what are the best toys to give to a 2 to 3 year old.

[diva7]

At the moment my daughter loves threading and beading . She will spend quite awhile threading different shape beads, making  her necklace. She spends 10-15 minutes to herself. Also sticking different precut shapes on her scapbook using glue. Those are the activities that keeps her busy beside spending quite a while in her room flipping pages and sometimes talking or reading books(I think). Also wooden puzzles are good for this age as well.

[2010BEBES]

Here I add my grandson's favorite and arrange all according to type of toy, those on black where his favorite at that age:

Physical or coordination:
bubbles, whistles and harmonica     Exercise for the mouth like whistling
Jack in the box   Exercise for hand movement
ball   Eye hand coordination
legos (Duplo)   
Nesting and Stacking Box   Specially knocking the blocks after building the tower.
wooden or building blocks   
wooden car or train   
Lots of puzzles   

Music:   
tuned guitar, piano, xylophone or harmonica   
toy with music   
DVD Peter and the Wolf   
Songs : Old Mac Donald had a Farm   He listens 4 different versions on the IPOD
   
Life Simulation:   
Little People sets   
plastic animals (insects, farm, water creatures)   
cars   
Dr or Tool Kit   
   
Educational (preschool):   
Magnetic Board   
Melissa and dough easel   
stickers,   
Crayons, pens   
Folding paper   
educational PC games   
Books, books and more books   He loves them all

[FloridaMom]

DD loves her doodle pad (strange that nobody mentioned it), blocks, balls, books, musical instruments. She likes to play a marching band: just takes a guitar or a tambourine and goes around the house playing music, sometimes she puts on a bucket on her head to make the picture complete  Sometimes she asks Mommy and Daddy to join her marching band 
I want to get her a xylophone, I'm sure she will love it!!

[TristanR]

Hmm, favorites around here for that age include:
Legos and Duplos
Moon Sand - great stuff!
Do a Dot markers
Playdoh or other soft modeling clay
Stacking anything (cups, blocks)
Puzzles
2 inch buttons and large shoelaces
Schleich animal figures - great quality, hand painted, they look realistic!

[Skylark]

"Schleich animal figures - great quality, hand painted, they look realistic!"  -- agree with that, we matched figures to the series of BBC documentaries about animals "All about animals", which present life of an animal baby, different in each film. There also magazines that go together with each documentary with illustrations, EK and activities about that animal. Great activity, she loves it!

[McDume]

puzzles... lots of puzzles.

[Kimba15]

Wooden beads big enough not to swollow but can be threaded on a string for fine motor skills.

Puzzles,
Duplo cant go wrong with lego
Crayons colouring books
sticker books,
Musical instruments (fine tuned)

Wading pool for the summer.

[TeachingMyToddlers]

I was just thinking about how much my almost 2 year old would love a kids flashlight for her bday/christmas. I had one as a kid that has 3 differant colored lenses that could be changed to make the light shine regular, green, or red. I used to love flashlights as a kid, and my DD mischievously steals my booklight every chance she gets!

[TmS]

At the moment my boy who is 2 and 4 months loves he following toys, no particular order just as they come to me

trampoline
sandpit
cars and floor mat with roads (old box flattened out, draw and paint roads etc)
balance boards
puzzles
things that come apart and go back together
bolts and screws (only under careful supervision)
shopping trolley
trains and tracks
pc games
little leaps (leap frog interactive dvd game)
books (as many different varieties and genres as I can get my hands on)
empty boxes (any size)
jar with a toy in it
carry pocket (large hand made pocket on a string that hangs over shoulder go out and collect bit and pieces you can do this outside or inside)
swings set
ride on car (they push themselves with their feet)
peddle bike
figurines (Schleich truly are worth the extra money and we find get played with more but in the end the 20 for $2 from the reject shop get their fair share of use too)
magnets
stickers (oh boy do we love stickers)
paint
playdough (so many different uses)
a couple of cups of cornflour (we usually dump it on the trampoline and let him drive cars through it etc and generally make a big mess then we just jump until it all comes out).
lego
blocks
musical instruments (any thing and everything that we can give him to experiment musically on - his personal favourite is his harmonica followed by drums and guitar but he loves them all)
Colouring and drawing (sometimes prefers blank paper sometimes likes to colour)
bits and pieces of junk

Animals (we don't have pets but we have cows on the property next to us and dogs, ducks, chooks and birds and wildlife everywhere and he has a good respect and relationship with all these - it is wonderful companionship)

[Darreno]

I think spongy toys are best for chid. These are safe and funny. If you think some educational toy you should give puzzle and contruction toy to him.

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Chemistry set

[PY]

My daughter is 2.5 years old, she loves puzzles,blocks, she also loves playing with water..we do Montessori at home, she gets different activities using house tools,she love playing with rocks, also music, loves dancing. I think at this age they are ready to explore the world not only with TOYS but with ther senses, you can keep a child busy at least for 15 minutes in the kitchen sink playing and pouring water in cups, or even cleaning the house, doing their lundry.Just let her discover how things get done..they love learning more than playing with toys.

[piyu]

for my son its cars & balls of all shapes & sizes. He can play in sand pit alone for a long time. and coloring ...

[McDume]

Simple is best to develop imagination and reasoning. http://bit.ly/dCWzZA

[Raising Ethan]

I have some pictures up on my blog of some of Ethans fav. toys!

http://raisingethan.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/toys/

you can click on any pic. to enlarge it.

[mirra]

diva7, you check the nearest toylibrary....these gives more variety we normally cannot buy so much and stock in house...so library is best..

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