Stimulate Infants With Baby Toys (0-6 months)
While newborns haven’t yet developed visual focus or muscular control, they are already sensing their new world. Baby toys that have bright colors and make noises are great for young babies. Since they’re horizontal most of the time and haven’t learned to move around yet, activity sets that rest on the floor or attach to cribs, car seats, and strollers are good toys for this stage.

• Crib toys & accessories: Colorful, sturdy crib toys help to keep baby content. These can be noisemakers with moving parts or plush companions to keep baby company. Bright shapes in a mobile above the crib can fascinate and calm a fussy infant; even more so if it plays music. In addition, it has become very popular to acquire wooden crib pull toys that are not made of any dangerous materials.
• Rattles and teethers: When your baby is teething, a chewable ring or rattle can help. Put rattles and teethers in the refrigerator when not in use. When your baby needs it, the coolness can help relieve sore gums.
• Sensory baby toys: Developmental toys (toys that help babies acquire age-appropriate and essential skills) at this age give babies things to squeeze that make noise and move. Toys with built-in rattles or squeakers help babies learn that their actions cause things to happen.
• Activities, Creative Play: Hang an activity bar over your baby’s crib or car seat, or set up an activity center or play mat on the floor. These give babies a lot of options for gasping, teething, exploring, or just looking around. Also try not to attach the bars too far from the babies. At this point in life their eyesight as not as sharp. Activity sets come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Look for ones with sound and bright colors that are specifically made for infants. Make sure its lead-free and are not made of contaminated or dangerous materials as babies tend to get everything into their mouths.
• Soft baby books: It’s never too early to start reading to your baby. Soft books establish good family reading habits. Sturdy cloth or thick cardboard pages also offer greater durability as baby “discovers” a good book. It is much better at this point, to read a book to a baby rather than sitting next to some baby program in-front of a TV. Your baby has a whole life to spend around TVs, so don’t start early.

Exercise Baby’s New Skills (6-12 months)
In this stage of life, your baby learns amazing things: moving by himself, exerting control over objects, identifying favorite playthings, and much more. Developmental toys can involve moving parts and fundamental puzzle solving. The baby toys you give them at this stage should be interactive and durable—they’re going to take a lot of punishment.

• Activity tables: Colorful buttons, big bright switches, unbreakable mirrors, and maybe a noisemaker or two are all built into activity panels and tables. Some are designed to help support newly walking babies, holding them upright while keeping them interested in what their hands can do.
• Stuffed animals and Soft Toys: At this age, babies are going to start acquiring favorite baby toys, and few are more favored than that plush bear, dog, or baby doll that your baby begins to identify with warmth and comfort.
• Soft Balls: Crawling babies will start rolling and tossing soft, lightweight balls with lots of glee. As they grow, the type of ball they prefer may change, but from now on your kids are likely to enjoy them, all the way through little league and intramural sports.
• Blocks: Dexterity will improve gradually in relation to blocks. The youngest babies may start to stack two or three blocks and then delight in knocking them down. By two years, they’ll be stacking them higher, and by preschool, interlocking blocks will keep them amused for hours.
• Baby toys with wheels: As your baby learns to crawl and walk, a push or a pull toy can help give him incentive and keep him balanced. Crawling babies also like to start pushing wooden trucks and trains around the floor. Check that there are no small moving, easily detachable parts in a toy.
• Books: As they near their first birthday, babies will like to turn pages themselves. Sturdy cardboard books are great for letting them get the motions right. They also will enjoy pop-up books and those with interactive elements like buttons that play sounds and flaps that open.

Baby Toys for the Active Toddler (1-2 years)
Toddlers have a formidable combination of energy and mobility. They can keep themselves entertained for longer periods of time, and the best developmental toys will let them exercise their new agility and greater understanding of how their actions affect the world around them.

• Activity toys: Activity toys with opening panels, flippable switches, and pressable buttons provide endless fun.
• Bath Tub toys and Accessories: From bath puppets to swimming fish to the classic rubber duckie to keep your baby happily entertained while having fun taking a bath.
• Crayons and paper: Washable crayons, pens, finger paints, coloring books, and paper will let baby explore their creativity and ensure that cleanup isn’t a hassle for you.
• Toy tools and kitchens: In this phase of development, “monkey see, monkey do,” is one of your child’s major modes of operation. After watching mom and dad in the kitchen and the garage, kids want to play with toy tools, toy kitchen sets, toy phones, and the like. Not to mention doing dishes and more mess rather than order.
• Puzzles: As his second birthday approaches, a baby enjoys solving simple puzzles. Watching a piece fit and hearing your praise encourages learning.
• Books: With newly developed visual acuity, the children’s books your baby likes can become more “book-like” with more pictures and words. They’ll also sit still for longer as they build language skills.

Teach With Learning Toys (2-4 years)
As your children grow, the toys they’ll enjoy run the gamut from art supplies to ride-on cars to stackable blocks. Two-year-olds learn greater independence as they start speaking in sentences, learn to dress themselves, and begin to use the potty. Three- and 4-year-olds love imaginative play and are ready to turn a climber into a rocket ship.

• Outdoor toys: Balls to throw, bounce, catch, and roll are always popular with kids, both inside and out. When your child walks with balance, you can begin to introduce whiffle balls, miniature basketball hoops, water wings, and other age-appropriate sports equipment.
• Games and puzzles: Simple games like Candyland, Chutes and Ladders, and Memory will support your toddler’s brain development.
• Child-sized versions of adult things: Kids are still into kid-sized hammers and drills; stoves and dishes; and cars and boats. Playing in a playhouse with durable plastic props lets their imagination bloom. Don’t forget musical instruments: a toy drum or penny whistle will delight your toddler. Costumes are also fun at this age, enhancing play in the land of make believe.
• Books: As children begin to speak more fluently, they can understand more complicated stories and even morals. You’ll find all the latest children’s books, including classics like Dr. Seuss, Where the Wild Things Are, and Goodnight Moon.
• Building toys: Big wooden blocks, LEGO sets, and other interlocking blocks can challenge your child to explore new possibilities, or just enjoy the delights of construction and destruction on a manageable scale.

Safety first! Check safe use information from the manufacturer for any toy aimed at you kids appropriate age.