What Great Educational Toys Should I Buy My 5 Month Old Baby Girl?

Read­ing to your baby is great cud­dle time and helps build a love of books and read­ing. You can get plain (no text) pic­ture books like the ones by Tana Hoban or read sim­ple sto­ries. Even a mag­a­zine with pic­tures. Sure, baby doesn’t under­stand yet, but will love to look at the pics and will love the time with you. We’ve been read­ing to our daugh­ter since she was a month or two old and she LOVES books now at 16 months.
The bot­tle ideas are great. We also filled water bot­tles with col­ored water for her to roll around and shake, etc. We put some lit­tle plas­tic fish in one, too.
Another good home made toy: clean out old cans (like from toma­toes or soup) of dif­fer­ent sizes. Make sure there aren’t any sharp edges. Cover in col­ored duct tape and/or elec­tri­cal tape and you’ve got stack­ing cups, drums and rolling toys all in one

my 5 1/2 month old loves her saucer but enjoys her empy bot­tle with col­or­ful beads just as much…i switch the toys every few days so she doesn’t get bored…also if u haven’t already the only thing i would invest a few bucks on are those toys to hang from the carseat…gets the motor skills going while they try to grab them…keeps things col­or­ful not “pastelly”

Empty water bot­tle with some dried cherrios.

Try giv­ing her house­hold items you already have.
Pots, pans, mea­sur­ing spoons & cups, tup­per­ware. Fill a water­bot­tle with beads and duct tape the lid securely closed.
Kids love this stuff and it won’t cost you a dime!
Infant toys are used for such a short time, I rec­om­mend “home made” toys instead.