All About Educational Toys/books To Keep Your Child Occupied.

@blindpup10
Nice Thread, my DS is 2 and my living room is filled with his toys every where. Here goes the list:
Infant - 9 months: Play gym was his fav toys, from 2 - 9 months. He explored it like any thing. When ever he crawled and move out of it, we used to place him back. There were few rattling toys and teethes which he hardly played with.
9 months-one year: This when he explored the whole house like any thing, he was every where and every thing went to his mouth. So i started giving soft fruit, cheese etc instead of teethers . At this stage he liked musical toys, like pressing button, looking at lights etc.

1 - 2 years:
Walker was his fav toy
Toys which wheels and thread, he would pull those along with him.
giraffe 3 wheel walker.
Alphabet train (he will push it all around the house)
Tri cycle
Other block toys to put blocks.
Stacking cups (This is his bath time toy)
Sometimes he would get bowls & spoons and do cooking and play with them and pretend like eating. For this I did not restrict him which helped in developing his eating skills.
There are other toys like ball, cricket bats etc which he plays some times.

TV-
Rhymes Chu-chu tv, little babybum and Hoopla kids are his fav. These just run as background while he is busy with toys. Recently he started dancing and enacting for his fav rhymes.

Books:
Brown bear Brown bear (all time fav)
wheels on the bus music bus
Good night moon
Animals tough & feel books
spot goes to school
There are other books for alphabets, numbers, colors, shapes etc. But as soon as i open then, he will sleep or point to brown bear brown bear.

Miscellaneous:
When ever he comes and messes with my work, i though him to help me.
Now he helps in unloading dishwasher, folding cloths. He will trash the remaining food or any thing on floor and puts his used cups & plates in sink. Of course i have to instruct him to do it. Hope slowly he develops that habit.

 

Leap Frog/ Fischer price etc.
Dr.Seuss books - started with Green Eggs and ham, cat in the hat, Mr. Brown can moo, Foot book etc etc.
building blocks
Wooden puzzles from Melissa Doug.
Reading does wonders and We started at 3 months.

 

Wow..

My LO is 2 yrs old and i am literally thinking thinking.. and looking at her toys bag for recall what was her fav at 9 months.
so in your suggested format
DD/9 months/ US
~ Activity walker ( she loved it and used till 16 months till she started walking hersef)
~ all tiny colorful toys, she used to lick, switch, lick switch ( rinse repeat)
~ gym mat (so useful) . .it was worth all the money.
~ activity cube, stacker
~ picture books - I started bringing books very early and she loved that time see pics and listening my comments.
~ at 1 point in her life, she loved soft toys ( may be 10-11-12 months)
~ rhymes always
she was less active at 9 months as compared to other kids
Now,
DD/2ys/ US
~ I can not define anything. She likes dislikes every days..she spends 1 min on 1 thing then changes, full house scan, rinse repeat so can not say what she likes what not and she likes gonig out more
~ rhymes, cartoons, stories ( she started listening to stores bedtime but loses patience)

 

Activity chair is a good one, my DS has it but he used to take the toys from it and play with them. I forgot to include Jumperoo in my list. it was his fav till he out grew it.

That's fine, they will learn eventually but keep eye as he may choke. Yogurt melts, shredded cheese are also a good option to start.

Yes.