Might help us, and our families an idea of what kids really like. Might be a good post to send to family!

I'll come back when I think some after dinner-
what are your entries?

Jen

The main things, large wooden blocks, duplo and legos, bikes, playsilks, and any art supply. Those are played with everyday.
Evan got the wooden blocks at least 4 years ago and also it's been years with the Duplos, now adding legos.
These are the toys they never get tired of.

My son loves his bike! My 4 yo daughter and ds (6) also love their skateboards (but we live in a quite cul-de-sac).

DD loves her singing teddy (nursery tunes), and her water baby (doll filled with water).

DS is into anything that glows in the dark, lights up.

When I think of more, I'll edit:)
Cheers, Carolyn

elves and angels wooden kitchen...both my 2 and 4 year old play with this daily and have for a year.

dress up clothes, silks, and accessories(flashlights, old cameras, costume jewlery, hats)...again a daily favorite for both kids

playmobile... my ds picks these over his wooden people and cars, he has loved them since he was three but is now at 4.5 he makes up elaborate stories and acts them out.

Maya has always loved flash cards, the kind with the animals on them or numbers, shapes, etc. No idea why but that has been her favorite "toy" for more than a year.

This is the stuff that gets played with the most here:

lego
playmobil
dressup stuff
silks, wooden landscape stuff (to make scenery for playmobil and lego)
tape/CD player
musical instruments
money (coins)
chess set
erector stuff

Tara

playstands, wooden kitchen, train table .. dolls, playsilks.. nature table stuff.. our big plastic little tykes playhouse (which is in our living room).. art stuff, workbooks.. riding toys.. balls.. Josh's dinosaurs and Lindsey's My Little Ponies.

Jodi - Rowan saw your sig pic and said "That my Lindsey! That my Joshie!" I asked her about the baby and all she had to say was "He's pink." (we're working on our pronouns).

As for our most loved toys: A couple of dolls (one waldorf, one regular), LEGOS, wooden blocks, wooden puzzles, art supplies, wooden trains (really just a Patrick thing), playsilks, dress up hats, wooden swords and shields.

In the past, Thomas the tank .... my ds LOVED Thomas the tank for a full three years. We spent hundreds, but ... it was worth it. Now, he still has them, he has them up in the playroom, and yes, he plays with them, but, sadly he's moving on. He is mostly moving on to art stuff. He loves writing and making and hands on crafts.

For dd, she loves dance, and she loves dress up, but he favorite toy item is polly pockets. I hate it, she is a little MAINSTREAM turkey.... but, sigh, what can I do?

TREASURE! Max and Maizy both love their little wooden treasure chests with beads, coins and anything else shiney. Max is loving legos a lot these days. And they both love just the plain old magna doodle for the car.

XT, I can't tell you just how much delight your siggy is bringing my children - LOL.

My dd is hard....

My ds loves his playsilks, tinker toys, dominoes, dragonology book, and his bike!!

My ds loves his wooden trains. It's the one thing he's played with every day since he turned 2. (almost 3.5 now)
He also likes pretend food, and Little People. And any vehcile. And of course art stuff and play doh.

Stacking cups. We got them as a baby shower gift and Annabelle has played with them ever since. It's just four cups, but they have gone from teething toy to cups for bathtub tea time.

Totally not crunchy, natural, or anything, but giving in and getting my son some super hero action figures was the best choice ever!

I was trying so hard to keep him away from commercialism, but let me tell you, his collection of action figures is now up to about 25 (he has lots of different Batman ones, quite a few Spider man ones, plus some random Power Rangers, Woody and Buzz, some Ninja's, a pretty eclectic assortment, most from Garage sales) and he is so creative with them. He keeps track of them better than anything else, he will pack them all into his backpack to take when we go somewhere, or just to tote around the house, the other day he had them all lined up in a square, then made a triangle then so on...he counts them, sorts them, stacks them, I had no idea!

So much for keeping all of my last childs toys "creative" toys like legos and wooden blocks, playstand and playsilks! LOL! he is way more creative with what I didn't think he possibly could be...

Coleen (7): ballerina dress, paper and any writing implement, any book
Paul (5): Papo knights, scheich animals, wal-mart plastic animals and dinosaurs
Katarina (3): books, Daddy LOL
Emma (5 months): Skwish, Haba toys, Mama

We got our children a trampoline (with net) 3 years ago- I don't think there has been a day gone by when they have not played on it.

http://www.indoorswing.com/site/1021460/product/137-5251719

Other than what is listed, like bicycles and legos, this stands out. Everyone has to swing on this thing, even the teens that come to the house. We have a trapeze bar for it too. Just an exceptional way to burn off some energy indoors.

My 3 yr olds favorite things are:

His radio flyer tricycle
His Barbie VW Bug Power Wheels car that we got at a garage sale
His TRAINS
Books
Trucks
BIG bottles of finger paint- having a day where all they want to do is be messy?? Put them in the tub without water, give them 4 little bowls with a bunch of finger paint, and watch them have a blast!! It's the easiest cleanup, and they have so much fun.

Both of my kiddos love their play kitchen though Gavin (2 1/2) likes it more than Colin (4 1/2). Gavin loves the stinking plastic microwave most of all though, LOL. They go through phases with the kitchen.

Colin has loved trains since he was 18 months old. We have a huge wooden train collection. Though his interest is finally starting to wane a bit.

Colin is finally getting into dress up a bit and really has fun with that.

Colin has been getting into building things with wooden blocks lately (instead of having me build stuff so he could destroy it, LOL)

Gavin loves "action figures". I use that term loosely since we don't have any commercial action figures. He has playmobil pirates, some bendy dolls that I made, some Brio characters that go with the train sets and some Plan Toys pirates that goes with his wooden pirate ship (which he also loves).

Gavin loves the red and blue tupperware shape sorter.

Both of them love polished rocks and minerals (fools gold and peacock rock) and other treasures for their treasure chest. We also have some coins from other countries (big coins), that they love having in the treasure chest as "pirates gold". We also have a ton of beads from "before kiddos" that they love playing with. As soon as they break, we give them more, we have hundreds from going to the local Mardi Gras celebration (and no I didn't have to flash anyone for them, ROFL).

And both LOVE craft supplies. Paper, watercolors, colored pencils, etc. They don't care for coloring books much though.

for raising 3 girls these things got or get the most use:

*wooden food, including the type that you can "cut" attached with velcro
*wooden kitchen set
*baby dolls or animals that can be companions or pupils in school or babies
*dress up stuff
*groovy girls
*leggos, yup plastic junk. I tried tinker toys and lincoln logs and they didn't get played with much at all
*jumprope, the real cotton kind with wooden handles not dollar store fall apart on first use type
*tea set [ceramic] and amazingly it hasn't got broken
*bicycles, trikes, kick and go, pogo sticks, scooter, tandem that attaches to an adult's bike when they are not quite ready for 2 wheelers or big enough to keep up pace with rest of family. Bike trailer for even littler kids that converts to stroller.
*I am ashamed to admit this but recently MIL and FIL had a neighbor move out and give them stuff for our girls and one of them was a Barbie jeep with charger. Oh my my my youngest dd has used this thing so much. She doesn't care if it is new or not she loves loves loves it. I cringe but she's having fun so I tolerate it. She's really good at putting it in reverse and getting out of stuck places
*swingset and sandbox

Architechural wooden blocks

Lincoln Logs

Dress up clothes

Leapfrog Karaoke Machine

Little Tikes Activity Garden (discontinued now) - both my girls love this, Whitley still plays with it.

Fashion Pollys (and Dannielle's bendies :) )

Bike, swingset, and sandbox.

The best gifts/Christmas my Boys ever had was a few yrs ago when I did an arts & craft theme from Santa.

wooden table & chairs

tons of paints, crayons (all kinds, glitter, metallic, gel, mama-made in cute shapes from a WAHM here), markers, pencils, paper (packs & a huge roll), brushes, stampers, smocks, splatter mat, etc

This was at least 3 yrs ago, and almost everything is still in use or been replaced (paints, etc)!

I want to do a similiar thing this Christmas since the Boys are really into playing school. I am going to get the big wooden easel set from Hearth Song. Any other ideas?

DS got the Conductor's Figure 8 set with Battery operated Thomas for his 2nd birthday. I could really just toss every single other toy and he'd NEVER miss any of them. We would, of course, keep his 3 talking Buzz Lightyears.

I can't thank Aunt Tee, Aunt Mimi and Gam'ma enough for that track. He plays trains every single day. We have added to the track for every occaision over the last year, and man alive, he's got a LOT. There's a never ending supply of stuff to use with it, and he loves it soooo much.

He loves all train stuff.

He plays with his fisher price castle and accessories every day. He's really getting into action figures too.



I really like that swing, thanks for the link.

playsilks, dress up clothes and my little pony. dd is sooo into my little pony (she is 4). she pretty much plays with everything she has, whether they go together or not, they do in her imagination. one thing she loves that is a little out of the norm is a harmonica. dh has a couple of nice ones but we got a cheap one for her and she loves it.

The old style polly pocket houses (that are made for very tiny people). We get them at thrift stores for cheap, then get a $2 bag of Guatamalan worry dolls to live in them. LOL, Plastic meets crunchy.

Anything dress up- scarves, junk jewelry, princess stuff
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Wooden blocks - they grow up with her, b/c now she builds furniture for her little dolls and animals.

I'm on the lookout for a trampoline, that's a great idea.

Ok..my little kids play with most:

Eli: Fisher Price Farm..he adores it. Playsilks. He will play with his "notebook" and crayons all day long. He's getting a guitar for his birthday because he will play his daddy's constantly all through the day. He loves all music and will play with his drums and other instruments a lot.

Sophie: Blocks, playsilks, the plastic stuff in the kitchen. Pots and Pans. Little people animals. She also loves to carry around Eli's twistable crayons that I have twisted down for her so she doesn't eat them he he. She loves dollies and is getting her own waldorf doll for xmas. OH..forgot to mention that both kids adore the dragon we got from Dannielle...Sophie is getting another one for her birthday along with the Jack and Lily shoes from the coop.

I'm clueless for xmas for Elijah so I'm reading along seeing what y'all's kids like..though he is such an unusual boy it's hard to figure out what to do.