Nice wooden dollhouse big enough for more than 1 dck to play with at a time.
When we used to get grants
these are some of the things I got:
Flannel board/chalk board on wheels, flannel stories
LT shelf
Book Stand
Dress up stand
Wooden toddler play kitchen with quality foods
Classroom size wooden blocks and people
Sand/water table
Big Books
Now I get annual awards for renewing my STARS and I spend that $ on:
puppets
different kinds of block sets such as the LT castle block set, house block set that fits with wooden blocks, sensory magnetic blocks, tree blocks
paints
floor puzzles
musical instruments
With all of that said, my (all girl)group's very favorite things to play with are the FP type farms, houses, buses, trucks, people, animals and a plastic dollhouse I bought at a yard sale for 10 bucks.
I have a giant tub of duplo blocks too and was lucky to have found that at a yard sale. The next year, same person's sale,
I bought a huge tub of Little People sets. They love that too.