DS1 is 4 and what he likes best is imaginative play, I suppose you would call it. He likes stuff like throwing a rug over furniture and saying it's dinosaur land, putting chairs together to be a train etc. I'm sure all dc do it but he will do it for hours and, tbh, never really plays with his many vehicles, train-sets and Imaginatext (if that's what it's called) stuff. He also loves dressing up and for Christmas has asked for a beard (to complete his Viking costume) and a triceratops. Have got those, though did get a whole set of dinos, and books, couple of games, some craft bits etc but still it seems meagre and I see thread after thread and speak to friend after friend, all extolling the virtues of Lego and Playmobile.
My friend is going to give him her ds's old Playmobile recycling truck (VGC) so I'll see how he goes with that but I still feel I should get him some Lego - but will he ever play with it? We do have a mixture of megablock and duplo that he plays with a bit and I feel he could do with more of this, if only to develop his fine motor skills, which aren't great.
But I just don't get where to start. Do I just want a big bucket of lego or one of those (less expensive, at this stage) sets? What do you actually do with the sets? Does the parent build them and then the dc play with them? Do they stay together or need to be rebuilt each time they are needed?
I would love some advice, I know it's supposed to be a great toy for developing imagination but I don't really want to shell out for a load of bricks that sit in a draw. Is it really that great?
Tia.