1. Little Partners Learning Tower // 2. Guidecraft Rainbow Blocks // 3. Melissa & Doug Cash Register // 4. Grimm’s Rainbow Stacker // 5. Melissa and Doug Slice and Bake Cookies // 6. Hape Counting Stacker // 7. Melissa & Doug Chunky Puzzles // 8. Melissa & Doug Farm Sound Puzzle // 9. Re-Play Plates and Utensils // 10. Honey Sticks Crayons // 11. Rock Blocks // 12. Melissa & Doug Lacing Beads // 13. Wooden Peg Board // 14. Melissa & Doug School Bus // 15. Melissa & Doug Beginner Wooden Pattern Blocks
1. This Learning Tower will be perfect as your little one gets more interested in the kitchen! It’s on our Christmas list and I’ve read and heard great reviews!
2. Pair these Guidecraft Rainbow Blocks with the mirror blocks found in our 12-18 month gift guide and your little one will have lots of fun exploring! These are both great indoors, but take on a whole new dimension of play outdoors!
3. Melissa & Doug toys are exceptionally made, and I feel like every little toddler needs a cash register to grow up with! This one is made without a lot of plastics and looks very engaging!
4. The girls received this beautiful Grimm’s Rainbow Stacker for their first birthday, and the play has become more engaged and elevated ever since! This toy will definitely grow with your learner! Check out some of the Grimm’s hashtags to see the rainbow stacker creations!
5. The girls LOVE slicing these wooden cookies (although needing a little helping holding the roll), adding some icing, and matching it to the velcro on the pan!
6. Hape has such a wonderful selection of durable toys. I love this counting stacker and how it visually displays quantities to learners that aren’t even able to count yet!
7. Melissa & Doug puzzles for the WIN! These chunky puzzles are a favorite as well as the safari puzzle and insects puzzle.
8. While this Melissa & Doug Farm Sound Puzzle is a little more advanced, requiring a little more fine motor skills to manipulate the small knobs, it provides lots of reinforcement with the sounds once the piece is matched!
9. As your little one becomes a little more reliable of an eater and doesn’t immediately swipe his or her plate to the floor, you can snag some of these colorful Re-Play plates and utensils. I love that these are made from recycled milk jugs and so affordable!
10. Honey Sticks Crayons. Third time on the gift guide. Sorry not sorry. They are our FAVORITES.
11. These Rock Blocks are on our Christmas list! It’s basically a one-woman show and her Instagram is incredible to follow. She sources the wood and dyes these with all natural materials like berries and onions (what?) herself! The only questions is….Who will use them more? Your toddler or you? And who doesn’t love a kids’ toy that you don’t mind actually being on display?
12. These Melissa & Doug Wooden Lacing Beads were on an Amazon flash sale a few weeks ago for $9, so I swiped them up! While the girls aren’t coordinated enough to use the string that came with them, they have a blast using a large pipe cleaner! Make sure it’s large enough so that it won’t fall off. These pipe cleaners have been great!
13. The quality of this Wooden Peg Board from MamumaBird definitely does not disappoint and the girls love the different feels of the wood. While it ships relatively fast, it is shipping from Ukraine, so if you are wanting to snag this gift or any other of her awesome creations (swoon), do so soon!
14. We are going on month two of being completely obsessed with school buses. The girls will see one, start to dance and “sing” the song, and sign and speak “more!” I love taking them on runs in the morning where we will literally see like 15 if we coordinate when the elementary and secondary schools overlap! While they aren’t exercising the full capacity of this Melissa & Doug school bus toy, they love driving it around and taking the people in and out. I love that it will continue to grow with them!
15. I snagged these Melissa & Doug Beginner Wooden Pattern Blocks at HomeGoods a few weeks ago because Emersyn is seriously gifted at puzzles. (Doesn’t every parent say that?) She was correctly doing the Melissa & Doug chunky puzzles right at a year, so I thought that we would try these at a year and a half. The whole tray is a little overwhelming, but if I set out the pieces she needs for a particular puzzle (2 triangles, 1 circle, 1 oval for the bird, for example) she can totally do those, even without a color to match on the bottom. This might be a closer-to-two-year-old toy, but I wanted to include it for all of our STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics minded-babes out there!)