Toys for 18mo

[gulfgirl]

Or spanning 1-2yo.

We are awaiting our third child, the other two were born pretty close together so things were a wee bit chaotic and they also had each other to play with.

Anyway, I have really struggled with 1-2yo with both kids, but am determined to make it more bearable this time around!

Please recommend your most played with toys (with longevity if possible!) for around this age.

Thank you 🙏🏼

Stacking beakers; bucket, spade and watering can; balls of any description; the laundry basket; and a good puddle suit and harness so he can walk to the shop with us and look at everything on the way. It's slow, but then much faster because he sleeps all the way home after the exertion! Our supermarket has children's trolleys so we do a supermarket sweep fairly regularly. Our local playground has a mud kitchen so the watering can and bucket get used a lot even in winter.

Thanks @PeperNotNutsNoten

I should have listed what we have!

Trolleys (mega hit for all)
prams
mud kitchen + accessories (more like a water and sand kitchen here)
little tikes cars
scuttlebugs

I gave away all the stacking cups and blocks so definitely need to get some more of those

We live in the middle east so not much walking to the shop but all the shops do have children's trolleys!

I'm specifically interested in play sets (like happyland etc) because in the summer we are indoors a lot.

We do have the pool here though and I didn't with my first two kids so I think that's probably going to help a lot.

We have iglu blocks indoors that get used quite a lot. I thought about a pickler triangle but honestly he prefers more dangerous obstacle courses made out of furniture. Toy kitchens at nursery are popular, duplo train sets, stairs, wooden jigsaws, paint, crayons.

Can you scout out the local mall to find the fire escape stairs? We spent hours on the back stairs at the mall in the last heatwave. He's spent a lot of time running up and down deserted departure lounges with pull along toys and foam balls too. I suspect in the ME they'd be less uptight about you doing that than in the UK. Where we live it's fine so long as you're not causing a nuisance.

All the playgrounds here have a manual waterpomp to make mud and dams. You could rig one of those up in the swimming pool. A dog hose control pad was popular at nursery too.

The Iglu blocks is a great idea and maybe I will get some stepping stones too!

We have a toy kitchen and Duplo so will hang on to those.

Intrigued by what you mean by a departure lounge? Like at an airport?

Yup, we know the quiet corner of half the airports in europe :D Train stations aren't as good.

I was surprised how child friendly British museums are. They were the only places with AC when we were visiting last summer and all actively welcomed a shrieking toddler. We did check before we entered everytime before anyone jumps on me!