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Christmas Gifts for Toddlers 🎁 great for Learning & Language- from an SLP🧸🚂🪁💬
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items As a pediatric speech language pathologist, I am always looking for ways to build communication around play. These toys are some of my tried and true favorites that your kids will absolutely love! I have added play ideas in the recommendation comment...
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Mess-free and lots of fun! These books have pictures that only show up when you activate them using the water pen. Great for naming shapes and objects. Would be fun to take turns following directions, ex: color the bird, color the circle, find the ca...
Melissa & Doug On the Go Water Wow! Reusable Water-Reveal Activity Pad
My 15-month-old son loves Tonies. Each Tonies character has songs and stories unique to them and they’re so much fun!! I much prefer this over an iPad because it encourages listening skills and imagination ❤️
Tonies
The wheels on the bus go round and round!🚎 Pretend to drive the bus to school while you sing the famous song and act it out with the little people🥰
Fisher-Price Little People Musical Toddler Toy Sit with Me School Bus ...
Farm fun! This toy is so fun for kids who love farm animals. It would pair perfectly with “Old Macdonald Had a Farm”. You and your child can practice animal sounds, name the animals, and pretend being farmers. What a perfect opportunity to work on wh...
Fisher-Price Little People Toddler Learning Toy Caring for Animals Farm ...
This is so cute. It’s like a cross between Tony’s and a regular book or movie. You can buy different sets and put them in the machine and it protects the pictures on the wall! How fun!!! this would be so fun to look at together or to keep your toddle...
Story Dream Machine | Imaginative Play Toy for Kids
These are super fun and interactive! I love that they have music and some even teach your child how to say the words in Spanish!! this would be a super cute and useful Christmas gift, but as I always tell parents, any book will do!📕😍 books are a gr...
LeapFrog Learning Friends 100 Words Book, Green
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This ball tower is so much fun! Any ball tower is great for working on language routines like “ready, set, go”, “go ball”, “your turn, my turn” and prepositions- “put the ball on top, put the ball in, etc. 🎾
Ball Tower
🐶 Put the animals in and lock/unlock the doors. Possible vocabulary words to practice: in/out, open/shut, happy/sad, sick, dog, cat, help. Kids love using the keys to open and shut the doors. Could also be fun to pretend your puppy is sick and needs...
Lehoo Castle Vet Clinic
Busy books are perfect for busy little hands. I keep ours in the diaper bags and pull it out at church, restaurants, and road trips. You can practice labeling pictures, animal sounds, colors, following directions.. the options are endless!📕
Busy Book
All the foods and all the colors!🌈 sort the foods by color, label the fruits and veggies by name, pretend you’re shopping the grocery store or cooking, do a food scavenger hunt and hide the foods around the room while your child closes their eyes. L...
Farmer's Market Color Sorting Set
A classic that’s awesome for learning body parts. Put the parts on Mr. Potato head and teach your child to point to their “eyes”, “ears”, “mouth”, etc. 🥔✅
Mr Potato Head Playskool , multi-colored, standard (27657)
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Pizza party?! Say less. This toy is great for pretend play like ordering at a restaurant, working at a restaurant, making choices of what toppings you want, counting, color names, sorting, etc. 🍕
Wooden Pizza Party Play Set
Open the boxes to see what treasure in inside 🏴☠️ great for number recognition and counting. You can also model language by describing what you found!
Sorting Surprise Pirate Treasure
Work on asking for “more” pieces to put in this fun piggy bank toy! The coins are colorful so you can teach colors and numbers, “in”, “out”, “again”.🐷
Laugh & Learn Count & Rumble Piggy Bank