Play Time
N&L Find Bunny Plush Toy Gray with Blue Ears
$106.00Meet Bunny in Gray with Blue Ears! Looking for tiny, loving person to cuddle and can be your child's best friend, companion in sleep, on a journey, and in playing. Perfect as...
N&L Find Bunny Plush Toy Gray with Gray Ears
$33.00 – $106.00Bunny in Gray with Gray Ears! Looking for tiny, loving person to cuddle and can be your child's best friend, companion in sleep, on a journey, and in playing. Perfect as a...
N&L Find Bunny Plush Toy Pink with Gray Ears
$33.00 – $106.00Bunny in Pink with Gray Ears! Looking for tiny, loving person to cuddle and can be your child's best friend, or companion in sleep, on a journey, and in playing. Perfect as...
N&L Find Bunny Plush Toy White with Dots
$33.00 – $106.00Bunny in White with Dots Ears! Looking for tiny, loving person to cuddle and can be your child's best friend, or companion in sleep, on a journey, and in playing. Perfect as a gift...
Maileg Bunny Size 4 Sailor
$68.00Ahoy matey! This size 4 Sailor Bunny is definitely not lacking in maritime style. She shows that a relaxing day out on the ocean needs to be coupled with an...
Tender Leaf Toys Bunny Tales Wooden Dolls
$18.00A perfect solid bunny family with Dotty the mum, Benny the dad, and Pip the baby, all finished in stylish colors and ready to add to any doll's house set...
Chronicle Books Busy Baby Book Friends
$9.99In Friends, Busy Baby can play, share, paint, and help cleanup. Whatever Busy Baby does, the most important thing is to make some new friends along the way. Both books...
Cottage Door Press Busy Noisy Farm Book
$19.99Oink, oink! It’s a busy day on the farm! Help a farmer find his lost little pig in this lively, noisy farmyard adventure! Little ones will love exploring the barn and...
Cottage Door Press Busy Noisy Safari Book
$19.99Beep, beep! Hop in for a wild and silly animal adventure! Join dog and cat as they embark on a safari ride and meet new animal pals along the way....
Tikiri Butterfly Natural Rubber Toy
$18.00This super cute Tikiri Butterfly Rattle Toy from the Garden Friends Collection has come from the garden to provide comfort and joy for bath times and bedtimes. Each contains an enclosed...
Cali's Book Cali's Book Bedtime with Mozart
$29.00Children go through their bedtime routine with the help of gentle classical music. Cali's Books Bedtime with Mozart Animal Sound Musical Book excerpts from six magical melodies accompanies text and illustrations...
Cali's Book Cali's Book Brazilian Nursery Rhymes
$29.00Cali's Books Brazilian Nursery Rhymes is incredibly fun with infectious music and rhythm that will make everyone want to dance— children and adults alike. Unlike any other, this book introduces...
Cali's Book Cali's Book Chinese Nursery Rhymes
$29.00Cali's Books Chinese Nursery Rhymes entertains with favorite Chinese tunes, including Pull up carrots. Singing in several languages is enriching for children and adults alike. Cali's Books Chinese Nursery Rhymes Details:...
Cali's Book Cali's Book Count With Nursery Rhymes
$29.00Counting songs in Cali's Books Count with Nursery Rhymes include such favorites as Five Little Monkeys and One, Two, Three, Four, Five. Learning numbers has never been so much fun! Cali's Books...
Cali's Book Cali's Book Dinosaur Alphabet
$29.00Cali's Books Dinosaur Alphabet's delightful illustrations, easy first words, and well-known tune provide an ideal introduction to the ABCs. Singing the alphabet with dinosaurs introduces letters in a fun way. Babies...
Cali's Book Cali's Book French Nursery Rhymes
$29.00Cali's Books French Nursery Rhymes entertains with favorite French tunes, including Frère Jacques. Singing in several languages is enriching for children and adults alike. Cali's Books French Nursery Rhymes Details: For...
Cali's Book Cali's Book Greek Nursery Rhymes
$29.00Singing in different languages is enriching for children and adults alike. The six Greek-language nursery tunes in Cali's Books Greek Nursery Rhymes include English lyrics, giving budding linguists great exposure...
Cali's Book Cali's Book Happy Birthday in Six Lan...
$29.00Let’s learn how to sing Happy Birthday in different languages with Cali's Books Happy Birthday in 6 Languages! Whether it is wanting your little one to learn to sing Happy Birthday or...
Cali's Book Cali's Book I Like the Flowers Nurser...
$29.00Educate children on the importance of taking care of the environment from an early age with I Like The Flowers Nursery Rhymes. Cali's Book I Like the Flowers Nursery Rhymes...
Cali's Book Cali's Book Jewish Nursery Rhymes
$29.00Cali's Books Jewish Nursery Rhymes is the perfect way to introduce toddlers to Jewish songs with songs to celebrate chanukah passover, purim. A great way for teaching Jewish holidays, this...
Cali's Book Cali's Book Jingle Bells Holiday Rhymes
$29.00Cali's Books Jingle Bells Holiday Rhymes has attractive illustrations in seasonal colors accompanied by music to introduce little ones to the pleasure of Christmas carols. A perfect way to celebrate the holiday...
Cali's Book Cali's Book Love Nursery Rhymes
$29.00Cali's Books Love Nursery Rhymes has charming illustrations to celebrate love and Valentineʼs Day. A perfect first Valentine's present! Cali's Books Love Nursery Rhymes Details: For ages 0 to 5 Batteries included...
Cali's Book Cali's Book Shapes Nursery Rhymes
$29.00Dive into a musical adventure with our educational sound book for babies and toddlers, where learning becomes a delightful experience through sing-along songs featuring six different shapes. From the "Square"...
Cali's Book Cali's Book Sing The Alphabet
$29.00With a push of the button, Cali's Books Sing The Alphabet makes learning the alphabet fun! This book’s delightful illustrations, easy first words and a well-known tune provide an ideal introduction...
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.