What are your best garden toys?

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Looking for inspiration for the kids (7,5)

this climbing frame hideously expensive but fab.
Or a trampoline
or one of those free-standing swimming pools
space hoppers
swingball
badminton set
table tennis table

swingball
basketball hoop (new but v successful)
skipping ropes
trampoline (we only have a small one)
cricket set
badminton set
rocket zoomer
footballs are best actually

tp explorer climbing frame
pole tennis

Trampoline
Balls
Pool in the summer
Play tent
Water slide

Current favourite is a falling over dead conifer that's going to be removed soon, as they can get behind it and have a sort of den.

A paddock with ponies and a dressage course.
Keeps them occupied for hours.

sand pit, but mine are younger.

Anyone with toddlers/pre schoolers got a slide? Is it popular or does the novelty wear off?

A slide is a good idea. They can slide, drive cars down it, push each other down it and in a large garden with terracing, like mine, it's a fantastic mode of transport.

Yeah we've had a slide since DS1 was 1. Still well used tho a bit little for its original owner now, he's almost 8....

He still likes to sit on top of it to eat a picnic tea tho!

Mine are younger than yours but faves include

paddling pool
spacehopper
football (small one)
water pistols
bubble-gun/blowing bubbles
drawing on walls with chalk, also painting walls with water

they all seem water based don't they? There must be something else mine do!

Climbing frame.

(better buy than a slide for toddlers IMHO - we bought DS his (TP) one when he was 2.5 and then added bits to it as he got older)

other than that - footballs, golf set, and habitat have some really nice wooden quoits/croquet/fishing game at the moment.

We've graduated from a little tikes slide to a big TP one and both get used a lot (usually for climbing up LOL)

I know, pop-up tent!

They like playing camping and having picnics.

a zip line between two trees is fun
Or a tyre hung from a branch.

Other kids!

We have a large play tower, huge trampoline, ride on digger, massive sandpit..but nothing gets played with unless the neighbours' kids come over!