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My 14-month-old Boy’s Favorites | Toddler Books, Toys, Sleep+ 😴📕🧸
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items All kids are different but here’s what mine likes (he’s a 1-yr-old toddler who loves to move, play with cars, and get cozy)
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Tactile Books
Top Toys
Sleep
Misc
Tactile Books
The sliders are a nice upgrade from flaps, now that he has the hang of them!
Peekaboo Car: 9781839946776 - Books
Fun drawing style and surprise reveals with every page turn! A unique read, in my experience
Peek-a Who? (Lift the Flap Interactive Book)
This is a little advanced for a one-year-old, but he now recognizes that planes in the sky are depicted on the cover. The moving plane piece on the cover is his favorite to move around!
Make Tracks: In the Sky - Nosy Crow
So many flaps, so little time. He chose to read this every night for almost 3 months
Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book
There are no flaps but the sensory exploration is a big win. Plus, he likes to kiss the babies with the big smiles lol. Seems healthy!
See, Touch, Feel: A First Sensory Book
Did my son drop these pieces all over the plane? Yes. Did I care? No. It did keep him busy and that’s the point.
There’s a big learning opportunity here where every time I take a piece and put it back for him, I tell him what it is or I tell him wh...
Toddler Busy Board Montessori Toy 10 Pages
This has been so cute because it has bold colors, big flaps, and that added learning of body parts appropriate for a 14 month old - we’re all big fans.
Where Is Baby's Belly Button? A Lift-the-Flap Book
Top Toys
Easy to blow up and even easier for baby to grab and grip. Fun for learning to play ball with!
Bedwina Knobby Balls 7 Inch Sensory (6 Pack)
Ms. Rachel uses this in her baby learning videos, and I can’t find it anywhere except their actual website.
It’s great to reenact in person and reinforce the color/animal/item identification. The different textures caught my son’s attention early o...
What's Inside? Soft Feely Box
I wasn’t sure if my toddler would like these, but boy he LOVED them! He was laughing while walk-running across these for a solid 30 minutes straight. Unheard of! Highly recommend!!
Liquid Sensory Tiles for Kids, 6-Pack 11.8in
Now that my son is a toddler, he wants to manipulate everything and anything he can with his hands! This really satisfies that need and has fun, responsive lights when he successfully flips a switch or turns on knob the right way.
Montessori Wooden Busy Board Toy for 1-3 Yr
This is an actual RC car with additional driving game attached. He’s obsessed (and hubby is too)
Remote Control Musical Steering Wheel Toy for 1 Year Old
If your kid likes to open and close cabinets the way mine does…this is a godsend. Plus it’s actually cute, well made, comes with great accessories, and mounts to the wall.
Tiny Land Wooden Kids Play Kitchen Set
Much cheaper than the Lakeshore box uses in her early videos, but I’m afraid it leans a little girly! Including as a cheap alternative
Ms. Rachel Surprise Learning Box for Babies
I’m looking forward to using this for many years. This one is really stable compared to another one I had received as a gift. It really allows for a very short person to learn how to play basketball, lol! But it also gets pretty tall too.
My son‘s n...
Toddler Adjustable Basketball Hoop Set w/4 Balls
For me this is not as much fun as the baby stacking rings, because all he does is lift up the stick and let them go all over the floor. But my son does love it so it’s worth it! It’s also harder to stack these for him, because it’s much bigger, so I ...
LUCKFUTURE Rainbow Stacking Rings Toy
Please make a nice rattle sound when shaken. It’s also so lightweight and just cute overall. My son loves the dumpy out and hold the base up to the light. Eventually, we’ll get to the color sorting, but it’s engaging in a lot of ways!
Sassy Mischievous Matching Mushrooms Toy
This has been a fun little challenge for my son to figure out how to use. He loves when we show him how it makes its sounds and he’s really interested in the fact that it makes wind! A century experience in addition to fine motor skills and music lea...
Skip Hop Accordion Baby Musical Toy Hedgehog
First of all for giftgiving this looks way more expensive than it is. But it’s so easy to use and sounds beautiful. Born of music learning I’m hoping he keeps this for a while.
Baby Einstein Hape Magic Touch Wooden Piano
Sleep
My baby is big on fuzzy blankets - so I finally got him these fleece sacks. Game changer. He rubs them to self-soothe back to sleep in the middle of the night.
Yoofoss Fleece Baby Sleep Sack 2 Pack 1.5 Tog
West-facing windows mean his nursery is hot and bright in the evenings…terrible for a good sleep routine! These blackout curtains saved us in the summer.
NICETOWN Thermal Insulated Blackout Curtains, Hunter Green, 42x63, 1 Pair
It’s great for him to pick his books directly! Part of our nighttime routine
ZICOTO Kids Bookshelf - Montessori Shelf
This makes playing lullabies or white noise easy. I have crickets set to auto-play every night at 8. So great to set and forget.
HomePod mini
The amount of anxiety this has saved me from…invaluable
Nanit Breathing Band | Baby Breathing Motion Monitor
Get it with the floor stand…it’s stable and won’t fall on your baby!
Nanit Pro Baby Monitor
Misc
I find this play mat to be beautiful without being overstimulating. You don’t have to worry about putting the pieces together and having it look messy since it’s a terrazzo look.
It’s on the expensive side but well worth it - I even used a strip un...
Terrazzo Non-Toxic Large Puzzle Playmat