Incorporating play in your baby’s day not only keeps your baby stimulated, but it can foster milestones and abilities to help build these five key skills:

Fine Motor Skills: Hand Movement

This skill is used when small muscles, specifically hands and fingers, pick up objects, hold a spoon, turn pages in a book, or use a crayon to draw.

Gross Motor Skills: Body Movement

This is a child's ability to use large muscles for movement. For example, sitting up, crawling, standing, walking, jumping, and running.

Cognitive Skills: Thinking & logic

Toys and books that encourage cognitive thinking & logic skills can help build on learning, remembering, and problem-solving abilities. Using sensory play is a great way to foster this ability.

Social & emotional skills: Expressions

There are many books and toys that build social and emotional skills to help babies and toddlers express themselves and interact with others. A baby smiling or waving bye-bye are just two examples.

Speech & language skills: Communicating

Books & music are two key ways to build on the ability to communicate & understand. Naming shapes, colours, & the alphabet, are a great place to start.

It’s true, practice makes perfect! So, help your baby put developmental skills into play every day with select toys designed specifically for infants. From 0-3 months, it’s very important to help babies practice fine motor, gross motor, and cognitive skills to help achieve key milestones. See our curated selection of toys to help! Ready? Set. Grow!

Hape Stay-put Rattle Set

Toys that strengthen grasping skills are at your baby's fingertips–literally! With vibrant colours and fun suction cups, these sea animal rattles will POP out from the rest! Ages 0+

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Skip Hop Farmstand Activity Gym

Did you know that babies playing with their food is actually a good thing? Well, it is with this adorable activity gym! Tantalize their senses during tummy time by surrounding them with faux fruits & veggies packed with engaging textures & sounds to encourage hand motions, gripping, and eventually, lifting their shoulders and head. Ages 0+

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VTech® Sleepy Glow Bear™

Listening to music. Feeling new fabrics. Sleeping well. These are all ways to help aid cognitive development. So why not have your little one drift off to dreamland with a soft & cuddly bedtime buddy. This glow plush bear with comforting sounds has a timer that plays up to 30 minutes of music with 40 lullaby melodies or nature sounds to help make it a good night indeed. Ages 0+

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After 3 months, babies begin to reach for toys, see colour better, and make those cute little babbling sounds. That’s why our play experts have curated a smart selection of baby toys specifically designed with 3-6 month old babies in mind to help build on fine motor skills and speech and language. Although babies can’t speak just yet, every word they hear counts to get on the path to communicating and understanding.

VTech® Grip & Go Steering Wheel™

Little ones who have a big drive to develop fine motor skills will adore this steering wheel with fun music, car sounds, bright colours & exciting lights. Attach it to strollers & infant carriers to make road trips, errands, and strolls a walk in the park! Ages 3 months+

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VTech® Soft & Smart Sensory Cube™

Touch, smile, repeat. This awesome development toy offers babies a sensory experience they’ll go ga ga over. Developing fine motor skills & thrills has never been more exciting with bright buttons, fabric ribbons, crinkly wings, and fun textures at their fingertips. Ages 3 months+

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From 6-12 months, babies begin to see in full colour and start to say mama and dada. Introducing musical toys and books designed for their age group can foster key communication, social and emotional skills–all while putting the yay in their every day!

Fisher-Price® Laugh & Learn® Smart Stages™ Puppy

This soft cuddly play puppy introduces 100 first words to give babies a pawsitive experience with learning language skills. Through exciting songs, new sounds, and fun phrases, little ones can’t help but woof this toy big-time. Ages 6 months+

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The Gruffalo

Add this charming story of a mouse and a monster to your baby’s first library to build on speech and language skills. This modern classic's rhythmic words and stunning illustrations will enchant little readers for many bedtimes to come. Ages 0+

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Congrats! All that learning your baby took in from the first year is now put into play! From 12-18 months, babies start to show how they’ve developed key communication, fine and gross motor skills. Examples include expressing themselves by shaking their head no, holding sippy cups properly, and (get those baby gates ready) starting to take first steps. Check out our top toys to help foster these abilities.

Owl Toys Jumping Unicorn or Dino

Bop to it! While babies love bouncing around on these cute little creatures, parents love that these toys help develop gross motor skills by strengthening body movement and coordination. Maximum weight is up to 50Kg. Ages 12 months+

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Hape Baby Einstein Magic Touch Xylophone

Take note… A music note! This innovative tap-touch technology toy that helps develop cognitive and fine motor skills will have your baby’s eyes light up along with the illuminating xylophone. Ages 12 months+

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After your baby’s first birthday, you’ll notice that he or she will start to remember and use problem-solving skills during playtime more. Fitting shapes in their appropriate slots. Recognizing faces and expressions. Holding items properly. To foster these cognitive and fine motor skills, introduce these curated toys to your playroom.

Janod Stacking Stones

Balance. Logic. Problem-solving. Those are just a few of the benefits babies practice when they play with these lightweight stackable wooden pine stones. Their different shapes and cuts are an engaging way to help little architects-at-heart build on cognitive skills and eye-hand coordination. Ages 24 months+

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Pull Back Character Cars 4pk

As babies motor about with these cute cars, they're developing fine motor skills too! These racing toys have a lot of popularity when it comes to dexterity!Ages 18 months+

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Skip Hop Zoo Mix & Match Flippers- Monkey & Dog

Mixing and matching interchangeable mermaid tails not only add an exciting twist at bath time, but they help strengthen hand movements and fine motor skills too. Colourful and cute, flippers will create quite the splash in any baby’s bath! Ages 24 months+

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