20 Best Educational Toys for 1 Year Olds

LEGO Duplo offers a great introduction to building blocks for your one-year-old, and the set comes in a handy storage box so everything can be tidied away neatly. Even if your baby doesn’t quite understand the concept of putting the pieces together right away, it’s a safe activity that encourages them to develop fine motor skills. They’ll pick the concept of piecing together the site as they play with it!

This stacking toy from Fisher-Price includes 5 vibrant rings for babies to grab, shake, stack and even chew if they want to. Babies can stack the rings and then bat the base which offers a wibbly-wobbly effect which, as a result, encourages the use of fine motor skills and eye coordination in addition to being a fun and safe solo activity.

At first look at this sensory ball from Edushape it provides colors that simply draw babies in, On top of that the textured surface engages your baby’s senses and tactile development. They can grab, throw, chew or squeeze this ball to work on gross motor skills, rolling, tracking and bouncing the ball, helping to develop logic and reasoning skills.

Whether it’s their first encounter with animals or they’re already familiar with them, this set includes everything they need to get to know animals from the jungle. The set Includes a jungle house carrier, Stuffed Bears, Stuffed Elephant, Stuffed Tiger, Stuffed Lion, Stuffed Zebra, and Stuffed Monkey. Squeezing each animal will make a sound for your baby to start associating each sound with the individual animals.

A children’s sound book is a great way to pique your baby’s curiosity. As you read the story, you will see picture icons that inspire little ones to find the buttons and play the sound effects. They’ll hear 10 different sounds as the farmer rides his tractor around the farm, looking for a missing pig. Busy Noisy Farm helps to promote matching, fine motor and listening skills, as well as language and literacy skills.

Who said bathtime had to be boring? These floating baby bath books are great for keeping babies entertained in the bath.  Each individual book contains five pages covering a section of the alphabet. Each letter is described with simple, beautiful illustrations. These soft, squishy books all contain a squeaking noise-maker that is easily squeezed and makes silly sounds.

Sophie the giraffe and the natural soother are great for babies that like to chew things. With Sophie, babies can squeeze and chew in complete safety. Both pieces are made of 100% Natural Rubber (phthalates-free) and food paint. Squeezing Sophie makes a happy sound, stimulating your baby’s hearing to understand the link between cause and effect.

This fun bathtime set has everything to make bathtime a blast! Babies can fill up the watering can and pretend to water the plants like a little gardener. Your one-year-old fills cups of water to pour into the flower which rotates the propellor and leaf to create a waterfall. This toy works on hand-eye coordination and promotes shape and color recognition.

This drum kit is the perfect excuse for your baby to have fun and make some noise. It includes a single drum and two drumsticks which clip on to each side of the drum. Aside from beating the drum, your one-year-old could use the sticks to rub the surface of the drum to make some more unique sounds. Babies will work on their creative skills by finding their own musical sounds.

These chunky puzzles are the ideal size for little hands, the pieces are chunky enough to withstand reasonable bashes and scrapes and include four packs of cute and vibrant puzzle pieces. As well as helping babies to recognize animals, these jigsaws will build on your baby’s concentration and basic logic skills. 

This dinosaur-themed touch and feel book includes interactive ways for your baby to get involved with each page of the book. As well as feeling textures, they’ll also hear the sounds of dinosaurs as you continue with the story. The book includes vibrant photographs, and through the use of different surfaces, it encourages sensory development and promotes listening.

This Winnie The Pooh walker includes 2 swing-open activity trays with 4 fun Winnie the Pooh themed toys and 12 songs. The walker holsd babies up to 30lbs and is great for strengthening the power in their lower limbs. Babies can play with the vibrant activity trays or begin to scoot around the house using their legs. When your one-year-old is tired of playing, they can use the included tray table to refuel with a snack!

Although the concept of stacking cups is simplistic, this set includes 8 brightly colored cups that can either be stacked on top of one another or your baby can hide things inside them. There are holes in each cup too which means they can also be used in the bath. The numbers on the cups means your baby can begin to recognize the differences and learn basic counting.

This geometric stacking and shape sorting board from Boxiki features a range of colorful wooden pieces of triangles, squares, circles and rectangles that can be matched and stacked on the corresponding rods. Using the various pieces, babies can stack them together on top of each other which helps to build early problem-solving, cognitive, shape, color, and size differentiation skills.

Packed into a cute box is this 13 piece cookware playset, pots and pans are 3.7″ in diameter, while cooking utensils are 5.5″ long. The pots, pans, and utensils are essentially miniatures of what is found in mom and dad’s kitchen, and they’ve been created with little hands in mind. Babies can pretend to cook while you take care of dinner time, promoting imaginative and imitation play as a result.

The VTech Pull and Sing Puppy has a light-up nose that flashes along with all voice, sound and musical responses to attract your little one’s attention, this promotes language development in a playful way. Using the cord, your baby can push or pull this cute pup to activate the music which works on their gross motor skills at the same time.

This touch and feel book takes baby animals and puts them into a cute little story for you to read to your little one, as you turn each page they can feel the textures to get more involved with the story. 

With colorful pictures of baby animals and rhyming text to read aloud, this interactive book is perfect for your bright baby to build their reading skills, sensory skills, and their vocabulary.

This all in one Early learning center has 5 piano keys that play music, and it features 2 colorful spinning rollers, 3 shape sorters, and 3 light-up buttons. Your baby can sit and play with the various activities. Once they’re brave enough, they can attempt to stand up and even take their first steps with this walker. This toy encourages creativity and builds on fine motor skills.

This race track car ramp is made from solid wood, it comes with 4 wooden racing cars in vibrant colors that’ll instantly grab your baby’s attention. Your one-year-old places a car at the top of the parking lot, and with a small push the car flips down each level of the lot before speeding out from the base of the lot. The toy promotes fine motor skills and also works on keeping their concentration engaged.