Educational Toys

My friend has a lit­tle girl that I watch and I would love to get her a fun but edu­ca­tional gift for Christ­mas. I don’t have a lot of money but up to $20 I could do.
For those Mommy’s and Daddy’s on here… do you have any rec­om­men­da­tions?
Thanks very much! =)

she seems to get so bored with the toys we have for her now, any sug­ges­tions? What does a one year old like?

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Wyatt’s birth­day is soon approach­ing (well 2 months) and he needs some toys that will make him think. He no longer plays with the toys he has, he would rather try to stack bowls, try to get things to fit together or some­thing else some­what chal­leng­ing for a 10 month old. So what are some good toys that would keep him “think­ing” and that would have a bit of chal­lenge to it?

I have a 22 month old. He is too old for the noise mak­ing, but­ton push­ing toys. He likes sort­ing, and toys that are chal­leng­ing. Do any of you have sug­ges­tions of GREAT toys that are ente­tain­ing for my lit­tle guy????

We have the usual toys: swings, bumbo chair, vibrat­ing chair, play­mats, tummy time toys… What other toys are there that babies really like? I am think­ing ahead for a few things to ask for as christ­mas presents for my lit­tle boy.

look for ‘sci­ence’ dis­cov­ery type toys, like an ant farm, or sim­ple sci­ence experiements he can do like mak­ing a ‘vol­cano’ with sim­ple indre­di­ents.
Six year old boys often like bugs, maybe you could get him a book on bugs and a mag­ni­fy­ing glass?
They also like dinosaurs. Any books with lots of pic­tures and maybe plas­tic dinosaurs to play with. Or a dinosaur bone skele­ton puzzle.

My daugh­ter turns 1 in 2 months (OMG thats scary when i write it down) and she has TONS of toy but i want to get her some­thing to help develop her mind, whether it be cre­ativly or oth­er­wise what do you recommend?

wal-mart.…babies R Us.….ANYTHING can be edu­ca­tional if you make it. i have a 1 year old too, so i know what i’m talk­ing about.
just have fun with her. get her a set of wooden blocks.…my son has some and they are his favorite things. i feed him A LOT of hormel cups (they make them in Mac n cheese and chicken noo­dle rings and oth­ers) any­ways, they come with a lit­tle plas­tic lid. when i get done cook­ing it, i give the lid to him. he prob­a­bly has 20 or 30. he LOVES those things. they are FREE, basi­cally. he stacks them and i count them with him. like i said, any­thing can be used as a learn­ing toy…and it doesn’t have to be expen­sive.
good luck!

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Try the web­site www.discoverytoys.com. They have toys rang­ing from new­born through teens. Every toy is edu­ca­tional as well as fun. The prices range from cheap to expen­sive. I have 3 chil­dren and have pur­chased all of their edu­ca­tional toys from them. They will ship them directly to your home. Hope this helps.

I like www.lakeshorelearning.com
They have stores too. You can search by age or grade level.