What's your baby's best toy?

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Got some birthday money to spend on my DS. Looking for inspiration, what's good for £20ish?

how old?

Ds fav toy is his stacking cups, chooses these over ALL the expensive toys. They cost £2.50 from boots.

Failing that any old label will do.

Hi Lewamummy, he's just turned 1.

peek a bloks are very good and there are all different toys to go with them my daughter loves her giraffe puts them in the top and it makes a noise when hits the bottom there are hippo's roll a rounds shape sorters -allsorts
happy birthday to your ds

Ok, here is a top, top tip. Buy a box of megabloks - the big sized ones, obviously, don't want anyone choking. Then sit back and watch your DS play with them for at least the next 6 years, if not longer. Without a doubt, the best toy my son has so far received - value for money cannot be overestimated. He bashed them together at first, then enjoyed bashing down the towers DH and I built for him, then started to stick them together and so it went on. He still uses them almost daily - recent creations include Star Wars fighter planes and a pretty realistic Eiffel Tower. Enjoy!

Does he have a push-along trolley? My dd is the same age and loves her little wooden trolley, which came with wooden blocks in it.

She got a pop-up play tunnel for her birthday, which is a real giggle and should still have some play value in 2 or 3 years' time.

She also got this \link{http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005OB9H/026-6588517-1718014\pop up toy} for her birthday, which she enjoys - she likes slotting the pegs into the holes.

She is also very fond of a shopping basket of plastic fruit and veg that we got for £5 in Sainsbury's. She loves taking them out of the basket and putting them back in, and the round fruit and veg e.g. oranges can be rolled across the floor like a ball :)

Agree big box of Duplo or Giant Mega blocks, always popular. DS is 9yrs and still uses his duplo for giant constructions along with the normal sized stuf and the technical stuff.

Also plain wooden blocks, like the ones you get in Ikea, they were used for years also.

Toys like these are so versatile and do more than one thing, mine never liked the toys that did set things, like the train one that loads up the logs. They like the idea of them but in reality they get fed up watching the toy work instead of actually playing with it.

I think it is a Thomas one I am thinking of. If the child actually interacts with it it stops working properly and the logs go flying. Like \link{http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3483129/Trail/C%24cip%3D36406.Toys%2Band%2Bbaby%3EC%24cip%3D36423.Pre-school%2Btoys%3EC%24cip%3D36424.Thomas%2Bthe%2BTank%2BEngine.htm\this one}, Ok it is for older kids but YSWIM.