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How to Pick Educational Toys for 7 Year Olds | KidzInc

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Mathew Slavica

Seven-year-olds are at that brilliant age where they are ready to make their mark on the world around them. Seven-year-olds love to decorate their rooms with things they've made and chosen.

They love craft projects that make something that lasts, not just something that's pretty. Seven-year-olds are getting interested in world topics and future career ideas.

They're dreaming of becoming teachers, artists, veterinarians, scientists, and dinosaur wranglers. Their fine motor skills are advanced, and brain teasers grab their interest, and it is not hard to build a gift guide for them if you are us 😃. 

What is the best kind of gift for a first grader this holiday season or a special birthday?

Give them something educational and hands-on that will last. Craft kits are a big hit at seven because there's so much to do, and the results can be used as toys and decorations after they're finished.

They also love board games and puzzles that can be replayed to reach new challenges and games that can be played with new friends from school. Here are our top picks for great seven-year-old gift ideas this year!

Origami Make-Your-Own Room Lights

Creative seven-year-olds love to decorate their rooms with their own creations. Paint a chalkboard wall and watch the murals unfold.

Build flat-pack furniture together, and they'll say "I built that" every time a friend gets a tour of their room. This is why we love the Room Lights Origami craft set by 4M for children who are brilliant and creative seven-year-olds this year.

First, kids can tackle the fun of learning how to make all sorts of pretty origami shapes.

These include flowers, hearts, strawberries, and butterflies. It comes with paper and instructions for each shape but, even better is what happens next.

Then you take the string of lights and pop an origami piece onto each little bulb, making a glowing paper lantern that your seven-year-old folded themselves!

Your little one will love this gift and be proud of their work every time they see their twinkling bedroom lights.

Qwirkle Creative Board Game

Qwirkle is a fun game young children can play alone or together in groups. The tiles are painted wood, and the rules are simple.

Each tile is painted black with a colourful shape. There are five colours and five shape types.

Children must match the shape or colour of the already-laid tile they select to place a new tile.

This pattern-building game results in endless combinations of colour and shape based rows that look like a geometric cross-word puzzle as the game progresses. 

Children can play solo, with an adult, or with a group of friends, learning cognitive thinking, problem-solving, cooperation, and applied mathematics.

This board game is an excellent addition to the family game cupboard or can live on your seven-year-old's own toy shelf to be pulled down every time there are fifteen minutes to spare and some new patterns to match.

This is an amazing, interactive game for kids. Better than video games, in our opinion

Build-Your-Own Solar Powered Robot

What a building kit! Rover is a hybrid solar-powered robot that can also run on batteries that kids love.

When the sun shines, Rover starts to roll, showing that he is converting the sun's energy into electricity that a robot can use.

But wait, there's more. Rover isn't a prefabricated plastic toy that beeps and moves a little; it's a robot your seven-year-old can build for themselves.

This solar toy uses basic instructions to inspire early STEM learning and empower children to realize their own technological capabilities.

Put the power of gears, wheels, and the sun's energy into the hands of your seven-year-old as they learn that they, too, can be engineers and scientists with the right tools and a little hard work.

Science kits are great, but building your own robot does not get much better!

Coggy Brainteaser Puzzle Game

Coggy is one of the best portable non-board games for young children this year. Coggy is a click-together magnetic game of gears and puzzles.

Each piece fits to the others uniquely and can fold into new shapes and puzzle machines.

The cards that come with Coggy include challenge after challenge, ranging from easy to crazy-difficult, to inspire cognitive development every time your seven-year-old plays.

This game is designed to teach math, geometry, spatial learning, problem-solving and makes a great fidget-toy set to boot.

Seven-year-olds are wonderful to share a holiday with because they will dive into any gift that involves crafting, building, puzzle-solving, and taking charge of their environment.

Give your seven-year-old or the brilliant child in your near family a gift they can play with (and learn from!) all year long.

If you are looking for our full list of gifts or the perfect gift for 7-year-olds, you can head here. 

If you have more than one age group to search for and want STEM toys or educational toys for kids, then you can head here or here.

How to Pick Educational Toys For Six-Year-Olds

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Mathew Slavica

What do you gift a six-year-old who loves all their toys from when they were five? Choosing the right gift can be challenging with the holidays coming up (or perhaps a birthday right around the corner).

Not because six-year-olds are hard to shop for (they're not!) but because six-year-olds love everything and have the potential to benefit from so many toys and games.

Whether you are looking for a building set, board game, or just a stocking stuffer, you will find it here, and they have all been independently selected by us to help teach kids fine motor skills, math skills, creativity, and so much more.

Instead of the usual cartoon-themed action figure, the perfect gift for an active, brilliant little six-year-old is a game that challenges them to think, explore, create, and be proud of what they've accomplished.

Six-year-olds are ready to do, learn, and create. They are prepared to put their art on the walls, make their own toys, and prove how smart they are again and again with puzzle games and higher scores.

Suppose you want to gift your six-year-old a present that will both entertain them all year and provide valuable early STEM benefits, fine motor, and critical thinking skills.

In that case, we have a few favourite toys and games that are a delight to see your first-grader master through creative play.

Our toys all have been selected for their educational benefit, and we have a large number of STEM Toys.

Genius Square Logic Puzzle Game

The Genius Square logic puzzle game is, well, genius. It's also designed to teach children problem-solving and geometric math skills early in their academic careers. The game starts as a 6x6 grid with letter and number coordinates.

Dice are rolled to determine where the seven blocker pieces are placed. Then each player (with their own grid) tries to figure out how to use their Tetris-like pieces to fill the square without hitting the blockers.

This geometric puzzle can be played many times with over 62,000 possible combinations for the blocker pieces alone.

If you want to give a gift that will inspire your little mathematician or future architect, the Genus Square game is a perfect game you can play together, or your first-grader can play solo for hours of fun.

Easy-to-Do Crochet Craft Kit

Six-year-olds love to create and not just to knock it down again. Six-year-olds want to see real results from their work and play with toys they make themselves or hang their new art on the walls.

They also love to learn new skills and to practice fine motor control by crafting with their hands. 

The Easy-to-Do Crochet kit is a great beginner craft project for little hands with safe, brightly coloured materials and a step by step guide.

Children can get started practising making flowers, then graduate to headbands, necklaces, pot holders, coozies, and much, much more!

If you want a wonderful gift for a creative and artistic six-year-old, the Crochet crafting kit is a fantastic gift that creates permanent projects - or you can unravel and start all over.

Zig & Go Musical Race Track

Making noise and playing with physics go hand-in-hand with the Zig & Go music set by Djeco. This fun 52 piece set is a track with multiple rollers and noisemakers.

There are metal marbles that pass a track of chimes, a hammer-car that hits a gong, and a bell car that dings as it rolls. There are dominos to knock over and drum sticks to drop.

If your six-year-old loves Home Alone, they'll adore this Rube Goldberg style music-making kit, and so will you.

Zig & Go offers hours of play, but, more importantly, it introduces STEM style science experimentation and physics play long before your little one's first science lab.

This is a fantastic multi-piece musical playset for a six-year-old who loves to set up experiments with household items.

Door Pong Indoor Game

Is your little one too energetic for indoor play? Some children love to move around, run, jump, bat, climb, and occasionally tumble over the household furniture.

They will crawl under, jump over, and knock over just about anything. You can harness that energy into hours of hand-eye coordination and gross motor development with a simple game called Door Pong.

Door pong hooks to the centre of a doorframe with a light, bouncy ping-pong ball on a string and two paddles. 

The best part is that the game is just a string, and you can set the string length. Easy to put up and easy to put down.

Set up your little one to bat at the string from a safe location. The ball always comes back, and, even better, this is a great toy for siblings to share.

A perfect toy gift for kids stuck indoors and great for rainy days.

Flower Garden Paper Craft Set

Does your six-year-old love paper crafts and making beautiful art? The Flower Garden paper multi-craft set is an amazing arts & crafts gift for a six-year-old this year because it has so many projects to do that all turn out beautifully.

This kit includes paper flowers, watercolour paints, foam stamps, and pop-up paper crafts, all themed in an artistic garden style.

This gift teaches fine motor control and hand-eye coordination and inspires creative cognitive development for a first-grader who can't get enough construction papercrafts.

Don't be surprised if your little one starts making crafts in ways other than how they were intended. That's just a sign of their confidence and creativity growing.

If you are looking for gift guides or toys for 6-year olds that kids will love, then any of the above will be an excellent gift for kids. Our you can see the full collection of educational toys for 6 year olds here

How to Pick the Best Educational Toys for Four-Year-Olds

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Mathew Slavica

There are few things more delightful than holidays with a four-year-old. There's nothing a four-year-old loves more than fun new games and family to play them with. Children at this age are challenging their brains with everything they can find. Four-year-olds love early STEM in the form of science projects, building, and games that involve increasing levels of early math, science. Some are creative and make art out of everything they play with, from finger paint to game tiles. Some are constructive and start building machines. 

The best gifts for a four-year-old are toys and games that ignite their cognitive learning for both solo pretend play and playing with others. Games designed around early STEM and creative exploration will be a hit not just with the toddler in your life but will also be fun for older family members to play along with, which is what your bright, interactive four-year-old wants most of all.

Geoform Wooden Magnet Set by Djeco

Geometric shapes are fun to make pictures with, as every kid learns the first time they have a set of geometric tiles. Djeco introduces a fun and neat new way for young children to play with geometry with the Geoform Wooden Magnetic Set. Don't let the name fool you. 

This set is 42 colourful geometric shapes like squares, rectangles, triangles, half-circles and ring pieces in various sizes. The pieces are kept in a cute wooden portfolio and a magnetic canvas for 2D geometric creations. Your toddler can draw people, animals, buildings, and anything their imagination can discover out of simple shapes inspiring cognitive, creative, and early mathematical exploration.

Coko Programmable Crocodile Robot by Clementoni

It's never too early to learn to program! The Coko Crocodile robot toy is the baby's first program writer. This crocodile has a long back that can take up to 8 tile directions and 15 direction tiles to choose from. Each tile has an arrow telling the crocodile to go straight, turn, stop, spin, or make a sound. It will also respond to its magnetic "food" piece making this a fun robotic pet for your little computer genius in the making.

Coko introduces four-year-olds to the concept of taking control through a sequence of commands. Like Uno only with robots, children set up a sequence of commands and hit the button on the crocodile's head to see it in action.

Bee Genius Game by The Happy Puzzle Company

In the Bee Genius board game, the child helps a queen bee to construct a new honeycomb for the hive. The worker bees are placed with a dice roll, and children can put their 11 coloured honeycomb pieces without spaces around the worker bees. This game has over 45,000 possible puzzle combinations for endless math and geometry fun. This non-competitive game was designed to help children develop early logic, math, and thinking skills and build self-confidence in their own abilities to solve puzzles with help and on their own.

Feed the Woozle by the Peaceable Kingdom

Feed the Woozle is a silly, cooperative game that kids can play together. The Woozle is a stand-up cartoon with a wide hungry mouth. How many snacks can your four-year-old "feed" the woozle with their scoop without dropping the snacks doing silly actions?

This game incorporates counting, following directions, fine motor skills, balance, language development, hand-eye coordination, and cooperative play. It combines it all with silly actions that will have your four-year-old giggling every time you play. The game itself by Peaceable Kingdom won several children's game awards for learning toy play and parents' choice.

1, 2, 3, Domino Math Game by Djeco

Four-year-olds love to show off how well they can count and do simple mathematical concepts, and the best way to do math as a pre-schooler is with pictures! The 1, 2, 3 Domino Math Game is an excellent way for four-year-olds to play alone, with each other, and with family to practice their early math and problem-solving skills. Colourful tiles feature numbers and pictures of birds, bugs, candies, and other little items in groups that match the numbers.

This is a game that will become a staple in your board game cupboard for years and makes a great holiday gift that your four-year-old kids will love to play once or twice with every relative who comes to visit.

Four-year-olds don't just love unwrapping the paper; they are old enough to love every great new game to play. If you're looking for gift ideas for a bright young pre-schooler in your life, educational games that inspire fine motor control and problem-solving will keep your four-year-old not just entertained but sharpening their minds with every replay.

We love finding educational toys for kids; since 2009, our mission at KidzInc has been to develop young minds. See the full collection of educational toys for four year olds

How to Pick Educational Toys for Three-Year-Olds

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Mathew Slavica

Three-year-olds are amazing to play and talk with. They are mastering language in their baby way and looking to explore their universe more completely. They are ready to take on the world and explore every corner from the biggest cloud to the tiniest bug past the terrible twos. Three-year-olds want to know why and how and to do it themselves. Your three-year-old is a bundle of energy and curiosity, and giving them gifts is just another opportunity to watch them discover something new.

We have tons of toy gift ideas for three year old because they are so ready to learn. Educational toys are the best kind of gift for any little explorer to help them dig deeper into the world around them in a safe yet inspiring way. Gift a three-year-old in your life with toys that empower them to build, explore, and find out for themselves through open-ended play.

Squigz by Fat Brain Toys

What's more fun than a barrel of monkeys? A barrel of bendy monkeys with suction-cup arms! Squigz set includes is a 36-piece bucket of creative fun. Each Squigz is a colourful silicone disc and multiple bendy suction-cup arms that stick together, pop apart and hang from any smooth, clean surface. Stack them, make them dance, and pose them on the bathroom mirror. Even the centres are suction cups!

Share your own Squigz memories with a new generation or discover the fun with your three-year-old. Every bucket comes with

• Five green Blips,
• Four yellow Veeps,
• Two small pink Mimzys,
• Two orange Forbert's,
• Three light green Chazes,
• Three blue Tripzops,
• Three red Deans,
• Five long pink Glipitys,
• Five light blue Mips, and
• Four purple Bubzles

Each colour has its own size, number of arms and arm length to make your three-year-old's constructions even more fun. Squiz teaches toddlers fine motor control and inspires construction, creativity, critical thinking, and fine hand-eye coordination to make complex shapes and stick them to smooth surfaces.

Genuinely, this is the kind of brain-teaser toy that everyone winds up playing with and sticking in unexpected places over a shared family holiday.

Balance Teeter Popper by Fat Brain Toys

Speaking of toys that take over the holiday, the Balance Teeter Popper is one of those sensory toys that toddlers love, and older kids have to try out while the babies are napping. The Balance Teeter Popper is a scoop-seat with rising handles on either side. Essentially, it's a teeter and balance toy. You can sit on it and wiggle or stand on it and 'surf', But the real fun is the poppers.

The bottom of the Teeter Popper is covered in suction cups that stick, pull, and let go with a pop as you teeter. This toy teaches balance and sensory feedback, as every degree of wobble comes with a pop on one side and a stick on the other. Children learn stability, strength, and gross motor control to start. Soon they will be strategizing ways to sit, stand, spin, and 'walk' the board. The only age limit is the size of the board.

Magicube Word Building by Geomag

Three-year-olds are often just learning to spell and love puzzles that are also physical games. The coolest "board" game for toddlers today is the Magicube Word Building puzzle. These letter building blocks stack with magnets to form an architectural crossword puzzle. The game comes with 16 blocks and 63 tiles that can change the faces of your blocks. Inspire your three-year-old's cognitive, fine motor, and gross motor skills as they learn to build their first spelt words.

The word-building game is a fantastic way to encourage three-year-olds to make spelling part of their everyday play. Early reading, spontaneous spelling, and self-challenging become the foundation for academic success.

Dimple Pops Deluxe Board by Fat Brain Toys

Sensory play is still essential for three-year-olds, but they require more complexity than younger toddlers. This makes the Dimple Pops Deluxe Board a great sensory toy to inspire imaginative play. Fine motor control and hand-eye coordination are only the beginning of what toddlers can learn from a Dimple board.

Dimple makes a line of products increasing in complexity, each featuring double-sided colourful dimples of various sizes and colours. Young children learn colours from sensory play, while older children will likely imagine surprising and creative games, unlocking their abstract thought with a larger multi-button Dimple board.

Geosafari Jr. Kidnoculars by Learning Resources

Let's not forget that three-year-olds are explorers at heart, and they love to pretend play. They love role-playing stories about dinosaurs, bugs, unusual plants, and outer space. It's great to empower your toddler to boldly explore the world around them, from the sky above to the carpet fibres below. The Kidnoculars are designed to give toddlers with early fine motor skills an easy way to look far away. These adjustment-free, extra-large binoculars can be fitted easily for an adventurous three-year-old to look at anything far away.

Binoculars can look at the night sky, at distant trees, across the yard, at cool stuff on car rides, and all the way into the kitchen. These are durable plastic and rubber material designed to be comfortable, easy to use, and immediately inspire an adventure as soon as they are unwrapped.

At KidzInc, we are dedicated to educational and STEM toys that develop their minds and natural skills and stock a wide range of three-year-old educational toys.

The Best Educational Toys for Two-Year-Olds | KidzInc

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Mathew Slavica

Your two-year-old has been focusing on learning about the world and is getting the hang of things. They can crawl, walk, reach, grab, and throw with proficiency. Two-year-olds are also getting very investigative.

The couch-diving and plug-pulling phase is really a desire to explore the spaces and STEM concepts around them.

For a two-year-old, the best kind of gift is one that helps them learn new fine motor and mental skills.

Two-year-olds want to practice thinking and doing for themselves. They also become more confident when they are encouraged to explore with discovery and educational toys.

Here are some of our favourite development inspiring gift toys for a 2-year old this holiday season.

Rolly Spiral Tower by Quercetti

Nothing teaches two-year-olds about gravity, quite like the marble path. 

The Rolly Spiral Tower is your two-year-old's first marble tower, sized and designed to be toddle-safe. This toy teaches layers of sensory play and early STEM learning. 

The tower is made of easy stacking disks, each a different colour of the rainbow that stacks together into a marble track almost as tall as your toddler.

The marbles are clear, half-clear, and opaque plastic balls full of rattling sprinkles that are fun to shake, roll, and send down the tower.

Building a tower teaches fine motor and gross motor skills, controlling the marbles practices hand-eye coordination for two-year-olds, and the physics game inspires cognitive learning and first lessons on velocity and gravity working together.

My First Animal Train, Magnetic Discovery Set by Smartmax

The train of animals has been a classic gift for toddlers for over a century. 

Carved wooden trains and circus animals have been teaching babies the names of animals and how pull-tracks work for almost as long as there have been trains. 

The My First Animal Train is a delightfully modern take on the original peg and hook train sets. 

Gift your two-year-old with this delightful 25-piece magnetic set of colourful train pieces and animals.

This toy is a fun introduction to the Smartmax magnetic building toys that will inspire STEM learning in young children year after year.

The My First Animal Train is an excellent choice if looking for a classic toy redesigned as a cognitive development puzzle. Outstanding for developing fine motor skills and pretend play. 

Topanifarm Stacking Blocks by Djeco

The Topanifarm Stacking Blocks are a fun twist on classic stacking blocks for two-year-olds who love to stack. Every block is a house for a different little toy animal.

The biggest block is a barn for the boar, then a dog house for the puppy, a house with a painted tree swing for the pig, an ivy-covered cat house for the kitty, a window house for the bunny, and a cute tiny hutch for the hen at the top.

Two-year-olds who enjoy playing with animals and having toy pets will love building special stacks of homes for their little Topanifarm animals.

Stacking the Topanifarm home blocks teaches fine and gross motor skills, and placing each animal will help children practice precise hand-eye coordination.

These toys will inspire hours of imaginary play and creative cognitive development. For a fun gift that will turn into endless animal stories, these little houses and animals are a great gift idea.

They are the most beautiful building blocks you will find and perfect for little hands from 18 months. We used these with our daughter ourselves.

Lockbasic Wooden Puzzle by Djeco

Two-year-olds often love to open things. They want to explore, unfasten, unravel, unplug and access everything. It's a natural part of their exploratory and scientific nature.

The Lockbasic Wooden Puzzle is a fun way to explore cognitive learning, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor control as children explore locks and latches.

Each of the three puzzle compartments has a different kind of latch and locking mechanism. One has a hook latch, one a turning key lock, and one has a simple bar latch.

Each compartment opens to a fun peek-a-boo animal that children can practice opening and closing to see.

This game not only teaches fine control and problem-solving, but it also teaches an important lesson about how to get through doors in places like parks and restaurants. 

Finding the perfect gift for a two-year-old in your life, whether you are a proud parent or a close family member or friend, is best when the toy inspires joy and learning.

The Lockbasic is a magical wooden toy and brilliant at building matching skills. These toys are sensory, encourage exploration, inspire STEM cognitive learning, and help toddlers master motor control.

All of the above toys are easy storage, and kids love them! They encourage imaginative play and developing skills at this critical learning age. If you are looking for our full collection of educational toys for two year olds, head here. 

How to Pick the Best Educational Toys for One Year Olds

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Mathew Slavica

One-year-olds are interested in everything. They will grab, turn, spin, drop, throw, taste, and tumble over anything they can get their hands on. This isn't chaos; it's science! What does a scientist do with a brand new type of rock? They weigh it, spin it, balance it, polish it, taste it, and find other ways to test its properties. One-year-olds are testing the properties of everything in the world; it's all brand new. This is especially true when it comes to toys and new gifts.

As the gift-giving season approaches, the question looms: what wonderful toys can you gift your one-year-old or a very special toddler in your life? With so many one-day toys on the market, how can you choose a gift that will inspire, teach, and entertain your child for months of fun early childhood development play in the next year. The best toys for toddler development are those that help them sort and play with the categories of the world around them, learning how the world works and why it works that way through sensory and puzzle play.

Spinny Pins by Fat Brain Toys

We love Fat Brain Toys because they always come up with a new game to play based on the principles of early childhood development. Spinny Pins is a wobbly bowl with a chime inside and five colour-coded slots. The slots, as you might guess, hold five colourful wobbly pins. Each pin sits, wobbles, spins, and has its unique texture for sensory learning. The pins can be matched to their colour slots and placed upside-down ("hiding" in the bowl) or right-side-up to sit like happy chicks in a nest.

Spinny Pins offers hours of colour-matching, wobbling, and musical fun. More importantly, it teaches hand-eye coordination, pattern matching, and the fundamental physics of differently weighted wobbly objects that are safe and fun to play with.

Gears & Cogs Busy Bee Learning Puzzle by Le Toy Van & Petilou

Have you ever watched gears spin with fascination? So do babies! Gears are inherently interesting as the little teeth line up, and the big gears spin the little gears at different speeds. With the Gears & Cogs Busy Bee Learning Puzzle, your toddler can explore the delight of gears with big, safe wooden pieces lined up on a fascinating pegboard of posts.

One-year-olds can learn how to fit gears and cogs of different shapes together, line up the teeth, and how gears turn each other. As their puzzles get more complicated, they can build and rebuild new machines, then turn the crank handle to watch their whole machine turn! This toy teaches fine motor control, visual perception, hand-eye control, and cognitive logical problem-solving at an early age.

The Inny Bin by Fat Brain Toys

The Inny Bin is genius in its simplicity and potential for hours of rapt play for a curious one-year-old in your life. The Inny Bin is this: a BPA-free plastic cube frame where each side has a "cage" of colourful fabric-elastic bands to form a box. This springy box is a collection of six clunky textured 3D shapes that match the colours of the bands and can - sometimes - fit between the elastic. Children can play for hours figuring out how to get the shapes into and out of the Inny Cube and learning about tension, elasticity, size, shape, and colour all at the same time.

This cube is a puzzle, toy, and clean-up box all in one, as children can load up their bright colour shapes and take the entire Inny Cube to another room without a mess as a special gift to the parents (even if that's you). 

The Colour and Shape Sorter by Hape

Last but certainly not least, let's not forget the Colour and Shape Sorter. Hape is beloved for natural wooden toys that teach children essential early childhood development skills. The Colour and Shape Sorter is a beautiful carved wooden board with six slots, three circles, three triangles, and three squares. It comes with nine prisms matching in shape, each a little taller than the last. Each shape-set also represents a colour palette of blue, green, and orange.

These simple pieces that fit together, stack, and match can teach a young one-year-old so much that newer toy designs can never diminish. Critical thinking, fine motor skills, pattern matching, shape and colour naming, and colour palettes can be learned with simple exploratory play with the Colour and Shape Sorter board and blocks.

Is there a special one-year-old who's going to get an exceptional gift this year? Play kits, stacking toys, Hape, Melissa and Doug, Fatbrain Toys we have them all! If you are looking for a gift guide this selection has it all for tiny hands and beautiful minds.

The best gift you can give is toys that inspire early childhood development and a lifelong love of learning.

KidzInc has the best educational toys for kids. We are here to help busy parents when it comes to selecting toys that develop their children. You can see our full collection of educational toys for one year olds here. 

How to Pick the Best Educational Toys for Babies

Posted on October 07, 2021 by Lubica Misevski

When choosing baby toys, do you pick something with high contrast, a wooden toy, something black and white or something to develop their motor skills? At KidzInc, we believe educational toys for babies is the best choice. No matter the colour or contrast.

When it comes to giving gifts to infants, we always think of their future. Babies learn from everything they see, touch, hear, smell, and gum.

They are learning to explore first their own hands and feet, then the incredible wide world around them.

As the holidays approach, many of us find ourselves trying to find the perfect gift for an infant, whether you are a proud (if exhausted) parent or a loving nearby relative or family friend who will be an important part of this infant's life.

While you could gift a basket of strawberry-banana mash, what will light up a baby's eyes is sensory toys.

After all, it's new senses and experiences that babies are learning from most of all - and exploring as pure delightful play.

We've put together some of our favourite sensory toys for infants that make fantastic gifts for the upcoming holidays or the special first birthday for the infant in your life.

The Skwish, a Manhattan Toy Classic

The Skwish is a sensory exploration of colourful wooden balls, posts, and springy string. The Squish flexes when you grab it, it bounces when you throw it, and it makes dozens of geometric shapes when looked at from any angle.

Babies can start to grasp the basics of STEM as soon as they can watch a toy fall and roll, making the classic Skwish one of the best for early sensory exploration.

It's no surprise this toy has won numerous awards for its simple yet perfectly fascinating design.

The Manhattan Toy Skwish is made from entirely renewable rubberwood with water-based non-toxic paints in bright primary colours. Every Skwish is double-tested and is ensured to exceed safety codes for both US and European markets.

Tobbles Neo by Fat Brain Toy Co

Babies love to stack, nest, and watch toys wobble. Why not give your infant a gift that does all three at once? Tobbles Neo is a beautiful six-cup stack of two-coloured wobbly cups, each slightly larger than the last.

Every foam cup has a two-tone colour you can name, its own weight, size, and place in the stack.

Babies will learn hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness while practising stacking, and their observation of both wobbles and fall-down stacks will teach them early lessons in how gravity and mass work together.

These tobbles are perfect for baby hands just learning to grasp and starting to stack. As a gift, tobbles will keep your baby happy long after they tire of playing with the wrapping paper; and they'll be learning crucial early development skills with every stack and tumble.

Mind Shapes Blocks by Wimmer-Ferguson and Manhattan Toy

Every curious or critical thought your infant has, they are learning to think. Every time your infant experiences something new and tries to find a pattern, they become more able to find patterns and think critical thoughts in the future.

That is what Wimmer-Ferguson designed the Mind Shapes Blocks to inspire in infants and toddlers. Awareness, object permanence, and pattern building are key to early childhood development.

At a glance, these are three soft blocks, one sphere, one cube, and one pyramid. But look closer; you will find contrasting shapes, interesting pictures, and a unique chime inside each block.

The texture of the block fabrics is different from soft cloth to crinkle paper making these the perfect research-backed sensory toys for your infant or a baby in your family.

Dizzy Bees Magnetic Stack from Fat Brain Toy Co

Bees teach us all a little something about science. Everyone loves adorable buzzing honey bees; they teach us about colonies and pollination and how honey is made. But these bees teach about weak magnetic force and its gravity-defying effects.

The Dizzy Bees Magnetic Stack will delight infants and toddlers who already know about stacking blocks. These bees don't tumble, but they do wobble and stack on top of each other and their cute honeycomb stand.

These bees and their stand are made of soft silicone and ABS plastic, thoroughly safety tested and BPA free. In blue, orange, and green, the baby in your life will adore the Dizzy Bees without realizing they are gaining a lifelong love of STEM and science-based toys.

If you're choosing a special gift for your infant or a beautiful baby in your life, sensory toys that inspire early childhood development and STEM learning are the best kind of gift you can give. Give the gift of critical thinking from an early age and hours of fascinating fun this year.

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