Must have toys for children?

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What would you say are ‘must have toys’ (various ages)

Leap frog ice cream cart for a toddler/preschooler.

Scooter from 2 yo.

Tomy Hide and Squeak Eggs - both my kids have loved them from about 6 months. Still loving them at almost 4 years and counting!

For toddlers and preschoolers: blocks (e.g. Duplo), stacking toy, toy animals/people/vehicles, puzzles, some kind of physical toy (like a scooter or balance bike or trike or ride-on toy), a ball.

Galt pop-up toy is great too, around about the same ages.

Large grimms rainbow - used for so many things here from tunnels for cars to houses for animals, the possibilities are endless and a micro scooter. My daughter has scooted for miles and miles and miles!

stacking cups
balls of varying sizes / hardness / bounciness
stack of paper and crayons or pencils / pens depending on age

0-3

Jumperoo!!

Role play:
Dolls house
Buggy and baby
Tea set

Cognitive:
Shape sorter
Wooden puzzle with pegs
Stacking cups
Wooden blocks

Cause and effect:
Jack in box
Galt pop up toy
Cog turner

Turn taking: (can use previous toys, but)
Car and ramp
Balls

Plus usual books/figures/Tomy eggs/musical instruments.

Cardboard box.
No need for plastic or expensive noisy flashy toys. A £2.99 box from b&q kept
My 18month old and 9 year old very happy for hours

Sand, water, Lego or equivalent, something with wheels, something that floats, paper and paint, sometgibg that makes music.

I would say bike, scooter, lego and some small world stuff for my dds (6 and 7). Plus craft materials.

Second all the ones mentioned above:

Jumparoo, Lego, role play toys, cardboard box, maybe some musical instruments if you can bare it, craft things.

Thanks all

And don’t forget treasure baskets!