Find the best learning toys for your little one
What learning gift to get your little one can be a very tough question to answer. Browse this hand picked list of the most educational most popular children's learning toys for 2009. A learning toy for Christmas is a great way to start your little ones in the right direction. All these wonderful toys are available @ Amazon so they will save you time, money and from getting stuck in the shopping crowds. Find perfect learning gifts to bring a smile to their face and joy to your heart, knowing they are learning something for a lifetime.
Birth to Two Years Old Learning Toys
It's never too early to start learning
LeapFrog® Learn & Groove Musical Table
Provide a world of learning and musical fun for your child with the LeapFrog Learn & Groove Musical Table. Designed for children ages six months to three years, this innovative toy is chock full of learning and musical activities designed to provide visual and auditory stimulation and motor skill development, as well as opportunities to learn about colors, the alphabet, and opposites for older children -- and much more.
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Amazon Price: $41.78 (as of 01/02/2010) 
Lamaze Spin & Explore Garden Gym
Designed for use from birth up to 24 months, the award-winning Lamaze Spin and Explore Garden Gym introduces a new format for tummy time, one of the key developmental phases of a newborn. Developed in conjunction with pediatricians and child development experts from Yale University, this colorful mat encourages baby to spin and explore the world on their tummy, which helps them develop the muscle strength necessary for sitting up and crawling.
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Amazon Price: $48.95 (as of 01/02/2010)
LeapFrog Learn-Around Playground with Tube Topper
The Learn-Around Playground is the first all-in-one activity center that links physical movements to learning connections as baby grows from sitting and crawling to standing and cruising. There are 45 interactive touch points and two fun learning modes: Learn & Grow and Compose & Play. Just flip the "smart" book page to transform learning activities into musical adventures. Topper for ball drop tube included to prevent small arms from becoming caught. Babies bat, tug and push interactive points to learn about colors, shapes, textures and cause & effect. Toddlers discover and create by playing alphabet, counting, rhyming, opposites and musical games. What it Teaches: * Songs * Shapes * Textures * Colors * Rhyming words
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Two to Four Years Old Learning Toys
Reading is on the horizon, get an early start
LeapFrog Tag Junior book pal
Foster a lifelong love for reading at an early age with the LeapFrog Tag Junior Reading system. This unique reading system encourages toddlers to engage with books through music, appealing sound effects, and open-ended questions. Designed for toddlers ages two through four, the LeapFrog Tag Junior Reading system uses the touch technology to allow toddlers to interact and explore the pages of the book with a touch of the Tag Junior Book Pal. Each Tag Junior Activity book teaches a different age-appropriate skill such as sharing, counting numbers, or learning the alphabet. The Tag Junior Reading system includes one board book, and the Tag Junior Book Pal can hold audio for up to five books.
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Amazon Price: $24.99 (as of 01/02/2010)
Fisher-Price Laugh and Learn Shop and Learn Walker
The interactive learning walker lets baby learn through everyday play. Walker features a wide steady wheel base and a comfortable grip handle for baby. As baby walks, music, lights encourage him to continue and sing along to ABCs and other learning songs. There are four grocery items to shape and short as well as three additional grocery items. The car recognizes which item baby has shape sorted, rewards him by saying the color and shape of the item along with activating dancing lights. This learning walker teaches colors, shapes counting, letters A-Z, opposites, textures and objects. It has three different modes like learning, music and imagination.
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Amazon Price: $49.99 (as of 01/02/2010)
Fisher-Price Amazing Animals Sing and Go Choo-Choo
It is no surprise that this choo-choo was chosen for Parent's Magazine Best Toys of the Year award, 2006, as well as other prestigious awards. It develops motor skills and helps babies learn to crawl, while teaching them about animals. And these chunky animals are not just cute, their feet are sculpted with various textures for fun exploration and they have teether ears to chew on. This toy also appeals to a diverse age, from babies who are first learning to crawl to toddlers who like to sing along with the animal friends. Plus, Amazing Animals sets are available if you'd like to add to the bunch.
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The Original Rollercoaster by Anatex
his Parents' Choice Classic Award Winner is that colossal maze of wood, beads, and wire often seen at the doctor's office. Beautifully crafted with a 12-by-15-inch solid wood base, thick sturdy wire, and wood beads, this winding wonder keeps little hands and minds busy for hours. The structure consists of five intertwined wires, securely attached at the wood base, adorned with free sliding beads of varied color, shape, size, and pattern. One wire reaches 21 inches at its peak, another makes a complete 360 degree loop. As the child slides beads across the tangle of wires, fine motor coordination and critical thinking skills are developed, as well as an understanding of both spatial relations and depth perception. The Original Rollercoaster washes easily with a damp sponge and squares up neatly in a corner for storage. --Kathryn Gustafson
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Amazon Price: $45.00 (as of 01/02/2010)
Learning Resources Numbers and Counting Pocket Chart
The Numbers and Counting Pocket Chart are sure to engage your students. The chart with fun illustrations makes early math a positive experience. Teach basic number sense, counting, adding, subtracting and equations with 194 cards featuring pictures, digits, operations and number line.
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Amazon Price: $34.99 (as of 01/02/2010)
Five to Seven Years Old Learning Toys
Keep their love of learning alive
LeapFrog® Leapster® Learning Game System - Green
Here is one handheld gaming system that both parents and kids will be able to agree upon. The Leapster Learning Game System takes the brain-building principles that Leapfrog laid out in its earlier electronic learning devices (which have an interactive book format) and applies them to a video-game format. Leapster draws kids in with familiar video game templates-all of which have a secret weapon: a built-in learning component. LeapFrog hopes that kids will become so engaged in the gaming aspects and familiar television and movie characters offered by this toy that they won't even notice that they're learning and reinforcing valuable reading, math, and language skills.
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Amazon Price: $56.70 (as of 01/02/2010)
LeapFrog® Tag Reading System (16 MB)
A unique touch and talk device that brings stories to life, the Tag Reading System works with a library of books and games from LeapFrog. Funny voice-overs and cool sound effects add to the fun of discovery, helping ensure that children four to eight love the way this interactive, educational system boosts their confidence and their reading level.
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Amazon Price: $59.99 (as of 01/02/2010)
Fisher-Price Smart Cycle
Just because it's raining, snowing or otherwise blustery outside, that doesn't mean that your child can't get the exercise she needs. The Fisher Price Smart Cycle combines the fun indoor activity of video game playing with the physical activity the great outdoors will give you. Designed for kids ages three to six, the Smart Cycle "physical learning arcade system" is an all-in-one stationary bike, video game console, and educational tool. Your little one will exercise her brain and her body -- and have loads of fun in the process.
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Amazon Price: $89.99 (as of 01/02/2010)
Learning Resources - Gears! Gears! Gears! Lights and Action Building Set
Dazzling motion takes construction creativity to a higher level. The next step for kids who have mastered the Basic Building Set (LER 9164) this set includes enough lights to brighten any child's play site. Pieces snap together easily and pull apart so kids can build anything they can imagine--there's no wrong way to build! Fully compatible with all other Gears! Gears! Gears!® Sets. Features 121 durable plastic pieces, storage tub, and button-cell batteries for flashing lights are included. Motor requires 3 AA batteries, not included.
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Amazon Price: $39.38 (as of 01/02/2010)
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Dec 21, 2009 @ 5:26 am
- Lots of wonderful suggestions for the Christmas toy shopping season.
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- janices7 janices7 Nov 30, 2009 @ 2:10 pm
- Due to the changes in Groups at Squidoo, I have converted The Baby Shower Group into a lensography (regular lens that you can rate). This lens is featured on the lensography and I would greatly appreciate it if you would consider lensrolling or featuring the converted Baby Showers Group (http://www.squidoo.com/groups/baby-showers-group) here. Thanks much!
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- mutter mutter May 15, 2009 @ 9:10 am
- Your lens is great and shows just how much children can learn with the right toys. Here is more info on the Secrets of enthusiastic learning through play where I have lensrolled this to.
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- janices7 janices7 Mar 2, 2009 @ 12:38 pm
- Welcome to the Baby Shower Group (http://www.squidoo.com/groups/baby-showers-group). Great suggestions for gifts!
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- Great list! Thanks for submiting your lens to my group http://www.squidoo.com/groups/ohbabybaby I have entered your lens into the March Contest. Tell your fans and friends to vote on your lens! Winner will be annouced at the end of March! Thanks and good luck!
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