Educational Toys for Babies

The early months in baby’s life are vital. Keep your baby engaged with our educational baby toys that delight your little one’s senses. Let your baby experience new sensations as they touch and feel. Open their eyes to exciting lights and colors. Attune their ears to sound with baby toys and rattles. Work their little mouths and keep them happy with adorable teethers. Keep their little bodies active with baby gyms and baby bath toys. … Make travel easy with our travel baby toys designed for use on the go. Babies learn about the world around them through activity. These educational baby toys are perfect for helping infants adjust and grow while filling your ears with the joyous sounds of baby giggles!

Are there ways parents can facilitate a higher level of intelligence in a child?

Educational toys do wonders for neuroplasticity. The vital process of development is called “neuroplasticity”. It’s the brain’s way to accomplish tasks by wiring together new neural networks to manage things it doesn’t already know how to do. Through this process, children are able to do things like speak and walk at just the right time because their neurons can adapt quickly. Your child still has unformed pathways that he or she needs help along the way in developing them into full-fledged developmental skills because your baby or toddler can’t always communicate what they need through words alone.

Interactive educational toys are a great way for you and your little one to begin fostering these pathways necessary for learning, developing language skills, coordination, and other skills we take for granted, like color and object identification. The hippocampus is one of the main areas of our brain responsible for these abilities. The more you encourage your child’s brain to form new connections through learning and problem solving, the bigger this area will be and the better his or her verbal communication will be as well.

Three stages of toy development that parents should know about.

1) Imitative Play (ages 0-8 months)–giving your baby a toy to see how she reacts, imitating the parents’ actions. This signals that you’re available for interaction, and lets them know that their actions will have an effect on their surroundings.

2) Discovery (ages 9-16 months)–pointing out the colors or patterns within objects like blocks. Setting aside one object, like one block to build with, and pointing out its shape or color introduce classification skills which incorporate shape perception and follow lightning rules. If there’s not enough time spent on discovery activities by age two or three then kids may never learn these skills at all because they do not move onto the next type of play on their own.

3) Pretend (ages 17-30 months)–asking your child to put the stuffed dog on the couch so that he can take a nap or color with construction paper rather than crayons shows that they are able to use objects in different ways, and demonstrate more of what they know.

Play usually falls into either one of two categories: domestic or construction. Construction play is about building things, understanding how they work, and taking them apart. How this occurs depends on the child’s developmental stage. A toddler will line up objects in order to make sense of their world; a preschooler might begin with recognized geometric shapes, while a school-age child will look for missing parts and the role they play in some kind of bigger picture. Domestic play involves cooking, cleaning, caring for babies or pets.

What should you not buy for a baby?

You should not buy a baby any toxic toys. Product quality and safety standards for kids’ products (including toys) are notoriously lax, and today’s parents need to be extremely vigilant when making purchases. There are some things you can do to make sure your child is using safe toys:
-Buy second hand or used products only from people you know and trust;
-Determine how old the product is (check the sticker date and tags); and
-Check whether the toy was tested by an independent lab for lead, phthalates, cadmium, beryllium, asbestos, etc., either through a government agency or privately certified.

Are toys really the best gift to give a newborn baby?

Newborns are often more interested in the sights, sounds, and touch of your hands than in any toy. A perfect gift for a new baby is to spend time with them–touching them, cooing at how tiny they are, showing them things around their eyes can see afresh. Toys are nice to keep nearby, but offering your time is one of the best gifts you can give.

What are Montessori toys?

Montessori is a teaching method that focuses on the process of learning as opposed to teaching content. Children are not lectured, taught the answer, and given worksheets for practice. Rather they are given freedom and guidance in their exploration of concepts and ideas so that they may develop an intrinsic desire to learn. Montessori toys’ purpose is to present learning opportunities to children by the use of natural materials such as blocks, dramatic play items like puppets or dress-up clothes, manipulatives such as plastic spoons for math games about size and length large enough for young hands to hold easily. The toys need not be expensive but must be carefully chosen by an educator with background knowledge in early childhood development stages.

What kind of toys are best for baby development?

It is important to remember that an infant cannot tell you what they like or dislike. Which means parents need to experiment and let babies play with different objects for 20-30 minutes before deciding which toys their baby likes the most. Typically, infants will enjoy anything that is colorful and interesting, but once they get a little older (about 9 months), it’s best to focus on giving them toys that promote creative thinking and problem solving while also keeping things simple. Babies can’t read yet so avoid providing them with books until they are closer to 18 months old – but any toy that aids in creative expression or fine motor skill development are good keepsakes for an early childhood education! Have fun testing out the different types.