Play Time
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Rainbow Friends Toy
$48.00This set of Rainbow Wooden Peg Dolls includes 12 peg people in a variety of rainbow hues. Authentic Grimm's Rainbow Friends Toy Details: Includes: 12 peg dolls Size: Figures - 2.5...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Large Rainbow Paste...
$96.00Grimm’s 12 Piece Rainbow Pastel is a versatile toy perfect for your growing little one. Toddlers can use the rainbow for stacking and sorting, and as they get older your...
Jellycat Jellycat Blossom Bunny Tessa Tulip
$27.50Blossom Tulip Tessa Bunny is so glad you came to see her! She needs another player for her new game, Sometimes when she’s bounding, her flowery ears flapping, she tumbles...
Jellycat Jellycat Amuseable Cloud
$29.00Lost in a daydream? Let Amuseable Cloud be your dreamy companion. This cumulus cutie is tufty and tussled in scrumptious cream fur, with cordy grey feet for running across the...
Jellycat Jellycat Fuddlewuddle Lion
$30.00 – $50.00Jellycat’s Fuddlewuddle Lion is the perfect cuddly companion for your little one anywhere, whether it is snuggling in bed at night or during a nice stroll in the park. Product...
Playforever Playforever Leadbelly Toy Car Seekter...
$40.00An American muscle car, make it bigger, faster, stronger. Detroit carmakers saw what the hot rodders were doing in the late ’60s and started bringing these ideas to the workingman....
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Pull Along Truck
$56.00This Blue Pull Along Truck from Grimm's is impressive, simple in design, and easy to load. Perfect for young builders and truck lovers Authentic Grimm's Pull-Along Truck Details: Age: 1 year+...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Color Charts Rally
$85.00Limitless designs! The 29 color chart pairs open up a world of creativity and help children develop a new appreciation for color. The children can test the domino effect, match...
Jellycat Jellycat Bashful Black and Cream Puppy
$18.00 – $80.00Silky-soft and lovingly loyal, Bashful Black & Cream Puppy wants to play all day! He comes in five sizes, from huge and huggable to itsy bitsy baby. His smudgy black...
Jellycat Jellycat Bashful Bunny Oatmeal
$28.00 – $67.50A sweet bunny who’s worth his weight in gold! Made of beautiful silky smooth Bashful fur. Bashful Bunny is a popular fellow with scrummy-soft Jellycat fur and lovely long...
Maileg Maileg Cooking Set Toy
$28.00Playful stove box opens up to reveal everything you need to cook a perfect imaginary dinner. The set includes a pot, pan, strainer, and utensils. Height: 3.15 in Material: Cooking...
Jellycat Jellycat Bashful Medium Llama
$25.00Dreamy, dapper and delightful - that's Bashful Llama! This nuzzly-neutral long-necked lovely has a very fine ruff in biscuity fluff. With a punky-soft hairdo, snuffly snoot, squidgy hooves, and waggly...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Small Convertible C...
$20.00Grimm's Small Convertible Car is a simple and off-road wooden convertible car that can take a Rainbow Friend off-roading on a jaunt into the countryside. Afterward, the vehicles do not...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Pastel Rainbow Friends
$48.00This set of Rainbow Wooden Peg Dolls includes 12 peg people in a variety of rainbow hues. Authentic Grimm's Pastel Rainbow Friends Details: Includes: 12 peg dolls Size: Figures - 2.5...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Rainbow Toy 6-Piece
$34.00Grimm’s 6 Piece Rainbow is a versatile toy perfect for your growing little one. Toddlers can use the rainbow for stacking and sorting, and as they get older your children...
Jellycat Jellycat Bashful Cat Black and White
$28.00Say hello to Jellycat Bashful Black and White Cat, a splendidly tuxedoed cat! He loves to groom his soft, silky fur, from his snowy tail tip to the white in...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Rainbow Bridge
$60.00An open-ended and versatile toy, this Wooden Nesting Bridge set can be used as a stacking and nesting toy, or as bridges for toy cars and scenic play. Each set...
Jellycat Jellycat Bashful Bunny Tulip Pink
$18.00 – $28.00Bashful Bunny is a popular fellow with scrummy-soft Jellycat fur and lovely long flopsy ears mean that with just one cuddle, you’ll never want to let go. Irresistibly cute and...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Small Convertible C...
$20.00Grimm's Small Convertible Car is simple and an off-road wooden convertible car that can take a Rainbow Friend off-roading on a jaunt into the countryside. Afterward, the vehicles do not...
Jellycat Jellycat Bashful Blush Poodle
$28.00Bashful Poodle comes from fabulous France, and has sugar-pink fur that you can’t help but cuddle. She skips down the avenue, fluffy ears flapping, and snaffles a croissant - what...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Pebbles Blocks River
$23.00These pebble blocks are perfect for balance and stacking challenges, decorating scenic play, making a stony puppet show landscape, and building cairns. This four-piece set is painted in gorgeous graduated...
Jellycat Jellycat Bashful Bunny Woodland
$18.00 – $80.00Bashful Bunny is a huggable hopster. Soft and snuggly in warm terracotta, he's a lop-eared lovely, and loving pal. Expect cuteness, carrots and flopsy cuddles, and plenty of picnics out...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Pebbles Blocks Moss
$23.00These pebble blocks are perfect for balance and stacking challenges, decorating scenic play, making a stony puppet show landscape, and building cairns. This four-piece set is painted in gorgeous graduated...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Rainbow Mosaic Blocks
$52.00The elemental cubic form of these blocks inspires children to build simple walls, foundations, fences, stalls as well as houses, towers, and castles. The basic shape is also very useful...
Play is essential for children because it contributes to their intellectual, physical, emotional and social development. When children play, they exercise their creativity, develop their imagination, master their dexterity, improve their cognitive ability and build physical strength. Experts agree that the best kinds of play allow kids to set their own goals, negotiate challenges, develop and share ideas, and make their own rules.
But how can we make sure our kids are getting enough healthy, unstructured play time when they’re growing up in an overscheduled and stressful environment, when parents are overly focused on producing high academic achievers, and safety concerns prevent us from letting our kids roam around freely and unsupervised? Perhaps the best thing we can do for our kids is to make sure they have the right kinds of toys at home to make play time most rewarding.
First and foremost is safety. Safe toys for young children are sturdy, without sharp parts or splinters, free of pinching hazards, and easy to clean. If the toy will be used by an infant, it’s important that parts aren’t small enough to become a choking hazard.
Toys must be made from non-toxic materials and coated with lead-free paints. You should steer clear of antique toys, second-hand toys and homemade toys that have not been tested and approved by a certified testing lab, or may have been produced before the current regulations governing toy manufacturing were in effect.
In addition to being safe, a good toy will match the child’s appropriate stage of development and abilities.
The best baby activity toys for infants between 0-6 months are things they can reach, grasp, suck on, shake, and make noise with. Some age-appropriate toys for little babies are squeeze toys, teething toys, soft dolls, textured balls, and board books.
Infants between 6-12 months are starting to crawl, sit up and pull themselves to a standing position. They are capable putting things in and out of containers and placing objects on top of each other. Some of the best baby activity toys for this age group are dolls, vehicles with wheels, bath toys, large beads, nesting toys, large soft blocks, wooden blocks, and push & pull toys.
As your child continues to grow, look for toys that will encourage them to explore, create, pretend, imagine, and learn from trial and error.