What does your 3 year old play with daily

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We are in a toy rut and I can't decide what new things to buy DS as my budget is limited.

Mainly he plays diggers most of the day or pretends to be a car 🚗😂 The diggers we have are the paw patrol rubbles digger, plus some Bigjigs one from their crane set.

Please inspire me on what to buy .. what does your DC play with on a daily basis ?

Toy animals & his farm
Lego
Toy kitchen
Dolls
Cars
Books

Playmobil. Loads of it. All the time.
Oh, and armies with his zillions if soldiers. Lining them up.

Wooden food (especially the kind you can ‘cut’), toy kitchen and shop, Sylvanians, miniature Disney figurines.

Lego. He has an older brother who is mad for Lego though.

DS is 3 and is a huge fan of his brio trains (we have a construction area on the train track with cranes and cargo and rubble that has to be removed with a dump truck)...

But also:
Melissa & Doug reusable stickers (there are construction ones).
Kitchen and cooking set.
Doctor's kit - which doubles as a vet kit when the cat is in a good mood.
He has a handbag with a purse, phone, car keys, my old work badge, etc which he enjoys pretending to go to work and then coming home and saying how busy it's been!
He's helps me with the washing and sorting laundry, a bit of cooking, washing up etc.

And fairly often he has a sudden intense interest in anything his little sister is using!!!!

DS is 3. He loves:
Lego and duplo
Sofa forts
Vehicles of any kind
Orchard toys games especially pizza pizza because it has pieces with slugs and worms
Play dough

I have tried to provide him with a very wide range of toys but these are the ones that he gravitates towards.

DS is 2 and a half and he loves his

Aqua doodle mat
Leapfrog laptop 2 in 1
Duplo
Play tunnel (he makes me use it too, I just about fit lol.)

Nursery have also said he really liked playdoh so we've just bought some of that too.

Jigsaws, magnatiles and toy food.

Playdoh and Disney princess magiclip dolls like these if your ds is into dolls at all

@donpablo the loss of a very loved one is so hard. it must have been a shock to “hear” their words again. I assume it was the Peggy review? She sounded lovely.

There is an orchard toys giant jigsaw that is a road ( if that makes sense ?! )

My son loved it when he was three and still plays with it now at 4 and a half

playmobil here m we love the paxkaway house and vet sets which are sonreaonabky priced

DD got a 'busy book' (book with play figures and play mat, £6 from Tesco) for her third birthday, she still plays with it regularly two years later.

The best £16 I ever spent was on an easel and chalks/paper roll. It was used daily, at that age and beyond.
Also, blocks. We had citi blocks - expensive but versatile, and still played with now, at 9. I also bought 200 coloured dominos/wooden 'chips' from eBay, which were used lots for counting, stacking, making pictures/patterns and building - mostly roads and garages, which would be knocked down by the cars that you pull back and let go.
As already suggested, a marble run kept my boys interested for hours.
At that age, DS loved his baby and buggy (and still does, as long as his school friends aren't around!).

Play mobile police
Lego
Melissa and Doug ice cream set.
A variety of other cars and games etc but those top 3 are the most favoured

@DonPablo never seen that before and bless your mum 💐 I love an amazon review.

Any small world type figures or sets - anything he can role play and use his imagination with. So, Happyland, action figures, Hey Duggee figure set, Go Jetters figures/vehicles, Octonauts toys... you get the idea!

Wooden train track and trains. Any vehicles (hot wheels cars, Postman Pat van). Sit on/ride on Paw Patrol fire engine, actually for younger kids but he goes "shopping/to the beach/on holiday" etc on it. Till and play food/kitchen. And most recently puzzles, absolutely loves them. Ravensburg do these four in a box ones ranging from 12-24 pieces, he does them a few times a day at the moment.

My ds2 is nearly 4. Huge huge huge dinosaur fan. He also has diggers, cars, cranes..... he makes scenes with his dinosaurs involving the diggers and dumper trucks it's very cute to watch

@Stormwhale, @Iwrotethissongfor and @snoringdoggo

Thank you all, sorry to derail, so often with grief it's the silly things that 'get' you. And yes it was the Peggy review, that's how long ago I bought them and they're still accessible today and are still played with when younger children come and visit, all these years later!

Mine loves her schliech farm toys, her kitchen and she's just started to enjoy puzzles

Every day without fail -
Diggers
Playdough
Sand
Lego
Tools - we bought a toys of oxford chair to build for Xmas - he already had a smoby black and decker tool bench ect. He loves the screws and different tools.
Threading activities
Puzzles
Vtech innotab and amazon fire
He also plays with a lot of playfood most days

My almost four yr old loves DUPLO especially the little people in it.

Imaginext inherited from his big brother so batman, Joker etc with all the houses and cars.

Jigsaws and simple games like memory games.

Play doh and craft stuff

Those books which are around £6 which come with all the little figures and a big play mat. We have about ten of them!

Ben 10, transformers and Disney characters also go down well. He has the full set of paw patrol people but has gone off it a bit now.

Happyland. Repeating a pp dd2 got the happyland London bus for her 1st birthday (I think) she's six this week and it still gets played with. It get involved in at least half of the games going on in our house. Current passengers are more often than not playmobil people and animals. We also can't put the rest of the happyland toys away all though they are on a shelf dd2 regularly brings them down for a big game.

My 3 year old is a truck obsessed. We moved from a selection of wow toy vehicles to some Bruder ones at Christmas. The larger vehicles are expensive but the mini range not so much and thwy’re Very realistic!