MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Going over to Athens to see my Bro at the end of the month, and always like to take a little present for his little lad. Thing is I have no idea what is the must have toy for a 3 year old.
STW hive mind should have no trouble with this one I figure, so suggestions up to about £20 please. Oh and it cannot be too bulky as having to mule it in my suitcase 8)
LEGO. My 3 1/2 yo loves it! Lots of choice and great when the finally realise you don't have to follow the instructions.
Can't go wrong with a digger / crane / dumper truck thing, really. The biggerer and yellowerer the betterer.
yes think construction, fire engines, big cars or if you dislkie your bro think loud noisy and repetitive say fire engine/police car with a button for the siren.
Pirates stuff also good - not knock off but pirate ship or similiar
Garage for cars
pretned tools
British DVD of kids stuff?
Tom and jerry is still very watchable as and adult as is chitty chitty bang bang and yellow submarine - if hippies
Some plastic plates
Vote against Lego, purely on a price basis - for 20gbp you're not going to get much!
(Not a vote against The Greatest Toy Ever, but a budgeting decision!)
Wooden railway stuff, for our litte guy it's not so much a toy as a way of life! Endless possibilities and expansion options, it can fill two rooms now.
Happyland (ELC) Double Decker Bus!
Doesn't get more British than that - and we often have a HL town laid out across the floor.
http://www.boots.com/en/ELC-Happyland-Double-Decker-Bus_1109855/
Playdoh set - you can get something in the ELC for about a tenner that has the dough & a load of cutters. That or tractor/train set things - again you can get soem good ones in the ELC that stick together with magnets.
That or a tambourine/cymbal/drum/xylophone. Anything that can annoy the hell out of the parents 🙂
+1 for a wooden train and track. Really good and tough, the little'un can bang the heck out of it, and it'll last for years. The sort of toy that gets treasured as the lad gets older.
If you love your brother, avoid anything that makes a noise or takes loads of batteries 😉
Saying that, if you do want to wind up your Bro, go for the hell of all toys for a 3 year old & buy the lucky lad a drum kit 😉
[Any type of wheeled vehicle normally go down well]
HOW ABOUT SOME BOOKS?
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This one's great.[/url]
1 minute spent on Google - twenty quid from Kiddicare.com
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(edit - the lad riding it on the website looks like like the age he should be smoking, shaving and chasing girls)
...LEGO...quality toy, they'll love it (but may need a bit of help?)