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Melissa and Doug are well known for making great toys of great quality and the Melissa & Doug Deluxe Picnic Basket Fill & Spill Soft Baby Toy is no exception! With those warm summer days filled with family outings and warm afternoons in the front yard finally here this picnic basket toy also makes the ideal fun toy for interactive summer play! The Melissa & Doug Deluxe Picnic Basket Fill & Spill Soft Baby Toy comes with four soft picnic treats (a soda bottle, a sandwich, a watermelon slice and an ice cream cone) inside a cute plush flip top basket! The sandwich even comes apart in to five seperate pieces so your child can make his
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or her own sandwich to order! The food items included in the basket are all textured and have sounds to stimulate even the youngest picnicers and are perfectly sized for the smallest hands! Each of the pieces of the picnic set are designed to stimulate growth and development of fine motor skills and hand eye coordination! This toy is also perfect for travelling since it doesn’t have small pieces that can get lost in the car! This picnic set is recommended for children aged 6 months to 3 years!
Many stores carry Melissa & Doug products including your larger retail stores as well as smaller mom and pop type shops; however, finding a specific toy by Melissa & Doug may prove a little more difficult since their range of toys is so vast. If you don’t have time to go searching for this one you can always grab it at Amazon.com for $14.65
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The Sassy Earth Brights Wooden Cherry Tree Rattle is a colorful and naturally made rattle for teething little ones everywhere! With natural influences and baby safe, non-toxic materials the Sassy Earth Brights Wooden Cherry Tree Rattle is a great choice for both baby shower gifts as well as basic baby toy ideas. The rattle itself features brightly colored cord fabric that baby can pull and teeth on, two wooden leaves that make noises to intrigue babies sense of hearing, colorful animals and features to perk up babies sense of vision and capture their attention and lots more! The rattle is designed to help baby develop through using all of his/her senses while
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playing and teething with the rattle and being inspired by nature and made by hard wood the rattle is not one of those toys that new parents have to panic about handing over to their new baby. Encouraging play by stimulating senses is a huge part of childhood development and through natural products such as those created by Sassy’s Earth Brights infants get to expand their horizons safely as well.
Sassy’s Earth Brights toys and developmental tools are available through Amazon.com and are all very reasonably priced so they can easily be incorporated in to baby welcoming gifts as well as picked up as an after thought!
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The importance of teaching expressive language skills is beyond explanation especially to families with an autistic child. The "Talk About Your Day" flashcards are developed by Carson Dellosa and feature 46 photographic flashcards in a deck. These flashcards all feature photos of children engaging in different activities that most children take part in at some point in their childhood. The importance of using photographic cards as opposed to paintings or drawings is that it enables your child to relate more to the cards being that that too recognize that they are children, this is an extremely important factor for children with
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special needs and gives them an edge on learning new vocabulary words to describe their day or at least allows them to show their day in pictures whereas they otherwise may not express anything at all. These cards are an excellent tool for discussion and conversation among the family, allowing even your youngest members of the family to feel like a part of the conversation. Each of the 46 flashcards measures 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".
These flashcards are carried by Kaplan Early Learning Center and most of the time they need to be ordered through an online retailer. I encourage you to do a little price researching online but as always I found the best deal at Amazon.com.
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The Wonderworld Dudy Shake Rattle Toy is another enironmentally conscious parent type of toy. This rattle is based around a wooden ring made of environmentally friendly rubber wood. The duck has wings that are both textured and that crinkle when played with giving multiple stimulation points for the developing child. The rattle combines wood and fabric to give children a multitude of experiences to take in, from bright colors for sensual stimulation to developing hand eye coordination by simply interating with the duck toy around the rattle. Not only is the wood of this toy environmentally friendly but the paints used on it are also non-toxic water based
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paints as well as the fabric used to make the duck’s appendages being biodegradable. The Wonderworld Dudy Shake Rattle Toy is recommended from birth on up and weighs 5 ounces and measures 23" x 14" x 6" making it large enough to grasp but not too large so that it becomes a burden for tiny hands. This rattle is also the perfect toy and soother for younger children with difficulties such as autism, providing multiple points of stimulation and creating pleasurable noises from each piece of the toy.
I have yet to see this Wonderworld Dudy Shake Rattle Toy carried anywhere but Amazon.com, this is not to say that you won’t find it anywhere else, but being that it is an eco-friendly toy if you are on the look out in local stores, try visiting your eco-friendly based stores first.
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Chiara had asked about a boys version of the Walk A Buddies Princess coach I posted earlier this month and after some research I decided on the Radio Flyer Classic Wagon Walker. This product of the Radio Flyer trusted brand and is perfect for little boys just learning to walk on their own. This wagon is designed with stability in mind to help prevent tip ups that end up in busted lips! The wheels are molded and have a tread on them to prevent slippage just like the princess coach featured ealier this month. The body of the wagon is made from solid wood and the side panels are removable. This wagon also has a featured bumper on the front to prevent |
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damage with indoor play. The walker wagon also has a feature called a "resist push" feature making it harder to push for beginner walkers so that the wagon won’t slip out from under them as they stand and wobble at first. Another redeeming feature of the Red Wagon Walker Wagon is the Gold Seal best toy award that it won from Oppenheim!
This wagon is available from Red Wagon; however, it is available from Amazon for half the price with free shipping so this is my preferred retailer for this one. Although this toy is presented as a boy alternative to the featured princess coach it also makes the perfect walker for a little girl as well.
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