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Speech And Language Development Toys
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items Here I will try to sum up all my favorite toys that promote speech and language development, which are easy to handle, that will your kids love, use a lot, and that actually will be good investment, to pass on, to save for your next baby, and so on.
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Infants & Baby (0-1)
Toddlers (1-3)
Kids (3-5)
Speech And Language Therapy Toys
Infants & Baby (0-1)
Here are toys who will be most suitable for infants & babies (0-1).
Basically they put up these kits for kids from newborn stage to like 5 year old. I like them because these are no huge kits, they have like 5,6 toys, and that is it. So it gives kids time to process toys and also to keep them focused, because sometim...
The Play Kits by Lovevery | Montessori Toy Subscription Ages 0-5
This toy is great because rings are pretty big for baby. So that gives them the opportunity to hold them with both hands, and learn to grasp nicely. Also you can put hands through rings and play like you have some big bracelets, or you can put rings ...
Fisher-Price Rock-a-Stack Ring Stacking Toy, Multicolor with Roly-Poly Base for Infants & Baby
Interesting for babies, animals pop up when you press buttons, as baby gets older she can learn to use buttons in various ways and also learn fine motor skills because some buttons are kinda tricky for baby. But they have motivation to learn cause th...
Fisher-Price Busy Buddies Pop-Up Infant Fine Motor Toy for Ages 9+ Months, Multi-Color
Bucket with shapes, that is essential starter kit toy. Kids love to push parts into holes so here you can learn about shapes. Also bucket with handle is nice touch , because kids for some reason LOVE to carry things around like some businessmen. Supe...
Baby's First Blocks - Infant Toy by Fisher Price (FGP10)
Kids love to bang at something and they like to make music, so xylophone is good option for them. This one has stick attached to it, so it does not get lost which is convenient, and it has wheels because kids love to also drag everything, so super co...
Fisher-Price Classic Xylophone Tapping the Keys Helps Foster Fine Motor Skills - Standing and Pull String
This pretend tool helps kids to learn to grasp, using force to tap the screw, eye-hand coordination because they have to be precise if they wanna nail the right screw. Also they can learn colors if you give them task like- “let’s tap yellow screw” an...
Fisher-Price Tap & Turn Bench Pretend Tools 2-Sided Toy for Infants and Toddlers
Ball tower is nice toy for kids to develop grasping, eye-hand coordination, to learn cause and effect, here you can “feed the cat” they need to throw ball into the mouth of cat, they can learn colors “ oh you fed the yellow ball to the cat!nice!”, th...
Fisher-Price Baby & Toddler Toy FP Pets Purrr-FECT Ball Tower Activity Center for Developmental Play Ages 9+ Months
I liked this toy because it has 3 musical instruments on one table, also it is wooden , which is always a plus. It comes with 2 sticks so you can engage with kid at same time to make some music.
Fisher-Price Wooden Toy Musical Table with Percussion Instruments for Toddler Role Play, 3 Wood Pieces
Play mats or gyms, are really handy for babies if you want to keep tummy time interesting. A lot of babies hate it(mine did), and play mat saved me. Specifically this one I like because it has piano and we all like music and kids even more, so when i...
Fisher-Price Glow and Grow Kick & Play Piano Gym Baby Playmat with Musical Learning Toy, Blue
Busy boards like these are great for exploration. Lights can be switched on/off, they can turn keys, press buttons, put cord in, and so on. Plus -it is wooden. Also, very useful for those moments in restaurants or at home when you need that 15-20 min...
Montessori Busy Board Sensory Toys Wooden With LED Light
Toddlers (1-3)
Here you will find toys that are most suitable for toddlers (1-3).
One more busy book with farm motives, animals. Here kids can learn sorting, counting, naming animals, colors, pinch skill, fine motor skill. And good thing is, everything is in one place -in one book.
Wekvgz Soft Baby Felt Books Educational Sensory Toy Animals Sensory Books Early Development Interactive Quiet Books Reusable Felt Book Busy Board Preschool Learning Activities for Boys Girls Infants
Building blocks are always fun. I like these simple ones because it gives a kid room for creativity, and I like to see what they come up with. Kids like to stack, build towers, and so on.
Fisher-Price Wooden Rainbow Stacking Building Blocks, Creative Play for Toddlers, 65 Wood Pieces
Another variation of xylophone. I am sucker for 2 in1,3 in1 toys. Here we have xylophone and wooden bench with holes and three wooden balls that go through when kicked with a wooden hammer. This is good exercise for ete hand coordination, and this on...
Fisher-Price Wooden Pound & Tap Bench Xylophone Musical Instrument Toy for Toddlers 18+ Months, 6 Pc
I really like this toy. You can learn animal names, sounds of animals, where they live, what they eat… lot of activity from one toy.
Little People Caring For Animals Farm
This toy is super fun, it has magnetic tips on worms and with wooden stick you can pull them out from the wooden apple. It has 2 worms of same colors, so you can practice naming colors, counting worms, eye hand coordination, especially if kid is retu...
Kids Insect Catching Game Magnetic Fishing Toys Apple Strawberry Shaped Development Fine Motor Skill
Music is very important for kids all ages. I like set that has multiple choices. You can make small band from kids friends and make little workshops , play simple tunes make everyone use one specific instrument, kids love this stuff. And these kind o...
Melissa & Doug Band-in-a-Box Clap! Clang! Tap! 10-Piece Musical Set, Toddler Toys
Busy boards are great both for kids and parents. Often times we need times to ourselves and busy boards are great replacement for phones, tablets, tv. Kids get to explore different kind of activities all in one place. They develop patience, attention...
Busy Board Montessori Toys for Toddler Busy Book Sensory Preshool Early Education Learning Fine Motor Skills Toys
I like this montessori toy, it promotes eye hand coordination, and it is interesting for kids, because they love to stick objects into something, so this will keep their attention. Also, when they get older you can work with them on sorting tasks, li...
This are some great busy boards that I find would be very interesting and engaging for toddlers and smaller children. They have tons of activities.
Baby Toy Soft 3D Cloth Book First Book Montessori Infant Early color Cognitive Educational Toys
This is for smaller children , basically they can learn shapes through play by trying to put house together. Also this parts have small handle which they need to hold with three fingers, which is great motor skill to achieve later for holding pen, sm...
Melissa & Doug First Shapes Wooden Jumbo Peg Puzzle - 5 Pieces With Handles (Babies, Toddlers)
This toy is good for color matching, motor skills, wrist rotation, shape learning.
Coogam Matching Easter Eggs, Learning Educational Fine Motor Skill Montessori Baby Toys for Toddler 1 2 3 Year Old(12pcs Packs)
This wooden box is also good for shape sorting, it is perhaps simpler so it is good for younger children. Also handle and drawer are nice touch, they can learn to grasp” pinching “🤏🏼 and pull.
Montessori Toys for 1 2 3 4 5 Year Old - Wooden Object Permanence Box with Drawer Sensory Toys Shape Sorter Color Sorting Education for Baby Toddler Boy Girl Drop Busy Box (B-Blocks)
I like this toy because first, it is super fun and engaging. Kids can fish, collect fishes, grab them and pull away from rod, so there is using both hands at same time. Also eye hand coordination, they can next sort fish by colors.
Montessori Toys for 1 Year Old Boy Girl, Cloth Fishing Game for Toddlers 1-3, Learning Toys, Baby Toys 6-12 Months
Another busy book that caught my attention. I like elementary colors used in this book, I like the simplicity of tasks and yet enough engaging for kids, with elements that children love, nature, animals, farm, truck… Love it.
Montessori Busy Book Busy Board Toddlers Felt Quiet Book 3D Activities Cloth Story Book My Preschool Learning Education Toys for Baby Boys Girls 3 4 5 6 Years Old Farm Barn Autism Sensory Gifts
This toy is good for coordination, they need to use both hands , to put thread through wooden figures. This is great for learning patience , problem solving, fine motor skills, maximizing attention span. Also they can learn fruits, colors, to count.
Fruit String Toy, Educational Caterpillar Threading Game for Kids, ABS Plastic Fruit and String Set, Develops Fine Motor Skills & Focus, Includes 12 Fruits & 2 Strings, 21x5x14cm Packaging
My daughter loved these pretend cake, she celebrated more pretend birthdays than I can count. Kids love to blow out candles what can I say. Set is also super cute , you can learn numbers from 1-5 , when you decorate cake, and you can slice the cake a...
Wooden Birthday Cake - Pink - Essentials
This toy is great for grasp and color learning. Also for cause and effect learning. Kids love to play with ball amd to see it rolling. With this game you can teach kids to wait for their turn, one ball you hit, next the kid.
A Ball Toys for Boy&Girl, Learning, Active, Early Developmental Hammer Montessori Toys with 4 Colorful Balls Hammers, Fun Gifts for Boy & Girl, Great Birthday Gift Ages 1 2 3
Puzzles are great for childrens brain. I like these because I like real pictures, not cartoon ones. Cartoon one is not bad it is just I like real better.
BenBen Animal Jigsaw Puzzles for Toddler, Educational Montessori Toys for Kids Ages 2-5, Boys, Girls
Kids (3-5)
Good toy for pretend play. Kids like to imitate at home what they see in real life, and going in grocery store is one of daily tasks parents do, often accompanied with children. So whole paying and scanning groceries thing is super interesting to the...
OSLINE Cash Register for Kids, Wooden Montessori Educational Learning Pretend Play Toys, Role Play Toys-- Birthday Gift
Here children can learn-shapes , colors, counting(counting holes), wrist rotation. Also patience!
DF DUALFERV Montessori Toys for 3+ Year Old, Shape Sorter Toys for Toddlers 3+, Toddlers Wooden Sorting and Stacking Toys, Educational Toys, Color Recognition Stacker Shape Sorter Wood Gifts
Same toy as one ☝🏻 before, this is with pastel colors for parents who like pastels.
OSLINE Montessori Wooden Shape Sorter Stacking Toys for Toddlers---Birthday Presents
This set is great. We all have fear of dentist, so is super important that kid gets to play a lot before going first time to dentist. Play pretend all kind of situations, pulling tooth out, fixing tooth, just checking, rinsing, spitting water, giving...
Melissa & Doug Super Smile Dentist Kit With Pretend Play Set of Teeth And Dental Accessories (25 Toy Pieces)
Kids love to imitate adults, and they love to help . This set is really cute and they can actually use it. Of course you can always give them real ones that you use, and that is also ok. But if they prefer to have small set ,for small hands ,kits lik...
Melissa & Doug Dust! Sweep! Mop! 6-Pc Wood Pretend Play Preschool Cleaning Set - FSC Certified
Pretend play is super important for kids, they can learn whole range of emotional and situational skills from such play. So for instance this toy can help prep the kid so he/she doesn’t get frustrated when she goes to doctor, or when kid is sick, to ...
Fisher-Price Medical Kit 7-Piece Doctor Toys Preschool Pretend Play Set for Ages 3+ years
Another doctor kit, with more pieces. This one is really elaborate , maybe when kid is 3+ year old.
Melissa & Doug Get Well Doctor’s Kit Play Set – 25 Toy Pieces
When I first saw this set, I knew kids would love to play with these. It has a lot of educational potential here : color recognition and sorting, naming different food, sorting food by categories, motor skills with cutting food in half, this toys can...
JOYIN Toddler Play Food Set, Cutting & Sorting
I am going to put this in 3-5 year old section because of counting part, and manufacturer is recommending 3+, but honestly I used this board even with my 18mo, because here you have all these busy board activities to open the doors, different types o...
Wooden Latches Board
Speech And Language Therapy Toys
Great toy for speech therapy, you push handle and pump the baloon. When you do this tou pravtise with kids phrases : “Pump,pump!”, “More!”, “Small baloon!”, “Big baloon!”. When you pump the baloon , kid can push the button for baloon to pop out ”Read...
Air Powered Vehicle Balloon Powered Launch Car Balloon Race Car STEM Educational Toy with 12 Balloons Gift for Kids
Great cause and effect toy for kids, it helps them with eye hand coordination, attention span, because they need to wait a little bit for one circle to lower down. They can also learn phrases “down”,” more”, “stop”.
NAISHIER Spinning Stacking Toys, Spin Toys for Toddlers 1-3, Strong ABS Plastic, Rainbow Spin Tower, Autism Sensory Learning Toy, Suitable for Gifts for Boys and Girls
Kinetic sand is great for kids, it combines developmental and sensory benefits. It promotes tactile stimulation, helps toddlers explore different sensations which they love( but kids under 3 years please never leave unatended, because it is not edibl...
Kinetic Sand, 2lbs Purple Play Sand, Moldable Sensory Toys for Kids, Resealable Bag (Packaging May Vary), for Ages 3 and up
Kids often have problems with blowing air from mouth, and that is really important for speech. So with whistle you can excercise blowing air, when they make sound you can pretend you got scared, kids love that jump scared emotions, they giggle a lot....
EXHUMKY 24Pcs Shape Children Whistles Assorted Color Plastic Capacity Exercise for Childhood Life
This toy is versatile, first kids need to put the puzzle so the car can follow the track. You can stimulate kids to say “Ready set go!” before setting car in motion, and you can excercize hand eye coordination by making car stop with hands and then a...
DeskAKBK® Puzzle Track Car Play Set, Battery-Operated Toy Vehicle & Plastic Puzzle Board, Puzzles For Kids Ages 3-5, Toddlers Puzzle Railcar, Montessori Toys Gifts For 3
This set is great for kids to learn various phrases through play. First they need to make truck, farm animals from little blocks, here tou can stimulate speech by saying what are you puting on, like wheels on truck, head on cow , legs and so on. Afte...
Blockables™ Farm Play Set
NO SPILL bubbles! Must have for kids. Bubbles are favorite with kids, essential to learn to blow out air, toy can stimulate them if they want more to say “more” than they can say “pop” every time they pop bubble, if they want to try they can , if the...
Little Kids Inc. Fubbles No-Spill Bubble Tumbler. Ages 3 & up
I love this toy because it promotes attention with kids and they are engaged through play. They can push various buttons to get animals to pop or toy can do that, and they can smack them down when they pop. Anyway they do it it will be fun. You can l...
INTMEDIC Pop Up Toy with Light and Music, Cause and Effect Toys for 1 2 Year Old Boy Girl Early Learning Baby Toys 6 to 12 Months
With this toy kids can learn colors ,eye hand coordination, wrist rotation, phrases like “open”, “close”, “more” and so on. And ofcourse vehicle sounds, you can teach them to take turns , first me, then you, to teach them patience to wait for their t...
Battat 3-Car Garage Toy Playset with Keys Vehicle Playsets 6.38in, Toddler and Preschool and Toys
Mr Potato Head is great toy to learn naming body parts. Always remembers to keep it light and fun, make some songs to sing while naming body parts, and kids tend to learn fast.
Potato Head Mr. Potato Head Toy with 13 Pieces, Preschool Toys, Ages 2+
I like stories with small objects to pair with book. Kids love to repeat stories and if you use small toys with objects from story it will be more fun and engaging. You can ask questions about the book using objects too.
Toddler Book Let's Go Kitty Book Story Kit Early Sounds Book with Stor