what scares your toddler?

[alilang]

My little boy is 2.2 yrs old and has suddenly started being scared of the oddest things. The Gruffalo (a story he used to love) has apparently taken up residence in our hallway and this is very much not a good thing.
Turkeys and dragons are also on the new no-no list and require banishing from the bedroom at nighttime after he saw a turkey at Battersea zoo (admittedly it was really ugly; freaked me out a bit) and the dragons/lions dances we saw when went to look at the celebrations for Chinese New Year.
What are your little ones fears? And how do you help banish them?

hairs, fluff, errm mud on his hands, bubbles

up until he was about 4/5 years old....o yes and he still hates the cat in the hat books

dolls

He wasn't expecting the eyes to move on one (he tipped it back when he picked it up). Full blown hysterics for ages.

He's growing out of it now.

Father Christmas - screamed himself silly at seeing him for the first time. Still keeps asking "father Christmas isn't coming here is he?".
And, on the same theme, scared shitless of The Snowman, PILs put it on for him thinking he would like it one day at christmas when he was overtired. So scared, he refuses now to go into the garden and build snowmen when it snows

my dd hates anything that moves on its own, like scalectrix, the thomas on the aquadraw. we was at a friends house last week and she has an amazing animals train for her 6 month old, and it scared her stiff!!

she is 2.3.

its strange what they like and dislike

Sand, bubbles at bathtime, or any situation where there might be 'dirty hands'!

2happy - The Snowman freaked ds out as well.

WEird. He only lasted about 2 minutes.

The garage door opening She runs away up the drive! (only 15 months so not a proper run yet!)

Armadillo - ds1 sat through the whole thing quite calmly. It was only after he decided it was the most frightening thing in the world. But at least he's not the only one

He's also, I've remembered after reading the whole thread, frightened of balloons too.

My dd 21 mnths is petrified of spiders, although I have never made her feel they were a scary thing, she decided they were scary herself. She also is scared of The Pinky Ponk and Makka Pakka's trumpet on In the Night Garden.

We have a working livestock farm and she hates the cattle's mooing, the sheep bleating and the big animals themselves. But this is only a passing phase i'm sure as she's got "farming in the blood"!!

the shower (as of tonight!), the hoover (another new one) and drills. I must admit I just carry on hoovering/using he shower to rinse shapoo pr drilling regardless as I assume she will get over quicker if I do that.

My toddler scares me.

I also forgot dogs and electric hand driers.

Just monsters.

Unfortunately the monsters are invisible, and can appear without warning at any given moment.

Kewcumber - am off to prepare industrial quantities of your patented 'monster spray'.

SWIPER the fox from Dora - she runs behind the sofa - but still loves it. She is not scared of her little plastic swiper that came with the dora playground from Santa.

Something called the Wuddy Monster????! I think this one appears in her dreams.

Some of the freaky bad guys from Numberjacks - I think they should be banned - especially that one all in white with the long tall hat - like something from a bad acid trip....man.

Should I give out my paypal account for the royalties?!

dd (23 mths) is scared of our log fire & a squidy plastic scorpian that was in her Christmas stocking('aagggh, no like scorky. I scared. Go away scorky.") . Have never seen her express any fear around anything else

DD (3.1) scared of Robbie Rotten (but adores Stephanie so can never decide whether she wants to watch Lazytown or not)

dd is scared of fireworks or any unidentified banging noise, low flying tornado jets (I'll let her off with that one), dogs, horses and the Tiger That Lives In Our Hall .

Odd creatures, toddlers.

numberjacks

DD1 used to be terrified of the singing man on Teletubbies, the little man who opened and closed his curtains!

Anythign that makes an engine type noise
(hoover, electric whisk, blender,toy battery powered hoover, drill etc)

and her daddy's motorbike, unless he is sitting on it and it is moving

The second it stops she freaks out adn won't go near him!

my ds1 used to be scared of the plug hole he was convinced he was going to be sucked down it

iggle piggle and upsy daisy kissing! as soon as she see's them arrive on screen together the screaming starts cos she knows they are going to kiss it takes about an hour to calm her down too! she goes to sleep sobbing poor love....

We also can't watch the makka pakka's trumpet makes a funny noise eposide as she can't cope with it sounding different....

but if I try to skip night garden she protests very loudly. she's not really got going with her speech yet but holds her night garden magazine in fromt of the tv and shouts MOOOOOORRRRR so we are in no doubt she wants it on!

she also sobs hystericly if anyone uses a cross voice! (can be really embarrasing at playgroups that one!)

mind you I can't judge! I'm terrified of muppets! and sooty! and emu!!

and dh has a clanger phobia..........

Seaweed

[sigh]

You can imagine how delightful seaside holidays were when the boys were younger, especially when DS2 'caught' the fear.