Designed to work on fine motor skills, Spike is a fun colorful pal that helps 1 year olds count and learn about color. It has 12 colorful quills on its back that can be removed and put back. It’s the perfect way to for him to strengthen the small muscles in his hands while working on counting, sorting, and color recognition. The best part? When you are done, the quills can be stored inside his shell.
This little playful pup is ready for adventure. In addition to following you around, it offers sound and music effects to entertain your child. Kids will learn numbers, colors, body parts and more and have fun adventures with their new friendly companion.
The Learning Friends 100 Words Book is a valuable and interactive tool for your toddler. Simply touch any of the word and image pairs and it sounds it out for your child. Kids will have fun while building their vocabulary. There’s even an option to toggle between English and Spanish. Now that’s a brilliant idea!
Is your little one curious about animals? The 100 Animals Book expands learning with interactive pages that feature animals from 12 categories. Kids are naturally curious about animals, so this book allows them to explore 100 fascinating animals through beautiful illustrations and photographs. Three modes teach animal names, animal sounds, and fun facts. With a built-in bilingual setting, you can hear learning content in English or Spanish. Packed with interesting facts about animals and their habitats plus early science awareness make this a must-have for any little learner’s library.
The screen-free LeapFrog 2-in-1 Touch & Learn Tablet is built for early learners. Featuring touch-activated pages, it has Pet Pal Puppies stories with multiple interactive touch points on each page. Flip it around to enjoy activities with touch-activated pages. Kids learn shapes, animals, numbers, emotions and early science concepts.
Made of 100% recycled materials, this Mickey Mouse Stacker takes a classic toy and makes it safer and fun. It features bright colors and a fun nesting game. Since there’s no center piece, baby can stack it out of order. It’s also PVC-, phthalates-, and BPA-free, meaning it’s safe for baby.
Made of 100% recycled materials, this Mickey Mouse & Friends Shape Sorter Truck lets kiddos practice motor skills, shape sorting, and color identification with fun Disney characters on each shape. The chunky pieces are perfect for little hands. It’s perfect for indoor or outdoor play.
Little ones can learn their shapes with Mickey and Friends with this fun shape sorter from Green Toys. Made of 100% recycled materials, the set includes a variety of shapes etched with popular Disney characters to make sorting shapes even more magical. The chunkier pieces are perfect for little hands. Free of BPA, PVC, and phthalates, it’s safe for baby. Kiddos will learn motor skills, coordination, spatial reasoning, color/shape identification, and problem-solving.
Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog Fidget Friend is a fidget friend with tons of tactile play. Explore 6 ways to fidget: spin the wheel, turn the crank, and more. Perfect for on-the-go fun, it’s great for developing kids’ fine motor skills.
The Smart Stages Piggy Bank is no ordinary piggy bank. It can store all your coins plus it features learning content that grows with your child! This fun piggy sings over 40 songs, tunes, and phrases. The set includes 10 colorful coins that teach numbers and animals. It’s never too early to learn to save.
The Laugh & Learn Lil’ Gamer takes inspiration from the Nintendo Game Boy of the 80s/90s. This pretend handheld gaming console from Fisher-Price features a lighted screen, D-Pad, buttons, and a pretend game cartridge much like the original Game Boy — all of which serve to give Millennial parents that feeling of nostalgia. Babies will enjoy pressing buttons to hear music, sounds, and phrases that teach them directions, colors, numbers, and even shapes. It’s also fantastic for developing baby’s dexterity and hand-eye coordination. Game on!
A Target-exclusive, this retro-inspired, light-up pretend portable boombox toy for infants and toddlers ages 6-36 months. It packs plenty of fun activities for kids like a speaker spinner, open/close cassette deck, slider, toggle switch, roller, clicker and more. Slide the station tuner, press the buttons or open/close the cassette deck for interactive lights, songs, sounds and phrases. Kiddos will learn letters, counting in English/Spanish, colors, shapes, and opposites.
Designed for infants and toddlers 9 months and older, the Linkimals Sit-To-Crawl Sea Turtle lights up and encourages baby to crawl and chase after it. Push the button to watch it roll forward. Baby can also explore its soft flippers and clicker head. It features over 35 songs, sounds and phrases that teach baby the alphabet, counting, and shapes. What’s cool? With Linkimals tech, it can interact with your other Linkimals toys.
Want to groom your little one to be a future gamer? Shaped like a video game controller, the Laugh & Learn Game & Learn Controller is a fun way to introduce kiddos to shapes, colors, the alphabet, and numbers. They’ll develop fine motor skills while interacting with the ABCD shape buttons and directional number pad, or moving the joystick to activate content. The best part? If you’re a gamer, you’ll love that the infamous Konami code is an easter egg, rewarding kids with a delightful surprise! It’s the toy world’s best kept secret.
The LeapFrog Level Up and Learn Controller is designed as a game controller to make learning fun for little ones. In addition to learning 6 animals and their sounds, kids learn their ABCs, counting, numbers, opposites, rhyming and Spanish. Kids will develop motor skills while pressing the directional pad, shoulder buttons and more. There’s even a Peek-a-Boo tiger surprise payoff. Can your little one trigger it?
The Fisher-Price Little People 1-2-3 Babies Playdate delivers an interactive playset for the perfect playdate. It features lights, music, and over 50 songs, sounds, and phrases to teach kiddos numbers, colors, shapes, opposites, and more. The best part? We love that it grows with your child with different learning stages. It comes with 3 baby figures and accessories to inspire a world of imaginative fun. Kids will press or twist to experience lights, sounds, music and other fun actions. Parents will love that it easily folds away for taking the fun on the go.
The Smart Stages Piggy Bank is no ordinary piggy bank. It can store all your coins plus it features learning content that grows with your child! This fun piggy sings over 40 songs, tunes, and phrases. The set includes 10 colorful coins that teach numbers and animals. It’s never too early to learn to save.
With the Jiggle and Giggle Fishing Set, you can go on a fishing adventure. Use the fishing rods to reel in the various sea creatures, as they wiggle around and sing. The light-up bob magnetically attaches to the sea creatures. It’s great for developing kids’ hand-eye coordination.
With the Blue’s Clues & You! Really Smart Handy Dandy Notebook, you can answer the phone just as in the show. Kids can learn with 11 app icons that introduce shapes, colors, counting, health and hygiene, weather and music. Talk on the phone with Blue and Josh, check e-mail with Mailbox, or dance to fun songs and tunes from the series. It’s interactive learning fun!
Clean up the ‘dust bunny’ disks by rolling over them with the LeapFrog Pick Up and Count Vacuum. In addition to learning counting, kids will also encounter challenges that teach numbers and colors. Little ones will have fun cleaning up like mommy and daddy, while learning numbers and colors.
Bailey, the interactive plush Speak & Learn Puppy, features head movements, ear-flapping, and other responses. As little ones learn to babble and talk, this learning toy provides 3 learning levels to grow with your child. Push the 4 paw buttons and a light-up collar to learn about animals, animal sounds, food, and feelings. In Talk mode, Bailey talks with kids and creates stories based on their responses. In Babble mode, Bailey repeats what your child says in a fun, interactive way. Push the paw button to hear Bailey interact with kids about letters and numbers. Bailey is an interactive pet that teaches the alphabet, numbers, emotions, and language across 3 levels of play.
This Blue’s Clue’s & You Tickety Tock Play & Learn Clock helps little ones with learning daily routines, such as brushing your teeth, enjoying a snack, and getting ready for bedtime. Who knew learning with Blue could be so fun?!
Rollin’ Rovee really grows with baby. Place the ball in front of him and he’ll pick it up and throw the ball so kids can play catch. Rovee features lights, sounds, phrases, music, and interactive activities. It has over 190 songs, sounds, tunes, and phrases to engage baby.
What better way to learn the alphabet than with the gang from Sesame Street? These plastic letters come in a convenient plastic case. Inside the case, there are slots for all of the alphabets. Behind each letter is a character or item from Sesame Street that starts with that letter. It is the perfect gift for a 2 year old who is learning his alphabet.
Your 2 year old will love working in his own desk. This electronic desk from VTech does everything. There is even a flip up easel. The coolest pat? It’s got an interactive desktop on it with all sorts of learning features. It comes with 5 different activity mats that unlock everything from a piano to learning the ABCs. You can even buy additional mats to unlock even more learning features.
You won’t be able to believe how quickly kids pick up the alphabet with this toy. The LeapFrog Fridge Phonic Magnetic Letters is a fun way to introduce 2 year olds to the alphabet. Kids can place one of the letter tiles in the school bus window to hear a song and the sound of each letter. Leapfrog has a similar product for learning numbers.
The Rhyme and Discover book features six classic nursery rhymes. Children can enjoy the colorful illustrations while singing to their favorite nursery rhymes. Kids will learn about animals through classic stories. The music is fun and cute and it encourages development through rhymes and music.
We love that the Laugh & Learn 3-in-1 Smart Car grows with your child from a walker to bouncer to ride-on. It ignites your child’s imagination with a ton of interactive features like a working steering wheel, horn, radio, and more. Lights, songs, and sounds help create an immersive experience.
Looking to develop your 2 year old’s vocabulary? Recommended by educators, My First Brain Quest presents 350 questions and their corresponding answers to help you achieve your goal. This product delivers and it’s great for language development. It gets kids talking and creating sentences. It’s fun to be smart.
Babies and toddlers can have their very own tablet with My First Learning Tablet. Through 25 pretend apps and activities and over 20 songs and melodies, this toy introduces little kids to numbers, shapes, colors, and more. It features a touch-sensitive light-up screen and kids can even swipe on-screen. Touch an activity icon to choose an activity to play or hear phrases, music, and sound effects, depending on the mode. There are 3 modes of play: Explore, Learn and Music. The 5 dock icons introduce kids to more phrases and sounds about greetings, time concepts, pretend play, and music. This is a cute toy that helps little ones feel big with a tablet all their own. They’ll love swiping on the screen and tapping the icons just like Mom and Dad. The lights and fun sounds make the learning play fun and engaging.
Constructed out of wood, this classic toy from Melissa & Doug makes a great first calculator. 2 year olds will love pushing back and forth the colorful beads for counting. It’s a great way to introduce toddlers to basic math concepts like addition and subtraction.
Little ones will have a blast playing with this musical table from LeapPad. There are 2 modes of play. You simply turn the page to switch between learning and music mode. In learning mode, each of the instruments will introduce kids to numbers, colors, shapes, and more. When you switch it to music mode, it becomes a little symphony of instruments for little ones. There is a piano and even drums. We like that it can sit on the floor and the legs can be attached.
Can he put 4 blue squares on the blue pole? This classic stacking toy is such a versatile toy. Kids simply have to move the colored shapes on the colored poles. As kids move the various shapes on the poles, they are learning about shapes, colors, sorting, stacking, counting and more. The best part? As he is learning, his little fingers are getting exercise.
Ring! Ring! Kids will have a blast learning to dial their friend’s phone numbers and engage in fun, imaginative play with the classic Chatter Phone from Fisher-Price. Along the way they’ll build social and communication skills. What’s cool? Kids can pull him along on their adventures, so your buddy will never be too far.
Let’s Dance Elmo loves nothing more than to get your child movin’ and groovin’ to different songs. There’s three different remixes. Press the rainbow to learn about colors and Elmo’s heart lights up different colors to reinforce learning. The paw print teaches kids about different animals. So, for instance, he’ll say ‘Let’s hop like a kangaroo’ to get kids moving around. Since the headset doubles as a handle, kids can take their buddy with them.
Who doesn’t love Mickey and friends? Now kids can learn and have fun with Mickey and friends with this Disney character set. It’s perfect for developing fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, matching and sorting skills. Plus, they stick to the fridge and other magnetic surfaces, so kids can have fun just about anywhere. It’s a must-have for any Disney fan.
This is no ordinary flashlight, as it shines a light on learning. The Spin & Learn Color Flashlight lights up like a regular flashlight, but it also teaches children important concepts like opposites, letters, colors, and animals. Kids will have fun learning and adventuring with this fun flashlight.
At first, the idea of 6 buckets strung together by a rope doesn’t seem fun, but this is a great toy for gross motor development and balance. You can place the buckets close together so your child can easily cross them by walking across them. As she gets more skilled, you can place the buckets further apart. Kids will love using the buckets as part of an obstacle course.
The Nesting and Sorting Garages and Cars set is a fun set for toddlers’ learning development. Kids can learn important concepts, such as color, size, numbers, counting, and more. What’s cool is that the garages and cars can be stacked and the set encourages creative play.
Designed for babies 9 months and older, the Fisher-Price Linkimals Smooth Moves Sloth develops baby’s gross motor skills through music and motion. Access learning content, music, games, and phrases with buttons on its feet. To encourage baby to get up and active, it plays music, moves its head, and claps it hands. Its soft arms enable tactile learning for baby. What’s cool? Combine with other Linkimals toys to create a synchronized light show to dazzle baby and help them learn better. Get ready for some movin’ and groovin’ fun!
Welcome to the Little People Share & Care Safari. It’s an interactive playset featuring voices and sounds that bring the set to life. Kids can zip over and pay their animal friends a visit. You can check out the rainforest where the weather changes really quickly. It turns purple and a storm begins. The animals can take shelter and you can take the hippo on an adventure through the lagoon. Other cool surprises include drop-through play and peek-a-boo play. The panda plays a really cute song when he’s discovered. The parrot is looking out from above. And there’s 360-degrees of play with decks, beds and places to eat. There’s even a bridge for the parrot to take a peek down below. So lots of exciting ways for kids to learn and play.
Here’s a fun twist on the classic alphabet board from LeapFrog. Press the different buttons to hear the different letter sounds. The fun addition? Music. There are light up buttons on the bottom that activate different modes including our favorite mode: Jukebox mode. In this mode, the letters will actually sing.
Designed for kids ages 1 – 3, the Touch and Teach Elephant book is interactive and educational. Kids will learn letters, shapes, and more. Learn about animals, numbers, and hear piano sounds. The book also features 150 songs, melodies, and sounds to entertain your child. A built-in question button tests your child’s reading comprehension.
Explore socio-emotional and age-appropriate coding skills with the Mix & Match-a-Saurus. It’s all about learning and discovery through play. Kids can interchange 9 different ‘coding’ tiles that determine the dinosaur’s songs, mood, and interactions. With so many different possibilities, what will you make your dino do?
The Laugh & Learn Pull & Play Learning Wagon lets kids take their puppy for a joy ride while learning colors, numbers, letters, shapes, and more. Whether you choose to sit up and use the wagon or walk and pull the wagon, it’s great for your child’s gross motor development. We especially love that with Smart Stages tech, the toy grows with your child. As you pull the wagon along, you’re rewarded with lovely music and sounds. Keep your toddler busy with a wide range of activities: bat, press, rattle, and musical keys that play songs, sounds, and phrases. It’s the ultimate activity station on wheels!
The AlphaPup makes learning fun for kids. It will teach kids letters and words and builds phonics and vocabulary. 2 year olds can pull their dog to take it on a walk. Kids can even sing along to three learning songs.
Learn through music with the Butterfly Counting Pal from LeapFrog. Since you can easily secure to car seats and strollers, take the learning fun on the go! Designed for birth and up, your pal teaches numbers, counting, colors, and music. The butterfly’s wing produces a dazzling rainbow lightshow to introduce baby to colors, while the textures, lights, and dangling toys develop sensory awareness. The best part? With 5 classic songs and up to 10 minutes of soothing music, baby will be in dreamland in no time.
Go on a skiddo scavenger hunt to find words and letters like the show. Fans will explore a farm, present store, haunted house, and more. Press the lighted buttons to hear letter names, letter sounds, and the names of things in different locations.
Available in blue and pink, the Peppa Pig Learning Watch lets kids learn important time concepts. The watch features 8 different Peppa Pig clock faces. With a cuckoo clock, alarm, timer, and stopwatch, it’s perfect for building early habits.
Little ones can build fine motor skills with Pedro the Fine Motor Peacock. In addition to learning colors and numbers, toddlers will develop hand strength, coordination, and fine motor skills.
With Dimpl Digits, it’s as simple as push, pop, and learn! Kids will learn the numbers 1-10 along with the corresponding English word. On the opposite side, it’s in Spanish. In addition to bilingual learning, it’s great for developing sensory learning and fine motor skills as well as learning numbers, counting, and reading.
Free of BPA, lead or phthalates, these 8 brightly colored stacking cups will stimulate baby’s senses. Stack them, engage in fun water play, or hide things underneath. They’re perfect for stacking and nesting, counting, and color recognition.
The American Academy of Pediatric doesn’t actually recommend walkers because they can cause injuries if your child trips. If you really want a walker, go with this VTech Walker. This learning walker is a complete interactive learning center for babies. There’s plenty to see and do here — from spinning rollers and shape sorters to songs, music, and more! It even has a pretend telephone for role-playing fun.
A Walmart-exclusive, have a seat in the Blue’s Clues & You! Play & Learn Thinking Chair just like Josh and Blue in the show. There are 3 different clue games. Search for clues and take a seat in the chair to hear fun show phrases sure to delight to any Blue’s Clues fan. Explore the Handy Dandy Notebook to learn colors, shapes, and numbers. Press the light-up buttons to listen to clues, music, and sounds. Then use logic and problem-solving to figure out Blue’s Clues. Kids can also open a letter with Mailbox to celebrate Mail Time.
Absolutely wonderful compilation! My son has the Fridge Phonics which is similar to the Letter Factory Phonics. At five, he still enjoys playing with it. Though now, he is actually spelling simple words with the letters. He also still enjoys the book “Brown Bear, What Do You See?” We actually read it a few nights ago.
Thanks for this awesome list, it was a great place to start my LO List for Santa!
I love it!
Great list & scary how much of it we already have from our older one lol Still helped for this Christmas, so thank you!!