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The Best Baby Toys to Promote Development
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items It can be super overwhelming when you start adding items to your baby shower registry list – there are SO many products, brands, and gear out there! And they make you feel like you need to get EVERY LITTLE THING. But take it from me – LESS IS BEST. But that being say, you need some things to spark your baby's development! And you are definitely going to have friends and family wanting to buy “fun” items for your baby shower, or asking what they can buy at your baby's first birthday and first holidays. So show them these – these are Physical Therapy approved, meaning they promote motor development for your baby in their first year!
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Newborn Toys
Toys for Sitters/Crawlers
Toys for New Walkers (great first birthday gifts!)
Newborn Toys
These are the toys that you want to add to your registry – your baby's vision and motor skills will start to improve and develop in their first 3-4 months of life, and these toys are the best to promote early developmental skills like visual tracking...
Easy to grasp for your newborn, and it makes a fun sound which encourages shaking!
Bright Starts Oball Shaker Toy
Easy to grasp for your newborn and offers a way to practice transferring a toy from hand to hand.
Oball Toy Ball Rattle
perfect for encouraging early fine motor skills and also provides entertainment in the carseat or stroller!
Manhattan Toy Links-to-Go Car Seat and Stroller Travel Accessory Set
very visually motivating for tummy time, but this is one that can be used for so many skills -- tummy time, sitting, crawling, pulling to stand!
B. toys - Interactive Toy - Pop-Up Buddies
great fine motor toy for car rides or while sitting in the high chair waiting for food!
Fat Brain Toys Dimpl Baby and Toddler Learning Toy
This is my favorite tummy time mirror because of the high visual contrast and the little bugs encouraging reaching!
Sassy Baby Sensory Development Floor Mirror
Encourages your baby to grasp and bring the toy to their mouth!
pipSquigz Loops - Best Baby Toys & Gifts for Ages 1 to 10
Another easy one to grasp and encourages brining the toy to their mouth.
Dimpl Clutch - Best Baby Toys & Gifts for Ages 0 to 2 - Fat Brain Toys
So visually interesting to encourage tracking, reaching, tummy time, and rolling!
Mini Rainbomaker
Oral motor development is so important in the newborn stage, so having interesting toys to chew on like these is very important!
Oral Development Tools
Toys for Sitters/Crawlers
One of my favorite walkers, but I suggest this one for when you child is starting to sit too! They can reach for the toys on the front side when sitting or starting to pull to kneel.
Activity Walker
great for encouraging sitting and kneeling for older babies!
B. toys Wooden Toy Piano - Mini Maestro
great for encouraging pulling to stand but your baby can also sit in front of it and play!
B. toys Wooden Activity Cube - Zany Zoo
A very simple toy but watch your baby be engaged for ages with this thing! Promotes fine motor skills and cognitive skills.
Lovevery Hide & Find Drop Box Baby Toy
Another favorite walker that can be interested in the sitting phase.
B. toys Wooden Activity Walker - Little Learning Steps
A great toy to introduce when your child begins to get interested in taking things in/out of a container.
InnyBin - Best Baby Toys & Gifts for Babies - Fat Brain Toys
These are fun for so many stages, but they are perfect to give them when they are sitting in their high chair.
pipSquigz - Best Baby Toys & Gifts for Ages 1 to 7 - Fat Brain Toys
These are so versatile because you can stick them to so many different surfaces – you can put them high to encourage pulling to kneeling or standing or stick them to the high chair tray!
Whirly Squigz - Best Baby Toys & Gifts for Ages 1 to 10
Always such much fun and promotes crawling! My toddlers still use our tunnel to make obstacle courses!
The Organic Cotton Play Tunnel
So versatile and I highly recommend for those babies who don't seem to be very driven to learn how to crawl or pull to stand! So many different ways to use it as a younger baby but then you can continue to use into toddlerhood!
Indoor Toddler Soft Foam Corner Structure Play Toy Nugget Couch Kids Blocks Climber
Super cool block set to introduce around 6-8 months. The magnets help to encourage stacking and it is also really easy to take along with you on outings!
Magnetic Wooden Blocks & Travel Pouch - 8 Pieces
What baby doesn't like something that makes sound?!
Fun with Sounds Wooden Discovery Blocks
Such an important toy for fine motor and cognitive skill development!
Stacking Cups
Babies can do puzzles too! The knob on these helps work on your baby's grasp.
Sava'n'co Wooden Knob Puzzle - 5 Pieces
Toys for New Walkers (great first birthday gifts!)
favorite walker for both of my kids and it doubles as toy storage!
Radio Flyer Classic Walker Wagon, Ages 1-4
great first birthday gift!! encourages pulling to stand, squatting, and fine motor play! and it is so cute!
B. toys Wooden Play Kitchen - Mini Chef Kitchenette
A cute addition to a playroom or toddler's room and helps work on climbing on/off something as well as core strength (when sitting and rocking!)
Palomino Rocking Horse
My favorite toy to work on core strength in older babies and toddlers! Like a rocking horse but rubber, so it is bouncy and wobbly! Super fun!
Rody Horse Bounce Toy
Magnets are great to add to the fridge and dishwasher when your baby starts to pull to stand. Can also be an encouragement to start walking – start at one end of the kitchen and encourage them to walk it to the fridge!
Baby's First Words Wooden Magnetic Shapes - 35 Pieces