My Favorite Toys for a Toddler

Children can learn so much from watching their parents or caregivers or doing everyday tasks. When we first bought this for our house we did not even have a child; but we did have a toddler niece who really loved playing with the different tools. For a few years, until we had our own child we decided that this would be nice when we did have a child so that they could discover “play cleaning” as well.

Our child loves playing with this toy. He is absolutely in love with watching everyone else clean, he loves pretending to sweep with the broom or “brush” everyone’s hair with the duster. This toy has allowed him to play clean while I am cleaning the house and I would highly suggest it for any toddler!

The leaf blower is a toy that we bought for our nephew for his second birthday. His dad is a caretaker and so we thought it would be a super fun way for him to be like his dad and use his leaf blower at the same time as his dad.

It is one of those toys that is loud and so it is a great gift to give because the child gets so much joy out of it, but you might not love buying it for your own child.

That is what I thought until my child loved playing with his cousins leaf blower so my husband bought it for our child as well. When he first opened the leaf blower he did not really want to play with it that much. I decided to make him fake leaves using ripped up pieces of construction paper and he then started to enjoy this toy because it actually blows a tiny amount of air that made the paper fly around.

He really started falling in love with this toy when we had to get rid of all the leaves in our backyard and get them to the street for leaf pick-up and he was so excited to use his leaf blower just like we were using the actual one.

Our son received this tee and baseball set for his first birthday from his Godfather. He was so excited to see it but then had no idea what to do with the bat or ball. With the help of his dad he was able to use the bat and ball and place it on the tee and pretend to hit it.

It was not long before he started using the tee and put any and every ball he could find on the tee so that he could try to hit it off with his bat. He has gotten so much better at swinging the bat and hitting the ball over the past few months.

Overall, he loves this toy and it is a great first start to introduce your child to baseball if you want something that can be used indoors or outdoors.

This slide has been so great for his gross motor skills! I put it on the list for his birthday. I did not really pay attention to how big it was and I was a little surprised when I opened it and it was so large.

Our son quickly found out that it was so fun to go down the slide with or without assistance. It took him only two days to find out that he could climb up the slide without anyone helping him and go down it alone! Of course we were right next to him and always kept a hand an inch from his back in case he started to fall or slip, yet he surprised us and was great at going up and down it alone!

We used it in the house as he received it in the fall, at it was a bit chilly to be using it outside. After a few weeks he started to try to climb back up the slide instead of going down it so it became something that we would let him do every few days instead of every day and then we put it in the garage until the spring.

One of the best things that he received before his first birthday was the farm set. This was a set that most children play with for a short time and then they get bored of the different parts of it. Our son loved this and his favorite animal has been the horse for months. He took it on car rides, when he goes up for a nap he loves to have it with him.

This set gave us a wonderful opportunity to teach him the names of animals and what sound they made. The easiest by far was the cow, as it is easy for a child to say “moo”. He then liked the sheep with saying “baa”. Recently he has started saying “cluck, cluck” for the chicken.

This set is both fun and helps your child develop skills that they will use for many years to come.