Gift Ideas for Babies and Toddlers: Feature Article

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When it comes to buying gifts for babies and toddlers many of us are at a loss on what to get because we tend to think that they already have everything that they need or there is no point in buying them toys because they will just get bored with them. But some of us are just at a loss to buy them gifts because we just don't know what to get them. If you are at a loss as to what to buy infants or toddlers take a look at these top gift ideas for babies and toddlers.

Newborn babies:
Lamaze Spin & Explore Garden Gym
The Spin & Explore Garden Gym is a great choice for babies because it allows them to enjoy tummy time fun. But better yet you can get on the floor and enjoy it with them. It picks them up off the ground and gives them the opportunity to spin in circles to enjoy a wide range of activities that are available for them to enjoy on a colorful mat. The best part is that later on this mat will work wonderfully as a play mat.

Baby Sling
When it comes to buying gifts for newborn babies many people tend to think just about what the baby needs and not what mom might need. To help mom out you should consider purchasing her a baby sling that will help her keep her hands for during those fussy times so she can deal with other siblings, cook dinner or simply do housework while calming down the little bundle of joy. The best part about these slings is that they come in a variety of styles and choices and they can be used as the child grows into a toddler to make carrying them around that much easier.





Helpful Resources:
1. Gifts for Babies and Toddlers
This website provides you with a variety of links to various articles that can be used to help you determine what the best gifts for different age babies and toddlers would be.

2. Top Toys for Kids
This website provides you with the top toys for kids of all ages. Also the website allows you to click on each toy and that will take your directly to a website that is selling that toy.

3. GiftBasketsDeluxe.com
This website offers high quality gift baskets for you to purchase for a variety of occasions, including birthdays or thank you gifts. You can also customize these gift baskets to meet your needs.

4. Fisher Price
The official Fisher Price website provides you with everything that you need to know about the products that they make and sell, including where you can go to buy the products if they are not offered directly through the website.

5. Learning Curve
This website allows you to purchase Lamaze brand baby toys such as the Spin & Explore Garden, rattles, and many other toys that will help your baby or toddler's development.

6. Corporate-Gift-Baskets.com
This website offers high quality gift baskets that you can choose to give the people that you work with, such as high profile clients or your boss. The gift baskets offered here are also available to be custom ordered.

7. Tiny Love
This website is devoted entirely to toys that are considered soft toys, meaning they are all soft plush toys they have no hard surfaces. But on this website you can find toys for the bathtub as well as gyms that babies can lie under.

8. Hasbro
This is the Hasbro website but they are the official makers of the Playskool toys. This is where you can go to find toys such as the Weebles Castle and all other Weeble toys. But you can also find the Ball Popper and many other age appropriate toys.

9. gifts-911.com
This website gives you a variety of occasions that you might need to choose a gift for. And each of these links that you can click takes you to a list of some of the more popular gift ideas on this website.

10. Little Tikes
This website allows you to look at and purchase various products that are made by Little Tikes, including the Little Champs Sports Center. But you can also find numerous other products that they sell on their website for all ages.

11. Leap Frog
This is the official Leap Frog website and the website allows you to buy and research any Leap Frog product including the Leap Frog Fridge Phonics Magnetic Set.

12. Giftbasketsfromyou.com
This website offers you the chance to purchase gift baskets for a variety of occasions. The best part is that the gift baskets come in a wide variety of styles and choices so you can pick and choose what is right for you.



3 month old babies:
Baby Einstein Musical Motion Activity Jumper
The Musical Motion Activity Jumper is a stand still jumper that provides your baby with tons of activities, which makes it a great choice for the early months of your baby's life. The best part about the jumper is that your baby can turn 360 degrees so that they can access all of the activities that this toy has to offer. The toy also adjusts in height so your baby can continue to use it as they grow. The best part about this toy is that it has no wheel which means it will not move anywhere while your baby is jumping and playing.

Fisher Price Miracles & Milestones Pop Open Play Gym
The reason that the Pop Open Play Gym is a great choice is because the gym pops open with ease and lies flat so that your baby can lie underneath the arch to play with the four linkable toys and two stimulating toys that are attached to the arch. This toy is great because it can be used as your child grows by repositioning the toys on the arch to the raised corners so that they can enjoy fun on their tummies. The best part is how easy it is to fold up with everything inside so that you can easily take it with you wherever you go.

6 month old babies:
Fisher Price Little Superstar Sing Along Stage
The Little Superstar Sing Along Stage is a sure fire winner because it employs both music and a mirror to enthrall your little one for hours on end. The reason for the mirror is that babies love to look at their own reflections. The toy also comes with a microphone that they can shake to get the music started. It also has other things that your baby can explore, such as piano notes to push or a slide on a trombone. Also included are the lyrics to the songs so that you can help your baby sing along for hours of playtime fun.

Tiny Love Baby's First Cell Phone
Baby's First Cell Phone is definitely a winner because everybody knows just how much little ones like to mimic the things that we adults do. Rather than give them your phone simply buy them one of their own that is sized just right for the hands and made of soft material which is safer for them. The toy also has buttons that they can push to make phone sounds, a star antenna that they can safely chew on and a loop so that you can attach it to a toy bar so it doesn't get lost.

Lamaze My First Fishbowl
My First Fishbowl comes with a variety of unique ocean creatures, which they are special because each has its own distinct pattern, texture, and sound. These are all designed this way to help your baby to learn to distinguish one from the other. The fish bowl itself has soft clear sides that allow your child to look at the creatures inside the bowl and to help them when trying to pull things out. The main purpose of this toy is to encourage your child to explore their senses by stimulating each and every one of them through play.

9 month old babies:
Playskool Busy Ball Popper
This simple but yet enthralling toy simply pops balls up in the air and back down on a track, which for babies and even toddlers can provide tons of fun. Many people would think that this would prove to be rather boring for children, but babies can't get enough of it. The reason for this is that there is no guarantee what the toy is going to do. On occasion the Ball Popper actually sends the ball over the edge of the top funnel so it rolls around on the floor where it rolls around and invites babies to chase it down. Another enjoyable feature is the music that goes along with the play

Little Tikes Little Champs Sports Center
The Sports Center is perfect for the sports lover because it rolls all of the top sports into one play activity, includes baseball, football and basketball. The toy comes with a soft bat and two basketballs that your child can use to help develop their motor skills. But the toy also helps build number awareness with its interactive backboard that keeps track of baskets and counts down from ten to one.

Fisher Price Walk & Ride Lion
The Walk & Ride Lion provides fun and excitement for your baby as they are learning to walk, but it also grows with them for ride along fun once they have mastered walking. The lion encourages your baby to walk along behind it by rewarding them with fun sounds, dancing lights, and interesting music, but at the same time it provides a stable environment to steady those wobbly steps. Once they have mastered walking you can lower the seat and they can jump on the lion's back to cruise around indoors or out.

1 year olds:
Fisher Price Baby Gymnastics Bounce & Spin Zebra
The Bounce & Spin Zebra is great for encouraging your baby's physical development. The reason for this is that your baby will have fun while listening to the fun sounds, songs and lights that will reward your baby for the movements that they make through bouncing and spinning. But this toy will also help to enhance your baby's eye-hand coordination, motor skills, balance and overall coordination because as they bounce and spin they have to balance and hold on to help ensure that they don't fall off. To ensure that they do not fall off this toy has a wide and sturdy base and easy grip handlebars.

Fisher Price Little People Animal Sounds Farm
The Little People Animal Sounds Farm allows your child to discover what life is all about on a farm, including how busy running a farm can be. This is all done through the interactive toy farm that provides your child with the correct noises that the animals make and some animals that actually feel like what the real animals feel like. The farm comes with Farmer Jed, cow, sheep, horse, and a pig that your child can manipulate for hours of fun. It also comes with a chicken but that stays attached to the farm.

Playskool Weebles Weebalot Castle
The Weeble toys have been around for generations and they still wobble, but they still don't fall down. It is this feature that has made these toys so much fun to enjoy. No matter what you do to the figures you cannot knock them over. This castle comes with a drawbridge that you can raise or lower, a moat so your figures can take boat rides, a revolving tower that is used for night watch duty and 4 Weebles characters. But the best part is that you can buy additional Weebles toys to grow your collection.

2 year olds:
Radio Flyer Inchworm Ride-On Toy
Every child loves to bounce, but can you imagine being able to bounce and inch along at the same time. The Inchworm Ride-On is a classic toy that has been reintroduced to a new generation. It is a ride along toy that is powered by children bouncing on the toy to make it go, which encourages physical activity. But the updated toy comes with an ergonomic seat and built in footrests that make it easier for toddlers to bounce up and down to make the Inchworm go.

Melissa & Doug ABC/123 Wooden Blocks
No matter what generation you are from blocks are an important part of a child's life, so buying them ABC/123 is a great idea to help encourage their imagination. This comes with 50 hand painted blocks. The blocks are solid wood and have colorful pictures, letters and numbers on each block so that they can be used in a variety of ways such as recognition, sorting, matching, and stacking. With the blocks you will also get a pouch that you can use to store the wooden blocks in.

LeapFrog Fridge Phonics Magnetic Set
Every child enjoys playing with things like magnets on the fridge, so why not get them something that will help teach them their letters by sight and their sounds. This toy is designed to help your child learn their letters and phonics through playtime on the fridge. Each letter talks, sings and teaches letter names, sounds and learning songs, all you have to do is place the letter into the reader. You can buy this set in English or Spanish.

3 year olds:
Fisher Price Smart Cycle
So many parents complain that all their children do is sit and watch television or play video games, but if you get them the Smart Cycle they will no longer be stationary while playing video games. The reason for this is that in order to play the video games your child will need to actually ride the bike, but not only that in playing the video games your child will also be learning new concepts in a fun and interactive way.

Schwinn Roadster Trike
Every child enjoys riding bikes and what better way to help your three year old keep up with their siblings by giving them a trike that they can ride. And don't just give them any tricycle because you can run the risk of them tipping over when the front handle bars are turned too far. You want to give them this tricycle because it has a low center of gravity that prevents it from tipping over. But not only that the trike also has mustache cruiser handlebars with long tassels that will make your kid the coolest one on the block. But the best part is that because of how sturdy this trike is built it will last for years to come.

Aquadoodle Rainbow Mat
One of the best things about this toy is that it is now offered in rainbow, which makes it more fun and enjoyable when compared to the older Aquadoodle mat because now when kids draw on the mat they can see colors instead of just plain blue. The mat comes with a dual purpose Pen and Mister that you need to fill up with water in order to doodle with it. The mat also comes with Rainbow stencils that allow you to create 5 rainbow shapes with the Mister feature, which is new for Aquadoodle toys. The best part about this toy is that there is no ink which means no mess and no washing. Plus once the mat has dried you can use it again and again.

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