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Games/toys for an almost 3 year old?

You guys have been awesome in gift suggestions in the past, so I come to you yet again.  My nephew will be 3 in January.  What are all your kids really into? 
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Re: Games/toys for an almost 3 year old?

  • I just put in my order for a retro kitchen for Andy.  Granted, that is probably more than you are thinking. 

    Andy loves kitchen utensils.  My H and I have joked that we are going to buy him a value pack of plastic spoons and see if he favors those over all of his new toys.

    My sister got him this set of "gears" for his birthday:

    http://www.amazon.com/Tomy-TY6526-Gearation/dp/B00000ISEH/ref=sr_1_8?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1291392335&sr=1-8

    They are a lot of fun.  My H and I get fixated playing with them.  We're easily entertained.

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  • Amazon actually has a pretty great, extensive list for 3 year old boys. I googled the same exact thing the other night looking for ideas for my nephew and they had tons to ch-ch-choose from.
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    My sister got him this set of "gears" for his birthday:

    http://www.amazon.com/Tomy-TY6526-Gearation/dp/B00000ISEH/ref=sr_1_8?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1291392335&sr=1-8

    They are a lot of fun.  My H and I get fixated playing with them.  We're easily entertained.

    I have those exact gears on my fridge. I love them!

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  • I've heard that a big green present with a big red bow on it is the in thing for not-quite-3-year-olds. Maybe you could put a toy inside it or something, I don't know.

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  • Connor LOVES taking pictures so he's going to wet himself with excitement over the kids digital camera (~$20 by Vtech) and he's also getting the vtech nitro jr laptop since he always wants to play computer (~$15). He loves anything to do with cars or trains or airplanes. I really like the geotrax train sets.
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  • apparently my nephew who is almost exactly the same age as yours is pining away for a slide whistle. so we will be getting him that. but aside from that i still have to do some thinking.
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  • This is in the running list of ideas I have for Matt:

    He loves make-believe all of a sudden, so maybe one of the play farms, schools, home, etc I even saw a "dog academy" one but the parts were really small

    A globe

    A puzzle made up of the letters of his name or mommy, daddy, Bobo, etc.

    Magneatos are really cool and any kind of building blocks

    A chef set since he helps me cook/bake a lot

    Does Museum Tour actually have a store in Portland? Or is it just a catalog business? Because I did order a cool puzzle thing called "Solving Path" for him (sort of a lame name) - it's all I can do to not bust open the box right now and play with it.

    Fisher Price has a retro line of toys out right now (the phone, the record player and the clock) - those are fun at this age.

    I think this looks like so much fun, but it's expensive (wasn't sure how much you were spending). I got this for Matt's stocking - three-year-olds have heaps of energy so for those days we can't get out to play I like stuff that gets him moving but he's not just an aimless pinball around the house. :)

     

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    This is in the running list of ideas I have for Matt:

    He loves make-believe all of a sudden, so maybe one of the play farms, schools, home, etc I even saw a "dog academy" one but the parts were really small

    A globe

    A puzzle made up of the letters of his name or mommy, daddy, Bobo, etc.

    Magneatos are really cool and any kind of building blocks

    A chef set since he helps me cook/bake a lot

    Does Museum Tour actually have a store in Portland? Or is it just a catalog business? Because I did order a cool puzzle thing called "Solving Path" for him (sort of a lame name) - it's all I can do to not bust open the box right now and play with it.

    Fisher Price has a retro line of toys out right now (the phone, the record player and the clock) - those are fun at this age.

    I think this looks like so much fun, but it's expensive (wasn't sure how much you were spending). I got this for Matt's stocking - three-year-olds have heaps of energy so for those days we can't get out to play I like stuff that gets him moving but he's not just an aimless pinball around the house. :)

     

    Connor too.  It's really the cutest thing ever.

     We also have a name puzzle and it's great.  That's how Connor learned to spell his name.  Now if we could just get the writing part down.  He gets C and O and then the N's just get him so excited that it turns into mad scribbling.

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