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

A kid will stimulate their brain and their motor skills with a set of colorful stacking rings at their fingertips. They'll learn about size and shape, experience new textures and enjoy visual stimulation with the bright colors that make up these rings.

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.

This five-in-one activity cube will keep baby occupied for hours. They can play with a maze and develop spatial awareness, work on hand-eye coordination and pattern recognition with blocks and holes, learn their colors and numbers and how to tell time with a clock, and start understanding STEM while watching how gears interact.

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.

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.

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.

Baby's hand-eye coordination and sense of cause and effect will be sharper than ever with this Pound & Tap Bench. When they get a little older, they can practice musical skills by removing the xylophone and tapping out melodies on the keys.

They've said "mama" and "dada," now help baby learn their colors as well as how to say them with this book. As you flip through the pages, press the button to hear the color words and look at the stunningly rich pictures.

Watch baby's curiosity grow as they play along with a light-up mushroom garden toy. It plays music to keep them engaged while they learn about colors and patterns. As they play, they'll be developing motor skills, working on their coordination, memory, and problem-solving abilities.

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.

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.

The Fisher-Price Learning Wagon is a school on wheels for tots both younger and older. Little ones still sitting will work on pattern recognition, colors, numbers and shapes while older tykes that are on the go can walk and pull the wagon behind them. When they sit back down to play, they can tap tunes on its mini-xylophone.

This classic wood toy is perfect for both parent and baby to enjoy together. While baby pokes and prods, building their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and matching skills, mom and dad can introduce them to the sounds that the animals on the toy make.

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.

A toddler that loves veggies will enjoy the puzzle presented to them by these wooden carrots. As they sort the carrots by size, they'll be honing their dexterity, building problem-solving skills, and working on their fine motor skills.

Little ones will have mounds of run going around and around pounding on the balls in this set. As they develop fine motor skills, arm strength and hand-eye coordination, they'll also get to watch gravity in action and learn how to match colors.

Imitation play is an important part of a little one's growth and with this color-changing sink, they can clean up a pretend mess. The sink comes with several kinds of accessories, like food and utensils, so children can work on sorting and hand-eye coordination skills. When it's time to clean the toys, they turn white when exposed to 95-degree water.

Baby will be on the move and in a learning groove with LeapFrog's Spin and Sing toy. In addition to teaching a toddler letters and animal sounds, it helps them build their coordination and motor skills by scooting around. When baby crawls to catch it and touch it, it plays music, makes sounds, and lights up as a reward.