Christmas gifts: one to two years

Children from the year begin to become space owners With his body. All is experimentation and discovery. To help them develop and have fun, they must create a safe environment at home, plugging out plugs and banishing all the ornaments that can be broken.

If the house is clear and the floor is clean, if we have removed obstacles and edges, the body is the best toy in the world. They will crawl free, explore every corner, begin to stand up and walk without the need for any device.

But of course, toys love them and we can help them discover the world by providing them with the most suitable for their age.

When you turn one year begins one of the stages in which you have to be more careful when choosing toys suitable for their age, because they take everything in their mouths and you have to avoid small parts That can be detached.

In the selection I make I compile the main areas of exploration and also those that were my son's favorite toys at that time.

We had a toy very similar to the one I teach, also from Imaginarium, completely safe and very attractive for the child. Bright colors and without edges, it is used for an active game in which both visual and tactile forms are recognized. I think it is one of the essential type toys for the little ones. The nestable They are a sure hit.

We also loved them the stackable, of all colors and shapes, especially if they had stimulating drawings that served from telling a story to recognizing colors and animals.

The hardcover storiesSimple images and textures were our favorites. Thanks to a good mountain we had many fun and warm winter mornings. One of them was the bunny from the Toca-toca collection. But there are hundreds of precious ones with which you will surely succeed.

One of the toys that accompanied him from the year until much later, and that is still at home, is the Noah's Ark by Fisher Price. At the beginning they play the colorful animals and put them in and take them out of the ark. Little by little they begin to understand what they represent and that joyful discovery makes the toy win many points. Finally, over time, it is incorporated into the symbolic game. It is a gift that will last a long time.

Another of the essentials were the different shapes and sizes, with bright colors. The ones I show are from Play Natur and come in a bag of 75 pieces for 25 euros. As a child they are used to touch and throw them and gradually to make more complex schemes. It is another one of those toys that will accompany them for years and end up serving to make careful cities.

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