your best buys for a 1 year old ?

[Gem & Leland]

xmas is coming , mat pay is running out so need to think now ! dont wanna waste money on toys he prob wont like so would like your tried and tested opinions ! he will be one in january , so im thinking poss ride on toys ? i THINK his gonna be an early walker so anything active ? i do have a garden so anything for that ?

ideas please , hopefully will help others as loads of our babies turn 1 near xmas !

 

[Red_Fairy]

hannah started walking a few days before she turned one - so she was much more interested in that then toys at first.

But now and in the last few months shes obbsessed with building bricks, building towers, and fitting shapes into 'shape holes' ect. She also has a toy car thing that she can sit on and we push with a big handle that shes loved for the last ferw months too. (we've now just took the handle off and the safty seat thing and now she can 'push' her self along with her feet) - ill try to find a picture of it.

other then that she likes things that make lots of noice - drums ect.

 

[Red_Fairy]

only pic i can find - its that thing by the telly with the yellow safety thing around the seat - the handle is un-attached in that pic.)

my mum and dad bought her a swing also - its for a 1-3 years old. (i dont have a garden, its kept in thiers) but shes already grown out of it! lol - she did love it, but i wouldnt reconmend buying one if you have a 'bigger' baby then average lol.

 

[beanie]

Seren loved her wheelybug, she used to push it when she started to toddle then sat on it and would play on it for ages. She still plays with it a bit now (though she prefers her bike as it goes faster) but that's 1 1/2 years use, not bad for £45. She also loved her wooden blocks

excuse mucky face, she had been eating just before

 

[maybebaby]

We got this for Austin for Christmas last year, he LOVED sitting on it and being pushed around, and he's just getting the hang of pushing himself along on it now so I'd say definitely a good buy - I can see it lasting ages (also once he grows out of the dragon bit it detaches and becomes a mini-scooter)

His favourite for ages has been his shape sorter, he had this cookie jar (except we got it from Tesco for about £7!) for ages but it got too easy recently and we got him a more complicated wooden one for his birthday which he sits for ages playing with even now.

He also got this brick trolley for Christmas which was great as he was just starting to walk. He still plays with it both as a trolley to push and he loves building towers.

Austin's huge fascination at the moment is cars, I got him a garage from a car boot sale, and then every time we go to Tesco he chooses a new toy car (just the small matchbox size ones, they say 3+ but I don't have a problem with him having them).

We've got a toddler slide that my sister lent me in the garden that he got the hang of recently and he would happily climb up & slide down all day if I let him. He likes playing on the toddler trampoline at our toddler group too, although he's not quite got the hang of actually jumping he bounces up and down.

 

[Xena]

We got Alex this for his first birthday (last week) from Argos and he loooooves it:

They do it in pink as well.

 

[Gem & Leland]

glad you posted that, i looked at them and thought they were really cool ,he loves being in motion and having that would mean me not sitting hours pushing him on a swing lol

 

[Xena]

Yeh Alex rides it himself. I do have to help him onto it though because he can't stand up himself, but once he's on it he rocks like a pro lol.

I do have to watch him if he decides he wants to get off it - he has a tendency to chuck himself out of it dramatically lol.

 

[cez8457]

A small rocking horse was my best buy, kylas always on it. Also a red bus the sings and says alphabet. She loves dancing to that.

 

[happy-chick]

Great thread Gem

 

[Gem & Leland]

well jo we do have the enormous task of getting both there first xmas and first birthday presents in within a month of each other

so im thinking a rocker , a slide and a walker / bricks trolley

i like the sound of the toy car thing too , has anyone used or seen one of these?

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... 198264.htm

 

[Mummy-D]

We have the same problem as you Gem.....Kierans birthday is the 2nd of January!! I tend to buy bits through the year and then just kind of split them into 2 piles.

Another thing which Leyland might like is a wooden train set. The type where you fit the pieces together into a circle shape or figure of eight and you get the little wooden trains that are magnetic and you can link them all together.

I know he is a bit young for it at the moment, but i reckon he would get a lot of fun out of it over the next few years. (Kieran still plays with his now!)

 

[EllieG]

I bought Freya a shape sorter that has keys, she loves it and goes back to it time and time again http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Chicco-Animal-Cot ... dZViewItem she also loves books, i got her one called Calm Down Boris, it has a little hand puppet on it and she laughs hysterically at it! You can get it in ELC, I also got her the Usborne Hide and Seek Farm book. She too loves toy cars, I got her some from ELC that are magnetic so she can push three in a row. I want to start collecting Happy Street (ELC again!) for her, as she loves playing with 'little people' and walks them along the floor . She also loves those wooden lift out puzzles, wooden blocks. And she loves her coupe car which I was reading in another post are half price in Toys r us at the moment.
Hope that helps!

 

[cloud9]

Dylan 's faves are the old basic toys...bricks , stacker rings he also had a lottie ladybird rocker but he struggled with it been too wide and now he is using neighbours rocking horse and he loves it.

he also loves all his intruments and balls

 

[LilysMummy]

Wooo get thread

 

[Gem & Leland]

them coupe cars says from 2 years ? is that rubbish then ? i remember always wanting one so im gonna make sure leland has one , i really want him to ahve the police one so he can look like daddy


everyone must think im mad , but ive currently got no job and bit worried about pennies by dec , need to do this now , and i might get some stuff 2nd hand , so need to watch stuff on ebay !

 

[Rachael]

them coupe cars says from 2 years ? is that rubbish then ? i remember always wanting one so im gonna make sure leland has one , i really want him to ahve the police one so he can look like daddy

The police one is £49.99 in Mothercare, seems expensive when they are only £19.99 for the "Plain" ones at Toys R Us at the moment.....I've ordered the pink one for Frankie, I think it said from 18 Months..she'll soon grow into it lol!

I like this thread, I was looking for some ideas for Frankie!

Well when my son turned one we got him a little car from Mothercare for £29.99 (Like the Smoby one) which had a handle for you to push him in and a removeable floor, so when he got old enough you could remove the floor so he could scoot along himself. He still fits in it now, so we have had lots of use out of it....He also had a wooden car click clack track http://www.elc.co.uk/toy/wooden-click-clack-track/ which he loved, a woodedn shape sorter which he just used the hammer to bash everything BUT the shapes, a Todbot, which he never really bothered with and bath toys, which he does play with.
Frankie is one next month and we have ordered her the coupe car from Toys R Us (Its from 18+ months I think - well the pink one is lol) which I think will be a bit old for her, but she likes Ky's car so she can use that until she is ready for the Coupe..I just wanted her to have a pink car! lol... She is also having the World of Little People Neighbourhood Vehicle and Playtime Set (Reduced currently at Toys R Us) and Night Garden Soft 'n' Cosy World Playset.
I've been eying up this garage too http://www.mothercare.com/gp/produc...?ie=UTF8&m=A2LBKNDJ2KZUGQ&n=42775041&mcb=core but i'm thinking if I get her this, Ky will take it off her and it will end up being more his toy than hers.

 

[Tangerinedream]

Jake has this and he has just started to use it as a shape sorter- he loves it

http://www.elc.co.uk/toy/shape-sorting-whale/

 

[maybebaby]

them coupe cars says from 2 years ? is that rubbish then ? i remember always wanting one so im gonna make sure leland has one , i really want him to ahve the police one so he can look like daddy

Austin has just got the hang of using one of these, my mum has one but he's only sat in it until now. He started wheeling himself along for the first time last week.

 

[Gem & Leland]

ok , so maybe it is something to get then , i really want something that he will grow into anyway, cheers hun !