To ask which strange things your DC have been excited about?

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I popped into Wilko yesterday to stock up on craft bits for 4 year old DS. I grabbed him a 50p roll of masking tape as he likes it for making models and I have to keep getting the tool box out to find it.
He is DELIGHTED. He has spent the last half an hour thanking me profusely. I am the best Mummy in the world and may borrow his masking tape whenever I need to
Tell me I’m not alone in having a little weirdo!

I put a packet of blu tac and his own box of plasters in Ds2’s Christmas stocking one year as he loved them both so much.
He’s still very fond of a plaster and has his own personal first aid box in his room which he’s devised himself (he’s now 9!)

My DS was 4 yesterday, horrendously spoilt by everyone and his favourite present?

A captain America wash mitt from the pound shop

Repeatedly being thanked for it, wish I hadn't bothered with the other presents now!

At that age DD was delighted by those emergency foil blankets you can pick up in the camping bit of the poundshop and could spend hours excavating playmobile people from a storage tub filled with rice crispies (the really cheap lidl ones) using a teaspoon and whatever plasric scoops/cups i could find.

A stick.

Actually a piece of dowling he (aged 3) found in B&Q when I was buying paint. It went everywhere with us for a week.

3 year old DD loves her new socks for Nursery £4 for a 5 pack of white socks in Tesco. She keep putting them on and taking them off again

Awwww OP.

A bath pillow when she was 12 from a bath set she was given. Had always wanted one apparently... it's been well used.

My almost 2 year old is obsessed with her toothbrush. She's shit at brushing with it mind, but she insists on using it 9 times a day.

Oh my 3 year old DD is the same!!

She loves blu tack so I bought her a pack, she has not stopped thanking me "I'm the best mummy in the whole world" and she "loves me soooo much".

I reckon she has come up to me and hugged me and kissed me every hour since. She's so grateful bless her.

Melts my heart 💓

Using a bar of dove soap. She's 5.

Was always socks for me, my favourite present at Christmas and birthdays. Kind of still is

My DN loves IKEA more than the zoo, if you mention it she wants to go, and she doesn't want to play in the crèche bit, she wants to look at all the furniture, she gets so excited and happy, she's three

Not a present for my DS (age 5) ,but my mum in law bought us a Henry Hoover and he absolutely loves it, he will happily hoover everywhere with the nozzle on, he was upset about something the other day so to cheer him up I said 'shall we get Henry out?' stopped crying straight away and hoovered away , strange child !

We were at a very small a bit shit aeroplane museum, when I asked if anyone wanted to go see the uniform room, my five year old got VERY excited and didnt stop badgering me to go see - I had by now become engrossed in the boeing exhibit.

When we walked in his face fell as he wandered round asking 'where are the unicorns'

That's so sweet OP. I love this thread.

DS (4) is obsessed with using empty milk carton to make aeroplanes at the moment. He is ecstatic when we finish another one and in fact has taken to serving everyone large glasses of milk whether they want them or not. Our house is full of empty milk cartons with bits of paper stuck to them.

DD (6) 'gave' me an old bracelet she found (amongst my stuff) and is now constantly 'borrowing' it and looking very chuffed with her new jewellery.

When I was getting my double glazing windows installed. She was jumping all over me saying "mummy mummy. It's morning. The window people are coming."
I had to wake her up on Christmas morning.
SC (strange child)

DS has a collection of plastic plumbing pipes. Whenever i go to B&Q I have to get him a bit and have since he was about 2.

He is currently ecstatic about the fact my sister has given him his own super broom (don't know what it's proper name is, it's a plug in floor sweeper). He has wanted one for years and years and has used it twice a day for a week despite the fact he is a total grotbag and usually you can't see his floor let alone sweep it

DS1 once ate Christmas dinner wearing a pair of goalie gloves. They still remain his favourite ever present. This was 23 years ago.

My 3 year old son gets very excited when a parcel contains popping paper (bubble wrap). It takes him ages to pop all the bubbles :)

Plums arriving in the grocery delivery from Tesco . how smug I was with hindsight ..... won't look at much fruit at all now, let alone get excited by it!

My 5 year old loves sticks, when I have a costas at work and remember to bring home a couple of the wooden stirrers I am the best mum.

When my son was 2 he had a leaf he named Tony. He took Tony everywhere. He even put in next to him in bed. This lasted until Tony dried up and crumbled.

I have another lover of Blu Tack. I had to limit her use of it though because I was finding bits of it stuck everywhere, including the carpet. She went through a phase of being junkie-like in her need for Blu Tack - she'd beg for it, try to steal it from the drawer, take it off pictures that came home from school. She's grown out of it now thankfully.

My handbag came with a small change purse which I didn't need so I gave it to DS when he was about 4. He's now 7 and still has it, hidden in a special location in his room. He adores it and looks at often, even after three years! (may have something to do with the money he keeps in it). He also had a small blue tupperware box for keeping bits and pieces in that he loved dearly - that lost its shine after about four years. He's a very sentimental person and gets very attached to particular objects.

RIP Tony