What to buy a nearly 3 year old??

[xxsteffyxx]

Harvey's birthday is February 6th and then before then its Christmas and honestly I am completely stuck for ideas.

He likes his role play, like food, making cups of tea with his pretend kettle - so maybe a play kitchen although they are quite expensive.

He also loves his cars, maybe a garage or a track?

He isn't really into his puzzles at the moment although he has got quite a few already.

I'm anxious about the age group and learning development toys but cannot think of much else.

Ideas would be really appreciated!

 

[Scoobys mummy]

Asda have a great looking kitchen though no stock till end of oct
https://direct.asda.com/George-Home-Deluxe-Wooden-Kitchen/000799375,default,pd.html

Emily has the ikea one, she loves it
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S49874533/

For her birthday she is getting a shop till and a dr set...hope this helps!

 

[Elphaba12]

If he's into role play asda also have a lovely wooden play shop/cafe for £35

https://direct.asda.com/George-Home-2-in-1-Wooden-Play-Shop-Cafe/000799382,default,pd.html?dual=0

And if he likes cars how about this,
https://direct.asda.com/George-Home-Wooden-Toy-Car-Transporter/000799095,default,pd.html?dual=0



Or this wooden fire station looks great

https://direct.asda.com/George-Home...gory=&product_id=000799368&findingMethod=p13n

 

[meldmac]

Some lego junior ?

 

[Kess]

My LO is into his roleplay, kitchen and cars too. We bought him a play kitchen last year, off ebay. Can't remember how much it was but it was a fraction of the new price and came with loads of food, pots and pans, etc. It's a lovely big retro red one, we couldn't have afforded it new, and he uses it every day.

Smyths last year had big packs of the little metal die-cast cars, and we got him one of those, together with a fire engine that plays a song and drives when you press the buttons on the side. Would he use a car mat? Ro doesn't seem to, he prefers to line the cars up on his train track, but some kids do.

Does he like little figurines to do small-world play with? Ro has lots of Schleich animals that are all friends and talk to each other lol. The ELC have a nice wooden garage too that he has.

 

[Kess]

Just realised you said you were keen to get some learning toys. TBH anything can be used for learning if you play with him. E.g. setting up a cardboard carpark with numbered spaces and challenging him to put the red car in the number 6 space, etc, deals with number recognition and colours.

A nice big chunky dice can be useful for a lot of learning games. My LO has a big wooden D6 from The Works and a couple of D20's from ebay which we use in various made-up learning games.

Ro also has a "Multifunctional table top wooden easel" from Amazon which has a chalk board on one side and a whiteboard on the other, both magnetic, and it comes with shapes and numbers magnets (and letters, but I confiscated those as they're capitals and not very clear anyway), and chalk. He loves it, and makes pictures out of the shape magnets. He used to name all the shapes (colour and size too, e.g. big blue square, little yellow semi-circle) and numbers as he put them on and off the board, but he's a little older than your LO so knows them all now.

 

[x_WelshGirl_x]

I've got Alex a couple of things already. Got him a fire engine, pop up pirate game, a thomas take n play set and a monsters university set which was reduced in the entertainer.
At the minute he is obsessed with dinosaurs so he will be getting a couple moving ones.
Other than that I'm stuck too!