Wide Range of Baby Toys For Infants and Toddlers

All babies from infants to toddlers love to play. By the way, in this article, infant means baby that is reaching 1 year of age, whereas toddler means baby from 1-4 years old. Babies of this age love to explore their surroundings and learn new things. They love to exercise all five senses: smell, taste, touch, hearing and sight. The focus is just playing and having fun every day.

Fortunately, there are wide range of toys that can satisfy and help babies to learn and develop these days. We will touch on some of the most popular ones.

Play gyms / play mats are great for both your infant and toddler. It has three dimensional play space and provides a very enriching environment for your baby to discover and learn. Most play gyms come with lights, sounds and colors to encourage your baby to exercise all their senses and perform coordinated movements.

Riding toys are great for toddlers that have endless supply of energy and desire to move around. Toddlers are particularly interested in riding toys that they can push with their feet rather than ones that need to be moved with peddles. They also love rocking riding toys.

Dolls and stuffed animals are also great toys for infants and toddlers. Young children like to imitate, these toys offer them a chance to model people's behaviours and develop their people skills. For example, your baby might imitate feeding or rocking a doll.

Solid wooden block set that come with wide assortment of shapes, sizes and colors are great educational toys. It helps your baby to develop shape and color recognition, sorting skills and manual dexterity. Your baby can also use blocks to develop his or her tower building skill.

Babies love music, and love it even more when they can make the music themselves. Musical toys will keep them entertained while helping them develop skills in distinguishing sounds and finding music patterns. Some baby music set even come with a drum, trumpet and tambourine that can help spark your child's imagination and provide a great fun learning experience.

Baby toys have gone electronic today. Electronic baby toys such as infant computers and toy mobile phones really help to build the baby's imagination as well as to fine tune their hand-eye and motor coordination skills. A toy mobile phone helps babies model the discussions they hear around them and practice their expanding vocabulary. When they imagine calling people on a phone, they are developing their speech and social skills as well.

With an endless array of toys for infants and toddlers, the only problem for parents is how to narrow down the list. Put safety first when choosing toys for your little one. Whatever toys you choose, they have to pass the appropriate safety standard. In Europe, all toys should have the mark CE on it. If you don't see that mark, don't buy them. You don't want to risk the safety of your baby.

Sometimes when you look at the whole range of baby toys available today and you wish you were baby once again :)