Educational Gifts for Toddlers
Buying educational gifts for toddlers helps to stimulate a child’s mind and turn play time into a time of adventure and discovery.
The right toys can help a child to develop both their mental and physical skills.
Here are some ideas for educational toys for toddlers to get you started.
Puzzles
Puzzles are a great way to stimulate and improve cognitive skills, hand eye coordination and fine motor skills. Not only that, but they are a lot of fun! There are a lot of unique puzzles for toddlers on the market including soft puzzles, large block puzzles and and 3 dimensional puzzles that have children match shapes to holes.
Musical Instruments
Musical instruments - especially percussion instruments like drums or xylophones - are fantastic for toddlers. They can help to teach the basics of sound and rhythm and also help to develop hand-eye coordination. Plus, kids have a lot of fun banging away on an instrument!
Stuffed Toy Animals
Toy animals can inspire a child’s imagination and help them to develop their creative skills. You can turn stuffed animals into a learning game as well by teaching the child about the animal and playing games as to where it lives, what it eats, etc.
Book and Toy Sets
These days you can find a lot of books that come with toys. For instance, Cricket Magazine carries a great set that has the Peter Rabbit book, a puzzle and a stuffed animal. Having toys to go along with their books can make reading time a lot more fun and help to capture both their imagination and their interest.
Fun Books
There are so many different and fun books for toddlers out now. Think about books that are unusual and have a lot of visual or textural interest like pop-up books, plush books, books that are also building blocks or any number of other options. The more you can do to get a child interested in reading the better!
To shop for some of these gifts or to get a lot more ideas, check out the award winning Cricket Magazine site (be sure to click on the link for ages 6 mo - 3 years when you get there). They have a huge selection of books and educational gifts for toddlers at great prices. Cricket’s mission is to “inspire children to a lifelong love of reading and learning” and their selection of toys and books certainly shows their commitement to that goal.
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