The Toys That Have Kept On Giving

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Do your DC's have certain toys that have just stood the test of time, worth every penny you paid for them and become much loved and returned to favourites, long after you expected your DC(s) to have tired of them?

My DD 2.6 has played, every night, with her bath time teletubbies and house since she was about 9 months old. She hasn't watched the programme for over a year...She keeps finding new and ingenious ways to develop her play with them, and I'm just astounded by the value for money they have proved to be.

Care to share?

Does anyone rate, WOW toys? I am looking at these for dd who is 2, as a Christmas gift. They look robust and above all fun for a toddler.

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Another one for wooden trains, lego, duplo, and wooden building blocks.
I think my swing was the best money I have spent, bought it for DS1's 1st birthday and it is still used loads by both boys (now 5 and 3), it is strong enough for grown ups too...loads of fun at family BBQ's after the boys have gone to bed.
Bob the Builder friction veichles seem nearly indestructable and work for indoor and outdoor play. Some of ours came from Nearly New Sales for pence and are still going strong years later despite being used every day.

Duplo
Ride On Thomas
Mini Micro
Ride on Vespa
Crayons
Vtech Moosical Beads Cow
Baby Pillow
Tomy Winnie the Pooh Moonlight Dreamshow
Leaofrog English/French Playtable

and I'm hoping his Pashley Tricycle for Xmas and ELC Thomas table and trainset for his birthday will also stand the test

Numer One best-ever Christmas present I bought the children was a table football set, a quite good sturdy one.

Every few months we get it down and have weeks of hard-fought table football tournaments. We all love it, the whole family. And I can hold my own thanks to too much youth spent in pubs. I was Champion of the House yesterday.

Lego has been our biggest success too for over 7 years now and he mixes the buildings with those blessed wooden blocks from ELC that he got aged 12 months! Makes buildings and puts Gormitti statues and lego guys all over the buildings and they all attack each other's bases! Lego, wooden blocks and both lego and gormittis miniature figures been great for us .

Duplo
Thomas ride on
LikeaBike (the wooden bikes with no pedals)
Buggies of any sort
Baby Annabell

trampoline (the £12 argos one that people raved about on here last year!)

elc cheapo pushchair

elc vet kit and costume

my very old cabbage patch kid

Continuing the theme:

ELC Kitchen
Play Food

Played with every day since dd received them for her 2nd birthday.

Another vote for the V-tec tree thingy.

Brio / Tesco train sets

Wooden early learning centre knight's castle

A ukulele is our winner!
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Both my DD (5) and DS (3)love them! They are just the right size and they use them everyday and do shows and sing songs, all our friends get them as pressies! They make quite a nice sound too which is a bonus!
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whizzy, that is ace!

Aha - another mnetter tipped me off this thread had been revived! I'm the original OP and can I just point out that DD, now 4 and a bit is STILL playing with this teletubby bath toy but now has to wrestle her 2 year old brother for it

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I have a feeling I have posted this on this thread before but...........

Pop up tunnel - hours and hours of fun
We have had ours 6 years and it still looks good as new! cost £15

Melissa and doug Stacking nesting boxes. ( consistently from 1 till 2 )
Playdoh cutters and sets.
Tin tea set in a case with wooden biscuits.
Balls.
A squeaking Bird Puppet.
Stethoscope.
Sticklebricks / Duplo / Wheelybug and dolls buggy - Occasionly.

lego
playmobile
polly pocket
wooden train track
play dough
hama beads

Brio train set
plastic post office set
big toy tractor and trailer
farm and animals
toy cars

Mobilo. Started buying packs of it when DS1 was in nursery (he is now 12). He fell in love with it there and the nursery manager kindly ordered me some (as you can't buy it in high st stores). I can now get it on line and DS2 (5) has taken over the box and plays endlessly with it, building all sorts from the brightly coloured pieces and connectors. They had it in school as well so he'd tend to play with it there and then come home and start again. It even comes on holiday and is something that they will both play with together which doesn't happen alot considering the large age gap.

Scooters. DS1 is into them in quite a big way (skate parks etc) but they are also brilliant for them both to get to school, on a boring trip round town, on holiday etc.

Plastic dinosaurs. We have a huge variety, some handed down from DS1.

Funnily enough, neither of mine were really interested in cars and trains so they languished in the boxes. Have now been passed to my nephew who appears more into vehicles.

I covered the cardboard tube from a packet of tin foil with shiny stickyback paper when DD was 8mo. She still plays with it now aged 2.6 (how it has survived I don't know).

Otherwise best value for money:
Little People figures, house, furniture, etc. bought secondhand thirty years ago for me, loved by DD, occupied a visiting 4 yo for over an hour last weekend.
The Tesco £5 doll's buggy mentioned several times already.
Set of 20 toddler books "in a bag" from the Book People. DD can recite them all from memory and will sit "reading" her way through all of them while I do something useful read MN. They are small format so fit easily in a handbag/child's backpack. We rarely go anywhere without taking a selection.

Oh, this thread is really old!