Best/Fav. Toys?

[My Lil' Monkeys]

My kids love the kitchen, drawing boards/whiteboards, books, shopping cart, stroller with baby, and blocks - peek-a-boo, wooden, cardboard - craigslist $10 for 100 of them

As for list (I live in Mi) so... I just put a general list... like blocks, books, kitchen w/play food, trains (wooden and plastic), cars, little people... I put what I could think of as my whole house is FULL of toys... and Michigan State Licensing gave me a license and I didn't get questioned. I believe they are just looking to make sure you have an assortment of toys for the children to play with.

Oh, I might have my list I sent them as I did it on my computer... I wouldn't mind e-mailing it to you (if I can find it)... if you wanted

[daycare]

dont waste your money on toys... my DCK have been playing with big (huge) empty boxes for the past week and I have never seen them so busy in their life.


I have heard more laughter and cooperative play than ever... I love it

[kcnjason]

Great Subject! I was just thinking of this same topic today. I have been doing daycare for 5 years and rotate out my toys and we do preschool so we have a busy day. I feel that the kids get bored and I may not have enough variety for them to choose from but I have all that was listed, just not the large legos or duplo blocks in which I shall consider purchasing. I have the kitchen/food, dress up stuff with vanity, baby dolls and misc, cars, baby toys, etc....it just seems that they get bored. I guess that kids need to learn to use their imagination and play with what they have. They often ask for new toys but when I go to the store, I don't find anything other than what we already have that they may be interested in. I'm so glad that you started this post and that so many people replied.

[ammama]

In our house the fav's are the playsilks, dress up clothes in general and baby dolls for the girls and the cars, blocks and ride on toys for the boys.

[snbauser]

I have to say the most used toy here is the magnetic block set. We have had these for almost 2 years and I can honestly say that there hasn't been a single day that these haven't been played with by someone. They are almost always off the shelf and on the floor with a child playing with them anytime we are not eating, napping or outside. They make everything from castles to car tracks to ice cream cones and pizza.

http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/seo/ca%7CproductSubCat~~p%7CDG546~~f%7C/Assortments/Lakeshore/ShopByCategory/blockplaymanipulatives/viewall.jsp

[treehugger82]

My kids love the kitchen, drawing boards/whiteboards, books, shopping cart, stroller with baby, and blocks - peek-a-boo, wooden, cardboard - craigslist $10 for 100 of them

As for list (I live in Mi) so... I just put a general list... like blocks, books, kitchen w/play food, trains (wooden and plastic), cars, little people... I put what I could think of as my whole house is FULL of toys... and Michigan State Licensing gave me a license and I didn't get questioned. I believe they are just looking to make sure you have an assortment of toys for the children to play with.

Oh, I might have my list I sent them as I did it on my computer... I wouldn't mind e-mailing it to you (if I can find it)... if you wanted

Thank you! If you have the list and it isn't too much trouble, I would love to see it. Glad to hear from someone in MI (Although I greatly appreciate all the other replies too!)

[thecrazyisout]

I love contact paper...

I got a bunch of small boxes from the stationery stocker at wal-mart and stuffed them tightly with newspaper from the recycle bin, then covered them in contact paper. They've lasted a really long time, and the kids love them.

I am totally going to do this....I LOVE CONTACT PAPER...I just made sun catchers with clear contact paper, tissue paper and modge podge. My preschoolers has so much fun.