From ages twelve to twenty-four months, toddlers are learning words and phrases even before they can speak. They gather information from their environments from their senses of hearing, sight, touch, and taste. Choose toys that support their development by stimulating those senses. These toys are good choices to encourage learning toddlers from about 12 to 24 months (one to two years).
Remember when considering toys to follow age recommendations featured on toy packaging for safety. Any toys that are small enough to pass through a paper towel core must be kept away from children under three years of age.
This Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Baby Grand Piano is a musical toy that also teaches numbers, counting, opposites, and color concepts. As your toddler pushes buttons and turns knobs, sounds, words, and musical notes play. This helps your toddler gain awareness of cause and effect and also entertains.
International Playthings I-Play Nest and Stack Buckets is a low-tech, back-to-basics teaching toy that will help your toddler develop hand-eye-coordination. Playing with adults or older children, your toddler can learn names of colors and concepts of size and position. The brightly colored Nest and Stack Buckets could be used for stacking, sorting, and even as molding and scooping sand in sandboxes.
This LeapFrog educational toy introduces children to the alphabet, numbers 1 - 10, shapes and colors through music. Children learn cause and effect relationships in a fun, musical way.
