Developmental Play: 9 Cool Stacking Toys

We love stacking toys! They are one of the most popular educational tools and are a great way to encourage fine motor and problem solving skills in young children. Here are 9 great stackers for kids 2 and older:

The World of Eric Carle Squeaks and Crinkles

Just in time for the 40th anniversary of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle has teamed up with Kids Preferred to introduce a line of developmental toys for babies and kids.

Whoozit Goes Everywhere Babies Go

Manhattan Toy’s Whoozits are a fun loving line made of bright colors and high-contrast patterns. Each Toy offers many developmental benefits for babies including visual stimulation, Early Motor, Sensory and Independent Play skills.

Beleduc Puzzles Teaches Kids About Their Own Body

Beleduc’s five layer “Your Body” puzzle shows in clear and child oriented way to set-up of a human body from skeleton to the organs, over the muscles to the naked and to the dressed child.

Twig Building Blocks: Stacking With A Twist!

This cool unconventional building block set will keep your little engineer busy for hours.
Stacking the usual way, on on top of the other, this set also offers kids the ability to use sticks to secure their work.
72 vibrant colored wooden pieces—each precision-cut and compatible with one another—combine to form an infinite array of captivating [...]

10 Clever Sorting Toys

Because my son has needed a good amount of therapy to meet his milestone, we have collected a lot of developmental toys. We have found sorting toys to be both helpful to teach colors, shapes and numbers.

Some of the other skills these toys teach are

fine motor skills
co-ordination

problem solving
matching [...]