Toddlers are full of energy and it is important to channelize such energy into learning and exploring the world in a fun ways. Toys, books and music are some ways to guide a toddler in a positive way. There are numerous toys that are available in the market. Parents find it increasingly difficult to keep up with the pace of the trends of toys to keep their toddlers curious, occupied and happy. While some toys are safe for children, there are toys that are quite harmful on the toddlers and there are toys that do not really satisfy a toddler’s inquisitiveness. Educational toys, on the other hand helps a toddler to explore, learn and at the same time enjoy the toy. The toys help in knowledge, language and skills development of the toddler. These toys do impact the toddlers mentally, physically and emotionally.
Ignite the enthusiasm, curiosity, inquisitiveness, quest for knowledge and of course have fun with educational toys. Fischer Price has wide range of toys to entice and allows them to explore at all levels. There are push toys that helps in motor development of the child such as Bubble Mower, Laugh and Learn. Such toys give opportunity to the toddler to enjoy the advantages of physical exercise as well as helps in the improvement of motor skills that are quite essential for the overall development of the toddler. Fischer Price also has lovely and colorful play sets which help the children to role-play or pretend play thus helping their creativity to blossom in a natural way. There are also toys that teach them the basic concept of cause and effect relationships. There are also toys such as Laugh & Learn, in Fischer Price that introduces the children to the world of every day experiences in a fun way. Parents should keep in mind the enjoyment and the educational benefit that a toy can deliver before choosing a toy for the toddler.
1. Learning Home
BRAND : Fisher Price
PRICE : USD 90
This colorful toy is a cute little house had is loaded with activities for the bubbly toddler. It helps a great deal in making the child to experience and understand alphabets, numbers, colors and shapes. It makes a great tool as a stepping stone to a child’s early learning skills and development. The use of letters and images in the toy helps the baby to relate and comprehend easily. This toy reinforces to learn the fundamental concepts in a way through sounds, songs and pleasant music. It gives ample opportunities for the toddler to explore and incites curiosity in the child.
USP
Helps to boost the self-confidence in the child and empowers the child by teaching various skills.
PROS
Learning Home comes with 21 enjoyable songs and drops balls as reward.
The toddler can learn various opposites such a day & night, up & down etc.
3. Helps the child to sort shapes and learn colors.
2. Hanukkah with family
BRAND : Fisher Price
PRICE : USD 30
The play set fosters creativity and role-play among the toddlers. Hanukkah with Family is a perfect holiday set that features a light-up and musical candle holder. The child can pretend play to cook festive meals and set the family and food around the table. Once the menorah is lit, the candles glow with a musical Hanukkah tune. It can make a great get together of children to play and have maximum fun and loads of entertainment.
USP
Celebrate Hanukkah festival with this perfect company of little people.
PROS
The intricate design on the play set is neat and fantastic.
3. Blocks Peek-a-Boo- Choo-Choo
BRAND : Fisher Price
PRICE : USD 22
Make learning and building more fun with Stack n Surprise blocks. There are four blocks that pop up and go for a ride with the train. The baby can push the train or stack the blocks on top on the train. As the train is pushed, silly faces come to life popping up and down. This toy encourages the baby to learn the cause and effect fundamentals. Enhances baby’s motor skills and promotes thinking skills as the toddler figures out ways to stack the blocks.
USP
Surprise Blocks Peek-a-Boo Choo Choo enhances the child’s development through discovery.
PROS
This toy stimulates senses with its vibrant colors and pop up action.
4. Stride to Ride Dino
BRAND : Fisher Price
PRICE : USD 47
Stride to Ride Dino is great walking aid when the baby is learning to walk. This bright colored dino encourages the toddlers to takes those first steps with its attractive color, lights and sounds. The cheerful music makes walking more enjoyable and stress free when the child is learning to walk. This dino can also be used to ride once the toddle learns to walk by locking its legs together. The toy has easy to grab handles that ensures that the baby has balance and stability while walking.
USP
Stride to Ride Dino can be converted from a walking tool to a ride-on.
PROS
The toy is made of sturdy material to ensure perfect balance for those little feet
5. Builders Load n Go Wagon
BRAND : Fisher Price
PRICE : USD 28
The Load n Go Wagon has a wide sturdy handle to pull along and has good space to store blocks and other things in the big bed of the wagon. The back end of the wagon gives easy access into the wagon. This enables the kids to gather the blocks. The kids can even tip the wagon to dump all the stored materials out. The wagon has sturdy, threaded wheels making it ideal for outdoor as well as indoor play. The connections of this wagon are simple and easy for the kids to build, stack and play with this pull-along wagon.
USP
The back side of the wagon can be flipped down which reveals a building surface. This can be used to build or stack anything.
PROS
The wagon has 24 blocks and one animal toy.
6. Drillin Action Pool Set
BRAND : Fisher Price
PRICE : USD 17
Action pool set encourages the toddler to do things on his/her own. The drill set comes with screws and has options of forward and reverse drilling. The set also has an interchangeable drill bit, hammer and nails to fix. These are portable with a take a long caddy. This set boosts creativity and motor skills in the toddler. It is a perfect aid for role play to imitate adults and can work along with dad or mom. This is a perfect tool for boys to explore and fix things.
USP
It makes an ultimate learn to do it yourself set for toddlers.
PROS
The tool caddy can be used to store other tools as well.
7. Musical Table
BRAND : Fisher Price
PRICE : USD 45
This colorful table has corners that make learning fun. This table is interactive with a friendly character which invites the toddler to play and explore. It encourages the child to move and discover various things on the table. This table can help the child to learn numbers, counting, letters, shapes and colors. It boosts the child’s imagination with real life sounds, keys and tones. The child can spend endless hours on the table with numerous activities, songs and music.
USP
This musical table promotes bi-lingual learning in English and Spanish.
PROS
Musical Table fosters the baby to think and encourages problem solving with its various action reaction activities.
8. Christmas in Toy Town RC Set
BRAND : Fisher Price
PRICE : USD 140
Toys such as GeoTrax Christmas make great value for money. GeoTrax is a train and comes with a station with bridge, skating pond and cute lamp posts. The kids can push this train manually or use a remote control to get the train chug along the tracks with lights and music. The train moves across the bridge and has a special track making it easy for preschoolers to get the GeoTrax on track to Toytown. It makes a good team of Santa with ginger bread men, soldiers, Christmas tree signs and a toy town arch.
USP
Makes a good gift for Christmas and helps to fuel the child’s imagination.
PROS
It has a beautiful engine, cars and lampposts that light up.
9. Smart Bounce and Spin Pony
BRAND : Fisher Price
PRICE : USD 125
This friendly toy happily bounces, spins and even rewards the baby with lots of delightful music and sounds. Saddle up your toddler to this pony and watch him enjoy and learn animals, its sounds, greetings and first words. This pony makes it exciting to learn with the wireless TV connection. It has tons of games and various activities that help the toddler to learn word recognition, counting, actions and words. It has 3 levels of learning as the baby grows. In level 1, suitable for babies of 12 months and above, babies can learn the concept of cause and effect, animal sounds, greetings and familiarize with objects. In level 2, as the baby grows, he can learn more by discovering more numbers, letters, shapes and colors. In level 3, he can enjoy the activities and games
USP
Helps the child to mount and alight without assistance.
PROS
Can bear a weight up to 20 kgs. and works with wireless TV connection.
10. Happy Sounds Home
BRAND : Fisher Price
PRICE : USD 43
The Happy Sounds Home is an attractive play set that gives ample opportunities for girls to pretend and role play. This cute little home has two levels with plenty of rooms and includes lots of activities and sounds to keep the children busy. It features a Mom and Dad sitting at the table with the baby sitting on a high chair. There is a living room, laundry room with washing machine and a bathroom for baby’s bath. The baby can also be put in a swinging basinet.
USP
The home is filled with happy sounds with “Bubble, Bubble!” in the bath tub and “Swish “ of the washing machine.
PROS
There is a ringing telephone with press-down activation.
