Here are our picks for the best 20 toys for babies from newborns to toddler.
1. The First Years My First Rattle
Recommended for newborns up to 6 months
This will make a great first rattle for babies. It will encourage babies to strengthen their gripping abilities. The easy grip design will make it comfortable on their little fingers. The bright colorful patterns will also capture their attention as they focus on building their visual awareness.
2. Soothing Teething Mitten and Ice Gel Teether Keys
For 3+ Months
The Nuby Ice Gel Teether Keys is excellent for babies who are teething. It has been designed with PBA-free textured surfaces and Nuby’s purIce technology that provides gentle cooling on baby’s gums after leaving it in the refrigerator. Even the grip is designed for their little hands which can help with coordination.
3. Plush Toy for Baby – Peek-a-Boo Elfie the Elephant
Recommended Newborn and up
This adorable Peek-a-Boo Elfie plush toy is great for babies who love playing peek-a-book! The large ears make it easy for them to hide and can easily move and flap during play. This super soft plushable toy can also sing “Do your ears hang low” and say “Peekaboo, where are you”. This would be the perfect baby gift for any newborns.
4. Sassy Developmental Bumpy Ball
Recommended for 6 months and up
This colorful Sassy Development Bumpy toy ball is high contrast and designed with different dimensions to help your baby develop tactile sensitivity, strengthen their vision, create neural connections in their brain and improve their motor skills as they engage with it.
5. Bright Starts 5-in-1 Your Way Ball Play Activity Gym
Recommended Newborn and up
Babies will have a blast in this adjustable playmat that they can use for tummy time as well as a ball pit as they get older! There are also electronic lights and music that will keep the baby entertained and help stimulate their senses.
6. Fisher-Price Deluxe Kick ‘n Play Piano Gym
Recommended Newborn and up
This Fisher Price piano gym playmat is so musical! With the giant piano keys, babies can kick away and rewarded with musical tunes. There’s so many features that comes with this playmat such as hanging animals, large mirror and music that plays up to 15 minutes at a time! The playmat also comes in different colors and themes to choose from.
7. Tiny Love Gymini Move and Play Activity Gym, Animals
Recommended Newborn and up
This exciting Tiny Love gym mat is perfect for babies! It has bright colors and can be easily folded for storage. The mat also comes with 7 animal toys and has electronic lights that responds to the music. Babies will enjoy the different toys and have fun interacting with the music. The toys can be hung overhead and it helps stimulate babies since hearing is one of the senses that is more developed. There’s also a mirror which will stimulate visual interests. The mat is also comfortable enough for practicing tummy time.
8. Manhattan Toy Winkel Rattle and Sensory Teether Toy
Recommended Newborn to 2 years
This award winning rattle and teether toy is a a true classic that will mesmerize babies with their beautiful colors and continuous tubes. It will also help develop their gross motor skills as they reach out to grab and shake it.
9. Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes Musical Toy
Recommended 3 months to 3 years
Little ones will enjoy this Take Along Tunes that comes with classical music masterpieces by Mozart, Vivaldi, Chopin, and Rossini. The beautiful music and bright lights will help develop babies auditory and visual perception.
10. Sassy Wonder Wheel Activity Center
Recommended for 6 months and up
This colorful spinning wonder wheel will keep your baby entertained as they develop their hand eye coordination and strengthen their fine motor skills. The spinning wheel will entice the baby to pull, grab and spin the wheel., especially with the sound of the beads when it reacts to the spin. This is a great addition for table top and even high chair toys as it comes with a suction cup to keep it from fall over!
11. Bright Starts Lots of Links
Recommended newborn to 3 years
Babies will love chewing, twisting, squeezing, bending, and connecting these colorful links. They also come in very handy for the grown ups as they can attach toys to any play area and gear item they wish. The links are made with BPA-plastic free making it safer for kids.
12. Fisher-Price Rock-a-Stack and Baby’s 1st Blocks Bundle
Recommended 6 months and up
Babies will enjoy this bundle of toys. They will understand the concepts of relative size and develop better balance and coordination skills while they sit and stack this ring. They will also fall in love with the put, take, & dump blocks bucket. They will develop great motor and problem solving skills as well as learn different shapes and colors with this fun set. This is a must have for babies to keep busy and learn from these classic toys!
13. Baby Einstein Primary Pages High Contrast Book
Recommended for Newborn and up
Introduce your baby to the amazing world of books, textures, colors, and patterns with this soft black & white Baby Einstein Book! It’s easy to bring along by clipping on the stroller with it’s easy link and the book is made with soft materials making page flipping very easy. The contrast is made for babies eyes so it will capture their attention. This is one way for babies to discover their early love for books!
14. Tech Wiggle & Crawl Ball
Recommended 6 months to 3 years
Babies will develop strong motor skills, language development, and sensory stimulation with this play & crawl moving ball! With over 45 playful songs, phrases and sounds and five flashing lights, babies will have a blast chasing the moving ball!
15. VTech Turn and Learn Driver
Recommended 6 months to 2 years
The VTech Turn and Learn Driver is the perfect toy for babies to explore their imagination. They can pretend to drive a car and imagine traffic lights. With three different modes to select from, your baby can choose animal, driving or music mode. There is also a signal lever that triggers sounds and music, and five colorful buttons that can help introduce animals and vehicles. This is definitely a toy that will keep babies busy!
16. Cute Wild Animals Chunky Wooden Puzzle for Toddlers, Preschool Age w/ “Easy-Hold” Colorful Solid Wood Pieces of African Safari Animals. Simple Educational & Sensory Learning
Recommended 12 months to 3 years
This Cubbie Lee Wooden Puzzle is excellent for babies starting at age 1. There are seven colored pieces and made of SGS certified wood tested to the highest safety standard. It’s very bright and durable making it a very high quality puzzle that is perfect for problem solving, and educational play!
17. tiny Love Meadow Days Take Along Mobile
Recommended for Newborns and up
18. Little Tikes Shopping Cart – Yellow/Red
Recommended for 24 months – 5 years
Your little one will feel like a professional shopper with this colorful and durable 2 feet high shopping cart. It has a nice deep basket that can hold both large and small items and a fold down seat that your little one can place their favorite toy in. It also comes with an extra storage space under the basket and smooth rolling wheels that will help make shopping a breeze for your toddler.
19. Fisher-Price 3-in-1 Bounce, Stride and Ride Elephant
Recommended for 9 months – 3 years
This Fisher Price Stride and Elephant is an excellent toy for encouraging babies to sit, bounce and walk! It was designed to help with balance and coordination. In addition, there’s plenty of sounds, phrases, sing-along-songs, music and interactive lights that will keep babies entertained. The different features on this toy that will teach babies cause and effect such as when the bumblebee wobbles and roller ball rattles!
20. HOMOFY Baby Toys – Lovely Dancing Yellow Duck Early EQ Education ,Music and Learning ,Walking ,Singing,Flashing LED Lights, New Gifts Toys
18 Months+ up
Recommended for 18 months+
Let your child enjoy the fun of this stimulating and fun toy! The Lovely Dancing Yellow Duck is very colorful in design and is the perfect gift for babies! They will feel like they are playing with a real duck since its wings flap, eyes blink and turn around when bumping into things! It has sing-along tunes which babies could wiggle to and equipped with bright colorful lights! This is a good toy for stimulating their visual, hearing senses and improve hand-eye coordination.
