Toy hits that have stood the test of time at our house!

[Jenny_A]

I haven't seen one of these threads in awhile and I always enjoy them. Here are several toys that for us have been hits. They continue to be played with daily or frequently, have held up well, and keep the kids occupied. Most of these listed I've had 3 or 4 years now and still get a lot of play:

Fisher Price My First Dollhouse
Lego Duplos (just have a big plastic bin with lots of bricks and people. No specific sets.)
Play Kitchen (4 years now. Just have a plastic FP one but it constantly gets play)
Learning Resources Chocolate Box (red, heart shaped)
Learning Resources Cookie Jar
Learning Resources Cupcakes
Fisher Price Snap N Style dolls with the wardrobe storage piece
Matchbox Cars in a Matchbox cars storage box
Dora Talking House and accessories (kids who cover over LOVE this thing!)

What are some of yours?

[smiles33]

Great idea! For my 2 girls, there are a handful of favorites that they use almost every day. All but the Walker Wagon and Cozy Coupe were purchased for DD1 before DD2 came along. A couple of them are more fun now because the two of them can play together with them:

- Battat Stack and Sort cups (we use them EVERY day in the bathtub)
- Discovery Exclusive Steering Wheel (my cousin handed it down to my girls and DD2 LOVES it)
- Radio Flyer's Walker Wagon (they love pushing one another in this)
- Cozy Coupe (ours is indoors only so they play with it all the time)
- Learning Tower (not a toy but it's so much more fun now that the two of them are both standing on it)

[sansdieu]

Some favorites of my 3-yr-old DD that still get regular play:

* M.D. kits - never gets tired of those
* Lego Duplo, especially the international people set (she likes her other building and constrution sets as well, like citiblocs, but to a considerably lesser degree)
* Puzzles
* Toy "bedding" - e.g. she has a groovy girlz sleeping bag and tent she uses for her teddy bears; etc.
* Paints, markers, crayons
* Toy supermarket cart and stroller
* books, including baby books



She hardly ever plays with:

* Toy kitchen and pots and pans
* Toy food, including that Learning Resource set I paid $20 for. She played with it for a while, now she's so over it - in fact, even if she does decide to feed one of her animals, she demonstratively uses something other than toy food (Legos, bunched-up tissues, anything) and pretends it's food.
* Pretty much anything "pretend" (except M.D. kits) - toy cell phones, cash registers, etc.
* FP trike
* Balance bike - couldn't care less for it
* Electronic alphabet poster

[boolady]

Without a doubt, the FP Loving Family dollhouse gets played with every single day.
Also, I would add:

play kitchen & food
baby dolls w/ cradle, stroller & highchair
dress up clothes
Disney princess figurines with those horrific rubber dresses
any and all art supplies-- paints, markers, do-a-dot markers, crayons, glue, scissors, you name it.

[ShanaMama]

Great thread!
Many of our toys are MIL's finds at yard sales, so I don't even know all the brand names. Toys that get every day use:
M&D sets that I've bought (side note- they all come in great containers but why can't they have covers?! It is so hard to contain them & I find them everywhere.)
Huge dollhouse that is open on one side & has several floors. They have a random collection of small people and furniture that are used with this.
Play kitchen (Little Tykes, also from MIL) & a huge container of random dishes
doll clothes, strollers & cribs- along with our huge assortment of dolls
We also have those ridiculously small Disney princess figurines which they keep all together with some polly pocket knock-offs. They call the whole lot Polly Pockets.


Things that don't get much use:
FP Little People sets (we have the zoo & a dollhouse)
Mega blocks, lego , duplo- I keep these in the basement & pull out on occasion. They much prefer pretend play to building.

[Neatfreak]

Our list (kids are 6.5 and 2 years, both girls)

- Megabloks (the big chunky ones)
- Fisher Price Little People sets (farm, zoo, house, castle, pirate ship)
- My Little Ponies
- Laugh n Learn House
- cheap pretend cell phones and handbags

[sansdieu]

[QUOTE=ShanaMama;2937276]Great thread!
M&D sets that I've bought (side note- they all come in great containers but why can't they have covers?! It is so hard to contain them & I find them everywhere.)



They're wooden boxes, couldn't they just do a slide-in cover??

[DrSally]

magnatiles get played with every day. Thinking of buying another 100 piece set if I can find a good deal.

Duplos

craft supplies.

Tag reader gets played with off and on.

Dress up costumes.

Wedgits get played with off and on.

[crl]

DS, age 7, has played with his wood unit blocks and various plastic figures (Little People, Little Einsteins, etc) virtually everyday for a couple of years now.

Catherine

[happymom]

Cozy Coupe (ours is also indoor only as PP mentioned)
Shopping cart
Megablox- not every day, but several times a week
All pretend play items- dolls, stroller, highchairs, etc