Toy Suggestions by Age
October 16, 2010
It's not easy choosing what toy to get, esp if you're choosing for your grandchildren! As such, we have compiled an informal guide to suggested toys by age group.
Babies
Rattles
Perspex mirrors
Black and white focus toys
Baby swing
Cot bumper
Suction toys
Balls/rolling toys
Activity play gym
Stacking/nesting cups
Tunnel (in Sports section)
Water play toys
Pop up toys
Weighted roly poly toys
Wooden blocks
Toddlers (from 12 months)
Pull along toys
Hammer and peg toys
Peg board
Simple jigsaws (with chunky knobs)
Bead frame
Musical instruments
Rollercoaster
Ride on toys
Rocking seesaw
Plastic blocks
Buzz About Mailbox
Push along toys - small (cars/trucks etc)
- large (prams, supermarket trolley etc)
From approx 18 months (when they get into imaginative play)
Dolls house, dolls sets
Slide
Many Fisher Price/Little Tikes sets (will mostly be in the Adventure/Imagination section)
Shape sorters
Puppets
Duplo
Wooden train sets
Wooden oven
Kitchens
Preschool – 3 years
Moonhopper
Sand digger
Dress ups
Stand on seesaw (in Sports section)
Magnifying glasses
Magnetic boards/jigsaws
Magnets
Investigation boards (magnetic/magnify, in Other section)
Bug viewers
Farm set
Pretend animals
Jigsaws (10 – 20 pieces)
Mobilo
Simple matching games
Dominoes
Medical kit
Baking set
Threading boards
Chalk/whiteboard
Cutting toys (such as wooden fruit set)
4 years plus
Wooden clothesline
Stencil sets (in Other section)
More complicated games, such as Shopping List
Puppet theatre
Cash register, play money
Stilts
Swingball, basketball hoop
Large floor puzzles
Skittles
Binoculars
Babies
Rattles
Perspex mirrors
Black and white focus toys
Baby swing
Cot bumper
Suction toys
Balls/rolling toys
Activity play gym
Stacking/nesting cups
Tunnel (in Sports section)
Water play toys
Pop up toys
Weighted roly poly toys
Wooden blocks
Toddlers (from 12 months)
Pull along toys
Hammer and peg toys
Peg board
Simple jigsaws (with chunky knobs)
Bead frame
Musical instruments
Rollercoaster
Ride on toys
Rocking seesaw
Plastic blocks
Buzz About Mailbox
Push along toys - small (cars/trucks etc)
- large (prams, supermarket trolley etc)
From approx 18 months (when they get into imaginative play)
Dolls house, dolls sets
Slide
Many Fisher Price/Little Tikes sets (will mostly be in the Adventure/Imagination section)
Shape sorters
Puppets
Duplo
Wooden train sets
Wooden oven
Kitchens
Preschool – 3 years
Moonhopper
Sand digger
Dress ups
Stand on seesaw (in Sports section)
Magnifying glasses
Magnetic boards/jigsaws
Magnets
Investigation boards (magnetic/magnify, in Other section)
Bug viewers
Farm set
Pretend animals
Jigsaws (10 – 20 pieces)
Mobilo
Simple matching games
Dominoes
Medical kit
Baking set
Threading boards
Chalk/whiteboard
Cutting toys (such as wooden fruit set)
4 years plus
Wooden clothesline
Stencil sets (in Other section)
More complicated games, such as Shopping List
Puppet theatre
Cash register, play money
Stilts
Swingball, basketball hoop
Large floor puzzles
Skittles
Binoculars
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