Top Gifts for Babies and Toddlers

This holiday season, retailers across the country will offer a fantastic assortment of Christmas gifts for babies and toddlers. Best of all, there is a terrific selection of toys that will educate as well as entertain your little ones. Here are just a few of the great holiday gift items for babies and toddlers that you will find in your local stores.

Baby Bug and Wild Animal Baby Subscriptions. These magazines are published nearly every month, about ten times per year, and are constructed like children’s board books for lasting durability. A subscription to either magazine provides an excellent learning tool featuring short stories, poems, and action rhymes that target your young ones. Also contained in the issues of each magazine are search exercises that involve kids in finding objects on the pages of the magazines. These exercises foster children’s natural curiosity and support learning. Both are sure to please parent and child alike.

Leapfrog Fridge Phonics Magnetic Letters. The Leapfrog Fridge Phonics Magnetic Letters set is an affordable electronic toy designed to educate your children. All of us had magnetic letters when we were kids. We would arrange words on the refrigerator in the kitchen or would just scramble the letters into an incoherent mess. The Leapfrog letters represent the next generation of magnetic letters for kids. A small electronic device, which parents stick to their refrigerator, names any letter placed on it by a child. The electronic “pad” then plays a song that reinforces the letter’s name and phonetic sound, promoting learning in your babies and toddlers. Your kids can progress from single letters to small words as they are able, extending the learning value of this great toy.

Stacking Train. The stacking train is a wooden activity toy that is sure to please your older toddlers and young preschoolers. The toy consists of a 17-inch long wooden train that has interlocking train cars and stackable blocks that can be placed onto the train’s pegs in a variety of ways. Kids love this toy and parents will love its educational value.