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What toys does your one/one and half year old play with most?

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fairybeagle · 15/04/2019 21:31

Hi, just wondering what toys your 18 month olds play with? What toys keep them entertained? My little guy doesn't play with anything for long! Looking for that 'perfect toy'

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GMtoBe · 15/04/2019 21:39

My DD is 18 months and she loves playing with a football or tennis ball (or any ball really). She also loves her scuttle bug, a couple of cups, spoons and some saucepans from the kitchen and a stuffed toy dog she has. She mostly just moves the toy dog around the house though. Her favourite thing at the moment is helping me load the washing machine and picking daisies in the garden. She doesn't really play with toys properly like slightly older children do but that might just be her!

Blackboot1 · 15/04/2019 21:40

Books. Loads of them. And toy farm animals.

GMtoBe · 15/04/2019 21:41

Agree with books! DD loves sitting and turning the pages.

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moreismore · 15/04/2019 21:41

Stacking cups and a little mini battery powered Bosch drill were favourites. Also a chalkboard, chalk and wipe

riotlady · 15/04/2019 21:44

Toot toot garage here

belleshelles · 15/04/2019 21:49

I second any form of ball, DD has a little light up paw patrol ball and bloody loves it. DD likes putting things in things, she's got a little basket she can put her toy figures in and she loves it. She's also got a little baby and pushchair that she can push round. Books are good, a great way to help them with their words and have them sit quietly with you. Bubbles are a big hit in my house now the weathers got nicer, cheap as chips and DD is obsessed.

LtGreggs · 15/04/2019 21:50

An old-fashioned push along trolley thing that was mean to have blocks stacked in it, but could be used as a wagon for anything. DS was a late-ish independent walker, but pushed that thing around for months. He later graduated to a toy pushchair.

Ball, cardboard boxes, chunky push-along truck also popular.

DS2 loved a simple brio train track at that age - but probably because his older brother was 3 and obsessed with it.

Pixie2015 · 15/04/2019 21:52

Board books - balls - solid bits of household plastic (spoons, rolling pins etc) and being outdoor with balls

Hungrymamabear · 15/04/2019 21:56

16m she loves her shape sorter, megabloks, vehicles, play people and animals. Also her baby and buggy. She for some reason loves the clackers which is plastic tat from a party bag!

FookMeFookYou · 15/04/2019 21:58

Shape sorters, stacking bits, building blocks, her beloved ball ball, hey duggee cuddle toy and books, tombliboo set

Chippychipsforme · 15/04/2019 22:17

Bit younger but shape sorter, wooden blocks, sensory scarves, a pull along dog, a really annoying vtech plane than plays a tune he likes to dance to.

DeadDoorpost · 15/04/2019 22:20

The bin. I don't know what it is about them but he loves them.

As for toys... He likes a ball, pulling his books off the shelves and has plastic animals. But anything that makes a loud noise is a winner.

Livvylovesgin · 15/04/2019 22:20

Google and read about heuristic play. Flexible, creative and sensory. Build children's concentration, manipulative and thinking skills.

www.communityplaythings.co.uk/learning-library/articles/heuristic-play

VoyageInTheDark · 16/04/2019 08:49

DD loves her megablox and duplo, simple puzzles, her tea set and putting balls in the laundry basket. She also loves looking for ladybirds in the garden. But books are her absolute favourite, flicking through them by herself or getting me to read them to her

IchHabeDurst · 16/04/2019 15:20

My son loved his Toot Toot cars and ramps at that age. He could spend hours every day just pushing them around the floor, around the car tracks, down ramps and slides and throwing them around the house. He also liked them because they sang songs if you pushed the big, light up button that was their face.

Any toy that required you to put something in something or take something out was also a big hit. Think putting balls in a hole or emptying out entire tubs of blocks just to put them back in again.

Livvylovesgin · 16/04/2019 20:47

ichabe - it is a schema - a pattern of play.

'Enclosure' - putting things in and out. You can support play by offering more of the same to develop this interest.
'Transporting' - moving things around.
See:
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/schemas

IchHabeDurst · 16/04/2019 21:50

@Livvylovesgin thanks for the info on schemas! I feel a bit daft now because I actually already knew about them (big Twirlywoos fan here!) and I've even bought a toddler cook book called 'Tickle Fingers' that caters to your child's particular schemas. Didn't twig that my son was doing transporting and enclosure at the time 🙈 Just got side tracked by the toys 😅

FurrySlipperBoots · 16/04/2019 22:15

Have you tried removing half the toys he has access to? If you store them away and rotate them they'll keep his interest more readily than if he has them all out all the time.

Household items are usually a hit with this age - safe kitchen implements, saucepans and jugs, muffin tins, bathroom loafers etc

Your old handbags and any unwanted sunglasses, purses, ancient unused bunches of keys...

Empty cardboard boxes. Massive ones you can ask for at Currys, and turn them into houses or whatever, smaller ones they can put things in and out of

Dropping and throwing seems popular at this stage! You can make a beanbag with an old sock filled with dried beans (not kidney beans as they're toxic!) or balls, balloons etc

A living room disco with flashing Christmas lights and the curtains drawn is good fun on a rainy day

Stacking cups and blocks

Tents made with draped blankets

You can start to think about role play, treating teddies or dolls as though they were babies

Very simple peg jigsaw puzzles

Those pop up men, I think they're Galt?

Sensory play with sand, rice, seeds, tapioca beads etc

Musical instruments

One of those mats they can 'paint' on with water

You can make a sort of giant marble run with lengths of gutter pipe and a tennis ball

'Busy' boards (you can get quite dizzy with them if you look on pinterest!)

user1496701154 · 17/04/2019 07:17

Books, shape sorter, cars and trucks, mines 20 months. Blocks also

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