What the top five toys that no one-year-old should be without?

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Just because its dd's first birthday soon!

definitely a push along wooden brick trolley - we bought this for DS1's first birthday and he still plays with it - 4 years later

A doll's buggy ( £5 - ELC). Brilliant toy and can be folded and taken out with you. Can be used to carry all sorts of things besides dolls.

Stacking cups
shape sorter
push long truck with bricks
sit on and ride
ball (wiggly giggly was popular!)
basic doll

Small trike without pedals (wooden?)

I bought my ds a push along brick thingy and he never played with it.

this
its out of stock here
but you can get it from a great toy suppluer I know
DD is 4 and still loves this toy.

neurosmith music cube

Agree with pushalong brick truck (ours is still played with by its original owner of 7, our 3 year old dd, and every single visiting child)
Stacking cups
That ELC buggy! Gosh ours is rickety now (current tenants a Rey Misterioso wrestling figure and three balloons at 7.30 this morning) but a better £5 it is hard to spend
And ELC still do a shape sorter cube for about £16 which includes shapes, a phone receiver and keypad. Also still hugely liked.

An empty Pringles tube, dried milk carton or similar. You can put the lid on and take it off! You can bang it! You can roll it! You can put things in it and take them out again!

Yes - Tommy is right... DD still loves hers

stacking cups
stacking cups
stacking cups
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Oh yes, dino -- it's made by Galt, and called Pop-up people or some such. The people are just little poles with faces on, but the toy is very compelling for no immediately obvious reason. Even older children and adults are drawn in by it.

Yes, the Galt one dino. Little men in our house last seen being impressively aimed at a large remote-controlled Dalek in some kind of intergalactic wooden toy revolution. Very popular - all sorts of catalogues sell it (Tridias etc)

A large cardboard box

Oh, and I agree with the doll's buggy - make sure you get the really cheap sort that fold up small, not the singing dancing 3-wheeler ones.

stacking cups
pushalong brick trolley thing
A ball (ds's cost about 45 pence! He plays 'catch' with me for ages!)
Peg/hammer thing ( hit the pegs with a hammer, tunr upside down, start again, use hammer to hit everything but the pegs, own foot, floor, chair, teddy, cat, mummy...,) or the ELC one with balls instead.
Drum or xylophone

Ball

Shape sorter

Stacking cups
Shapesorter
Dolls buggy
Small ride on car (although she has only got the hang properly at 15 months, she could only go backwards before!)
Wooden blocks
Playmobil 123 stuff

But the toy she plays with most is a largish cardboard box, a door cut in two side and several smallish shaped holes in the other sides. A cushion on the inside and an open top. For the last four months she has spent at least an hour a day in there and its great for peekaboo/posting games. On its side its a tunnel and one day I will get round to painting it. The best thing is we have about fifteen more boxes in the cellar, so when it gets damaged, another one gets brought out.

tractor with animals, it has to make noises though
dolly with bottle or spoons
aquamat is great fun too

a toy telephone

The Frog mortar which can also be used to fire lots of other things across the room. Adults (especially men) also seem to enjoy experimenting to see what you can launch.

fisher price little people's train set was huge hit with ds

Galt wooden trike still played with a lot at 3.5

duplo/mega bloks

a kitchen/pots and pans/play food would be a good one to grow into

rocking horse

(stacking cups and shape sorters not been played with hugely in this house)

Pool with balls in, hours of fun... although not for you picking the balls up every night...