To hang my head in shame, my child prefers wooden toys

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I wrote a post not THAT long ago about the fact plastic toys are actually great and keep my child entertained. Well I need to eat my words, because now she’s finding all the plastic noise-making stuff boring, I keep tripping over the pieces, it’s annoying to clean and the jingles are driving me crazy.

A work friend very kindly brought their old Grimm’s Rainbow round for her and she’s hardly glanced at the other toys since.

Basically whenever I form an opinion on parenting, or whatever opinions I formed before having a child, I end up changing my mind! AIBU to ask what your favourite long lasting, entertaining wooden toys are??

This doesn’t end well... 🍿

I bought my kids one of those pull along snoopy dogs when they were little... I remember loving mine as a child! Didn’t remember the noise it made... 😬

Sticks.

Nothing better for my DC. I have an extensive collection outside the front door.

Only partially wooden but this was DDs favourite as a baby, along with stacking cups.

every day is school day. they change like the wind.

plastic toys, wooden toys, cardboard boxes ect... all good, whatever takes their fancy.

@SmileEachDay

Me too!!! 😂😂

When do they grow out of this? It’s my 10 year old that brings them home Every Single Day.

My son has a stick collection by the front door, i thought it was just him!

Brio or brio style trains still much loved.

Ds's wooden train set if by far his most played with toy, has been for over 2 years.

Although he is currently playing with some toilet rolls that have been decorated to look like the Octonauts!

I personally love it when children refuse to go along with their parents biases. It amuses me on end.
I was an anti pink feminist type so obviously pink wooden dolls cots were the favourite toy here.

6yo here still plays with the Ikea trainset, even though we have an electric one. Still loves teh Snoopy dog that pp posted upthread, it used to be mine!

Garden full of sticks, stones, shells - check.

Yet he still plays with Lego, Playmobil, my old My Little Ponies. And a fuckton of cardboard - Eminybob DS' loo rolls have been painted different colours and are being used as recycle bins: yellow for plastic, blue for car, green for glass etc etc. We have to bring rubbish to him in a giant noisy plastic truck, and he sorts it out into each bin! Hours of fun.

I love the look of the Grimms rainbow but fuck me the price! I may get DS to make one out of his loo rolls....

DD loved this:

www.theworks.co.uk/p/pre-school-toys/wooden-jacobs-ladder/5052089215252

If I could pry it off her I’d play with it too oddly addictive

I lust after a grimms rainbow, but had to make do with lidl, aldi and ikea’s offerings because wooden toys are seriously expensive.

We’ve had train tracks (mix of brio/ikea/Thomas/tesco), wooden blocks, Kapla, play food, jigsaws and a marble run

We also had some chopped up logs in the garden which were used as stepping stones, imaginary camp fires, and other games I’m too old and adult to fully grasp.

We never seem to go outside without someone bringing home a stick of some kind.

Big fans of tree climbing too if that counts as a wooden toy

but the most popular toys in my house are the boxes (yes, plural) of McDonald’s and kinder egg crap that we’ve accumulated over the years

My son loved my old cuisenaire rods along with building blocks and brio.

He’s now hooked on minecraft.

DDs favourite toy when little was a plastic colander and large pipe cleaners she used to poke through the holes for ages.

Grimm’s toys don’t get much love here unfortunately (except from me ) but they’ve both loved those pull-along things. We’ve got a wooden crocodile and a dog. And second the wooden train set being endlessly entertaining.

Not so Green my DH still has his snoopy!

The noise is a bit ice cream van.

This online company sell reasonably priced wooden toys! I used to buy them from here for my youngest (now sadly at nearly 14 isn't interested any more) www.netpricedirect.co.uk/shop-online-wooden-toys.html

Have you not read 'Stickman'?

You can't take the sticks home! You're taking them away from their stick family.

Both kinds are great. Its not a competition except for in parents heads.
Playmobil & Lego are just as great as Plan Toys or Grimms.
People that look down on either need to get a grip and realise the toys are for the children. We have a mix of both and my children prefer plastic.

Wooden blocks and a pinktastic Barbie Dream house. Cardboard boxes.. They loved art, painting, drawing, colouring, chalk.

Also, a really cool 90s Playskool 'Farm Friends Musical Xylophone'.

I am convinced this toy is why DD4 wants to be a sound engineer.

we've got a mix we have the grimms rainbow and it is beautiful and you can do loads with it. We also have lots of plan toys the bee hive, ice cream shop, vets ECT that are brilliant and lots of wooden animals and my little boy loves playing with them all. He also has Lego, plastic cars ECT aswell he enjoys

oh he also has loads of train some brio some cheaper John Lewis stuff they all did together and he loves playing with trains

Youngest is 11, yet we have not yet got rid of our wooden tr ainsets. That was seriously good value for money!

Google wooden push along toy. All of mine loved them.

Trees!