Indoor toys for the 3-4yo crowd?

[abs]

At that age DD loved her baby dolls, magformers, and Calico Critters. She also liked simple art projects.

[countthestars]

For us:
Play doh
Magic clip dolls
Look and find books
Mini trampoline
baby dolls

[brooklyn]

Magnatiles, train set, play dough, building blocks

[Deleted]

A is 4 and plays with:
Magna tiles
Coloring with markets
Baby dolls with extra clothes, bed, stroller
Magic clip dolls
My little ponies
Books
Play kitchen
Legos (probably her favorite)
Trains
Dress up clothes

[happyday]

The only thing my 3.5 year old dd will commit any time to is watercolors.

[turtlegirl]

DS2 turns 4 next week.

He's obsessed with Minions. He loves the like micro minion figurines and played pretend with them all the time. He loves hot wheels and making crazy tracks and having the cars race while the Minions stand by and be the "judges", lol.

He also loves train tracks/trains and legos (both duplo and smaller legos).

[Purple]

Yes, those daddy finger videos! Ahhh
Not helpful

[thebreakfastclub]

-play food, or more specifically, activity-type things with food like the Melissa & Doug pizza set
-Duplos
-Hot Wheels
-Costco has a huge activity pad with stickers. They have Paw Patrol, Dory, Superheroes, etc
-Paw Patrol pups
-assorted rubber animals, dinosaurs, bugs

[smile]

Action figures (super heroes, paw patrol, MLP)
Baby dolls
Lego Duplos
Magnatiles
Play dough
Trains
Painting

DD also likes to make up games for us to play. That's always fun and frustrating since she is the only one who knows the rules.

[countthestars]

If you could borrow someone's baby, DD's favorite is always the one the baby is currently playing with ;-)

[peggy]

Barbies/Disney Princess dolls + little people house/school bus/etc. that we never got rid of
This scooter, that is indoor-only (in our house) and she rides it around the first floor www.walmart.com/ip/44983602?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227032801686&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=66579479192&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=130447837232&veh=sem
Toy microphones
play kitchen
lego duplos

[arch01]

magformers
puzzles
easy crafts (he doesn't like coloring)
look/find books
pretend play-fireman dress up, his play kitchen, etc.
train set

[pugz]

DD loves to play pretend so she is typically playing with her Paw Patrol toys and doing little rescue missions or she will ask one of us to play pretend animals with her. Sometimes magnatiles, train tracks, artwork.

[dottyblue]

OMG.  I cut DS off from YouTube because I couldn't take those videos any longer.  No regrets.

DS is 3.5.  Current favorites are:
Puzzles
Watercolors
Playdough
Trains
Magformers/Magnatiles
Legos
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[Deleted]

My 4 year old DS just wants to be outside. First thing he does when we get home is race outside to find bugs and red strawberries in the strawberry patch and throwing things and playing with sticks. That's allllll he wants to do these days. My girls were not like that at all.

If he has to be inside he will play whatever his 7 year old sister will play with him (usually things involving lots of stuffed animals) or empty Amazon boxes.

I really can't figure out why I buy my kids any toys.

[closertofine]

I have one of each (both boy and girl and 3 and 4). They usually play with their stuff together.

Coloring
My little pony castle
Play kitchen
Play tool bench
Dinosaurs
Cars
Blocks
Paw Patrol vehicles and pups
Remote control cars that light up
Thomas stuff

They have a doll house, but aren't really into it. They have a bubble Guppies school, but ds doesn't like things that talk. They use the figurines in the tool bench though.

[bunch]

Markers, stickers, beads (they have some at target that stick together instead of needing thread), babies, Dr kit and magnatiles.

[dulcemariamar]

My daughter loves any type of Disney or animal figurine toy or Barbie sized doll. She actually plays more with her Little People princess castle more at 3.5 than before.

I recently picked up the Jake the Pirate Ship from a flea market with additional figurines like the 7 dwarfs and she spent a long time playing by herself this weekend.

[mpc]

play doh
musical instruments - we have a piano, but he also enjoys bells, tambourines, drums, etc.
balls - playing catch or basketball with the laundry basket
big floor puzzles

[dcn]

Ds likes

Magnatiles
Playing grocery store with play food and cash register
Memory
Hi hi cherry o
This dance mat thing by b toys
Leaning laptop
Dry erase board

[Deleted]

Wheelie Bug ride-on toy. My mom got DS the large version for his 3rd birthday, he's used it every day since (he's 4.25yo now). It glides very well on our hardwood floors. He likes to take his stuffed animals for rides with him.

[Brie]

I like this guide: mamaot.com/10-of-the-best-toys-and-games-for-preschoolers/

[darnkatz]

Bristle blocks
VTech write and learn creative center
Little People farm + tractor
My Little Ponies (like this - we have a bunch and we also have the car and the hot air balloon, which apparently go for $60 on Amazon now  )
Matchbox cars with race car rug
Play food + shopping cart
Dress up stuff
Mega Blocks (she has the pony palace and uses her MLP in it)
B H2-Whoa water drawing board
Sticker book (we let her pick out a note book at the store and then got her a bunch of stickers)
Play dough with cookie cutters 
Memory 
Melissa and Doug number puzzles
Picture word bingo
Melissa and Doug button-up bear pattern match lacing cards
Melissa and Doug basic skills puzzle
Melissa and Doug farm cube puzzle

[rex]

Legos
Melissa & Doug magnetic dolls
tent
dress-up
guitar

her newest love is glue, so we sit down and she glues random pieces of paper and Pom-poms to paper.
I also recently bought big poster board paper for like 40¢ and she will sit and color on it for a solid 20 min, and that's an eternity in L time-I normally cannot get her to sit longer than 30 seconds for anything else.

[carolinagirl831]

train set, and she takes all her disney figurines- princess, dinosaurs, mickey ect and plays them around the train station. She could do this all day. Also her paw patrol people.

[dottyblue]

OH! Pom poms and pipe cleaners. The best things I have bought for DS, pretty much ever. The pom poms are usually scooped up by his excavator and dumped in the dump truck or cement mixer. They are frequently fried up in the play kitchen and served to DH or me for "dinner". They Avalanche on to the train tracks and cause catastrophic accidents.

Pipe cleaners are shaped in to tunnels for his trains, twisted into wands, glasses (I have to create those) or twisted together to see how long they can be. They are great for creativity.

[AmyRI]

My little pony, Legos, and tegu blocks.

[huskymom]

My little ponies and all the crap that goes with them, Disney barbies, and anything art related - drawing, crafty stuff (sticky mosaics are her current thing), playdoh, paint (outdoors only)....

[carolinagirl831]

I forgot to mention E's #1 activity... Riding her tricycle... In the house. Our house is narrow and long with the dinning room back to the kitchen forming an oval. Dd races her trike ( we have hardwood) all around the oval (500 times a day- barely an exaggeration) it's great to get energy out and she has learned to ride it so well. She also rides her lionheart bee around allover the house.