What is your 6yo boy and 2yo girl still playing with from last Christmas?

[Acunningruse]

Niche I know 
Really stuck for ideas this year, both have only just had birthdays and feel like I used up all my inspiration then!
DS has just had new scooter, schleich animal set, dressing up costumes and loads books for his birthday
DD got a new doll and pram and walking puppy for her birthday.

Would really like to get something that will get used all year this time [looks accusingly at fingerlings and Soggy Doggy gathering dust in cupboard😡]

DS is just 7 and Lego and Imaginext are played with daily. Also story cubes, Top Trumps and audio CDs for in the car (last year he had Tom Gates, Michael Morpurgo and a classics selection, all listened to many times).

Dd is 5 so I really don't fit your criteria but she loves snap circuits, she does need someone to play it with her though. Also schleich animals which you already have, and board/card games are her favourites

Our most successful present was probably the toy kitchen we got from Gumtree for a tenner! She's played with it pretty much every day for the last 2 years...

At 2 it was the kitchen. She also had at 3 a Elc vet set, toy pet carrier, and soft toy kitten. Nothing needed batteries, and still gets played with 3 years on.

HairyToity Ooh yes, good point. The vet/doctors set gets frequent use here too. The toy bed (IKEA classic!) also got used a lot, until her friend sat on it and broke the board at the bottom

My two year old girl is still playing with Duplo from last Christmas.

Kiddy zoom cameras.

Lego. Dressing up. Art sets.

The most treasured toy ever which I think Santa bought when they were 4 and purchased in the pound shop... is a plastic toy sword. It has given far more hours of entertainment than any other fucking thing people spend far more money on.

I don't like weapons as toys... but I've had to concede that actually it hasn't promoted violence and been the best pound Santa ever spent

LEGO!!! And Nintendo 2ds.

My kids are the same age.. last year DS had a new scooter which he uses a lot but that’s not much help! He doesn’t really play with ‘toys’ but he also got a football board game last year which he plays with a lot & makes up his own rules to play alone. I have ordered a skateboard on a whim after seeing it on bargain thread. Not sure how he’ll get on with that but I’m sure he’ll like the idea!

DD got a mud kitchen for the garden last year from studio which was a bargain & has been played with loads (plus doesn’t take up house space!!) This year she’s getting a dolls house

DS is similar age to yours and my DD is 4 (nearly 5). They both love playing with a remote control car that DS received last year. Lego & surprisingly Duplo still gets played with almost daily as well. Just been looking at a marble run compatible with duplo for DD for this Christmas.

Forgot to say a football goal we brought for a joint gift 2 years ago is in the garden and played with a lot all year round. We built the goal on Boxing Day but gave them a new football each to unwrap under the tree. Wasn’t expensive from Argos.

DD 2 Ikea kitchen

DD is 6. None of the gimmicky toys were played with (fingerling, hatchimal) - she still loves her puzzles, cake stand and her Collins book of insects. I also bought her a child’s version of a microscope and it was really rubbish, wish I’d just bought a proper one.

Fantastic ideas! Love the mud kitchen idea and YES duplo gets played with every day in this house- please could I have a link to duplo marble run? I've had a look online but not sure how legit some of the websites are.

Got DD the happy land fairy tree house when she was 2....she's 7 and it still gets played with, although now with LOL dolls and shopkins rather than the happy land people

This is the mud kitchen we got

Lightsabers still played with most days by my 6yo Ds

Toy till and a shopping basket of food etc for 2 yo

Magnatiles.

Trying to work out how to link and it’s not doing it. I saw the Duplo thing advertised on facebook and then just did a search in Amazon for Duplo Marble run. Reviews seem good for it but not the cheapest.

My ds will be 3 in November, the Happyland ambulance and London bus were big hits last year and still get played with most days. The Playmobil zoo and Noah’s Ark have also had loads of action in our house over the years!

DS is 6. He is more into imaginative play than toys. Things he plays with which were presents from at least 12 months ago are:

• goal
• cones
• hover ball
• whistles
• clipboard

• mini whiteboard

- raffle tickets - notebook very similar to the ones the teachers have at his school

• baking set
• snap circuits
• hexbugs
• Game of Life
• Monopoly Empire
• Hotel

Things now 9yo DD has for Christmas and which still get played with

• mud kitchen
• dolls & pushchair - no longer play "babies" as such but these are regularly involved in the games they make up; helps that DS can be pushed around in the pushchair after a fashion
• scuttle bug type toy which they have always been allowed to ride on inside (but which looks as though it might collapse under either of them at any moment these days)

My DD is 2.5 and is still playing with Luvabella and a baby Annabelle cot.

My nearly 6yo dd2 still plays with the Lego she got most.