What are you getting your young toddler?

[Kitkat901]

DS will be 20 months at Christmas, he is completely spoilt by both sides of the family who have all asked me for present ideas!

He already has his plenty of ride-ons, a wooden train set, wooden kitchen. He loves cars and pushing things around. He’s starting to get into colouring but he has a short attention span!

DH and I will get books, pjs etc but does anyone have other ideas?

He’s also getting a new sibling on Christmas Eve! So anything he can play with semi-independently is good (he is already good at this).

DGS will be 2 on Boxing Day. One of the presents I’ve bought him is this remote control car. He is car mad too so I hoping he’s going to love it, although I think DS2 will love it more.

Congratulations on your new arrival too. DS2, DGS’s dad, is a Christmas Eve baby.

Does he have a scooter and a balance bike? What about a Tonie box? Those are good bigger presents.

Stickle bricks are good, too, if he doesn’t have any already. DGS loves his because they’re much easier to manipulate and fix together than Duplo for example so he can play a lot more independently with them.

We have asked family & friends to buy / Santa will bring....

A balance bike (as he's outgrown his current trike thing)
A comfy kids sofa bed from Amazon - it's like a fluffy couch but pulls out as a sofa bed, I thought it'd be handy as we are expected no2 after Xmas so will be somewhere comfy just for him
A train set... he is Choo Choo mad. We have picked up some Thomas Tank Engine sets which you can keep adding on to for birthdays or more Xmas etc.

I've also been looking at Tonies or Yoto's but will hold off until.his birthday in March for those.

my ds loved:

Magna Carry Playbooks - I cannot recommend highly enough, especially the vehicles/emergency services one if your dc likes that kind of thing! Hours of fun for years and fabulous on a plane journey or if you need to keep dc quiet in a restaurant. As he got older ds would tell me stories as he built up his picture about birthday parties and burglars and terrifying fires with rescue by the firemen! This was the best purchase of my ds’s childhood.

At this age also ds loved bath bombs and bath crayons. Consumable and so much loved by me too

Also a set of plastic child-safe chopping knives so that ds could “help” in the kitchen, (they are strong enough to slice cucumber and pepper and bread) along with a cute Christmassy apron to keep clothes clean. This is also helpful if you are bouncing a baby on your hip at the same time as you can give ds a miscellaneous chopping task while you get in with the real work!

A sturdy little spade to dig in the garden and a watering can (we had a duck one, very popular)

New wellies with flashing lights in the soles

Oh yes we also got quite a lot of battery powered train engines for his wooden track. Still played with on play dates age 7!

I'd second this, both my two have loved this!

How big are the magnetic animals? My daughter is 2.5 but she still tries to put stuff in her mouth so I get a bit anxious about anything with magnets