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Age-by-Age Toy Guide
Early on, your baby's vision and motor skills will, in large part, determine which toys are best for her. Newborns are still developing their vision, so at first patterns with a lot of contrast will attract their attention (for example, black-and-white pictures or contrasting stripes or checks). Other good choices for babies from 1 to 3 months include a bright mobile, an unbreakable mirror attached to the crib, and a rattle that she will quickly learn to grasp and shake. Between 4 and 7 months, babies have improved vision and motor skills. They can visually track soft balls rolling toward them, and they are endlessly fascinated by looking in the mirror. Babies this age also love soft and textured toys that make sounds, as well as baby books with board or cloth pages. At 8 to 12 months, appropriate toys include stacking toys with different sizes, shapes, and colors, large building blocks, "busy boxes" with items babies can push, squeeze, open, or use to make noises (babies this age are learning cause and effect), and large dolls or puppets. Also popular and age-appropriate: push toys. And since kids this age have just learned to take objects out of a container and put them back in, they enjoy playing with buckets or pails that they can fill with other items.
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definately old cell phones!!!
2/24/2010 01:08:01 PM Report AbuseIf you don't mind the mess, paints, markers and crayons on plain white paper are always a good choice. My 15 month old just "discovered" coloring and she can't get enough of it. It doubles are a great teaching tool as she already can say and pick out three colors.
1/8/2010 11:07:28 PM Report AbuseMy 15mo old son looooved to play with the Christmas "decorations" that played songs with the touch of a button. It's too bad we had to put them all away! He doesn't seem to love any one toy quite yet. He's more interested in climbing in and out of the toy chest, etc... I just think it's this age. They can't really concentrate for too long. He does like his FP piggy bank, it's cute. push snout to play songs, he puts coins into the slot, then opens the bank to pull them out.
1/5/2010 07:33:03 PM Report Abuseoyler5, I don't know if you have any old dead cell phones, but that's what we give our son. He is the same as your daughter and not satisfied with toy phones. But he loves playing with our old ones. Hope that's helpful!
12/20/2009 10:19:51 PM Report AbuseOh my goodness..my 16mo old daughter is all over the place! I'm having a hard time finding one toy that keeps her attention. She seems to be more interested climbing on tables etc.. to get at things she's not allowed to play with (mainly phones, computers) we've even got pretend phones & computers, but she's not satisfied with pretend..she wants the real deal..any suggestions on good entertaining toys??
11/10/2009 01:06:59 PM Report Abuse