Best toys for 1-2 years old

[HeyBungalowBill]

Which toys did your child get the most use out of and enjoy the most around this age?

My DS (21 months) has been obsessed with cars, trucks, trains, tractors, fire engines, etc for months now. He has a vast collection and loves driving them around. On the same theme, he has a Fisher Price 'garage' with a spiral ramp that he can push the cars down and that gets a lot of use too. He has recently become interested in shapes, so the shape sorter is a new favourite, along with a set of Mega Blocks for building. And he loves books. Especially if they are about cars, trucks, trains, tractors, fire engines...

Thank you for the suggestions, some great ideas have been mentioned

I didn't half laugh about your 2 year old putting people in a pan and cooking them

early learning centre have a fab toy - pop it in the post - a plastic post box, plastic envelopes and letters. Excellent for this age group. My dd gets lots of use out of it and even my eldest too!!

Fisher price Ark is also a good one as well as make believe food items, and kitchens with pots and pans. Etc

Ds is 18 months and loves his brio train track, other favorites are Russian dolls ( with the tiny dolls taken out) a bead maze, a song box which is a box with little figures in which represent different songs, elephant for nelly the elephant, spider for incy wincy spider and lots more, he also has musical instruments, they were more popular around 1.

DC is 19 months

Toy buggy - used endlessly

Cooking stuff - kitchen, pots and pans, tea set

Dressing up - fireman's hat/my hats/my shoes/my hairbrush.

(basically any kind of role play)

Aquadraw/Magnadoodle

Ride ons: wheelybug, scuttlebug.

Books, yy to the ones with the sound buttons

DS 20 months enjoys

• felt tips and paper (v washable ones!) and stickers
• pull back / motorised vehicles
• ikea toy kitchen (plus a bowl of uncooked pasta for tipping / mixing and some £shop 'real' baking trays and utensils), toy toaster etc
• wooden peg puzzles
• duplo
• paddling pool / water table / standing up at the sink with cups and a brush
• books (esp ones where he can recognise / point things out eg first words type ones, or number/colour books) - usually picked up from charity shops or library
• toot toot garage/police station and vehicles

Doctors kit
Tea set
Toy handbag with real old keys and (no battery) mobile and a little purse
Wooden trains
Matchbox cars
Happyland
Aquadraw