Best Gifts and Toys for 1 Year Olds - Birthday Presents

This brightly colored musical table is not only babies' favorite, but it is made from good plastic, so it is sturdy, and seemingly durable for a long period of heavy play. There are a lot of movable parts for kids to play with here and everything you touch in this table makes noise, it plays over 40 songs and melodies including nursery rhymes and fun individual instrument sounds that will have your baby singing and dancing. With this much variety of music and activity your baby will stay entertained for quite a while and the sounds aren't as annoying to parents as any other electronic toys.

In addition to beautiful music, it offers plenty of activities at different levels of learning to keep your baby entertained for these early developmental years. For example, your baby will enjoy spinning the maraca; playing the colored piano keys to practice motor skills and learn about colors; moving the trombone's slide to count to 10; sliding the cello to learn about up and down; tapping on the colorful drum; and flipping the pages of the "book". As you can see, there are a lot of activities in here, that will exercise your child's memory and problem-solving skills.

The songs and games switch from English to Spanish, which is great if you'd like your kids to experience a new language or your household is a Bilingual one. Also, You can attach the table's legs to adjust it to accommodate toddlers' play while standing, this way you can help your child to get started on standing at an early age. And, despite the fact that it has many buttons, it's fairly easy to clean, it's obvious that a lot of thought was put into its design.

In Short, LeapFrog Musical Table Features:

1. 15 activities and over 40 songs and melodies!
2. Activities provide opportunities for baby to explore with a roll, tap, slide or spin.
3. Includes a variety of music styles for baby to enjoy.
4. Comes with either blue or green legs to attach to table as baby grows.
5. Introduces shapes, numbers and counting 1-10 in English and Spanish.

This "Little Water Table" is the perfect outdoor toy for children. The falling water action encourages creative exploration, with cause and effect learning. It's extremely easy to assemble and it's very light-weight, but still sturdy enough to accommodate up to three children at once, so it's perfect for group play. Also, the size of this water table makes it easily stored and carried.

The WaterWheel play table includes two sailboats, a water wheel tower, and a cup for pouring. Children can, pour water into the wide funnel activating the water wheel which spills into the inner and outer harbors, and they can also play with the two sailboats provided with this water table.

Step 2 WaterWheel Activity Play Table is well-designed and beautifully made. The table has two separate sections which function as canals, moats or lakes and it can hold up to 4 gallons. And, its elevated design keeps water at toddler level and reduces muddy water "issues". Also, it has two built-in drain plugs for easy water removal and it doesn't take long to fill as it holds just over 4 gallons. This water table would be a great toy for any kid who loves anything related to water.

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This award-winning toy will be music to your little one's ears. It teaches how sounds combine to create 8 Mozart masterpieces. Your child can add or subtract instruments with the touch of a button and lights flash along with the music. It's fun, it's creative, and it's inspiring. It provides hours of interactive play for budding young composers of all ages.

The "Magic Cube" is designed with durable plastic construction, it features bright colors such as yellow, green, purple, and magenta. And it's made with soft, rounded corners, so it's easy and safe for baby to hold.

Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube Features:

• 5 individual instrument buttons (harp, flute, French horn, piano and violin)
• 1 orchestra button plays all instruments
• Soft, rounded corners so it's easy and safe for baby to hold
• Ideal for all ages

Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube Awards:

* 2000 National Parenting Center Seal of Approval
* 2000 Parents Choice Approved Award

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This Basic, durable and inexpensive toy is one of the most selling toy ever, because it's simple and have kids really enjoy playing with it. Its goal is to help the baby learn to identify and match shapes with this massive sorter. There are ten bright blocks ready for baby to drop into the open bucket or through the shape-sorting lid. Filling the bucket with blocks, dumping them out, and starting over is great for eye-hand coordination and other early skills.




The only problem with this toy is its poor design, the lid doesn't snap on, making it very easy to open. So, if babies get frustrated trying to figure out where each shape goes, they can simply pick up the lid and throw the shapes into the bucket instead of sorting them out. However, the toy is still very fun and it may be frustrating for children to sort the shapes, but they can learn in time and they will look proud of themselves when they manage to put a shape in the right place.

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The idea of this toy itself is amazing. Your baby can explore the alphabet from Alligator to Zebra (A - Z) with each spin of the wheel. Spin and bat the ball to learn about letter names, animals and their sounds. Music, lights and swirling patterns motivate exploration. Babies can develop motor skills by batting the wheel again and again.

Spin and Sing Alphabet Zoo Description:

Animals go 'round and 'round while little tots learn their names and sounds. Whizzing motions, sparkling lights and cheerful songs introduce kids to the alphabet, from "alligator" to "zebra." Three engaging modes help them learn: Letter, Animal and Music. In Letter Mode, the wheel stops on a letter and sounds out its name. Animal Mode lets little one discover 26 animals, along with their names and noises. Music Mode plays the alphabet song while little ones spin and play. Ah, one more thing, you can control the volume of this toy.

Awards:

* 2008 Good Toy Award Play Matters, Silver
* 2007 Practical Pre-school Award, Gold

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Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes

With one large easily pressed button your baby can play 7 high quality classical melodies, such as Mozart, Vivaldi, Chopin and Rossini. This baby's version of an MP3 player has colorful lights that dance across the screen to enhance each entertaining melody and promote visual perception. You can also control the volume of this toy!

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Baby Einstein Bendy Ball

The Baby Einstein Bendy Ball features bright primary colors and the recognizable Caterpillar character in center band. Soft, flexible plastic make this ball both durable and fun and the Bendy Ball's design makes it easy for little fingers to grasp and roll. The multi-colored rolling Rattle Ball inside adds additional sounds and visual stimulation to this toy.

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Yookidoo Flow 'N' Fill Spout

Yookidoo Flow N' Fill Spout is an automatic play spout that attaches to the tub and offers so many ways to play. Water is drawn up and through the spout creating an endless stream. It uses three different activity tumblers to play with the water as it falls - create a shower with one and turn a propeller with another. The third tumbler features a hidden friend inside who floats to the surface when filled with water - peek-a-boo.

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Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Say Please Tea Set

It's time to share a pot of tea-with two pretty cups, three tasty treats, and plenty of songs, sounds and fun phrases to go around. It Introduce the delights of pretend play while helping baby learn about counting, shapes, opposites, manners and more. Open the lid for magical interaction and a peek-a-boo pal inside and press the teabag for songs.

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Playskool Explore and Grow Busy Ball Popper

Your baby will enjoy getting silly with poppin', droppin' colored balls! Pump the plunger and drop the balls onto the spiral track. When they reach the bottom, look out the balls pop out the top! Giggles are guaranteed with wacky sound effects and 8 lively songs to help keep the fun rolling along.

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Fisher-Price Lil' Zoomers Spinnin' Sounds Speedway

Ready, set, spin. Baby will love the put-and-take fun of placing two cool race cars on the ramp. They roll down and around on the swirling, light-up raceway, then, surprise. The spinning action sends each car out to the exit ramp and under the spinning flag. Or baby can pull the gearshift to start the fun. The zooming speedway sounds, lively music and five flashing lights ramp up the excitement, with a winner every time.

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Baby Einstein Count and Compose Piano

The Baby Einstein Count and Compose Piano features 3 exciting play modes. Piano Mode: Choose to play piano, flute or xylophone sounds. Counting Mode: Introduce your baby to numbers in three languages, English, Spanish or French and as baby presses the keys, they will hear numbers one through five in the selected language. Composer Mode: Encourage your baby to conduct a symphony of sound with the touch of their hands. Each press of a key activates melodies and dancing lights.

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Fisher-Price Laugh and Learn Kitchen

The Laugh and Learn Kitchen is filled with learning and fun for baby in both English and Spanish. Open the refrigerator door to see the light come on, learn about opposites, or hear a song. Inside the fridge, there's yummy food and shape sorting fun. Baby can flip the page on the flip book to hear about foods and learn about shapes and colors. On the other side of the kitchen, baby can flip the light switch on and off, turn on the faucet, open the oven door, or roll the roller on the clock.

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LeapFrog My Pal Violet

Give learning a personal touch with this soft, cuddly violet puppy named Violet! Violet allows you to customize the music and personalize the learning with your child's name and favorite food, animal and color. Violet comes with 5 pre-loaded songs, or select and download your choice of 30 online songs.

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Building and construction toys help in stimulating and developing your baby's imagination. For a child playing is necessary for learning, it helps them think and make them curious about how stuff works. Also kids have a sense of achievement when they construct something from scratch.

Here are the top building and construction toys:

LEGO Duplo Building Set 71 Pieces (5380)

Little builders with big imaginations will love diving into this tub of colorful LEGO bricks. Comes with building plate, wagon base and figure to help inspire role-play fun. New container allows for easy clean-up and efficient storage. The transparent lid lets little builders display their models. Contains 71 pieces.

Fisher-Price
Stack n Surprise
Blocks Musical
Croc Block Wagon

It's a wagon full of musical building fun! Baby can stack blocks on the crocodile's back for peek-a-boo, pop-up action. Or enjoy put-and-take play, feeding blocks to the hungry croc for musical rewards. And when baby's ready to walk, flip out the handle to pull it along! Baby can bat at the croc's googly eyes, or discover a squeaky surprise in his tail!

Playskool
Activity
Tower

This set of blocks has a whole bunch of surprises in store! Baby is sure to be enthralled with the activity block's mirror, clicker, spinner, peek-a-boo slider, clacking rings and squeaker. So much to look at and so much to touch! Then, when your little one is a little older, this set "grows" with him as he'll discover the fun of stacking and nesting the blocks, while also developing his fine motor skills.

LEGO DUPLO
Large Building
Plates Set

Two large building plates - one red, one green - provide the perfect foundation for learning through play. Can be used with all kinds of LEGO DUPLO based products. Size 38 x 38 cm. Your baby can use this to start building whatever he wants such as towers, houses and buildings. It is sturdy and can assist in making big buildings

Haba First
Blocks

HABA's best seller for years! A little buggy with a driver and six different building blocks each with its own surprise, acoustic or visual, for playing, building, assigning, discovering. Made in Germany from maplewood and water-based lacquerers. It's a quality infant toy that is made to last! Blocks: 4 x 4 x 8 cm.

Sassy Ring O' Links Rattle Developmental Toy

Sassy's Ring O' Links inspires touch with a textural variety that fosters exploration which enhances brain activity. The Links provide opportunity to place toys at appropriate height for baby. Bright, bold spectrum of colors helps provide visual stimulation as baby grows.

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IQ Baby Knock-Knock Blocks

This is a set of 16 soft building blocks that are feather light to the touch, with windows and doors that open to reveal smiling characters or a safety mirror (peek-a-boo). Bold black and white graphics on 8 triangular blocks catch the attention of newborns in their cribs. Older babies enjoy the bright, colorful graphics of the 8 square blocks, covered with satin, corduroy and cotton for varied textures. Each block jingles, rattles or crinkles, teaching cause and effect. Perfect for gripping peek-a-boo fun and construction.

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Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Stack & Roll Cups

It has endless combinations which gives a baby plenty ways to play. The ten colorful cups stack vertically, nest inside each other, and pair up to create easy-to-grasp balls. Each cup is numbered to introduce counting. Top the stack with the smiley jingle ball or place it inside one of the balls that baby puts together for a fun surprise. It is easy to pack, so this take-along toy keeps your little one engaged on the go.

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Cloud b Sleep Sheep

This cuddly plush toy soothes your child into a restful, relaxing nap or night of sleep. It is a soft and adorable sleep time pal which plays calming sounds that help drown out distracting noises and let baby drift into dreams. Cloud b Sleep Sheep features:

1. Four soothing sounds: Mother's Heartbeat, Spring Showers, Ocean Surf and Whale songs.
2. Velcro tab to secure Sleep Sheep to the outside of a crib.
3. Removable sound box with adjustable volume and on/off controls.
4. Automatic time-out after 23 minutes.

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FP Laugh & Learn Dance And Play Puppy

Let your children dance and play games with their favorite new playmate, Dance and Play Puppy from Fisher-Price's Laugh and Learn toys. This puppy guides children through their first experiences with motions and games while simultaneously teaching them how to count and how to recognize the alphabet. It features:

1. Enjoy lots of learning fun with this cuddly friend.
2. Invites baby to learn through singing, dancing and playing.
3. Introduces baby to the alphabet, colors, numbers, manners, greetings and more.
4. Puppy can clap, wiggle his body side to side, and raise his ears.
5. Over 25 sung songs and phrases.

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FP Little People Wheelies Zig The Big Rig

Fans of Fisher Price Little People Wheelies will love Zig the Big Rig truck. Zig's silly comments and facial expressions entertain children. They'll love launching the included Wheelies Roberto race car from the back of Zig's rig. With space to store five additional Wheelies vehicles (sold separately), this toy packs plenty of exciting launch-and-race action. It features:

1. Zig the Big Rig is a friendly, characterized Wheelies talking truck that comes to life through speech, fun sounds, lights and animated reactions.
2. His eyes, eyebrow, "ears" and mouth move to create different expressions and dialogue.
3. Mouth lights up in sync with speech and his headlights flash too.
4. Has a cool launching feature, load Wheelies vehicles into the built-in slots release the side gate and send Wheelies racing out.
5. Includes over 50 unique sounds and phrases and 1 Wheelies mini vehicle with built-in Little People character.

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Boon Pod Bath Toy Scoop, Green Frog

Nothing keeps your bath this organized and tidy. That's why Frog Pod is the super star of bath toy storage. Its drainable scoop lets you gather and rinse toys, which helps prevent scum and mildew issues. The wall-mounted base, with built-in shelf, holds all your essential bath products. And it really sticks to bath walls with semi-permanent adhesive strips, but won't harm tile or wall surfaces. BONUS: With Frog Pod your child will actually want to help clean-up. It features:

1. Makes bath time clean-up fun and easy.
2. Stores and organizes bath accessories.
3. Reduces mold and mildew.
4. BPA-free, Phthalate-free and PVC-free.
5. Mounting options included: adhesive strips and hardware.

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Bright Starts Peek-A-Zoom Toy

Babies can roll this toy plane along the ground to hear fun sounds or make the animals pop up. It's better than other pop up toys because it can be played with as a rolling vehicle as well. The animals pop up easily and also go back down easily. It features:

1. Large airplane with 4 rolling wheels.
2. Slide, push or unlock the key to pop-up the three cute character windows.
3. Melodies play each time a character pops up.
4. Airplane sounds play when baby rolls it along.
5. Push motion encourages baby to crawl.

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