The Top Educational Toys for Babies

Your baby is like a little information sponge, soaking up new ideas and concepts all the time. You can use educational baby toys to introduce new sights, sounds and experiences that will help them learn, and have fun at the same time. The most important toys to choose are those that help enhance your baby’s hand-eye coordination and their visual skills. Here are some of the top educational baby toys.

Fisher Price Laugh and Learn Learning Puppy
This stimulates your baby’s senses and helps them learn by using music and interactive play. Puppy’s collar lights up and plays 10 songs. Your baby will learn ABC’s, numbers and parts of the body by pressing the corresponding body part on the puppy. The Laugh and Learn Learning Puppy is meant for six months to three years.

Leap Frog Learning Drum
This is a fun, educational toy that will keep your baby busy and entertained. The interactive voice tells your baby to bang on the drum and when they do the drum displays numbers or letters, depending on the setting you choose. The drum will recite the alphabet or numbers along with your baby’s drum hits…a great cause and effect learning experience. You can also set the drum for an interactive song, or for baby to follow the beat.

Lamaze Octotunes
It’s cute, it’s musical, and it even smells good! This little octopus has a light vanilla scent, and plays music when any of its eight legs are pulled or squeezed. Each leg has a different sound, so babies can make their own music. It also has a soft handle on the top, so little hands can carry their octopus buddy around with them.

Fisher Price Brilliant Basics Snap Lock Beads
Think of this as Lego for babies. Bright colors and strong plastic keep these building beads interesting and durable. They are too big to fit in a curious mouth, so they are safe for baby to play with. Snapping the beads together and pulling them apart helps baby learn about sizes and colors, and also develops their hand-eye coordination and problem solving skills.

Hasbro Playskool Busy Ball Popper
This crazy little toy really works their hand-eye coordination while being super fun! baby puts a ball on the track, and it rolls down and then pops back up out of the top of the track along with music and sound effects. baby learns to pick up and hold objects, and place them somewhere specific…and when they do it, they are rewarded with the silly, crazy ball popping and sounds. Best for nine months and up.

Fisher Price Ocean Wonders Aquarium
Even busy babies have to go to sleep sometime, and this aquarium will help. It attaches easily to the side of the crib and provides baby with soothing lights, movement and sounds such as falling rain and ocean waves. a large blue button in the middle lets baby press it to start the show, helping them understand cause and effect while at the same time lulling them to sleep.