To think this is a perfectly reasonable amount of legos?

It’s not many for three children to share, it’s fine for a two year old on their own but between three is a bit stingy if I’m honest. Doubt your two month old is joining in though, I wouldn’t buy any more I’d buy normal Lego for your four year old now.

I’d get some more. Mine used Lego for years!

Kids have way too many toys these days. Ignore the friend.

You can start getting Lego sets for the older one, he might enjoy the model making side of it more than the free imagination play.

Hundreds of kids don't play with Lego properly any more anyway...they follow instructions and that it. No inventing. Just following printed instructions.

It’s not a lot is it. Do they have other toys?

Well possibly but why just Lego? What other toys has he got? Do you read to him? What about colouring books and sticker books? What about “doing” toys like experiments? Galt produce fun ones. Does he have a railway set? What about Playmobile? Mine liked letter jigsaw puzzles and toys for manual dexterity like play doh.

It's not much but ok if it's one of many things they have to play with. What's the rest of their toy collection like?

Some kids, obviously not all!

Doesn’t look like a lot to me tbh, I’d get more. Mine had moved on from Duplo by 4 and were playing with normal Lego.

If that's all the toys that's a tiny amount and I say that as someone who was pretty restrained about toy buying

I think this is a chicken/egg thing though TBF. Most of the Lego stuff now is sets to build rather than boxes with a decent selection of bricks to free build. Lots of quite fiddly bits and if you go wrong it just doesn't work.

My son is 6 and he sort of does a mix - he loves the mini figures and will build say, the ship from the instructions, but then loves building his own "bases" and mixing everything up for his games. But we had to get him a bundle of bricks of marketplace for that bit!

@Muntoru I agree if your eldest doesn't enjoy the imaginative elements of play, building from the instructions and displaying them might be a bit more of a hit?

What? I think it's plenty. I do have a tip for duplo though. They play with it much more if you get some of the flat thin base tiles to build onto. Same with lego really, for imaginative play rather than following instructions, anyway.

The magnetic blocks (they look like Minecraft cubes) are really good, ours are used multiple times a week and I’ve used them with kids I volunteer with and they’ve been a huge hit. You do need a lot of these things, same with Magnatiles, to make really cool stuff. My two like to make big sprawling castles and things.

I wouldn't rush to Lego, they can play with Duplo for ages and it's less of a choke hazard for the younger two.

I would get a big base plate so they can build houses/castles/towns etc, some more mixed bricks and some people. Maybe some flowers and trees too.

Do you build with them?

You can get the “Classic” sets which are just boxes of bricks; there are instruction books with suggestions of what to build, but they’re designed to be more open-ended than the other sets.

OP, I do think you need a bit more for them to play with. You can often bulk-buy second hand things like wooden train sets, magnetiles, Lego etc on Facebook Marketplace; something like that could be good.

I wouldnt say that was really enough to build things and get creative with no. Its fine if they have other toys and arent massively into it, but if thats the majority of their toys then no its not really enough to really enjoy duplo

That sounds like quite a good amount of toys.

Why so many yoto and tonies ? That's the only thing I think you have too many of!

I'd add to the duplo collection if you want them to really play with it.

I think that's plenty OP (seeing your second list). A lot of kids are really into Lego and their parents seem to think it's a life essential. My kids are really just not fussed and much prefer other things. I would be wary of rushing out to buy more of it if they don't show much interest in what you already have.

I'm sorry, I have to point out that the plural of Lego is Lego. It's causing me physical pain seeing it pluralised in that way.

They sound lovely.

I would call them ‘general’ toys though, rather than appealing to particular interests. By 2/3, my children had particular shows, characters and types of toys they liked and and played really well with those toys. One of my children just loved animals, so she spent hours playing with woofing dogs, brushing toy cats that meowed, playing vet to them, making them into families. One of them loved Spider-Man and Toy Story and spent most of his time playing with those, recreating scenes from films and making up his own.

They were both less interested in general toys like cars, trains, kitchen etc although they would incorporate these into how they played with Spider-Man or whatever they actually loved. If they can’t tell you, maybe go old school and let them look in a smyths toys catalogue and see what they seem drawn to every time they look, or visit a toy shop and see what they seem to go towards.

Don’t feel bad. You sound like a mum who is interested and wants to help them develop. And its not like they don’t have toys!

I think the key thing to think, is when you play with them, is there enough for you to build something entertaining enough for you and the children to play with. Duplo, Lego and Magnatiles are the ones I enjoy. I’d struggle to find your Duplo set very interesting I think.