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Greyduster Sat 12-Dec-15 13:19:41

Having just posted on a thread about what to buy a two year old, it got me thinking about all the toys that GS has had which i have enjoyed playing with him with (forgive the clumsy English!). We played on the floor (when i could get on the floor!) with the wooden trains. It was nice to see him learn to put the tracks together - first a simple ring, and then, as we added bits with points and junctions and sidings! He was always much better at it than me! Then there was endless fun with Playmobil. Cops and robbers with all the little accessories, a fire station and engine with pumps that actually worked (very messy!), castles and knights. Our favourite, though, was Action Man! We have thirteen, and vehicles, garnered from various car boot sales and ebay sites, and funnily enough, not many of our games have involved war or soldiery. We have been scientists and lost jungle explorers ithe garden, abseiling down the honeysuckle, astronauts, frogmen, and then, inevitably, they were converted into Star Wars characters. They don't come out much these days. What have other gransnetters enjoyed joining their grandchildren in playing with?

jinglbellsfrocks Sat 12-Dec-15 20:06:54

Being an SAS person with a gun held out at arms length. Or an armed policeman shouting "on the floor! on the floor!" Great. tchsmile

jinglbellsfrocks Sat 12-Dec-15 20:08:29

Football was good. When I could still run fast. I was good at kicking the ball out from between his legs when he was sitting on it.

Greyduster Sat 12-Dec-15 20:33:04

jingl! You sound like a lady after my own heart!

M0nica Sun 13-Dec-15 08:17:58

Role play, both DGC are into role play, so every visit is exciting wondering who I am going to be, Helen in 'All Creatures Great Small', various characters in the 'Railway Children, Secret Garden and other books. I have also been a Viking, Knight, Princess, Katy Morag's Grandma (and knitted the sweater), wounded soldier (DGD was Florence Nightingale).

Greyduster Sun 13-Dec-15 14:02:00

monica, Granny Island or Granny Mainland? I would definitely be Granny Island!

M0nica Sun 13-Dec-15 20:01:58

I suspect I am seen more as Granny Mainland as the other Grandma lives close by and they see her a lot, while we live several hundred miles away and only see them every couple of months.

morethan2 Sun 13-Dec-15 22:31:24

Camping, dens and houses. We'd get a really big box, cut out windows and doors. One of my grandchildren insisted on eating and sleeping in it for days. Using sheets over tables to make dens and camping in our tiny tiny little garden. Like you say, it's getting more difficult for me to squeeze into small places and I hardly look graceful trying to get back on my feet. Searching the woods for a gruffilo is getting harder too. Poo sticks. They love balancing along lines in the park and I can still manage that. I have convinced one of my grandsons that the tree trunk in the local stream is a sleeping crocodile. We have great fun looking for him on tippy toes (just in case we wake it)