What does your 18month/ 2 year old play with again and again?

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We need to upgrade away from ‘baby’ toys.

Any recommendations would be really appreciated - thanks

DS is 19mo.
Cars and car garage
Train set (cardboard Orchard one)
Duplo
Shape sorter/inset puzzle
Books (short story ones)
Starting to play with a tea set and toy kitchen

Watching this for ideas. At the moment my DD loves playdough, gardening and drawing. She plays with puzzles and a ballpit indoors but need some more ideas.

At 18months we were into stacking cups and stalking rings toys like that. Now at 2 he loves his chopping up fruit and moon and me figures, cars and trains.

Our toot toot track and garage (plus all of the extension stuff) has been played with most days since DC were 18 months old. Our youngest is now 6 and it's only just recently it's not been played with so definitely value for money (even if it.is bloody annoying!)

Duplo, cars, trains, garage, kitchen. X

Our wooden train set has been a consistent favourite from about 18months and now at nearly 3. I envisage it'll still be a favourite for a couple of years yet!

At that age balls including textured balls, Fisher Price Little People, plastic animals and stacking blocks/cups. Youngest loved puzzles of any sort but that depends on the child.

Around 2 the play kitchen with velcro food they could cut was enjoyed for a long time.

My 19 month old dd loves her Ninky Nonk, her baby doll and pushchair, and her kitchen (specifically the pans and utensils).

DD is 6 and just this evening I was watching her play with her plastic house and realised she got it on her 2nd xmas and has played with it off and on since then! She'll play with it for weeks at a time then leave it for a while but always goes back to it. So lots of use from that. It's just the white plastic one with the blue roof from smyths, it was about £20 or so. She uses it at the minute for her sylvanian families but it's been used for lots of things through the years. She has a huge dolls house but it's never been used as much.

Magnatiles.

Pompoms and tongs to pick them up
Dominoes

A ball. Any ball. Cars. And wooden blocks.

DD is 18 months. Stacking cups, stacking rings, kitchen utensils like wooden spoons and whisks with old saucepans. Stones, conkers, pine cones. Watering can in the garden. Books, lots and lots of books. Soft toys, she’s currently into pretend washing and moisturising them with an empty shampoo bottle (?!). Shape sorter. Puzzles. Water drawing mat and book - brilliant. Crayons and large flip over scrapbook. Pop up animal thing. Dominoes. She still likes the ropey homemade rattles I made ages ago with travel toiletry bottles filled with lentils and rice.

She’s getting a wooden train track for Christmas and a doll. She’s mad for babies and won’t be getting a you her sibling so hope that does the job!

I was going to wait a year to get a kitchen but might get one for her birthday as others with similar age DC seem to enjoy them.

Anything which remotely represents a ball, a phone or a remote control. All ball like objects get thrown or kicked, all phone like objects get put to his ear, all remote control like objects get pointed at the tv. He also really likes hand bags. I got a few from a charity shop before lockdown as well as some old ones of mine, he puts something in a bag inside a bag inside a bag inside a bag, carries it about, finds something else, unpacks all the bags, adds the new item (usually a ball object, phone object or remote control object). Hours of fun.

A toy buggy has been successful with all of my kids, Male or female.

Mine loves animals, ranging from Playmobil zoo stuff, to farm animals and tiny jungle animals. He loves Rod Campbell books, and playing with the wooden garage and thousands of cars which we've had since our eldest was little. Loves the toy kitchen and the wooden food and appliances.

Toy cars - Matchbox / Hot wheels size.
Toy trucks similar dimensions
Picture of his favourite bus (printed from internet)

Mainly he lines these up on tables. We had to buy an extra table just for him to line them up on. Yes our lives are dictated by a tiny vehicle obsessive.

Brio train / track, the Brio compatible vehicles
Big John Deere tractor you screw the wheels on and off and can drive around.

Board books.
Wooden jigsaws with those little knobs on.
Mega blocks
Push along walker / wooden truck - we have the IKEA one.
Robot hoover (OK not really a toy)

But basically anything and I mean anything with wheels. Dolls' pushchairs are also a hit but we had so many wheeled things already we decided not to get another yet.

A mud kitchen (with a working tap - this is the favourite part!) - 23 month old and this been used daily (often for hours) for the past 5 months. By far the most popular toy here. I suspect it will still be used lots despite the winter coming up!

Wooden blocks.
He's nearly 11 and still plays with them!
Although these days it's to build towers to shoot with NERF guns or to destroy with a dinosaur robot. And of course he films it on his mobile.

Megablox, any type of car or tractor is a big hit too with my 18 month old DS. And the really chunky Melissa and Doug puzzles with what looks like a doorknob on each piece, nice and easy for clumsy little hands

Soft play equipment
Ball pool pit
Slide
Pram
Dolly
Small soft toys
Mega blocks
A stacking cone
Chalk
Crayons

She loves all that sort of stuff.

My 2 year old has played with his Schleich animals consistently for the last 10 months. He used to spend hours lining them up, or carrying them around in a picnic basket, but now he sets them up around his train track or plays with them with his farm set. During the summer he played with them in the sand pit or water tray. They've been great value for money.

@Roseability18 OMG, a mud kitchen with a working tap??!! Mind blown! That would have been DD's absolute dream toy at that age. Spent large amounts of time at our real sink playing with water (actually, still does at 7... especially if she can get hold of extra 'potion' ingredients...)

@Roseability18 Where did you get the mud kitchen with the working tap? Sounds amazing

DD was obsessed with her happyland zoo that she got for her 2nd birthday and it still gets brought out a lot now at 4.