What books, toys or games do four year olds like to play with or read?

[Mil16]

I am doing a survey for my gcse about a 4 yr olds intellectual development. I would like to know whether they prefer toys, books or games (and which ones) and the topics (eg numbers) that they like that help with their intellectual development.
some specific questions could be :
What does he enjoy the most?
Does he understand colours and how many?
Does he under numbers and how many?
Can he tell the time?
that sort of thing would be really helpful

I would say: mine is 5 now, but thinking back to age 4:

Mine enjoys tearing about, imaginative play, tactile play (sand/water/play dough). Particularly enjoys playing an organised game with older dcs - like hide and seek. Games: snakes and ladders and hungry hippos but not much else at this age - dominoes maybe. On own likes playing with plastic animals, peppa pig characters, creating scenarios. Playmobil, lego, building blocks, cars. Enjoys listening to stories and hearing children's songs.

Colours -can recognise and name all the colours of the rainbow.
Numbers - mine can count to 100 with a bit of prompting on the tens - but I think this varies massively amongst dc.

Time - can sort of recognise anything oclock (i.e. the hour), by looking at a clock, but not much else. But has no concept of actual time.

Books she likes - Julia Donaldson - gruffalo, snail and whale all that kind of thing. Meg and Mog. Winnie the Witch. Spot. Peppa Pig. Mr Men. Scary McLarey. More recently Mrs Pepperpot.

Hope it helps.

DS is 4 1/2 (starts reception in September)
he loves playing games on the CBeebies website, followed by snakes and ladders/dominos/kerplunk type games. Other favourite things are cars, trains, marble run, lego. He does enjoy looking at books too, in particular ones about cats.
Colours: knows all 'main' colours e.g. red, pink, purple but would struggle with 'turquoise' etc. in both english and welsh.
Numbers: Can count to about 100 in English, (about 25 in Welsh), can add up numbers up to 10 - currently working out his 2 times table. If has 3 lego blocks in a tower and then pick up 2 more and 'know' he has 5 (ie doesn't have to recount them).
Time: forget it, can't even get today/yesterday and tomorrow let alone times.

well done for coming onto Mumsnet and seeing what all our children are up to at this age!
It might be useful for you to go to the Royal College of Child Health website..somewhere on there is a list of what an 'average' 4 year old should be expected to be able to do, and what would worry a professional if they couldn't do.
Good luck with your survey!