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From 0-5 years of age kids are on constant spree of learning and if we don't indulge them into something meaningful then they might end up learning unnecessary or destructive stuff. Some of the toys picked by me really helped in enhancing various skills of my little ones which are apt for her age. You can pick any or all of these to teach your toddler something meaningful at the same time entertain them and keep them busy.

1) Wooden Toys- There are a lot of wooden toys available, begin with the easy ones with colours, shapes ,food items or animals pieces. This will work on their fine motor skills, can be used in teaching them colours, shapes or animals, wooden toys are safe and their bright attractive make helps in grabbing toddler's attention.

2)Board books- Board books with images that they can now relate to in their daily life will help in developing their interest towards the book, you can ask them to match the product with the pictures in the book or generally use to entertain or teach them from it.

3)Fabric/felt books- These books are interactive books and specially designed to entertain and enhance learning in the kids. They have a lot of variety and you can begin with the genre which interests your little one more. Different activates in them like matching colours, sticking on velcro, identifying correct placement and recognising the elements in the book helps in working on various skills.

4)Flash Cards- Little one loves flash card with big images on them. Again there are a lot of variety in them, go for mixed ones through which you can teach maximum stuff like animals, alphabets, household items and all. This way it can be used for longterm and can be used in various forms like identify the card, match the card with product, match sound with animals and so on.

5)DIY toys- There are a lot of DIY activity ideas easily available on the net which requires basic stuff available at home but can easily work on a lot of skills. Like put coins in a piggy bank, put straws in a basket, insert ear buds in the straw, makes shapes with flour dough, textures game with variety of food available at home. There are endless such options which can keep your toddler busy in learning something productive without burning a hole in your pocket.


These are some options that worked best for us. It is not necessary to buy all of these but try to buy them in a set of similar activities. Suppose if you are teaching them animals then whatever you buy out of these pick the ones with animal base, so that they can see similar animals in all their toys and this way they will be easily able to recognise animals. One thing which is a must is to give them physical and outdoor exposure as much as possible so they can relate theory with real world, so as to whatever they learn gets a permanent place in their memory.