My crew loves "role play" so the corner kitchen and tables and all the open ended dress up props.

Other favorites are the block area which has a wooden house up top with storage for dolls,action figures, animals and beside storage for blocks, ramps planks, gullies and various vehicles and a trainset, various size balls, and instruction equipment and hard hats and laptops and joysticks for creating with.

My light table is a favorite but I wish I had a full size one cause mine is more for solitary exploration or two kids who work well together in a small space

I do not have any battery operated anything anymore to be honest - they make enough noise on their own without help and I prefer they use their imaginations oppose to bells and whistle toys that entertain them ... So other than flashlights for exploring light and shadow no batteries here ... I aim for open ended materials that can be used in many different ways - my storage is limited and I prefer not to have to rotate out too much - I have the staples that are always in the program and rotate puzzles, books and then add and remove things to the blocks and role play options .