What are your children still playing with almost 7 months on...

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DS1 (4 years old)... still loves his Imaginext Castle

DS2 (2.5 years old)... still loves his Playmobil Zoo

Interested to hear what others are still playing with :)

Two DS, 5 and 7. They have birthdays near Xmas so can't remember what was bday and what Xmas.

Hits

The Kindle

Hama beads

Lego, Lego, Lego - played with every single day. But was a mistake getting an overly complicated Star Wars space ship for DS1, just frustrated him.

Magic Labyrinth and R2D2's In Trouble - basically Frustration

Harry Potter books

V-Tech camera, although its memory is now full so I need to work out how to transfer the pics

Tinti bath stuff - they love it (change colour of water, squirty soap etc)

Light Sabres

Those Angry Birds games that are always on offer - they seem rubbish to me but are often played with

Misses

Playmobil pirates - they play with the castle from the year before but not the Pirates for some reason

Star Wars costumes - shoddy and prone to ripping

Chocolate lolly maker

Marble run/ Domino run

I hope nobody minds me bumping this thread.

I just think it could be very useful to a lot of posters looking for present ideas.

My DD was only 7 months last Christmas but over the last few months has become more interested in her presents. Big successes include:

Fisher price laugh n learn house
Asda musical stacker bee
Push along walker
Mega bloks table
Various bath toys

Things she hasn't bothered with at all:

Ball pool
Wind up TV
Spinning top
Crawl n learn ball
Lullaby seahorse

Ds was 3.4 and dd was 8 months.

Both regularly still play with the happyland train set, and I'll get the extension pack this year.
The Easel has been a hit with dd, surprisingly, even though it was for ds
Charlie caterpillar rocker has been well loved by both
Duplo is loved by both

I can't actually remember any other presents but I'm sure there have been misses!

I'm reining it in a bit this year or we'll need a bigger house

lego and power rangers megazord (boys - 3 & 6)
dd(11) is still loving her kindle x

oh and geomag set. bought on black Friday as an extra gift for ds1(6) who has hardly shown any interest. ds2(3) absolutely loves them and carries the magnets everywhere! so they were a big hit for the wrong recipient!

viking what play doh set please

DS 4
Hits - Imaginext batcave, weapons of any description
Misses - transformers, really shoddy for the price, furby

I know I have been responsible for bumping this thread quite a bit, but I think it's really useful to people who are just starting their Christmas shopping.

I hope nobody minds

Lego, including the bits from the advent calendar (Star Wars) and Wii U/DS games.

Lego.

Frozen dolls

Vtech Toot Toot animals treehouse with an extra pack of animals and an extra pack of tracks to turn it into more of a track.

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Duplo Jake the Neverland Pirate Ship

www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-DUPLO-10514-Jakes-Pirate/dp/B00B06WFOM

DD (3) and DS (19mo) still play with their elc cleaning trolley every day. So cute when one of them decides to mop the floor or sweep up.

It's reduced to £20 again this year and is red and green and blue. (Most I looked at were pink, I don't mind pink toys but it really irritated me that every single other cleaning trolley was pink!)

Skylanders
Lego.
Bike
Audio cd's

Imaginext here as well, all of it pretty much daily, even the 10yr old will play with it now and again.

Also lego, playmobil and a bath time potion making set my dm made up with funnels, test tubes and all the mini bottles of things she had collected from hotels and the like- massive hit

Not played with amymore- pretty much anything character based and those singing/recording bird things

Last Christmas, DD (22 months) had the ikea kitchen and accessories, doll's bed (ikea) and various dolls accessories, happyland and Peppa pig stuff
She's played with all of it, in rotation (she goes through stages), but some of the dolls stuff, I've put away until she's a bit older

The two most played with gifts were from two years ago; ELC wooden blocks and the leapfrog my discovery house. Both are still being played with two years on!

DS (12) Lego, Minecraft, guitar
DS (5) Imaginex Batman playsets and figures, Marvel Super Hero Squad figures, transformers
DD (3) Play Kitchen I made for her with Ikea and Melissa and Doug food and utensils, Disney Princess Little People Castle with figurines, My Little Pony Equestria Girls dolls and ponies.

DS (6)
lego encyclopaedia
bike
fake gun and handcuffs

DD (4)
that giant 96p grey faux fur blanket off last years bargain thread
mini china tea set from poundland
crayola twistables
lottie doll

Most popular present hands down all round was actually dressing gowns