How many toys do I REALLY need to take for a 15 mo going to spain for 10 days???

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I am suddenly wondering how many toys/books we really need to take for our DD when we go to the costa del sol on sunday. We're in a self-catering apartment and she's going through a phase of waking at 5am currently and so we have a few hours before the day starts properly! I know that this will change once the clocks change etc / new time zone but it has got me thinking......!
What would you do???

I always took toys that serve many purposes. Building cups that can build a tower, make a sandcastle and be used for pouring in the pool. A small soft ball that can be played with in apartment and beach. a few slim books and a jigsaw you don't mind losing a few pieces of.

Depends what she likes.
When ds was that age, we went to France - we took: a box of very familiar board books (ones he used to sit in our bed every morning looking at); a soft toy or two; plus a few things with a high "fiddle-value", like a toy train & few bits of track I think - things that he'd take quite a long time playing with before he was bored.

Then we went to local big supermarket (in France) & found novelties - we still have the fantastic whizzy tractor we found there. Get beach toys there - you'll get masses of use out of them, and you can use them as bath toys afterwards, if you decide to bring them home.

oh yes - great ideas. We do have stacking cups and they'd be great to move bits of rock or something from one to the other. Books plus a ball is a great idea. Do you think that's enough?

Yes,probably too much.
Everything is interesting to a baby of that age.They neither know nor care that it is supposed to be a toy or not.

I have always taken a selection with me so we are prepared! Depends what she likes, but would go for a few books, cuddly toys and/or a bedtime toy, doll or any type of figure she plays with, balls that are easy to carry, otherwise, buy there, something to scribble on or colour and then buy the rest as necessary!

This has always helped us enormously

I remember our ds1 when he was a similar age found a guitar in a shop in Tunisia that he loved which played Arabic music very loudly.

I dont think the rest of the hotel liked it as much

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That reminds me, i always take water bombs as well now ds1 is older. They are good fun, but it nearly always kicks off round the pool. Its the same with water pistols. They start off a a laugh...