loves throwing balls too so I think she will love having a hoop in the backyard. She also love M&amp;D "fishing" games and legos too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428525 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:23:37 +0000 littlek 1428525@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: I've been loving the M&amp;D puzzles. I like that they are wood. I'd suggest getting the more advanced puzzles, B figured out the ones based on his age quickly and is bored of them now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428524 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:22:48 +0000 littlek 1428524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lavender: He has a kitchen and loves it. He will pretend to cook. It's really cute. He always makes us "taste" what he's preparing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428511 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:19:17 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1428511@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was just thinking this! J's birthday is Saturday so DH and I were discussing what to get him. J is still obsessed with balls - any kind of ball. So we're getting him a mini basketball hoop that mounts to the wall and a small 6" basketball. </p> <p>He also loves Daniel Tiger so we're buying him two Daniel tiger books. And lastly - he is huge into building. Building anything. Blocks, legos, train tracks- he's more into the building aspect of toys than the imaginative play aspect. So we're buying him a bucket of duplo legos as well. </p> <p>I know he'll love them.</p> <p>Puzzles are a great idea - I want to get him some more of those too. It's so hard to decide what to buy him because I want to buy him everything! lol We are going through his toys this week and packing several up that he's outgrown or doesn't play with. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-toys-are-your-older-toddler-ages-2-and-up#post-1428492 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:13:11 +0000 Bao 1428492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She loves to color, use stickers and play with play-doh but it's been hard to get her to play with toys for any amount of time, she just loses interest. </p>