3yo Won’t Play With Toys
Hii, My 3.5 year old doesn't play with toys. He just wants to be doing whatever we are doing and messing with stuff constantly. The things he will play with for longer than 2 minutes are the following: magnetic tiles, legos, piece of paper and scissors, play dough, kinetic sand. He's obsessed with vacuums and has 4 different real kinds (not including toy vacuums).
That's it.
He doesn't do pretend much, or sitting down in general which I know is normal. I just reflect on my childhood and was constantly playing with toys. I could literally play with a stick for hours just using my imagination.
Other things involve asking a bazillion questions, making a tunnel in freshly washed clothes, riding things around the house like a balance bike that's too small for him, running in circles, taking batteries out of things and putting them back in, and dumping stuff out.
I have always rotated toys, most all are open ended, some are not. He has a climbing tower that he doesn't mess with. I always have to initiate any play even with the toys he does like.
Does anyone have a kid like this? How do you get them to play?? I want to buy him toys like the air toobz toy that I think he would like but I don't want to waste more money on toys he doesn't play with.