Desert Island Kids: what is your child's favourite activity / toy / book?

[Popparoo]

I just thought it would be fun to hear about everyone else's childrens' favourite activities, books and toys!
My 3 year old daughter loves everything to do with water: swimming, paddling pools, and now it's colder puddles, "fishing" in the river, baths (has been known to have 4 in one day), pouring her drinks into other things eg dolls cups. She is truly obsessed.
Number 1 toy is still the Christmas cards that I haven't dared throw away. She is entranced by them: trying to read them, colouring them in, rearranging them...
Current fave read is Lauren Child's Big Bad Book -not sure how much she understands it though!

[breeze]

My Sons favourite at the moment is sticker books, its only a 'dad' thing which my son will not let me be part of, when dh comes home from a 12 hour shift, he find his ds sitting on the stairs with a sticker book in hand. ds is just turned 3.

[Rhiannon]

Anything by Shirley Hughes especially the Alfie stories. I love her illustrations. Ponies for my DD, she's pony crazy.

[AngieL]

OOohhh. Anything that drives me potty really. Favourite things are running around like loony's, arguing with each other, dragging all the toys out and not playing with them. You know the sort of thing. lol.

Eldest dd is heavily into anything creative, ds loves his tool bench and youngest dd just loves climbing.

[Claireandrich]

DD's (just 9 months) favourite Christmas pressie at the moment is a Pop Up Ball Blast. It stands just the right for her to hold on to and you know balls down a helter skelter type chute whilst it plays very annoying jazzy music! She loves it though.

She also adore looking at books, playing in the bath (bath toys are now taking over!) and babbling non-stop, and I mean non-stop!!! She laso spent over 40 minutes last night chasing a pair of socks round the lounge - just don't ask. LOL!

[Enid]

Definitely our poor long-suffering cat.

[iota]

My ds1 (3.5) is currently obsessed by beyblades - his favourite christmas present. Other longer term fave is cars especially matchbox and hotwheels.

[SofiaAmes]

Ds (25 mo.) is current favorite activity is "losing" his toys and searching for them (with our assitance of course). He's had me and dh under every couch and bed in the house looking for his powice car. He also spent about an hour this evening stuffing coins into the front grill on the fridge/freezer and then looking very forlorn and saying "where's my money?"

[AngieL]

lol Sofia.

My 15 mo dd has spent the evening standing on a box, she then screams and throws herself off. It's quite funny but my hair is getting greyer by the minute.

[WideWebWitch]

Ds's favourite activity would be Playstation (if he knew we had one but he thinks we lent it to a friend since I don't want him playing it) followed by playing football in the park. Or maybe watching Little Bill, Little Bear, Maggie & the Ferocious Beast and Franklin (he's rarely allowed to watch all four in a row, we tape the last 2) and eating large amounts of chocolate. Favourite book atm is Eric Carle's Bad Tempered Ladybird which we bought him for Christmas. He also likes I am not sleepy and will not go to bed and I will not ever never eat a tomato by Lauren Child.

[tigermoth]

My 8 year old's favourite toy are his gameboy (would be an Xbox if we had one) and his bike.
Favourite book - The Harry Potter books. He just keeps re-reading them.

For the three year old, mobilo is his favourite toy and again, his bike. 'What do people do all day'`by Phillip Scarry (sp) is his favourite book.

[ScummyMummy]

There's more overlap than this list might suggest but it's funny how different siblings' interests can be:

twin boy 1: dressing up, fashion- yes even at 3 he's a complete fashion victim which has come as a surprise to his distinctly untrendy parents, pretending to be a goodie, a baddie or a pussy cat, playing on the computer, running very fast. Fave books are Max and Ruby ones by Rosemary Wells

twin boy 2: playing snap, spaceships, thunderbird 2 toy and all other thunderbird vehicles to a lesser extent, playing on the computer, watching duckula and dangermouse on dvd. Loves his thunderbird annuals (tho his mummy hates them...)plus non fiction books on space.

[EmmaTMG]

DS1-as many trains as he can carry. He's not fussy if it's the brio sort of Thomas diecast ones just as long as it's a train. He plays out nearly a whole episode of Thomas the tank engine with his toy engines including the script!!! He doesn't watch TV that much really!!
DS2- anything that DS1 has got but then he is only 18 months. Oh he did get toy hoover for xmas which he loved and I REALLY wished worked properly! My house would have been spotless for weeks.

[jodee]

EmmaTMG, my son is the same as your DS1, he is totally obsessed with trains! If a video recorder was allowed on a desert island, it would be a toss-up between a Thomas video and his video of real diesel engines. He also loves to have pretend tea parties with his teddies/Teletubbies.

[CAM]

my dd's favourite current books are anything by Lauren Child - she says "Clarice Bean is a naughty me!" (Because of course my dd is never naughty)

[laganlover]

Ds (4 in April) is a dinosaur expert!!! We have to read textbooks to him, he watches 'Walking with Dinosaurs' plus all the specials plus Jurassic Park (not the boring bits, just the action bits!!), has about 32 big dinosaur models and about 50 little ones (knows all their names), separates his models into therapods and saurapods (are these spelt correctly? I don't even know what that means). It's completely insane. I suspect that dh is re-living his childhood a tad (he also went through a nerdy phase, according to his mother). To answer the question, he keeps his dinosaurs in a giant bucket (like Harry) and will not be parted from them.