You could try baking with him? I just buy those boxes from the supermarket where you only have to add an egg and water or some such thing. My DD loves it. She sticks her finger in when she thinks i'm not watching and loves putting on her apron and standing on a chair to "help". I tend to buy ones that need decorating like the cupcakes or the whoopie pies.
I also went to the $2 and bought a set of dinosaurs. When the baby is asleep we sometimes set up dinosaur gardens on the tile floor with a few stumps of wood from the wood pile, a few branches or leafy fronds, rocks and a little bowl of water for a pond. We spend so much time setting it up together that often that's the extent of our play rather than having to come up with a storyline for the dinosaurs once it's done.