Toddler Educational Toys
Should Be Lots of Fun

Toddlers learn by playing, so choosing the best toddler educational toys is important. These are toys that can help build on your toddlers development, their vocabulary, understanding of the world, problem solving and their fine and gross motor skills.

But good toddler educational toys are nothing without one main factor, you!

You could buy the top 50 best educational toys for your toddler, but this does not mean that your child will grow up to be the top of the class.

Spending quality time with your toddler as he enjoys playing simple games with you and others, is priceless, this will also give your child confidence and a feeling of security.

Gradually he will start to enjoy group games with children of the same age, offering him a chance to be social, although he will begin to play along side his friends, rather than with them.

Social play will teach your toddler to share and take turns, which will take some time as children find it hard to share.

Selecting Toddler Educational Toys

For example toddler can play with building blocks by himself and, in the process, develop independence, self-sufficiency and persistence. However, when he is playing with the same toy socially, he will acquire skills like sharing, understanding and cooperation.

You have an important role in choosing good quality toddler educational toys, you need to be aware of your child's interests and abilities, and that not all children enjoy the same kind of play

Below are some suggestions for activities that will help your toddler learn and build on new skills.

Appropriate Toddler Educational Toys

Push or Pull Along Toys

A push or pull along toy will give your toddler confidence as he becomes more stable on his feet. Toddler’s love moving all their toys around and by pulling his toys around in a wagon or wheelbarrow will not only strengthen his leg muscles but also his arms.

When your toddler is sturdy on his feet a truck or cars to ride on, will give him lots of fun, he will now be able to use his own strength to move himself along. Pedal toys, are brilliant in strengthening the leg muscles, and a fun way for toddles to get around, also helps hand-eye coordination. These toys will help your toddler’s gross motor skills; these are large movements involving the arm, leg, or feet muscles or the entire body.

Balls and beanbags are great in helping develop gross motor skills. Their hand-to-eye coordination becomes improved, as well as developing social skills. Balls and Beanbag games can also be developed into good sorting and matching games.

Using books with simple stories has an obvious educational benefit for your toddler. Early use of books is the first step towards reading and writing, but will also help to develop their language skills as your toddler will start to identify objects by pointing, and build on this by starting to put words together.

Today building blocks come in many different shapes and sizes, not just the traditional ABC wooden blocks. Using building blocks will help to develop your toddlers fine motor skills and hand-to-eye coordination, but don’t stop at building, get interacting and develop these toddlers educational toys into sorting games. You can really speed up their recognition of shape and color.

Small easy puzzles, are great in helping with their hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills, but your toddler will need encouragement, as they do find puzzles a tricky one to master. Go for colorful chunky puzzles, without to many pieces to get them started.

Creative materials such as crayons, play dough and paint, helps develop fine motor skills and the start of your child learning to write. Water and sand play toys gives your child an understanding of cause and effects, and is a great way for children to interact together.

Simple dress-up clothes, dolls and stuffed animals will help your child use his imagination and think about the “real-world”. This challenges them to work out problems and interact with others. Role–play is a great opportunity for children to look at things from someone else is point of view.

For some more great ideas check out the Infant and Toddler Educational Toys and Games Page, or if your toddler is a little older check out Toddler Learning Game The World Is One Big Adventure.

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