Most worthwhile big toys

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think you need the kid table and chairs. I’ve bought that and a “workbench” and really didn’t get much use. We always have had Tripp trap chairs though and eat together, so the kitchen table or basement coffee table are the kid work surfaces.

I’ve had the learning tower and love it although it takes up way too much space, it’s used daily for washing hands and helping cook (but my husband and I both cook and bake a lot)

Play kitchen is a must, agreed. Balance bike a micro scooter also I think are musts. Sand box and water table with plenty of buckets and scoops. I think a really good block set is one of our most used indoor toys(Bekka blocks)

I have two boys, 4 and 18 months (at home, no daycare but 4 is in preschool)

Throw in some balls, a couple cars and dress up stuff, good crayons and water colors and that’s all they really love, everything else could be thrown out tomorrow and they wouldn’t care.

Same poster - holy crap I just read about the nugget and I need it now, thanks to this thread. My couch is disassembled daily to be a fort/animal cave/spaceship and I basically go insane but tolerate it because it’s deep imaginative play. Going to rearrange and buy the nugget, like today.

Omg thank you for also highlighting this brilliant addition from the one poster. I think i'm going to ditch my idea to get a table and chairs for christmas and instead get this since we have the stokke chairs as well and can just make the kitchen table our place for that. Sometimes dcum really pulls through!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think you need the kid table and chairs. I’ve bought that and a “workbench” and really didn’t get much use. We always have had Tripp trap chairs though and eat together, so the kitchen table or basement coffee table are the kid work surfaces.

I’ve had the learning tower and love it although it takes up way too much space, it’s used daily for washing hands and helping cook (but my husband and I both cook and bake a lot)

Play kitchen is a must, agreed. Balance bike a micro scooter also I think are musts. Sand box and water table with plenty of buckets and scoops. I think a really good block set is one of our most used indoor toys(Bekka blocks)

I have two boys, 4 and 18 months (at home, no daycare but 4 is in preschool)

Throw in some balls, a couple cars and dress up stuff, good crayons and water colors and that’s all they really love, everything else could be thrown out tomorrow and they wouldn’t care.

Same poster - holy crap I just read about the nugget and I need it now, thanks to this thread. My couch is disassembled daily to be a fort/animal cave/spaceship and I basically go insane but tolerate it because it’s deep imaginative play. Going to rearrange and buy the nugget, like today.

If you have the money, seriously take the small discount and get TWO. Our kids fight over the pieces and we're seriously thinking about getting another one later...

[Anonymous]

Toy kitchen. Trike. Balance bike in a year or two.

[Anonymous]

We have this learning tower that folds into a desk, so it basically serves the purpose of table and chairs and learning tower. We’ve gotten a ton of use out of it. https://www.etsy.com/listing/294919169/helper-tower-table-chair-all-in-one?ref=yr_purchases

That said, I would ask for a play kitchen. Both DS and DD play with ours a ton

[Anonymous]

Play kitchen
Pop up tent
Wooden train set
Ramp toy for cars or large balls
Tricycle
Water table
Magnatiles
Wooden train set

[Anonymous]

Kitchen or table/chairs.

Balance bike won't be useful until they're older.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's a great list, but I would make sure that they knew that it was a "pick ONE" menu!

I would go for the indoor items over the bikes. Nice weather is a long way away.

Where do you live? Aside from some rain and unbearable heat in the summer, DC is quite temperate most of the time.

[Anonymous]

We have twins (6 years old now) but I also vote for the kitchen. They play with its lot, even now. They liked their water table too and they also played a lot with the indoor tent. Just make sure to get one that folds away!

[Anonymous]

Another vote for the Rody. That gets a lot of love in my house. Also the Playskool Sit N Spin. It’s not expensive but it has been used consistently by my almost four year old for the past two years.

[Anonymous]

Love our nugget!

[Anonymous]

Magnatiles. Will get years and years of use. Or Play Kitchen.

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We used to step stool instead of a learning tower since we have a pretty small house with a small kitchen and it's worked out just fine. Now that my kid is for she can pull the stepstool out herself which I guess is both wonderful and terrible depending on what she's trying to do with it.