Play Time
Grapat Wooden Houses and Nins Set
$86.00This set can be used as a symbolic game, to create stories and small worlds. Creating stories, inventing new cities, towns, streets… These houses, painted with the colors of the...
Janod Wooden Ice Cream Stand
$76.00Would you rather a vanilla or strawberry ice cream cone? Try all the flavors with this wooden ice cream stand! This refreshing pretend play toy is great for gathering around...
Q Toys Wooden Jumbo Counting Trays
$62.00Beautiful number trays set for children numeracy development. This product is designed for toddlers to have fun with writing or counting. There are many ways that you can use this...
Bajo Wooden Large Breakdown Lorry Set
$80.00This adorable yellow tow truck is perfect for children that love playing with cars and want to imitate the physics of a real tow truck! Cars can be towed away...
Bajo Wooden LR Racing Toy Car
$42.00Young motoring fans will love going for a drive with Bajo's LR Racing Car. Made from solid wood, this cool car can easily turn left and right and is ready...
Lubulona Wooden Medium Tunnel Blocks Tetuan
$34.00This wooden tunnel set is a perfect add-on to any wooden railway set. Of course, you can create so much more than just tunnels with these blocks, such as buildings,...
Tender Leaf Toys Wooden Mini Chef Bird's Nest Cafe
$140.00A romantic wooden tea set featuring a pretty bird motif on the saucers and the side of a solid wood teapot. A pretty cupcake and tea bag, 2 cups and...
Tender Leaf Toys Wooden Mini Chef Birdie Tea Set
$48.00Bird’s Nest Café is a complete one-stop pretend play Coffee Shop with lots of accessories offering all-round creative play for 2 or more children. Encouraging language skills and manual dexterity,...
Sabo Concept Wooden Multicolored Cubes 24 Pieces Set
$54.00These 24 pieces of wooden cubes set are made out of linden tree covered with water-based paint that you can see the structure of wood through. Together with deep unconventional...
Plantoys Wooden Pasta Set
$28.00It's time for dinner! Who's hungry? Let your little one role play as a chef at your favorite Italian restaurant, serve dinner to a group of friends, or simply incorporate...
Erzi Wooden Play Food Shop Big Box
$162.00A big box of play food to set for your pretend play store and kitchen. Contains 1 large and 1 small display crate; 2 yellow-red apples; 2 green apples; 2...
Sabo Concept Wooden Rainbow Toy Marsala
$58.00This set of 7 gorgeous rainbow stacking elements come nested inside each other. Let the creativity of your child grow as they can building mazes and tunnels for cars, making mountains and...
Sabo Concept Wooden Rainbow Toy Mustard
$58.00This set of 7 gorgeous rainbow stacking elements come nested inside each other. Let the creativity of your child grow as they can building mazes and tunnels for cars, making mountains and...
Tender Leaf Toys Wooden Rocket Construction Set
$32.00Let your little engineer build their own rocket with this Rocket Construction set! Match up the parts and count down to launch! Age range: 3 years+ Set includes 21 pieces to build...
Holztiger Wooden Safari Animals
$10.00 – $36.00Bring the wild into your home with our Wooden Animal Safari Set! This beautifully crafted collection features a variety of safari animals, each made from high-quality, durable wood and finished...
Tender Leaf Toys Wooden Safari Animals
$66.00One of each animal in a display shelf. (Crocodile, Zebra, Giraffe, Lion, Antelope, Elephant, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus) Age range: 3 Years+ Product size: 14.96 x 2.95 x 12.6” Weight: 2.93 lbs...
Holztiger Wooden Sea Creatures
$12.00 – $28.00Dive into imaginative play with our Wooden Sea Creatures collection. Each figure is crafted from solid wood and hand-painted with child-safe, water-based paints, capturing the charm of ocean life. From...
Bajo Wooden Sheep Sorter
$60.00Little animal lovers will truly appreciate this beautiful and natural puzzle featuring chunky sheep. Age: 18 months+ Set of 7 playful sheep of varying sizes down to the smallest Dimension: 17...
Guidecraft Wooden Stackers River Stones
$46.00Bring the instinctive wonder that children have for nature into the classroom with an organic, wooden building block set. The Wood Stackers River Stones invite children to build and stack...
Lubulona Wooden Stacking Trees Summer
$36.00This set of stacking trees comes with 18 high-quality beech wood pieces. You can build your own little forest or play around and create imaginative columns, sculptures, or whatever you...
Tender Leaf Toys Wooden Tea Tray Set
$54.00Anyone one for tea? Enjoy your afternoon tea with this elegantly painted wooden tray set. Tea time is the perfect excuse for conversation, storytelling, and creative play! Age range: 3 years+...
Bajo Wooden Toy Car Camper with Surfboard
$34.00This camper with its little cute surfboard is ready to it the beach. For all those budding beach babes, this sweet little camper will bring hours of creative play, as...
Bajo Wooden Toy Car with Boat
$36.00Take your speedboat to the lake on the back of this chunky SUV/off roader. The vibrant car and detachable trailer pair well with adorable blue boat promoting fun and imagination....
Bajo Wooden Toy Car with Camper
$46.00This Wooden Car with Camper vehicle set is a great way to teach children about movement, speed, forces and will bring on communication skills too through inspiring imaginative play. Taking...
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.