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Toys My 2 Year Old Actually Plays With
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items These are the toys she genuinely reaches for in our house, from pretend play and learning toys to the ones that help burn all that toddler energy.
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Toys for Burning Energy
Pretend Play Favorites
Learning Through Play
Toys She Reaches for Again & Again
Toys for Burning Energy
For those days when toddler energy seems ENDLESS 😂 Toys that get her jumping, climbing, balancing and moving — especially useful when we’re stuck indoors!
One of those simple toys that gets SO much use! My toddler loves creating her own little obstacle courses — climbing, balancing and jumping from one stone to another. Each stone also has a different textured surface, adding a fun sensory element whil...
Balance Stepping Stones
For the toddlers who have SO much energy to burn 😂 These are my go-to toys for getting my toddler jumping, running and moving! From ring toss to launching rockets, they turn getting those wiggles out into a game — perfect for active play and tiring ...
3-in-1 Musical Jump & Rocket Toy
Basically a mini playground right at home. Perfect for those days when we can’t head outside but my toddler still has SO much energy to burn. She can climb, slide and move as much as she wants — great for active play, building gross motor skills and ...
8 in 1 Toddler Slide Set
Pretend Play Favorites
These are the toys she uses to cook, shop, care for her animals and recreate all the little everyday things she sees us doing.
Give this girl water + soap and she’ll happily stay here forever. 😂 She “washes dishes,” makes pretend food and somehow ends every session completely soaked. One of my favourites for outdoor sensory + pretend play.
ROBOTIME Mud Kitchen
She does her makeup, then mine, then Daddy’s… nobody in this house is safe. Such a cute pretend-play toy if your toddler has started wanting to copy everything you do.
Pretend Makeup Kit
Such a cute one for toddlers who love animals and pretend play! My toddler can feed the horses, put them into their stalls, pull them around in the wagon and create her own little stories. There are so many interactive ways to play, and I love that i...
Fisher-Price Little People Horses Stable Playset
Such a cute one for toddlers who LOVE taking care of everyone. My toddler gets to play doctor, treat all the little “boo boos” and stick on the reusable bandages. I love how it encourages pretend play, empathy and nurturing — especially at this age w...
Melissa & Doug Boo-Boos & Bandages Play Set
If your toddler is in their pretend-play era, this is SUCH a fun one! 🥹 My toddler loves choosing her snack, inserting the coins or card, pressing the buttons and watching it actually dispense — just like a real vending machine. There are so many li...
Melissa & Doug Wooden Vending Machine Play Set
A play kitchen is one of those toys that just GROWS with them! My toddler loves pretending to cook, prepare food and serve everyone her little creations. There are so many ways to play, and I love watching her imagination take over while she copies a...
Tiny Land Kids Play Kitchen
One of those toys that grows SO well with them! My toddler loves taking care of the animals, putting them in their stalls and creating her own little farm stories. There are so many ways to play, and I love how it encourages pretend play, storytellin...
Fisher-Price Little People Caring for Animals Farm
For the little ones who LOVE playing doctor! This set makes pretend play feel extra real with a stethoscope, thermometer, otoscope and more — some even have lights and sounds! I love how it encourages imaginative play while helping toddlers get famil...
Liberry Doctor Kit Toy
Learning Through Play
These toys naturally introduce things like letters, numbers, matching, problem-solving and fine motor skills while she’s busy having fun.
Such a fun way to introduce numbers through PLAY! My toddler loves building with the LEGO DUPLO bricks while we count together and recognise the different numbers. I love that she’s getting familiar with early counting and number recognition without ...
LEGO DUPLO Number Train Toy
Perfect for toddlers who LOVE to draw… without the paper everywhere 😂 I love the larger size because there’s so much more space for little hands to doodle, practise shapes and get creative. She can draw, erase and start all over again
Magnetic Drawing Board
Such a fun little game for keeping those toddler hands BUSY! The fish rotate around while they try to catch them, making it a fun challenge while working on hand-eye coordination, concentration and fine motor skills. I love that it’s something we can...
Rotating Fishing Game
Such a simple toy but SO good for busy little hands! My toddler loves opening the eggs and matching the different shapes and colours back together. It’s a fun little challenge that works on shape recognition, matching, problem-solving and fine motor ...
Coogam Matching Eggs
A fun way to introduce letters without making it feel like “learning”! My toddler loves building with the LEGO DUPLO bricks while we name the letters, colours and pictures together. I love that it combines early letter recognition with the open-ended...
Lego DUPLO Alphabet
Toys She Reaches for Again & Again
These are the ones she genuinely goes back to again and again — definitely worth the space they take up!
One of those toys that has grown WITH her. We’ve had magnetic tiles around for ages and the way she plays with them keeps changing. Right now she builds little “homes” for her fish. Next week it’ll probably be something completely different. 😂 Defin...
Marble Run Magnetic Tiles Set
Her current favourite thing to make with these is “pizza” — which she then serves to me approximately 47 times a day 😂 I love how something so simple turns into a completely different pretend-play activity depending on the day.
Magnetic Blocks
Perfect for the toddler “stick everything everywhere” phase 😂 She can peel the stickers off, move them around and create her own little scenes over and over again. I especially love that we’re not constantly going through new sticker sheets.
Reusable Sticker Book
This one gets played with in so many different ways. Some days she actually wants to strum the guitar herself, other days she turns on the preset songs and we suddenly have a full-on toddler dance party. 😂 Definitely one for little ones who LOVE mus...
B. toys Woofer Interactive Dog Guitar Toy
I bought this thinking she’d ride around on it… apparently I bought her a shopping trolley too. 😂 She fills it with pretend food, rides around the house and comes back with her “groceries.” I love toys that naturally become part of her pretend play ...
B. toys Gogo Ride-On Lolo Cat Suitcase
We’ve gotten so much play out of ours — from simple towers and little houses to more creative builds as their imagination grows. I love that there’s no “right” way to play, while they’re naturally working on problem-solving, fine motor skills and cre...
MAGNA-TILES Classic 32-Piece Magnetic Set