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Holztiger Holztiger Wooden Animal Brontosaurus
$16.00Holztiger’s Brontosaurus is a great toy animal for entertaining your little one, perfect for endless hours of imaginative play!_x000D_ Made of hardwood_x000D_ Colored with water-based acrylic paint_x000D_ Dimensions: 7.9 inches...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Red Hearts Building...
$48.00Making sculptures and training fine motor skills. Also ideal as a desk toy and a wonderful decoration. These fantastic building blocks open new possibilities in building and creating, in combination...
Holztiger Holztiger Wooden Animal Brown Bear
$16.00Holztiger’s brown bear is a great toy animal for entertaining your little one, perfect for endless hours of imaginative play! Made of hardwood Colored with water-based acrylic paint Dimensions:14.5 x...
Holztiger Holztiger Wooden Animal Fox Running
$14.00Holztiger’s Running Fox is a great toy animal for entertaining your little one, perfect for endless hours of imaginative play! Made of hardwood Colored with water-based acrylic paint Dimensions: 5.7...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Little Land Yachts ...
$100.00Your child is the captain of these vessels, as they sail the Seven Seas -- rolling along on any smooth surface! Included on board each is a captain of the...
Holztiger Holztiger Wooden Animal Swan Swimming
$12.00Holztiger’s Swan Swimming is a great toy animal for entertaining your little one, perfect for endless hours of imaginative play! Made of hardwood Colored with water-based acrylic paint Dimensions: 10.5 x 2.3...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Mixed Forest Toy
$24.00The small Mixed Forest is perfect in combination with our building blocks. Perfect to combine with: Grimm's Houses, Geo-Blocks, Small Bobbins, and 7 Friends Authentic Grimm's Mixed Forest Toy Details:...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Large 4 Elements Bu...
$140.00Grimm’s Large 4 Elements Building set is the ideal versatile toy for your little tinker, perfect for creating a variety of different structures like mountains, bonfires, sculptures, rolling oceans, and...
PlanToys PlanToys Musical Band
$70.00Is your little one ready to take center stage? The PlanToys Musical Band includes 2 differently-sized drums, a pair of drumsticks, a cymbal, and a guiro. The set stands over 13...
Tender Leaf Toys Wooden The Stables Set
$56.00This working stable is perfect for grooming the ponies, with a brush, and 2 blankets. Feed the ponies with a bale of hay and a nose bag. Keep it all...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Large Mosaic
$126.00The 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...
Holztiger Holztiger Wooden Animal Head Raised G...
$20.00Holztiger’s Giraffe with raised head is a great toy animal for entertaining your little one, perfect for endless hours of imaginative play! Made of hardwood Colored with water-based acrylic paint...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Leonardo Building S...
$65.00The ingenious constructions of Leonardo da Vinci: with these simple sticks one can create a dome and a bridge, which stand without glue or a cord and without a nail...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Large Waterwaves St...
$34.00Large Water Waves Stacker is a unique, clever, and versatile Waldorf-inspired stacking and nesting puzzle/toy, hand carved from a single piece of wood. These nesting waves represent the element of...
Holztiger Holztiger Wooden Animal Flamingo
$12.00Holztiger’s flamingo is a great toy animal for entertaining your little one, perfect for endless hours of imaginative play. Made of hardwood Colored with water-based acrylic paint Dimensions: 7.3 x...
Holztiger Holztiger Wooden Animal Mother Zebra
$20.00Holztiger’s Mother Zebra is a great toy animal for entertaining your little one, perfect for endless hours of imaginative play! Made of hardwood Colored with water-based acrylic paint Dimensions: 5.9...
PlanToys PlanToys Solid Drum
$32.00PlanToys Solid Drum is the perfect toy to inspire your little ones' musical creativity! PlanToys Solid Drum Details: Age: 18 months+ Includes drumsticks with rubber heads Helps develop the infant’s...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Large Convertible C...
$28.00Grimm's Large Convertible Car and the two Rainbow Friends will become loyal companions of your child and over time inspire many adventures both big and small, going beyond the boundaries of...
Tender Leaf Toys Home Baking Set
$60.00A stylish mixer with metal swivel whisk, wooden bowl, and clacking on and off button. Ingredients to weigh out on a modern kitchen scale include a wooden egg that opens...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Pastel Stacking Tower
$40.00This tall and colorful stacking toy features 10 brightly colored rings on a blue base with a natural wooden dowel at its center. A classic wooden toy that grows with the child,...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Set of Bowls Outsid...
$32.00Grimm’s Set of Bowls is the perfect versatile toy for your little one! Your toddler can have endless fun stacking, sorting, nesting and using the bowls for imaginary play! Authentic...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Rainbow Hearts Buil...
$48.00Making sculptures and training fine motor skills. Also ideal as a desk toy and a wonderful decoration. These fantastic building blocks open new possibilities in building and creating, in combination...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Set of Bowls Lollipop
$32.00Grimm’s Set of Lollipop Bowls is the perfect versatile toy for your little one! Your toddler can have endless fun stacking, sorting, nesting, and using the bowls for imaginary play!...
Grimm's Authentic Grimm's Wooden Bus Toy Natural
$60.00A wooden bus with a natural finish and cheerful, bright yellow wheels. With an open roof and three 'seats' for easy access to loading and unloading passengers and drivers. Its shape...
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.