48 Genius Gifts for Toddler Girls and Boys

A magical, interactive read for your toddler in this clever book! Press the dots, shake the book and turn the pages to keep the fun going! This book puts your little one in charge of the story and is entertaining for both of you! You’ll want to read it again and again!

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Fidget spinner, eat your heart out! Fat Brain Toys Swingy Thing is the perfect focus toy that gives you 52 challenges, and helps your child focus and entertains for hours! The perfect gift for your super smart toddler, or even for your desk at work! Fun for the whole family!

Your toddler can dance their way to a musical good time with this great floor piano! The Click N’ Play Gigantic Keyboard Play Mat has 24 keys, record and play mode, preset songs ang more! Get moving and playing! Adjustable volume and battery saving auto shut off keeps you playing longer!

Make art on the go with this wonderful coloring pad! AquaDoodle gives your toddle hours of mess free drawing fun! Perfect for keeping them busy on car rides because it can go anywhere, anytime! Durable, soft, and portable, your little artist will love it, and with no mess, so will you!

Rock, pop, and play with this Teeter Popper from Fat Brain Toys! This concave board with suction cup bottom inspires hours of creative play while encouraging balance and being active! How they use it is up to them as they stand, sit, and rock on the board. Perfect for toddler boys and girls!

Make bath time a building adventure with these ingenious, colorful water pipes! These connectable pipes can suction to the wall to build any number of combinations of tunnels, then just pour on the fun! Teach motor skills and engineering while getting squeaky clean! And maybe even convince them to wash their hair without a fight!

Wild rides and loop-de-loop fun with this amusement park set! Your little one will love the amazing rollercoaster ride. Complete with two wheelie cars, a swirly slide and a loop that will make cars fly! The roller coaster even has lights and sounds as the little cars swoop through the end!

Hours of magnetic fun with this clever drawing tablet! Use the magnetic pen to free draw any shape your toddler can imagine! Perfect for your bright little artist, the pen is easy to grasp, and the magnets stay contained while drawing away! Watch creativity blossom with a tap of a pen!

This simple seat will be your child’s favorite place to sit, and play! The curved design of this seat is perfect for open ended play! Rocking and balancing their way into hilarious fun, or simply reading a book. Made from almost indestructible plastic, it’s a great gift for indoors or out!

Give your toddler a magical way to express themselves with this neat little book! For ages two and up, this book comes with easy to follow games, 50 sturdy pages, 70 stickers, and oodles of fun! Help them learn creativity and fun, great for the car or one-on-one time!

Dance up a storm with this clever dance game, perfect for toddlers! Roll the dice and do the moves as you laugh and groove! Bright colored plush dice and 48 dance cards! Great gift for building motor skills and teaching game rules while having so much fun they won’t know it’s good for them!

Build up your clever toddler’s skills with these giant waffle blocks! The lightweight, easy to handle blocks fit snuggly together to create and build anything they want! Forts, tunnels and boxes galore! Great for indoors and out, it’s a toy they’ll love all year!

Get active and have fun with this easy to assemble trampoline! Great for the toddler with energy to burn or for anytime play, this trampoline sets up fast and gives your child the safe, fun, burst of activity they need! Fear no rainy day with this awesome way to play!

Get in gear for fun with this fantastic building set! Toddlers will love to learn STEM subjects like math, sorting, grouping, and construction with this 150 piece gear set that they can build, connect and turn! Promote problem solving, reasoning, and fine motor skills while they play!

Plan, learn and play with this great magnetic calendar! Melissa & Doug’s My First Daily Magnetic Calendar is a great way to teach your child a routine or count-down to special days! With colorful magnets, a dry erase component, and a sturdy cord for hanging!

Make a splash with this water table set! This Finding Dory water table takes the beloved characters from your child’s favorite movie and puts them right into the fun! Made of durable plastic, with eight accessories, slide, and whirlpool spinner, this is a great wat to have water time play!

Light up the night and keep the monsters out from under the bed with this great flashlight! The VTech Spin and Learn Color Flashlight is an educational toy that comes with 50 sing along songs, music and fun phrases! Your toddler will light up when they get this toy!

Spin your way to learning and fun with this vibrant toy perfect for a clever toddler! Colorful, tactile gears spin down the corkscrew, fostering motor skills and teaching cause and effect. Pull off the base to watch them tumble to the floor, or flip it around for either stable or wobbly play!

Your toddler will love learning how to spell their name with this adorable wooden name puzzle! This wooden puzzle is completely personalized with up to 9 letters and comes in either pastels and primary colors! Great for younger kids learning their letters or older children who already know, it’s a perfect gift!

Race into the fun with this amazing little tunnel! Your child will love racing toys and balls through this tunnel track! Works with almost any brand of car or small ball, watch them devise different tricks and stunts as they zoom into fun! Hours of toddler friendly fun!

Bring your toddler a world of busy fun with this DIY latch board that is perfect for the active and inquisitive toddler in your life! All you need is a board and some latches, and you are off and running with this simple design! As fun to make as it is to play!

Build a love of science and have a gooey good time with this amazing home made silly putty recipe! Who doesn’t love that iconic, wonderful, squishy goo? Well now you and your little one can make your own putty and have hours of stretchy, goopy, fun! A great activity for toddlers!

Your little farmer will love working the sandbox with this pair of tractors! The John Deere Sandbox Vehicle 2 pack gives your toddler two of the iconic tractors built tough for outdoor play! With free turning wheels and movable, workable bucket, it’s just like the big tractors!

Get your toddler leaping into reading and fun with this learning system from Leapfrog! LeapFrog LeapStart Interactive Learning System is perfect for young children, with so many options of books and programs to add, you’ll never run out of ways to learn. Use the stylus to follow along for reading fun!

Give your caring little one a baby of their very own with Baby Stella Peach Soft First Baby Doll! This ultra soft baby doll has an easy to change cloth diaper, embroidered toes, bellybutton, and face and a cute tuft of fleece hair. Perfect gift for cuddles!

Have tons of mess free fun with this amazing set from Crayola! These amazing, bold colored markers won’t color on arms or walls, but on the special paper they burst into brilliant tones! Never worry about your toddler being covered in marker again! A great gift for your budding artist!

Stomp your way to the stars with these awesome kid powered rockets! Your toddler will go wild for these all foam, glow in the dark rockets that they get to stomp to launch! Super-fast and easy to set up, no batteries or waiting to begin the fun! Blast off!

Keep your toddler busy and little fingers working with this busy board from Melissa & Doug! The Latches Wooden Activity Board is perfect for your curious little one, with six different latches that they will love to explore and figure out, and a surprise behind each door!

A sweet classic bedtime story with a STEM twist, Goodnight Numbers is the perfect way to count down to dreamland. Beautifully illustrated, this book teaches numbers while settling your child into a good night’s sleep. A wonderful way to give your child a start in math. Great for boys or girls!

Give your toddler amazing colorful fun with this delightful hand kite! Great for encouraging active play, watch the colors flutter and fly as your child dances and spins! Each kite has a maple ring sanded and finished with wax and satin ribbons, making it a simple, but lovely gift!

Let your budding artist get messy (without worry) with this great finger paint kit! The Crayola My First Fingerpaint Kit comes with easy squeeze, paint tubes, great big pieces of glossy paper perfect for mixing colors, and it’s washable paint! Don’t worry Mom and Dad, this artistic fun wipes away!

Hours of learning fun for your little scholar with the VTech Touch and Learn Activity Desk! This bright, interactive desk features 100+ vocabulary words, 5 activity pages and even converts into an easel for more playtime fun! It even has storage space for art supplies and easy to reach cups!

Give your little rock-star a shredding good time with this neat giraffe guitar from VTech! Sing along with eight fun songs, or they can jam out to their own tune by strumming the eight light up buttons! They can even turn the button to choose from electric, acoustic, or distortion!

Your toddler will count their way to big fun with this amazing cash register! LeapFrog’s Count Along Cash Register is an amazing way to introduce money, counting and numbers to your bright tot! Scan the groceries and count out the change to pay! The register comes to life with sounds and songs! A great gift!

Learn about letters with Marshall from Paw Patrol with this wonderful toy! This multiple mode toy comes with 26 “Pup Treats” that teach letters, make music and more! Your child will be amazed that Marshal knows each letter just by tasting them! A wonderful toy!

From tummy time to learning to crawl, this engaging toy will help your baby have a ball! The VTech Baby Lil’ Critters Roll and Discover Ball has bright colors and entertaining animal friends, with a built in motion sensor that encourages baby to move and play with noises and phrases!

Get your little MD into practice with this sturdy doctor’s kit! This doctor’s set features a cell phone full of sounds, and the stethoscope produces an authentic real-life heartbeat and coughing sound! Great for role play and easing fears of the doctor, or just learning about their bodies!

Have hours of outdoor fun for the whole family with this flying disk set! These sturdy, foam disks are great for the beach or pool, or just in the backyard! Improve hand eye coordination and have a blast as these oversized flying disks zoom through the air!

An attention keeping toy that can go anywhere, Fat Brain Toys pipSquigz is perfect for the bright toddler in your life! These brilliantly colored silicone pieces stick to surfaces or each other, rattle, and pop apart. Watch your child learn motor skills, and discover! Great for bath time or highchair fun!

Your toddler will never get tired of this toy! The Hape Country Critters Wooden Activity Play Cube has multiple sides of interactive play that encourages imagination, develops fine motor skills and fosters all kinds of free and collaborative play! High quality, nontoxic and child safe material, this is a great gift!

Give your little Da Vinci a great start with this amazing doodle desk! This desk features a magnetic dry erase board and plenty of slots and cups for pens and markers, a stool to sit on and plenty of storage to keep all the supplies in one neat place!

Give your child their very own tech with the VTech Little Apps Tablet! Perfect for bright little ones ages 2-5, this tablet has 12 learning activities with progressive levels, color changing screen, big letter buttons, and piano keyboard, it’s a great way to jump-start their learning!

All aboard for fun with this wonderful classic wooden train set! Get your toddler conductor hours of play with 130+ pieces of train time fun! The easy to move, easy to build track will help your little one feel all grown up and build imagination and fine motor skills!

The author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar brings us another beautiful classic in The Head To Toe book! Your toddler will delight in this smart, colorful and energetic book that will have the whole family clapping their hands and wiggling their toes! Great for teach learning and listening!

Who knew you could create a wonderful sensory board with the plastic tops of your baby-wipe refills? This inspired peek-a-boo sensory board is a great way to introduce your toddler to textures and tactile learning! They will love pooping the tops open to find the next thing to touch inside!

Catch some rays with these amazing DIY sun catchers! Your toddler will love the way these translucent creations catch the light and fill their room with color! Easy to make and fun to hang, these sun catchers are the perfect way to spend an afternoon creating with your child!

Build the ultimate sensory experience with a giant sensory board! This DIY project will keep your toddler moving and playing with all the fun gadgets and activities! You can use almost any combination of this inspiring board to make one of your own! Incorporate old locks and all your child’s favorite colors!

Create the perfect toddler camp out with this great DIY teepee! This super simple 5-minute set up is the quick and easy way to turn your backyard into an adventure! All you need is some poles, an old sheet, and a few clothespins and you’re on your way!