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You know those hugely expensive toys your child only looked at for 10 minutes vs that thing you found in the charity shop for 50p they can't put down...Let's compare notes on what has been a waste of money and what has been good value for you...
For me (and my 17-month-old) these toys were worth every penny:
Play kitchen
Doll in pushchair
Pack of coloured lolly sticks
Stacking cups
Nesting boxes
One or two of his vehicles
Duplo
Shape sorter
Board books
Play Doh
Train set
Basic wooden blocks
Sand pit
Water table
Paints and canvases
Crayons and craft stuff
Basic ride-on
Mini sweeping brush
And these sucked:
Toot Toot stuff. Don't get me wrong, he does like the really loud and annoying vehicles. But sitting there pressing the button to switch through all the songs and sayings over and over and over didn't look much like play to me. It looked weird. It also drove me nuts when one of the bloody things went off unexpectedly, like that time I was driving down a narrow country lane in the dark and I nearly had a cardiac arrest when Car decided to belt out 'BEEP BEEP! I'm a car, a little car, a MARVELOUS speedy car!' I also find the play sets bulky. We don't have much room. And ge can't put the tracks together or even take them apart.
A million different vehicles. No, he didn't need 10 diggers, 4 mixers, 5 tractors and 6 fire engines.
Push-along walker and sit-in walker. He used these for all of a week and much preferred cruising on furniture and once he was able, walking unaided.
DVDs. I wish I hadn't bought bloody Peppa Pig DVDs. He doesn't get screen time any more and we have every episode ever made.
Hetty vacuum cleaner. It's not that he didn't like his vacuum cleaner. It's that he'd much rather have the big grown up one. And when he realises he can't push the big grown up one, he'll either steal its nozzle or use a stick. Any stick will do. Free sticks from the garden.
Please share!
For me (and my 17-month-old) these toys were worth every penny:
Play kitchen
Doll in pushchair
Pack of coloured lolly sticks
Stacking cups
Nesting boxes
One or two of his vehicles
Duplo
Shape sorter
Board books
Play Doh
Train set
Basic wooden blocks
Sand pit
Water table
Paints and canvases
Crayons and craft stuff
Basic ride-on
Mini sweeping brush
And these sucked:
Toot Toot stuff. Don't get me wrong, he does like the really loud and annoying vehicles. But sitting there pressing the button to switch through all the songs and sayings over and over and over didn't look much like play to me. It looked weird. It also drove me nuts when one of the bloody things went off unexpectedly, like that time I was driving down a narrow country lane in the dark and I nearly had a cardiac arrest when Car decided to belt out 'BEEP BEEP! I'm a car, a little car, a MARVELOUS speedy car!' I also find the play sets bulky. We don't have much room. And ge can't put the tracks together or even take them apart.
A million different vehicles. No, he didn't need 10 diggers, 4 mixers, 5 tractors and 6 fire engines.
Push-along walker and sit-in walker. He used these for all of a week and much preferred cruising on furniture and once he was able, walking unaided.
DVDs. I wish I hadn't bought bloody Peppa Pig DVDs. He doesn't get screen time any more and we have every episode ever made.
Hetty vacuum cleaner. It's not that he didn't like his vacuum cleaner. It's that he'd much rather have the big grown up one. And when he realises he can't push the big grown up one, he'll either steal its nozzle or use a stick. Any stick will do. Free sticks from the garden.
Please share!