Best Toys for 1-2 Year Old

As a parent, you make sure you give the best to your baby. And the same thoughts creep up when you are buying toys for the little one. As surprising it may seem, buying toys for your kid needs lot of brainstorming. While there are several toys available in the market which helps your baby cultivate the creativity and enhance the senses without compromising on the fun part of play. Here’s a list of few of the best toys, specifically for the age group of 1 to 2 year old, that you can buy for your baby.

Wooden Blocks

Generic ABC 123 Wooden Blocks Letters Numbers with Box Storage Case, available at a very pocket friendly price is an ideal toy to start teaching letters and numbers to your kid. The material makes it durable and survives the abuse of a kid. Wooden blocks have been a great tool since ages-since the stone-age, to make your baby learn the numbers. The toy comes in colorful colors and thus is pleasing to the baby as well. So grab this toy for your kid to have a great fun learning experience.

Shape Sorter Toys

 Shape sorter toys come in various designs and utility. While some come with numbers and letters printed on them which can help your baby learn the numbers and letters, while few come with pictures of animals which is helps you introduce your baby to animals and birds. Toyshine Shape Sorter Block Set, is a 24 pieces shape toy set which are plain blocks of various shapes and helps your baby’s motor skills, hand-eye coordination, observation and judgment skills and also enhances thinking and concentration. The product does not involve complex assembly and the blocks are of an apt size and is not hazardous for the kids to play with- even if you baby has a habit of popping everything in the mouth!

Rattle toys

Rattle toys have remained a favorite with parents and babies alike. Much before Funskool or Leo made an entry to the market with various innovative toy designs, rattle toys have helped generations to introduce their kids to the sense of sound, movement, colors, numbers, and grasping skills. Rattle toys come in various shapes and sizes; few of them serving the dual purpose of teethers and rattle toys. You can choose from a variety to shapes- animals, flowers, and basic geometric shapes or buy all of them at once by iVee International’s Baby Toys Rattle Set of 4 Pieces.

Bath Toys

No toy set is complete without bath toys. Few kids are extremely averse to water and the moment you put them in the bath tub, they start to wriggle and cry. So why not make the bath time fun too? Animal Bath Toys by Broadfashion comes as an assortment of 13 toys which float on water and is made of safe rubber. The animal shape makes it fun and the size is perfect for you kids to hold and play.

Activity toys

 Remember the times you visited the beach and made castles of sand? Such activities still excite me every time I go on a vacation to the beach! You can have that experience for your kid now, anytime of the year- vacation or no vacation by this amazing activity toy. 2-in-1 Beach Sand & Water Play Table for Kids by Toys Bhoomi is a great outdoor activity toys. It is portable and you can even carry this on one of your beach visits. It comes with a good number of accessories required for san and water play and keeps your baby engaged for hours.

Musical Toys

We all had at-least one toy in our toy basket which was battery operated and played catchy music whenever turned on. Drum Keyboard Musical Toys with Flashing Lights is one such toy which comes in a bright color to keep your baby interested for hours. The music is soothing and introduces you baby to listening skills and to the amazing world of music! It is fitted with keys of various shapes and plays a variety of music. Who knows, your baby might be the next musical sensation when he/she grows up and you would thank this toy as an elementary tool for cultivating that interest!

Activity Book

An activity book is something that my mother always vouched for since I was a notorious kid and won’t settle at one place even for a minute! This is a great toy for those super excited and active kids to keep them at one place while they enjoy the activity and play for a significant amount of time. Melissa and Doug Water Wow Activity Book comes in various themes- alphabets, numbers and various other activities to choose from! The pages of the book are always white and can be colored with a pen which is filled with water. Train your baby to use the pen and re-write over the existing white alphabets. The toy is an excellent choice for a baby to recognizing letters, writing skills and enhances motor skills. The pen can be easily used by just filling it up with tap water and the pages are re-usable and turn white when not in contact of water.