Quote Originally Posted by Love&care View Post
Hi, would like to get to know what are popular toys for age 2 for boys and girls?
Hi. I do practice a different philosophy. But also I've noticed we are moving away from toys (plastic ones) now. Search on the website there is an increase in more nature based and loose parts and hands on activities.

The "toys" I find that have more play value are:

Blocks Legos, wooden, card board boxes, foam, natural hard woods (easy to make find a dry bank and cut in slices sand them) those are popular also block with velcro or the ones with magnets.

Play dough: also very popular I always make a batch every two weeks (you can find many recipes and do always a new one) add some lose parts to it they absolutely love it.

Rocks: different choices big enough for them not to put in their mouths and with different textures. (Mostly for outdoors in the garden) also big paint brushes and water containers.

Empty containers: we recycle them, they love filling things on them.

A felt board, I cut different characters and they love how easy is to place things (also helps with language development)

And art station: every day we explore different technics of art. (Paint, markers, crayons, pens etc )

Baskets, fabrics, wooden kitchen stuff.

A sensory table (it is the most interactive in my room I have a dozen of different fills for that even water and little containers keeps then really ocupied)

I have little sets of farm animals, sea creatures, dinosaurs, artic animals, etc. (They grow up interacting with those since babies we label them and we play with them)

Sand toys are also a must.

Hard board books. I change mine every week that also keeps them interested.

And outdoors I have more activities for them to explore and interact.

My goodness I go on and on. Google it and you'll have lot options. I basically have made most of my toys unique, interactive and developed to help every skill. Kids love it.

My personal suggestion would be to start with the sensory table, very simple and do at least three different fillings so you can rotate and place spoons or empty containers or little animals or little trucks etc. And you'll see how busy they get. Then you move on and keep doing your very own activities, remember it is for you to inspire yourself and have also fun.

I hope it helps.