Toy ideas for a 3 year old and a 18 mo old. Budget = £20 each

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The DCs have Christmas money to spend. Any ideas?

Have you got aquadraw already? It's for 18 months+ and I gather it is generally wildly popular

Thank Wendy - we do have an aquadraw. It is great (Although my perverse DCs mostly like to suck the water out of the pens ).

do they actually need anything? (especially the 18mo). TBH at that age I would put the money in an account for them.
What sex are they?
Things my ds1 liked at 3 and ds2 likes now at 23m are
3yo - wooden train stuff, dressing up things, garage & cars
23mo - vacumn cleaner (ds1 now 5yo likes this aswell), musical instruments - piano, cd player etc, wooden train stuff, garage & cars

quadrillan marble run basic set costs £35. it's a wooden marble run that you build in lots of different ways and can buy additional pieces as you go along. we combined christmas money for 3year old and 7 month old. not great for 7 month old now, but will be great for him when older. 3 year old loving it, environmentally friendly, looks nice in living room.
or i'd agree with the wooden train stuff, good for all ages.

ChasingSquirrels - I'm really not sure that they do need anything. We don;t have mountains of toys by any means. In fact we have far fewer toys than anyone else I know (which is why I thought I'd get them some more...probably the 'wrong' reason to buy more?)

They are a boy and a girl (DD is 3, DS is 18 mo).

I have to go to bed now, but thanks for all the ideas so far

You could always just keep the money to one side and get something when you see a specific thing that you think would be good?
A game for 3yo dd?

or pop it in their child trust fund?

Oh I would think that dressing up stuff would be perfect for 3 yo dd, as most of that seems to come in 'age 3-5'.

Save it for the summer - children always seem to need new things for outside then. We saving for a few new garden toys.