games you like to play

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I love to do play dough with dd who's nearly 4. Just bought her Crazy Kids where you create playdough haircuts for little characters, etc (sounds rather pathetic now I'm writing it down...), we can easily spend an hour with this at the moment. Also love doing puppet theatre show with her (now that she's calmed down with it and doesn't ask to do it for hours on end). I think I buy her new toys to keep myself entertained as much as her some times.... Sure we all do though, don't we?

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Or as dd does, she steals a napkin, puts it on her head and becomes a princess... who needs expensive Disney Store princess outfits!

I like colouring, it's restful I find. I also like sitting on the sofa watching Star Wars and eating chocolate

Edgarcat I also am a big train fan. Playdough and jigsaws,colouring and sticking etc are top faves too. Reading is my all-time favourite though and have been known to read the whole Mr.Men series in bed in the morning.
must confess here though that I HATE playfighting and being jumped on the sofa, therefore I never sit down on it during the day for fear of rampaging ds.

I adored lego when I was a child, spent a lot of time as an au pair playing with the family's lego, and even now will spend an hour under the dining room table with ds...playing lego. Robots, Bionicles, houses, marble mazes...dh thinks we are mad but we don't care.

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I like lego with the boys especially as they are always really chuffed with the things I make and give off that, 'But Mummy, you're so clever!' aura kids sometimes do.

I also like colouring with them, quite like train tracks for a while and can cope with pretend games like shops for a while but can't do pretend games like 'power rangers'!

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Hama beads are my favourite discovery - keep my daughter busy for hours and I get really engrossed in them.

Used to like playing 'sunbathing' when my daughter was smaller - just so I could get a quick nap on the bed

Love the train set but have to do it his way and ds is VERY conservative - no points, no crossroadsn and definately no tunnels! I particularly like putting the animals around the track to make the farm. If I am feeling creative we make papier mache bits to add on (a duck pond and ducks yesterday). Bathing is good too, ds is content to entertain himsefp so I can read Heat on the bog, shave legs etc.

Another vote for train set building - in fact I was the one that got the wood and paints to make a proper train table for ds2, with all the track stuck down - great fun! Also like colouring. Favourite kiddie occupation at the moment is marble runs although I HAVE to do it like the picture because otherwise it doesn't work properly. Needless to say dd/dss not overly impressed by my pedantry (is that a word?)

I put down some parcel tape (should use masking tape really but don't have any) on the carpet today to make "roads" for all ds' cars - that was great fun, we both enjoyed that! Got more entertaining when we started using our own bodies to make tunnels and hills and then had some car crashes (which ... ahem... I encouraged... bad mummy ) Could play with cars for hours.

Another vote for duplo and lego. I can spend hours building rickety old houses, with balconies and rooms supported on pillars and bridges and stairs...and trainsets, and marble runs. Puzzles, colouring, painting (water colours), various craft activitied, most of the games, reading, building with blocks, playing in the bath...I could go on forever! My Mum always says I'm buying the toys for me and not the kids!

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Dinosaur island (especially attack of the giraffes) with DS, and pirates/peter pan as I always get to be Wendy. With DD it has to be shopping.....for her and me.

I too like to make train tracks but hate playing with the trains - it is so boring after the train has been round my exciting track a couple of times.

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We spend hours colouring - very therapeutic. And we dance around with pretend microphones alot too, and sing our favourite pop songs and do bizarre dance routines - dh and I are a bit weird so we carry on after dd has gone to bed.

DD (13 months) loves role play with her babies. She loves to look after them, bath then, feed them and take them walks in their pushchair. She also has a little kitchen and pretend food, a cleaning set (great as she loves to sweep my floor!) and a washing machine. We have given her lots of other toys, including cars, trains, etc. but she is a really girly at the moment.

It is very sweet to watch and I have even started to enjoy dressing the babies, etc. all over agin. Even Dh joins in now.

Used to love blowing bubbles but since dd discovered the word but does not yet have the skills to do it, I've got a bit lightheaded...

Used to love blowing bubbles but since dd discovered the word but does not yet have the skills to do it, I've got a bit lightheaded...

Definitely play dough - as I'm a car boot sale fan we have every cutter shape/squeezer/hair grower you can imagine - inevitably dd has usually wandered off and I'm left alone squeezing Milo's hair up through the holes!

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I hate the ELC honey bees game - too fiddly and time-consuming to set up.
Marble runs are fantastic - if you buy 2 sets from ELC and link them it can keep you busy for days.
Brio trainsets likewise
All bath games are ace
Role plays are fab
Acrobatics/ shooting / fencing/ web-slinging/ wrestling all enjoyable
Geomag is much too old for my 3 yr old but great for grown ups
dolls houses
model farms
swings and zip wires
polly pockets
tickling games
boohbahs website games
hide and seek
I am NOT keen on housework games for myself but promote to dd.

I go to a toyshop at least once a week.
It is not suprising that my 3 year old tells me she has "sponsability" for me.