Being a new parent, with so many choices available, it can be difficult to choose the best baby toys for your newborn. Infant toys tend to stimulate all the senses, so they usually have high contrast colors, and include many different textures and sounds. Toys for this age group will encourage hand-eye-mouth coordination for reaching, grasping and yes, chewing! Many toys will help develop strength and coordination as babies learn in the first year to roll, sit, crawl and walk.
More Toy Recommendations by Age
Babies | Toddlers | Preschoolers | Ages 5-7 | Tweens | Teens
1. Skip Hop Treetop Friends Activity Gym
This activity mat will first help your baby to develop visual skills as they watch the toys dangle above them when they lie underneath. Eventually, as they become more interested, they will want to reach out and explore the toys above them. There is a bolster pillow included to help promote "tummy time." The arches also detach and the activity gym turns into a great floortime playspace. Birth and up.
3. Leap Frog Twinkle Twinkle Little Scout & Violet
Scout is blue for boys and Violet is purple for little girls. This toy comes with a detachable fleece blanket. Both animals make environmental sounds and sing bedtime songs. The moon on the front lights up while they sing and is a nice night light for babies falling asleep. This is a great item to help transition infants to sleep, and it's portable enough to take with baby on vacation, to daycare, or on a daytrip. Birth and up.
6. Fisher-Price Stack and Roll Cups
Older babies will like to stack up the cups and knock the tall tower over. Put the yellow ball inside two cups that fit together and encourage baby to roll the ball back to you. Roll the ball across the room to encourage a baby learning to crawl to find it. This toy is great to bring to the sandbox or play with in the bathtub. 6 months and up.












