Ideas for indoor toys/activities for a nearly two year old?

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What are the toys/activities your DC love?
Either playing independently or with you? If my DD had her way she would watch Peppa pig all day!

Any suggestions welcome.....

Toy kitchen
Garage and cars
tea set
sticker books
Play-doh
Cooking (mixing things up, waiting for them to cook - not so much!)
Walking around with a bag like mummy.

Kitchen and pots/pans etc
Washing up bowl of soapy water and a baby to wash and dry
Train set
Cars and garage
A tray of dry rice with empty cups/bottles/funnels to tip and pour
Paints
Play doh
Colour matching/sorting - eg something like this and some coloured bowls/plates, can be sorted by colour, size, type etc
Threading cotton reels or buttons (may be a bit old actually, depending on motor skills)
Duplo/mega blocks/stickle bricks
Wooden puzzles

my daughter (22 months) stands by the tv making pig noises all the time!

I am trying so hard to get her away from tv...simple puzzles are her favourite

but I am also trying to figure out what toys (inexpensive) are best. sticker books sound good

what else?

All of the above plus

Paper glue and things to glue on like cut out paper shapes or pasta etc.
Singing songs with actions
Pretending to be a horse either she rides on my back or we gallop around kitchen
Chalk and chalk board
Beach ball
Baby and Buggy to push around
Musical toys

Cheap ideas - make your own playdoh

Hide small toys in a plastic bowl of ice or jelly and give them a spoon to chip away and dig them out.

Mix cornflour, water and food colouring in a tray and let them explore it with hands/spoons - those little plastic glue spreaders are good for making patterns too.

Get some cans of value shaving foam - you can squirt it into a tray or even straight onto a table top.

My 20 month old dd likes pushing her dolls round in a toy buggy,
home-made playdough, making it then playing with it
unpacking plastic plates out of the cupboard and putting them back,
"helping" with washing up, cooking by standing on a chair in kitchen
Happy land people and animals
Hiding behind the curtains
Taking books off the bookshelf
Tea set and play food
Shape sorters and wooden puzzles
Crayons (occasionally paints)

25 month old DD loves:
duplo (less so since had other toys at Xmas / birthday, but played with it all the time for a few months before that)
The 'happyland' house we got her for Xmas gets played with several times a day (and also loves my old fisher price zoo at my parents house - same idea, jsut littel figures to role play with, move around).
magna doodle
tea set
today she spent ages playing with a saucepoan of dried pasta and a few bowls and spoons -stirring, feeding teddies etc
occasional painting
wooden puzzles
got her a 'hungry caterpillar' dominoes set for Xmas and she has surprised us by understanding the concept really well and loving to play a game.
Goes through stages of liking play doh, but more getting mummy and daddy to make things than doing it herself.
has always loved books.

at other people's houses, she makes a beeline for toy garages toy food and train sets.

I just bought some cheap fishing nets (small - used for aquariums) from the garden centre. I fill a washing up bowl with some water and toys, and DS (22 months)'fishes'.

The most popular real toy here is his play kitchen.

Puzzles are really good at this age. Start her with some two-piece ones and move up rapidly if she likes them. Ask around to borrow a few, maybe.

Water and bubble play always great at this age. Lots of junky pots to pour water in and out of.

Make your own playdough - means great colours, less smell, lots of it. Google for recipes.

Oh yes, Mr Potato Head!!

Also you can start her on the Orchard Games - dotty dinosaurs is the classic, lasts a couple of years.

Thanks all for some great suggestions! You've given me a lot of new ideas to try.

Mystery box is a favorite of my 22 month old (and my 21 month old mindee).

Big cardboard box, lots of packaging (recent deliveries from amazon are your friend) or shredded paper and some random household items in it. Also add a box of raisins and some toys that make noise for them to dig through and find. They then like to climb in and out of the box and generally play with it for ages.

All the above are really popular too but also shaving foam, bubbles, dancing to the radio, playing with balls of different shapes and sizes.

(And I'm stealing the fishing nets idea too )

I love this thread.

DS must have spent an hour this morning with a few bowls and half a bag of past sell-by date split peas. Then he asked to have another go this evening. Brilliant.

Usually it's all vehicles, and sticker books about vehicles.

Interesting someone mentioned colour sorting. I keep trying, but ds (20 months) seems to be oblivious to colours.

Toy kitchen
Wooden train set
Farm and animals