47 Best Educational Toys For 1 Year Olds That'll Stimulate A Young Mind

Let the kiddo host the Zoom meeting at their very own desk with LeapFrog's Little Office. Each side of the desk has a different interactive activity. Tykes will learn to role play, hear words in other languages, learn animals and shapes at the computer, and hear songs and melodies.

Flip through a fascinating story about the day in the life of a happy dinosaur with LeapFrog's book. As you're reading, press the buttons on the dino's scale to hear ABCs, or change modes to hear music, or let the book read aloud to your child.

Build dexterity, motor skills, logic, and concentration skills all with the help of some colorful blocks. These plastic blocks will stimulate a kid's visual senses with bold colors and encourage creative critical thinking by locking to one another.

Have bubbles of fun with the little one at bathtime with a happy purple octopus that floats. Its bright colors and odd shape stimulate baby's senses and help them explore different textures. To develop hand-eye coordination, baby can put the rings on the octopus's arms.

Toddlers can practice all sorts of skills with this happy set of fruits and vegetables. Matching and stacking are just the start, kids can also practice counting, learn colors, and inspire their imaginations to make funny fruit combos.

Baby has endless options of things to play with on this activity cube. On top is an amazing maze for them to explore and work on fine motor skills, on two sides are an abacus and rotating numbers for counting skills, and on the other two sides are activities to develop matching and pattern recognition abilities.

The big shapes in the Fisher-Price Butterfly Shape Sorter are perfect for little hands that are figuring out their motor skills. A little one will develop pattern recognition and critical thinking skills as well as learn colors and shapes.

A baby whose first word was "doggy" instead of "dada" will have hours of fun toddling around with the Pull and Sing Puppy. Push and pulling the four-wheeled friend encourages gross motor skill development, while colorful music-playing buttons increase fine motor skills and introduce tots to colors and numbers.

A Mozart in the making will love fiddling around with different sounds on Baby Einstein's Magic Touch Piano. The wood keys magically make music as baby presses on them. The piano comes with sheet music with basic patterns they can follow by color and counting notes.

It's never too early to instill a love of numbers in a little one. Help them develop their critical thinking skills, improve their dexterity and fine motor skills, and build pattern and color recognition skills with a Count & Match Egg Toy. Each egg's interior has pegs that match the other half, work with baby to make them fit together.

Stories and spinners and slides, oh my! The VTech Sort and Discover cube is a wonderland for baby's hands and brain. The all-in-one cube helps baby develop fine motor skills, work on sorting skills, hear rhymes, listen to a story, and engage with buttons that light up and make sounds.

Bathtime and playtime get a lot more fun with a set of stacking cups with holes in the bottom. Outside the bath, baby can work on their motor skills by stacking or object permanence by hiding things underneath. In the bath, baby can experiment with water play and flow.

This stack and learn game is a multi-faceted learning adventure for a little one. As they stack, they'll get to know colors and animals as it sings songs to them. The rings are big enough for tiny hands to grasp, and aid baby's hand-eye coordination and fine-motor skills.

This humble pegboard is a great place for baby to start learning colors, numbers and shapes. As they're stacking, they'll also develop more high-level skills like pattern-recognition, memory, work on hand-eye coordination, and critical-thinking skills.

Baby will be bouncing to the beat of their own drum and babbling a happy song as they play in this jumper. Baby has drums, a wiggly worm, a guitar, a spinning piano, and much more to entertain them. The jumper is adjustable so as baby grows, parents can make it sit higher.

Take baby on a trip through the animal kingdom with the Talking Safari Buddies playset. Introduce them to wild animals that will fascinate them and teach baby to make the sounds they do. The set is great for helping a little one develop their imagination, curiosity about their world around them, and build coordination while playing.

Hit the educational nail on the head with a hammer that starts babies on the path to learning their numbers by counting with every pound. It also plays one of 6 different child-friendly songs and lights up when tapped.

Thanks to these board books, your baby's first word might not be mama or dada, it might be something cool, like zebra or octagon. It's a set of books featuring 100 of the first animals, first colors, numbers, and shapes, and first 100 words that baby might learn.