Selecting appropriate birthday presents for toddlers can be a challenging process. Fortunately, there are great toddler birthday present ideas that span play toys to educational gifts to artistic and activity-based gifts that can keep your toddler happily entertained for hours at a time.
Tool Sets
Tool sets are great for stimulating the imaginations of any budding carpenter toddler in your life. This type of toddler gift comes with plastic or wooden blocks that can be screwed, pounded and cranked together by a toddler.
Wooden Puzzles
Many toddlers enjoy being able to solve brightly colored puzzles, particularly ones that come with pieces that are easy to hold and handle. When shopping for puzzles for toddlers, search for wooden ones that come with pegs or other handles on each piece of the puzzle, as these are the easiest for toddlers to manage. Make sure to purchase puzzles that are not too tricky and do not contain more than 10 individual pictures on the board. Avoid buying puzzles that contain interlocking pieces as these are usually too challenging for the age group.
Puppets
Puppets are a great birthday present idea for toddlers as they enable the parent or child care provider to engage in interactive play with toddlers. Toddlers have fun playing peek-a-boo games with puppets, being tickled by them and listening to an adult talk in a funny puppet voice. Parents and child care givers can use puppets as a way to educate toddlers about how to deal with challenging social situations, like meeting new people or making friends.
Board Books
Board books are great birthday present ideas particularly for toddlers who would likely rip pages out of normal books or are rough with their toys. Search for board books that are engaging for toddlers, with baby faces, animals and peek-a-boo flaps. Avoid purchasing board books that have too complex or long stories, as these easily lose a toddler's attention.
Music Blocks
Music blocks are great for toddlers because they help stimulate their musical creativity, listening ability and sense of rhythm. These blocks enable your toddler to compose their own music while being exposed to diverse colors, shapes, sounds and sequences.
Dolls
Dolls are a classic and favorite play item of many toddlers, particularly girls. Playing with dolls allows toddlers to use their imaginations as they create story lines for their dolls with parents or other children. Toddlers also really enjoy dressing dolls in different outfits.
