Toddler room/playroom activities & furniture

[rhian]

This thread has been helpful! We've been trying to think about if we need a toddler table and chairs and if so, where to put it, and seems like it's worth finding a spot for it.

We also have a learning tower in the kitchen that I got on Buy Nothing. It's one that folds up so great for a small space ... I was hesitant about buying one since many seem to take up so much room. Our son loves to stand in it and "help" when we're cooking.

wanderingback I think your kid is at daycare too - our daycare does sensory table stuff pretty often so I don't feel the need to have it at home They also do a lot of art projects, so I also don't feel like I need to do that at home either (I am not artsy/crafty, so it doesn't really appeal to me)!

[livinitup]

We got a toddler table when DD was 2 yo. Used it for years and years. My sister bought it with a Dora the Explorer theme and I returned it for plain white. My sister was sort of annoyed but it lasted much longer without the theme logo.

I say buy what you need right now or within the next 6 months only. Especially if your mom is buying new.

[fryjack2]

We had a large wooden kid craft play kitchen that they used for hours. slamming the fridge and oven and microwave doors open and shit, taking the sink out and throwing things into the hole to fill the cabinet below, slamming the phone on and off the hook, banging the pots and pans.....

Our loft ended up with train tracks built all over our big open space that we learned to just step over.

Magna tiles were hours of entertainment and easy to put in a box. The real ones are the best magnetic wise.

Mine also loved these magnetic tracing boards in numbers and letters:
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[fryjack2]

At age 1.5, my twins were obsessed with this game.  Mostly they pushed on the inside bowl part and watched the balls pop around. Ha. It looks much bigger in this pic than it actually is. 



And they LOVED broom and dust pan set and their Hape bikes that they rode all over our loft building and neighborhood.

[fryjack2]

Not sure why the pic disappeared from my post above.  This is the toy   Fisher Price Poppity Pop musical toy.