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s/o Toys - what non-electronic ones do your LOs love?

DS's favorites are a wooden spoon and anything he can shake to make noise, or roll and chase (any kind of ball is a huge hit)

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Re: s/o Toys - what non-electronic ones do your LOs love?

  • Balls for sure. Sticks are also a hit.
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  • imageWinesNotWhines:
    Balls for sure. Sticks are also a hit.

    YES. Also, tubes (paper towel, mailing, TP, etc) and boxes.  Currently he has a box, approximately his waist height, that he uses as a stove (with one of our mini pots) & cooks for his favorite stuffed animal, Petey the Penguin.

    He also really likes trains/cars/trucks.  We've got a recycling truck & wooden train that he especially loves.

  • Puzzles, esp. this Hungry Caterpillar puzzle set.  Blocks, stacking boxes (esp. these!) and crayons are big hits too.
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  • Blocks--big and small (we have lots)

    Musical toy set (symbols, harmonica, other things they bang on or shake)

    Pretend food, plates and cups--we "picnic" a lot on the floor or their little table

    Empty diaper boxes--always a big hit--climbing in and out, opening and closing, filling and dumping

    Bubbles--in nicer weather, like yesterday

    Toddler-sized broom

    Kitchen--there are some electrical components, but they love opening the fridge and the other doors, putting things in the microwave or oven, taking them out, repeating

    Books and puzzles

  • thanks ladies!  at what age do you think they start playing with things like a play kitchen and pretend toys?  I thought that was still a long way off, but maybe not?
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  • The big hits in our house are megabloks, play kitchen, Fisher Price little people, and this set:

    https://www.amazon.com/I-Play-G02082-Nest-Stack-Buckets/dp/B000CBSNBU

  • imageumdbride:
    thanks ladies!  at what age do you think they start playing with things like a play kitchen and pretend toys?  I thought that was still a long way off, but maybe not?


    M got a play kitchen for his first birthday, and he's liked it from the start, although it was more because he liked to open/close the oven doors, dump things in the sink, etc. as opposed to actually using it as a kitchen. Now he does some actual pretend play - he has some play food and likes to "cut" it, pretend to eat it, put it in a pot and stir it, etc.
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    imageumdbride:
    thanks ladies!  at what age do you think they start playing with things like a play kitchen and pretend toys?  I thought that was still a long way off, but maybe not?


    M got a play kitchen for his first birthday, and he's liked it from the start, although it was more because he liked to open/close the oven doors, dump things in the sink, etc. as opposed to actually using it as a kitchen. Now he does some actual pretend play - he has some play food and likes to "cut" it, pretend to eat it, put it in a pot and stir it, etc.

    Yeah, it's been within the past month or 2 when sprout has starting doing pretend play.  He'll "chop" vegetables on a mini cutting board & when he puts his pot on his box, he goes "sizzzzzzz...." lol. we have an alarming amount of "mini-" kitchen tools (we've had for years) that we've basically just handed over to sprout at this point.

    also, he feeds Petey & puts Petey in another box with a blanket for night-night. he's got some toy tools that he uses to fix...everything.

    I really like the pretend playing!

  • imageumdbride:
    thanks ladies!  at what age do you think they start playing with things like a play kitchen and pretend toys?  I thought that was still a long way off, but maybe not?

    T got a play kitchen for her 2nd birthday - she may have been ready for it a few months earlier, but it's hard to say.  If you're looking for things for your LO for now, this FP house was a HUGE hit for T's first b-day.  We usually have the sound turned on, but it's easy to turn off and T doesn't really play around the switch to turn it on for herself.  She still plays with it occasionally.

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  • Traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaains. We are all-trains, all the time at my house. Also trucks, and lately tools (J loves his "hammer box"). I have no idea how he got so many boy-centric toys. He does love his two dolls, though, and stuffed animals as well.
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  • My daughter is totally into Legos right now.  She is so creative and builds tons of different things.  She's also really into any kind of pretend play... her doll house and her kitchen are favorites.  She also takes any figures/characters we have (Mickey, Pooh, animals, etc) and has them go to birthday parties and tea parties and other things.  I'd say she spends 95% of her play time doing either legos or other pretending. 
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  • imageumdbride:
    thanks ladies!  at what age do you think they start playing with things like a play kitchen and pretend toys?  I thought that was still a long way off, but maybe not?

     

    We got a play kitchen for DD when DS was about 10 months old.  From the very beginning, DS played with it.  It was more to open and close the doors, put things in and take things out, and not really cooking, but he has always spent lots of time playing with it. 

    I always see play kitchens on lists of what to get 2-year olds, but I would put it on a list of what to get 1-year olds. 

  • In order of awesomeness, as perceived by C:

    Boxes from Costco. Behold:

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    He calls that a "pizza car". He also likes to stack them on top of one another and use it as a fire place (the cast off toys on the floor there are "firewood"). 

    Anything stick-shaped, including wooden spoons and this dog toy

    Play doh

    His ball pit. 

    Books. 

    We're really not big in to batteries at our house anymore. 

  • imageMrsPhilDunphy:

    Anything stick-shaped, including wooden spoons and this dog toy

    Work blocked the pic :( 

    DS LOVES to get the dog toys too, especially the hard ones like the Kong

     

    Thanks everybody for the info on kitchens and pretend play too!

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    imageWinesNotWhines:
    imageumdbride:
    thanks ladies!  at what age do you think they start playing with things like a play kitchen and pretend toys?  I thought that was still a long way off, but maybe not?


    M got a play kitchen for his first birthday, and he's liked it from the start, although it was more because he liked to open/close the oven doors, dump things in the sink, etc. as opposed to actually using it as a kitchen. Now he does some actual pretend play - he has some play food and likes to "cut" it, pretend to eat it, put it in a pot and stir it, etc.

    Yeah, it's been within the past month or 2 when sprout has starting doing pretend play.  He'll "chop" vegetables on a mini cutting board & when he puts his pot on his box, he goes "sizzzzzzz...." lol. we have an alarming amount of "mini-" kitchen tools (we've had for years) that we've basically just handed over to sprout at this point.

    also, he feeds Petey & puts Petey in another box with a blanket for night-night. he's got some toy tools that he uses to fix...everything.

    I really like the pretend playing!

    This is adorable!  I just wouldn't think they'd be so creative and thoughtful that young!

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  • We're into a lot of what is already mentioned, but I didn't see art supplies in there.  We color,  play with play dough, cut, glue, and paint a whole lot.  DS at just 1, isn't as into art, but he does love to use crayons.   
  • imageHey Jellisy:
    DS at just 1, isn't as into art, but he does love to use crayons.   

    Really?! I feel like DS would just try to eat them, lol. 

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  • imageumdbride:

    imageHey Jellisy:
    DS at just 1, isn't as into art, but he does love to use crayons.   

    Really?! I feel like DS would just try to eat them, lol. 

    It's the having an older sibling thing - he sees her use them and then he wants to emulate.  Plus he loves when something he does, does something.  He gets excited when the color appears on the paper.  I think that's what little babies love electronic toys, light switches, remotes, etc - it's because they can make something happen.  At almost 3, DD knows about cause and effect and is much more excited to imagine a fantastic world around her.    

  • imageHey Jellisy:
    imageumdbride:

    imageHey Jellisy:
    DS at just 1, isn't as into art, but he does love to use crayons.   

    Really?! I feel like DS would just try to eat them, lol. 

    It's the having an older sibling thing - he sees her use them and then he wants to emulate.  Plus he loves when something he does, does something.  He gets excited when the color appears on the paper.  I think that's what little babies love electronic toys, light switches, remotes, etc - it's because they can make something happen.  At almost 3, DD knows about cause and effect and is much more excited to imagine a fantastic world around her.    

    ahhhh, makes sense!

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  • imageHey Jellisy:
    imageumdbride:

    imageHey Jellisy:
    DS at just 1, isn't as into art, but he does love to use crayons.   

    Really?! I feel like DS would just try to eat them, lol. 

    It's the having an older sibling thing - he sees her use them and then he wants to emulate.  Plus he loves when something he does, does something.  He gets excited when the color appears on the paper.  I think that's what little babies love electronic toys, light switches, remotes, etc - it's because they can make something happen.  At almost 3, DD knows about cause and effect and is much more excited to imagine a fantastic world around her.    

    I totally agree with this.  In thinking about our toys, I realized that the battery-operated, noisy, annoying ones are really my son's.  My daughter rarely pulls out something electronic (unless she's playing with his things).

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  • His favorite toy right now is a tiny wooden tool bench that he can stand at at hammer. He also loves wood blocks, books, anything from the kitchen (salad spinner, measuring cups, funnel), Sophie Le Giraff, a wood xylophone from Plan Toys, and strumming DH and my guitars.

    The tool/work bench is similar to this. (Needless to say, my 1 year old isn't contructing tiny tricycles or anything.)

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