What does your 3yo play with over and over

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Looking for ideas big and small for a 3yo. What do yours return to over and over?

Thank you in advance

Following for Christmas ideas!

Melissa and Doug Ice cream parlour

He's 4 now but the absolute favourite is the wooden train set, also liked
wooden kitchen and food, and
big basket of assorted cars/trucks/emergency vehicles.

He was never that bothered about megablocks/duplo/or happyland

Melissa and Doug Ice cream here too

And all the playmobil

Fabulous ideas- keep them coming

I see a lot of love for the M&D Ice Cream Parlour among DD's friends.

DD herself is all about drawing and crafting. Literally from dawn til dusk.

So the thing she uses most is her felt tips (she recently got a set of 200), and paper, card, colouring books. She's also a massive fan of sticker books.

Her toys rarely get a look-in.

Were just buying for Xmas and bday of a nearly 3yo... on the list so far is Duplo, tots town, dinosaurs, playdoh, wooden train track and accessories, craft stuff, colouring, painting etc.
All to add to stuff he already has and loves!

The Leapfrog Scoop and Learn Ice-cream cart is a huge hit here for my two and a half year old. Her wooden food and kitchen are also played with daily. She's also a fan of jigsaws and sticker books!

Cars / paw patrol vehicles / blaze
Dinosaurs a big green one and a duplo one.
Magformers / not as intended / makes guns and dragons with a chunk of imagination out of them.

I think for Christmas I'm going to get him more dinosaurs not sure which though.

Imaginext super heros

And hot wheels cars and garage loop the loop

Oh that's the other thing he often plays with Duplo Superheroes

Brio, it's his absolute favourite, played with constantly.

His second favourite is his wooden animals from Lanka kade

I wish my almost 3yo had the attention span of all of yours!! Especially the child who will draw from dawn till dusk- the dream!

He flits between things but he looooooves imagination play and the Hape toy people (we have a family of 4) get played with very often.

He gets frustrated with his train set, we bring it out every month or so to see if it improves but no

For his birthday next week I have got him an IKEA kitchen which I'm expecting will get a lot of use. And a peppa pig plane which he covets at playgroup.

We also have a Haba marble run which he really loves, obviously we have to set it up for him, but we have to put it away as the baby likes to knock it over when we're not looking. But it has bought him lots of fun and he will focus on this for a good hour (with a parent with him)

BabetteAteOtemeal which version of the Haba run do you have? I'm going back and forward between buying Haba and Quadrilla. The older Haba ones looked really nice but the newer ones seem to have more plastic.

Hot wheels cars and buzz lightyear figure. He was never interested in mega blocks but since I considered getting rid of them hes played with them a lot.

Duplo, paw patrol toys (vehicles and tower) and games/ puzzles (orchard games are a winner here).

Now 4 but consistently played with (and still does) duplo, wooden train set (John Lewis do some fab bits to add to the track), play kitchen and a water spray bottle cloth and squeegee-he loves cleaning windows 🤣🤦🏼‍♀️

@Bikingbear we have the standard modular wooden Haba one. I got a random megamix from ebay so there's a few longer runs, a swirly wirly bit, a click clack track. There was about 80 pieces in there. He looooves it and is really careful with the marbles but we can't leave it out because the baby also loves the marbles

I've seen the quadrilla and think it looks really good too but I love all the different add ons for the haba one, especially the musical ones, good for present ideas for family.

Thank you for all the ideas- going to read through now

Playdoh, barbies/dolls house/accessories (this is the favourite at the moment), dressing up (Elsa dress), just got back into mega blocks

Brio train set
Ikea wooden kitchen
Any large vehicle

Anything with people. Loves playmobil bus

Wooden trainset was popular.

And we could just keep adding to it.