At home the only playing that he'll do is painting and making things (needs lots of supervision) or role play games that require me to take part (usually firemen at the moment). I just can't get him interested in playing with his toys which I don't mind in itself but it does make getting on with anything very difficult! He'll play with toys if there are other children doing it, at toddler group or if a child comes to our house, but that's more to join in with them than because he wants to play with the toys. As he's an only at the moment his playmate most of the time is me. Most of the time that's fine but there are times when I need to get on with things and the only way I can do it is to park him in front of CBeebies (not ideal). He'll join in with 'helping' for a short while but not long.
I'm also worried that he's not learning to entertain himself apart from by watching TV. Does anyone have any suggestions about how to encourage him to play more, or to tell me that this is a phase that he'll grow out of?!