Best first birthday present your child received

[JemimaTiggywinkle]

DS is turning one soon and grandparents are asking what to get him. He doesn’t really need anything but of course they want to get him something.

What was the best first birthday present your child got?

A little garden slide and trampoline with a handle.

Scuttlebug, by far. She used it as a walker for a few months, and then scooted on it at great speed. She still loves it at 2.5.

A set of nesting wooden boxes in rainbow colours with numbers on. They got played with for years in so many different ways.

A table and chair. It was a Montessori thing.

Nesting cups here. Loved playing with them. Also the Gruffalo book. That was read regularly for years.

Second vote for table and chairs. Gets used a lot for reading/colouring/playing tea parties/eating snacks. Scuttlebug has been a bit redundant here, but DS isn’t famed for his gross motor skills

This vtech trike! He's 8 now, still tries to fit on it, and won't let me get rid of it.

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Some lovely ideas! Our garden is quite small and uneven - not good for trampolines/scuttlebugs…. But maybe part of the present could be grandparents keeping them in their garden for us

A trike with a handle. He would go on that rather than in the pram. It’s year old now and has done 1000s of miles!

A toy that was a plastic egg box full of character eggs that made a noise, it was her favourite toy for about 2 years

Gosh only about 3 years ago and can hardly remember already hah. I do remember a few things that funnily enough all came from the same relative and were all big hits - a soft toy guinea pig that wheeked when you squeezed it (this became the first soft toy she eventually showed an attachment to, she still has it but not really played with now), a little backpack with her name on it (still used for nursery now), and a battery-operated car that drives around playing a song and also doubled- up as a shape sorter which go into the car through the shape holes or can be put straight into it via the boot - no longer played with but was for a few years and DC2 is only 5 months and has been enjoying watching it racing around when he's doing tummy time for a couple of months now.

Helium balloon!!!!! He wasnt interested in any of the presents,just wanted to play with balloon.

Wooden building blocks. 12 years on they still get played with occasionaly 😀

A solid little child's plastic chair.

He is 17 now, (and my youngest is 11). Chair still gets used constantly as a coffee table or as a table for kids who are sitting on the floor.

The legs regularly get pulled off to be used as lightsabres!

We got dts a lovely table and chair set from John Lewis, the chairs were a lion and a tiger, that got used all the time until they started school.

Granny got them scuttlebugs and they're brilliant, fold flat, shove them in the buggy to take to the park, they could use them in the house (tiny house but still ok) and garden.