What toys are banned in your house?

[Niyamamama]

Ds2 absolutely loves play-doh but I refuse to have it in the house anymore as it turns him into a screaming, raging beast. Every attempt goes the same way, Ds sees all the animal shapes and gets very excited and wants the giraffe. We choose a colour, roll out the play-doh and make the giraffe, all good so far and ds having a great time. Then every fucking time he will pull the giraffe's head off and scream "MY GIRAFFE!!" and fling himself on the floor to thrash and wail for at least 45 minutes before flipping the table and trying to stomp anything dd4 has made. Play-doh is now banned in my house until ds turns 18.

Noisy battery operated toys.
Ditto.
Irritating and dont keep DD (2) entertained for 5 minutes as all she just presses all the buttons and then gets bored. My only exception is the Melissa and Doug doorbell house which is cute.

Last Christmas I had a wishlist for DD so that she would get things she would like, would fit in our house and that she didnt already own. SIL and Aunt went off-list which I didnt have a problem with in principle, but they both bought horrible plastic noisy things

Also kinetic sand here (it gets everywhere no matter how many times I ask them to keep it in the sodding tray). Nerf guns, as they just can't help themselves and end up shooting each other and the cat, or me, and it bloody hurts. We also do not have any computer gaming stuff (it's not officially banned we are just avoiding going down that route). The closest they get to gaming is playing crossy road on a kindle! I'm also trying to discourage plastic tat but not winning that one.

Also any sexist dolls like Barbie or Bratz.

@Pringlemunchers we had a hideous 5-hour journey one Xmas with a wrapped Furby lodged in the boot that activated...It just would not STFU!

Toy hoovers, irons or sweeping brushes for my DD.

This and also barbies or similar.

I'm glad I read this thread as her birthdays coming up and I was thinking kinetic sand since it looks non messy 😂

Slime, glitter, play doh - yep anything sticky or sparkly. My daughter makes the most horrendous mess of all of this stuff. It takes seconds to get out and flipping ages to clear up.

Slime and pens that are not the washable crayola!

In a new house with brand new carpets and decorated everywhere, the last house Dd1 drew all over the dining room walls with pen and crayon 😤.

Barbies
Guns (although they came in by stealth in lego sets)
Anything will billions of bits - bracelet making sets, loom bands
Squishems or whatever they’re called
Poo or snot themed games
And as far as possible nothing too pointlessly plastic (art toys are the worst)

nerf gun. Hate them with a passion.

Slime is closely monitored, stays away in a high cupboard!
Pens/art stuff is not allowed upstairs
No bunchems will ever enter my house they should be illegal haha.
Someone got my dd those really irritating balls you make a shape then wet with water, I let her use them once then hid them forever

Paint was banned for a while in my house too.
DCs 1&2 would paint the paper quite nicely for all of 3 minutes before they started painting themselves, eachother and anything else that wasn’t paper So instead, I taped a fuck ton of paper to the bathroom tiles, stripped them down to underwear/nappy and sat them in the bath to paint instead.

Kinder eggs. Magazines with cheap plastic tat sellotaped to the side of them. We do have plastic toys, but it's mostly things like Duplo which last forever (most of DS's Duplo is 30+ years old). Or Playmobil or Lego which you get loads of play out of. But I object to crappy objects designed to be played with for an afternoon and then chucked in the bin.

Anything messy or noisy. Any kind of weapon or fighting play. Anything overly gender stereotyped/sexist. I also try to keep plastic tat to a minimum. The main exception to plastic is Lego because it's so well used.

Slime. The damage it does to carpets is unreal.
We rode out the fortnite craze with much complaining from 9 year old.

Less banned than discouraged and will only enter the house as a present from somebody else (and will probably be put away somewhere less obvious like the bottom of a toybox, in the hope they will be forgotten):

Slime
Paint
The "super" bubbles that don't pop and disappear properly
Disposable plastic toys from kinder eggs and magazines.
Those beads you set into shapes.

I don't like McDonalds toys either but I don't have the heart to ban them. I do encourage him to give them back to the server unopened unless they are something he particular wants. It confuses them no end

Toot Toot

Can't stand the repetitive bloody little phases. We were given a huge set last Xmas and donated it to the children's hospital still in the box.
They were thrilled!

@Pringlemunchers I remember Bop It! It was known to make children cry with its sarcastic remarks when you lost. "That was great!... Not."

Pop up pirate!

Have you ever taken that plastic pirate projectile to the chin? It's as bad a toddler standing up quickly and making you nearly bite your own tongue in half.

We do have that gendered stuff such as guns, trucks and Lego aimed at boys and dolls, friendship bracelet sets or bath bomb maker boxes aimed at girls but my kids don't go in for all that nonsense and play with them all, no matter what private parts they possess. DD loves building a batman Lego set with her DB and DS loves making the friendship bracelets just as much as his DSis.

The only thing I've banned are the pointless, little, fiddly toys that seem to be everywhere at the moment.
The things you can't do anything with like LOL, hatchimals, num nums.
Hate them.

Everything else is fine!

Toy guns, slime and glitter.