What are the best educational toys to get a baby/toddler?

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of electronic versions

Answer 1

Mom and Dad are the best educational toys. :-) Seriously, attentive parents who talk to their children are the best thing to help your child learn. Point out letters/colors/numbers/shapes in your child's world. Count the stairs when you climb them. Talk about the color of the laundry and get your toddler to help sort and match by color. READ TO YOUR CHILD. That's one of the most important things you can do to prepare them for school.

Wooden blocks with numbers and letters.

Fridge magnets with letters and numbers.....Leap Frog makes some good ones that talk.

Answer 2

I keep up on the latest, greatest, and not so greatest toys and I recommended products to parents. The average child will own hundreds of toys over their lifetime, but very few will make an impact. My picks are as follows: Fisher Price's Ocean Wonders Aquarium (newborn + age group) Learning Curve Lamaze Grip N Grab Rattle (3 months + age group) Fisher Price's Peek A Blocks Incrediblock (9 months+ age group) For the 18 months and older toddler crowd, it's a tie between the Chicco Bilingual Talking Farm and Fisher Price's Laugh And Learn Home.

Answer 3

If you are looking for a good education toy, I would recommend the Leap Start Learning Table. My son loves it! It has two modes, one for just music, and the other is a learning + music mode. It's great because my son can change the mode himself, by flipping a page in the middle of the table. It has tons of buttons that teach numbers, shapes, colors & music.
Other then that just playing with them is great! They also learn alot by going outdoors and exploring!
Take Care!

Here's a link to it :http://www.nextag.com/LEAP-FROG-LeapFrog-LeapStart-511448213/prices-html

Answer 4

My daughter (21 months) loves books, jigsaws and arts and crafts things. Usbourne do a great series of educational books that use pictures of children involved in various activities based on a theme (like the weather) which encourage children and parents to discuss what is happening in each of the pictures.

Jigsaws are great - they encourage fine motor skills, spacial awareness, memory and shape recognition. The ones with pegs which fit into a wooden board are the best ones to start off with. Early Learning Centre do some fab ones which are really bright and colourful.

My daughter really enjoys playing with play dough and we use it to talk about colours, shapes, pretending to make play dough food for playing teddy bear's tea parties etc. Anything like crayons give you and your baby a great opportunity to talk about colours, shapes etc. A fun game is drawing faces and making them look sad, angry, happy etc. I used this to get my daughter to learn to describe how she was feeling and how she thought other people felt when she wasn't gentle or took their toys. Sticking and making collages out of old magazines is also good educational stuff - for example you could teach your baby the names of parts of the body by cutting pictures of legs, arms etc out of magazines and making a collage person.

A really good web site for finding educational toys is www.brightminds.co.uk They have a brilliant selection of toys and games which are designed to stimulate children of all ages and for children with learning disabilities. I bought some things from there for my daughter for Christmas and they were all really great value and quality. I would really recommend the Noahs Ark game, which encourages matching and memory skills. My daughter hasn't quite got it about "pairs" but we're getting there.

Answer 5

You are. Reading to your child or just talking to you child will make a world of difference. My 17 month old knows over 10 words already because we talk to her. And don't use "baby talk" talk to them with regular words. Leap Pad does have good toys though.

Answer 6

do you know what.....

i honeslty think that dvds are good ad educational as they will join along with he dvd and sing alongs.

also books with lots of pop up pictures is great for the child to learn different animals etc:

Answer 7

I really like V TECH toys for my kids, they last really well, are reasonably priced and I find they are great learning toys.

Answer 8

Baby einstein and leapfrog leaning pads

Answer 9

Leap Frog has some really good stuff

Answer 10

depends on what age!!!

playdough / paints - emotional and creative development
books
ball run
stacking bricks / duplo
rattles
threading beads

the list could go on forever!!!