OK - and what did you buy your DS for his 3rd birthday?

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Am thinking Lego Duplo but haven't got any further. What are the biggest hits for 3-4 years?

Cheers!

DS is getting sticklebricks and one of those first leap pad thingies!

We got him a garage (he had broken another one he had got already). He got a sandpit from his granmother. Both very popular.

bike?

slide?

scooter?

dressing up clothes?

brio type train stuff?

We got him a Brio type train set (it cost £12 in Tesco for about 150 pieces - fantastic value) I kid you not when I say it was not disassembled for the 1st 6 months after his birthday and is still played with now, in fact it is currently mounted in the bedroom, he is 6 now. This has to be one of the most successful pressies we have ever bought (and one of the cheapest!)

i'm a childminder and deal with lots of 3 yr olds
most played with things at mine for boys are:
bob the builder toys
hammers, saws etc
dressing up things
cars
dupol
books
noddy/pat/monster inc things
art things

Thanks - he's got some Brio-type stuff. And we've picked up a few pieces of wooden road cheap in TK Maxx which he loves too at the moment. Brio do a big tub of road and rail bits which I was wondering whether grandparents might like to buy him.

Anybody got a space hopper-type thing?

Bike.

We've just been bought a spacehopper and he quite likes it, but finds it quite hard work. He's 3.3 now.

He completely adores this giant ball if you have space in your garden or a park nearby. It's enormous and children just go mad for it.

I spent an entire day making him a gingerbread house and bought him a book of Hansel and Gretl. He loved it, and still talks about it. It was Xmas a week before his b'day and we got him a bike which he doesn't really care for at all!

Wow Fisil - sounds amazing! Did you just make large slabs of gingerbread and stick together with icing? Or was it cleverer than that?

Giant ball looks great fun Franny. We've got a like-a-bike which he loves at the moment so will hold off getting proper bike for now.

I think there was a thread with some links at Xmas time - and I did a search on google (google images got the most results). But yes, it was basically just slabs that I made in strategic shapes and sizes and then glued together with icing. And gained about 500 grey hairs!

ds2 was 3 on weds and he got a ride on tractor and trailer from argos which was his best present.Obviously quite expensive but grandma and grampa chipped in as well.

Ds also just loves this

Not cheap but it is a real, 1/4 size guitar with a lovely sound.

it's next week, he has a Thomas paddling pool from ELC and three bags of balls to convert it when not so warm outside. (Balls 3 bags for £11 in Asda atm, as opposed to £20 in ELC on their bogof offer).

He is Thomas mad though, will be on holiday that day and we're off on a steam train for his treat.

Oh and the other thing they all adore and can be built on afterwards, the first K'Nex range. All my three ( siblings are 5 and 6) go amd for it. Woolies do it, about a tenner. Worthe very penny.