At 1 year old, your child will start to develop a range of new skills and the best thing you can do is to encourage these skills through playtime!

In this video, we'll show you what we think are the best toys to promote early development in your little one.

First up are the best Interactive Books for 1-year-olds!

Story time is a fun way to teach your child word and image associations even when you aren’t reading the book to them.

Letting them handle and flip through the books pages themselves will also help to develop early cognitive skills.

Books for kids come in so many forms that it can be difficult to choose from the more traditional pop-up picture books to more modern digital books.

Here, we have highlighted the best choices that’ll turn your little one into a bookworm in no time!

The Old Macdonald’s Farm Poke-a-Dot Book from Melissa & Doug will bring a ton of fun to story time!

With interactive buttons to ‘pop’, this book will help to teach counting, animals, their sounds, and of course some classic nursery rhymes in a fun and traditionally interactive way.

If you don't want your little one spending too much time in front of a tablet at an early age, this book is a great choice as it is designed to keep your kids engaged.

Other traditionally interactive books we recommend are: Beins Soft Baby Cloth Books and Funny Farm Animals.

Sensory-focused books like these are a fun and interactive way to encourage your kid's sensory curiosity, while also developing their vocabulary through fun rhyming!

A more digital but still screen-free option for your little one would be the LeapFrog Learning Friends 100 Words Book.

This fun book will teach your kid 100 age-appropriate words across 12 categories and 2 languages that include: pets, animals, food, mealtime, colors, activities, opposites, outside, vehicles, clothes, my body, and fruits.

LeapFrog is known to produce award-winning educational toys for kids
so they truly are the best.

With many age-appropriate options available, LeapFrog can support your child’s reading habits for years.

Moving on from books, puzzles are another fun way to boost your little ones' skills!

A set of sensory baby blocks are a great way to get your baby’s development underway.

A set of blocks like these MIXI Baby Toy Blocks will encourage your toddler to stack towers, learn numbers, shapes, and animals.

Maybe you already have a set of blocks, another good starter puzzle for your one-year-old could look like one of these Classic Wooden Puzzles.

The goal with these shape-matching puzzles is to develop your child’s cognitive skills like color and shape recognition and even hand-eye coordination.

The Melissa & Doug Bug Jug is a more unique option in this category.

This features 4 soft ‘bug buddies’ that rattle, jingle, squeak, and crinkle.

They each have unique textures and fit into a see-through container with a mesh lid to keep them in.

Toys like these will have your baby super curious as they touch, feel, and rattle them around.

Another category of toys you should consider are Walking Toys!

As the name suggests, walking toys will help to develop your child’s early walking skills.

These can also be great all-in-one toys as they often have smaller toys built in to engage their cognitive and language skills.

This VTech Learning Walker for example, comes with a removable activity panel with light-up buttons that develop motor skills and piano keys that play music.

It also has over 70 sing-along songs to have fun with.

This next push toy from Baby Einstein comes in the shape of a fun buggy!

This walker features a wagon compartment that’ll let your little adventurer
take their favorite toys along for the ride!

It also comes with multiple mini activities like twistable gears that match shapes and drops blocks.

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We all want to entertain AND educate our little ones – ideally covering both bases at the same time.

There are heaps of educational toys on the market and the choice is overwhelming.

Hopefully we’ve helped your search with this video.

Thanks for watching!


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