Play Time
Jellycat Bashful Blush Bunny Musical Pull
$45.00Playing 'Rock a Bye Baby' when Bashful Bunny is pulled, this musical pull's star has risen high to become a firm favourite for bedtime. The musical box is tucked amongst...
Jellycat Bashful Blush Bunny Ring Rattle
$23.00Blossom-soft with rosy fur, it’s the Bashful Pink Bunny Grabber! This playtime buddy looks just like a strawberry doughnut and will keep little hands and ears very happy. With a...
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...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Allium
$23.00With a perpetual spring in his step, Allium Bunny specializes in the Charleston (or his version of it, which occasionally includes jazz paws and a hop too far). A new...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Beige
$23.00 – $300.00Bashful Bunny is a popular fellow with scrummy-soft fur and lovely long flops' ears means that with just one cuddle, you’ll never want to let go. Irresistibly cute and a...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Blush
$33.00Bashful 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...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Blush Bag Charm
$19.00The Bashful Blush Bunny Bag Charm brings a little splash of sweetness to any bag. Soft as sorbet in raspberry pink, this mini bunny has a silver clip and tag....
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Cream
$23.00 – $140.00Bashful Bunny is a popular fellow with scrummy-soft Jellycat fur and lovely long flopsy ears means that with just one cuddle, you’ll never want to let go. Irresistibly cute and...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Dusky Blue
$30.00A gentle friend in soothing heather fur, Bashful Dusky Blue Bunny is here to hug. With squashable feet and long, snuggly ears, this sleepy sweetpea is dizzily dreamy. A soft-paw...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Lilac
$33.00Bashful 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...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Loves You Book
$26.00Bashful Bunny Loves You is a gorgeous first book for curious little ones. This soft cloth book has so much to explore, with floppy fur arms, flaps to lift, textured...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Moss
$30.00Jellycat Bashful 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...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Petal
$30.00Bashful Bunny is a popular fellow with scrummy-soft Jellycat fur and lovely long flopsy ears means that with just one cuddle, you’ll never want to let go. Irresistibly cute and...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Red Love Heart
$38.00A classic gift to share love and joy with the iconic Bashful Bunny. This cloud-soft bunny has cream fur, flopsy ears and a pink suedette nose. Holding a sumptuous cranberry...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Redcurrant
$23.00Redcurrant Bunny has one rule: if there’s no glitter on the dancefloor, she’s not coming! A rising star in the Hopstreet Bunnies Dance Troupe, she’s the go-to for all things...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Saffyre
$23.00When Saffyre Bunny hits the stage, she steals the show. Her tap dancing sounds like thunder on a biscuit tin. A founding member of the Hopstreet Bunny Dance Troupe, she’s...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Sunshine
$30.00Jellycat Bashful Bunny is a popular fellow with scrummy-soft Jellycat fur and lovely long flopsy ears that mean that with just one cuddle, you’ll never want to let go. Irresistibly cute...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Teal
$23.00Teal Bunny may be small, but when the rhythm kicks in, she’s pure dynamite. As a founding member of the Hopstreet Bunnies Dance Troupe (alongside Saffyre Bunny), she specialises in...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Viola
$33.00Bashful 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 a...
Jellycat Bashful Bunny Woodland
$33.00Bashful 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...
Jellycat Bashful Calf
$33.00Scrumping apples? Not Bashful Calf. She’s a daisy-munching, kooky little cow, whose favorite song is Old Macdonald! Can you guess which part she sings the loudest? With her soft white...
Jellycat Bashful Carrot Bunny Little
$33.00Bashful Carrot Bunny is keen to make friends and has brought as a gift their most prized possession: a tufty carrot with velvety shoots! This snowy bunny has long, soft...
Jellycat Bashful Cream Bunny Comforter
$28.00Bashful Bunny Comforter features our beloved Bashful Bunny signature long lop ears, a pink suedette nose and embroidered eyes. Designed with an un-stuffed body yet delicately squashy paws and bobble...
Jellycat Bashful Cream Bunny Giant
$300.00Bashful Cream Bunny’s gorgeous long ears look like two big dollops of clotted cream. Mmmm! Time for scones and a hippity-hop on the grass! With a bunny pal as soft...
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.