2 year old grandson

Kickinbull · Jun 21, 2018

He was 2 in April. He loves tractors,especially Oliver/white. He knows the difference from the sound. Anything with an engine he is curious. He is starting to talk some understandable words. But when he?s ?talking? about engines he is so animated explaining what each switch and lever does. He has his own tool box that he uses to ?fix? his peddle tractor and electric loader tractor. Checking the oil,the bearing,where the hitch pin goes. Are there any toys that can challenge him. I?m sure I don?t want him working on my stuff.

430WLPG · Jun 21, 2018

John Deere has a toy tractor engine that is made to take apart for that purpose ask your dealer it's in the 100.00 range

kcm.MN · Jun 21, 2018

I never had an erector set as a kid, but would have loved it! I got tinker toys instead. *lol*

Check out some of the items now available:
http://www.erector.us/products
There are 2 different excavators, and a JD tractor - plus other choices.

Heck, by the time he's 5, you'll have him working on his own tractor restoration. :wink:

Farmall plowboy · Jun 21, 2018

Try looking up busy board on the computer it may give you some ideas

rrlund · Jun 21, 2018

Keep him away from the paint. When I was about 3,I got in to some pink paint and painted my Oliver 88 pedal tractor. I got a good talking to about that. Worse yet,I had to ride a pink Oliver. LOL

onefarmer · Jun 21, 2018

Maybe not yet but later you could get an old briggs engine, clean it up real good so it isn't greasy. Let him take it apart and reassemble it, figure out how it works inside.

Crazy Horse · Jun 21, 2018

When I was a kid, my favorite play time activity was driving nails into a huge wooden block that my dad had in the basement. So wooden block, hammer, and a big box of old nails (many were used and bent). No safety goggles either. By the time I finished with that hobby, the block weighed a ton and the nail box level was down considerably. Things were simpler in those days but I have always been pretty good at hammering in nails.

MKinON · Jun 21, 2018

Lego is a possibility. Mine started at two. At 24 he still plays with it. Builds models of the toys he plays with and sees at work. Cranes, dozers, heavy lift floats, you name it. Built a replica Astro tractor, all wireless remote, 2 speeds forward or reverse, working fifth wheel, flip cab, pulls either a set of flat bed B-trains, working gooseneck float or tri-axle dump. Trailers have working lift axles. Great for dexterity with all those little pieces and the imagination and ability to conceptualize. Mother told him from the get go, if she sees it going in his mouth, she'd take it away.

JD Seller · Jun 21, 2018

I will second the erector set toys. We have the ones my sons played with and their kids have played with them too. Then as he gets older there are simple little electric kits much like the erector sets that you make simple little circuits with light switched. The more advanced one have you build a crude electric motor.

All of them help develop hand/eye coordination and problem solving skills. I think much of this is getting lost with the computer type of games and such. You can learn on a computer game/simulation but it not the same as hands on working to me.

44 massey · Jun 21, 2018

I grew up on the old original erector sets!!! Think by time my son got big enough they weren?t available or ?unsafe? due to the small bolts and nuts!!!! There was no end to the things one could build with those erector sets, most were not in the illustration book either!!! Think I progressed thru 3 or 4 different sets, each one little more advanced then the last, later ones having their own little battery powered electric motor!!! Don?t ever recall swallowing any nuts or bolts,,,,,,wouldnt trade one good erector set for any of these ?LEGO? sets of now!!!!!!

SweetFeet · Jun 21, 2018

Just remember that a 2 year old might still put things in his mouth - so make sure no choking hazzards. With our kids, and now our grandkids, we started with large sized stuff... then went so smaller more intricate toys as they got bigger.

There are extra large sized Lego (and other toys) for toddlers, that do have some wheels and maybe gears so he can learn to build tractors, dozers, planes, etc.

Kickinbull · Jun 21, 2018

I had erector set but I remember being older

Steve@Advance · Jun 21, 2018

Old lawn mowers were some of my favorite toys.

But nobody cleaned them up for me though! LOL

tim s · Jun 21, 2018

Anything that will make a child's mind work in a constructive manor is good...work habits start in the beginning,,get them up in the morning, feed them breakfast and give them chores to do,,the "over parenting Mother" that says let them be kids is wrong...and it shows up more and more..you can not wait till they are 20 years old and expect them to join the work force..or be successful..

rrlund · Jun 21, 2018

I remember my Grandma gave me an old table top clock when I was about 6 or so. Lots of screws and small parts in that beauty.

connor9988 · Jun 21, 2018

Might still be a few years too young for this but this will get you headed in the right direction:

The Ertl Big Farm Series would be perfect for him I would think. They are cheaper and more robust than the die cast toys I got as a child. Wish I'd had these when I was a kid.
LEGO Technic Mini Tractor

Ertl Big Farm Series

JMS/.MN · Jun 21, 2018

Same here- just tinker toys for several years- folks were too poor for an erector set or electric train set. TT and imagination can create some great things- never had a cap gun and holster, but did make them out of tinker toys. Had a Red Flyer wagon for chores, and "overhauled" the wheel bearings many times- jack it up, R&R the wheels.

onefarmer · Jun 21, 2018

I figured MA might not like a greasy 2 year old. lol Now a four or five yo that can clean themself......

Steve@Advance · Jun 21, 2018

That was my moms most used butt whipping reason.

Ruined clothes and tracking grease in the house!

Ohio88 · Jun 21, 2018

We got a unit from young explores that is half a tractor but it an be completely disassembled and put back together. Our grandson was 2 and half when he got it. After a month or so he would do it all him self. Sometimes he would purposely swap parts. Now he is almost 5 and his favorite thing is to help me on a tractor. Wonder how long it will last.

Nick m · Jun 22, 2018

My son is the same way. Started about then also, 4 now. He has 2 pedal tractors, some toy tools, and a few things I gave him. Constantly "working" on his tractors. His imagination is entertaining. Moves the peck cocks on his "b", turns the choke on and hand starts it. Definitely a fun age group.

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