When you are shopping around for toys for 1 year olds everything looks nice and bright but you wonder what will be good and what will hold their imagination. Well, try these for starters... These are toys that work for me.
Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby's First Blocks
Kids Toy Chest
Since it comes from Fisher-Price you can be sure of quality. Toddlers play with this to sort, stack and learn to identify and match shapes. Filling the bucket with blocks, dumping them out, and starting over is great for eye-hand coordination and other early skills. The ten colorful blocks come with an interactive learning aid and plastic shape-sorting box. It is designed such that you can carry it anywhere very easily.
One thing to note... As kids work on getting the right shape in the right hole sometime they get frustrated and pick up the lid and throw the shapes in the bucket instead of sorting them! But you have to talk to them and ask where each shape goes to really focus them and get the act together!
Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Storybook Rhymes
Another Fisher-Price product this is a storybook with a friendly bookworm, lights and sing-along nursery rhymes. Light-up hands point the way for the toddler to turn pages and learn about letters, numbers, colors and first words. It seems unbelievable but the 1 year olds can actually flip pages!
Fortunately it includes a Off/Low/High volume switch and comes with the 3 triple-A batteries that are needed. Parents find this perfect for entertaining kids for long lengths of time. Even though they don't quite get the buttons yet, because those refer to numbers and colors, that is part of the benefit of the toy... they'll grow and learn. The voice behind the little songs is pretty good!
Earlyyears Lil' Shopper Play Set
This 6 piece activity set has foods, each of a different texture. Each food jingles, crinkles or chimes and they all fit in a soft, sturdy tote bag. The items include banana (with crinkle peels), open/close rattling orange, chiming apple (with crinkle leaf), rattling crinkle cabbage, and a rattling milk carton with a peek-a-boo mirror.
Kids love playing with everything in the bag... even the bag! The pieces even feel good on their gums... which is good as that's when they are teething. It is also a good way to teach kids about fruits and vegetables...
Can you think of a better way than toys for 1 year olds to develop a love for eating?