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My kids spend most of their time with the "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" ships Bucky and Jolly Roger, and all of the characters that go with them, the train table, Matchbox cars, and the Imaginext toys. I just bought Buzz Lightyear's spaceship, and they go looney over that, too.Comment
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Right now it's empty "real" food containers: hot chocolate, honey, coffee, tea, oatmeal etc. I've been collecting them for a few weeks and the kids are in love!Comment
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magna tiles! I am a 2 year old caregiver, so I'm working with the same age group as you
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Play silks and real food containers
dollhouse
Also:
play kitchen
playdough
books
shovels and pails for outside snow play
Mine are all between the ages of 14 months and 2.5 yearsComment
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Treo's ~ It's like Lego's, mega blocks, and magnetics all in one. While they are not magnetic, nor huge like mega blocks, nor are they tiny like the Lego's. But you can build to your wildest dreams. There are stick pieces, squares, people, windows and more.
Can you tell I love them too!!!
I give the kids challenges like build a house, make a circle, who can build the neatest spaceship, and it keeps them busy while I make lunch or clean.
My own children range from 12 to 4 and my youngest DC kid is 1 and they all love them.HomeMADEComment
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The little Legos (ages 2.5 through 5.5). I bought them for the oldest kids but ALL of the kids now know how to use them nicely and love them.
They build the most intricate creations out of them. I just have them all in a large plastic under the bed storage container.Comment
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Magnatiles
Melissa and Doug stack and sort boards
mind jars- made from small pepsi bottles filled with glitter glycerine and water with food coloring added. These cost me about $1 each for the glitter, glue and glycerine...the kids LOVE them (check pinterest for other sensory jar ideas)
homemade slime for sensory playComment
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In January we had a whole week, I think, that was basically "fun with the boxes left over from Christmas deliveries." I had found a child's measuring tape at Goodwill. We measured boxes, sat in boxes, drove boxes, colored on boxes with markers. Wish I had some more boxes.Comment
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Right now our marble race set (connecting tubes to send marbles through) is a big hit. But you might not want marbles for your younger ones. Mine are 3.5-4. You could do the same, though, with balls and ramps made from cardboard.Comment
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Princess dresses go on every single day, multiple times a day!
I have 3+ so we do a lot of Legos, blocks and Lincoln logs. And imaginext toys!! They are a bit on the pricey side but they last FOREVER!!!! We have almost every set they have on the shelves at stores and ones they don't make anymore. And not a single one has been broken!!Comment
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Right now-
Toob of penguins.
Always-
Duplos
Tractors
Pom Poms
Stacking cups (I have 3 sets from Dollar General that they LOVE) they use them as homes for the penguins, cups, cars etc. So imaginative with them)
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Oh my gosh... The kids love these... We get them from some stores up town sometimes... Favorite summer thing too... We make tunnels outside...
In January we had a whole week, I think, that was basically "fun with the boxes left over from Christmas deliveries." I had found a child's measuring tape at Goodwill. We measured boxes, sat in boxes, drove boxes, colored on boxes with markers. Wish I had some more boxes.
Duct tape and boxes... Who needs anything else??Comment
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