Toys
Always check toy labels for recommended ages!
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 Birth to 6 Months
Always check toy labels for recommended ages!
- Crib mobiles
- Remove when child can pull self up
- Crib gyms
- Remove when child can pull self up
- Unbreakable mirrors
- Teething and key rings
- Floor gym
- Activity quilt
- Rattles
- Not made of brittle plastic
- Music boxes
- Cloth dolls or animals
- Watch for buttons and other small parts that baby may swallow
- Dream screens
- Lullaby tapes
6 Months to One Year
Always check toy labels for recommended ages!
- Bath toys
- Rubber duckies
Sponge puppets
Boats
Cups
- Busy boxes
- With levers, switches and dials
- Simple puzzles with large pieces
- Pieces big enough baby can't swallow
- Music boxes
- Wind up
- Round pegs in round holes
- Where you pound peg in hole.
Large pegs so baby can't swallow
- Books
- Cloth
Stiff cardboard
Vinyl
- Stuff animals
- No beans or other stuffing baby can choke on
Watch for small buttons and other small parts that the baby might swallow
- Balls
- Soft and medium sized
- Stacking rings
- Simple pop-up toy
- Squeaky toys
- With squeaker inside the toy
- Nesting toys
- Shape sorters
- Soft blocks
- Simple musical instruments
- Push-pull toys
- Kiddie links
Toddler 1 to 3 years
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- Shape sorters
- Hammering toys
- Stringing toys
- Toy phones
- Musical toys
- Pianos
Drum
Xylophone
- Pull toys
- Videos or DVDs
- "Barney" series
"Winnie the Pooh"
"Beauty and the Beast"
"Arthur" series
"Giggle bugs"
"Baby Songs"
"Thomas the Tank Engine"
- Cassettes or CDs
- Nursery rhymes
Lullabies
Rhythmic children's songs
- Large balls
- Books
- Stiff cardboard
Vinyl
Cloth
One word
Read to child: (about 18 mos.)
"Anybody at Home" by H. A. Rey
"Cat in the Hat Dictionary" by Dr. Seuss
"The Golden Song Book" by Katharine Wessels
"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown
"Look At Me Now" by Watson, Switzer, & Hirschber
"Mother Goose"
"The Rooster Crows" by Maud & Miska Petersham
"Chicken Soup and Rice" by Maurice Sendak
- Ride on toys propelled by feet
- Pop-up toys
- Sand boxes and sand toys
- Play tools
- Hammer
Drill
Pliers
- Dolls and doll gear
- See and says
- Bath toys
- Rubber duckies
Boats
Sponge puppets
Cups
- Trains, trucks and cars
- Large sized for small hands
- Puzzles with knobs
- Snap beads
- Stacking cups
Fisher Price toys for 1-3 years
Play skol toys for 1-3 years
V-tech toys
Dora, Sesame, Barney, Blue Clues items for 1-3 year olds
- Stuff toys
- Watch for chocking hazards
- Two year olds
Always check toy labels for recommended ages!
- As above
- Blocks
- Riding horses
- Wagons
- Boxes
- Tapes or CDS
- Marches by Sousa
Folk songs by Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger
Baroque music
"Play Your Instrument and Make a Pretty Sound" by Ella Jenkins
- Small backyard gym equipment
- Dress- up clothes
- Sidewalk chalk
- Non-toxic clay
- Crayons
- Coloring books
- Finger paints
- Play houses, farms, etc.
- Read to books:
- "Let's Be Enemies"
"A Flower Pot is Not a Hat"
"Are You My Mother?" by P. D. Eastman
"Blueberries for Sal" by Robert McCloskey
"Caps for Sale" by Ezphyr Slobodkina
"The Carrot Seed" by Ruth Kraus
"Harold and the Purple Crayon" by Crockett Johnson
"Curious George" Margaret & H. A. Rey
"Harry the Dirty Dog" by Gene Zion
"Play with Me" by Marie Ets
"The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter
"There's a Nightmare in My Closet" by Mercer Mayer
"Who Knows the Little Man" by Walburga Aflenberger
"Corduroy" by Don Freeman
"Noah's Ark" by Peter Spier
Preschool 3 to 5
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- Dress-up clothes
- Play money
- Play food
- Fisher Price items for 3-5 year olds
- Toy cash register
- Farm, village, garage, school and other play sets
- Weebles people and vehicles
- Baby dolls
- Baby dolls cradles and strollers
- Stuff animals
- Trucks, cars, planes, tractors
- Play tools
- Videos
- "The Aristocats"
"The Adventures of Pinocchio"
"Babe"
"Finding Nemo"
"Fantasia"
"Brother Bear"
"Dumbo"
"Jonah-A Veggie Tale Movie"
"Jungle Book"
"Lady and the Tramp"
"Little Mermaid"
"Mulan"
"Muppets from Space"
"Toy Story"
- Tricycles
- Bike with training wheels and helmet for older child
- Non-toxic art supplies
- Finger paint
Paint sets
Play dough
Crayons
- Simple coloring books
- Puzzles
- 4 to 10 pieces
- Blocks
- Plastic or wood
- Puppets
- Playskol toys for 3-5 year olds
- Cassettes or CDs
- 3 year olds:
Folk songs
"Carnival of the Animals" by SaintSaens
"Hungarian Dancers" by Braham
"Ugly Duckling" by Prokofiev
"Music for Children" by Carl Orff
4 year olds:
"1812 Overture" by Tchaikovsky
Folk songs
Finger play songs
"New World Symphony" by Dvorak
"Scottish Fantasy" by Brach
"Peter and the Wolf" by Prolofiev
Sunday School Songs
- Cassette or CD player
- Games
- Mr. Potato Head
Chutes-n-Ladders
Candy Land
Cootie
Ants in the Pants
Candy land Bingo
Card games: Old Maid, Go Fish
Video Games
Green Eggs and Ham
Tigger's Honey Hunt
- 3-D view master and film discs
- Playskol flashlight
- Play medical kit
- Books
- 3 year old:
"Temper Tantrum Book" by Edna Preston
"What's Inside: The Story of an Egg That Hatched" by May Garelick
"Everybody Eats" by Mary Green
"The Happy Lion" by Louise Fatio
4 year old:
"Giant Nursery Book of Things That Go"
"Stone Soup" by Marcia Brown
"Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish"
"How the Czar Eat Potatoes"
"Winnie the Pooh" A. A. Milne
"Upside, Down and Inside Out Poems for All Your Pockets"
"Children's Garden of Verse"
"What Do People Do All Day" by Richard Scarry
3 to 5 years:
"Best Word Book" by Richard Scary
"Will I Have a Friend?" by Miriam Cohen
"Play With Me" by Russell & Lillian Hoban
"Pelle's New Suit" by Elza Beskow
"The Noisy Book" by Margaret Wise Brown
"The Runaway Bunny" by Margaret Wise Brown "Jam for Frances"
"Johnny Crowes Garden" by Leslies Brooke
"The Little House" By Virginia Lee Burton
"Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" by Virginia Lee Burton
"The Gingerbread Boy" by Paul Gaidone
"Little Bear" by Minarik Else
"Maybelle, The Cable Car" by Virginia Lee Burton
"The Story About Ping" by Marjorie Flack & Kurt Wiese
"A Hole is to Dig" by Ruth Krauss
"Millions of Cats" by Wanda Gag
"The Big Snow" by Berta and Elmer Hader
"Make Way for Ducklings" by Robert Mc Closkey
"The Biggest House in the World" by Leo Lionni
"What You Can Do With a Shoe" by Maurice Dendak
"The Little Engine That Could" by Watty Piper
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter
"The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams
"People" by Peter Spier
- Musical toys
- Simple real instruments:
Rhythm sticks
Bells
Wood tone blocks
Tambourine
Drum
Cymbals
Triangle
Maracas
School Age 5 to 9
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- Snap together model cars
- Battery operated games
- Art Supplies
- Play dough
Paint or color by number kits (older child)
Felt pens (older child)
Art Supplies
Craft Supplies
- Games
- Uno
Old Maid
Mouse Trap
Boggle jr. (older child)
Clue jr.
Monopoly jr. (older child)
Battleship
Checkers
Bonkers
Brain Quest
Jenga
Don't Break the Ice
Operation
- Fashion doll and clothes
- Puzzles
- 10+ pieces
- Cassette or CD player
- Cassettes or CDs
- Five year olds:
Folk songs
"Picture at an Exhibition" by Mussorgsky
"The Planets" by Holst
"Firebird" by Stravinsky
"Peer Gynt Suite" by Grieg
Sunday School Songs
- Play dish sets
- Doctor/ nurse sets
- Videos and DVDs
- "Beauty and the Beast"
"Merlin and the Dragon"
"Pegasus"
"National Geographic" videos for children
"Chicken Run"
"Finding Nemo"
"Fantasia"
"Alice in Wonderland"
"Hercules"
"Homeward Bound"
"Jonah-a veggie tale movie"
"Jungle Book"
"Lady and the Tramp"
"Little Mermaid"
"Monsters, Inc"
"Mulan"
"Never Ending Story"
"Return to Never Land"
"The Rookie"
"Running Free"
"The Secret Garden"
"The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"
- View master and film discs
- Etch-a-sketch
- Books
- Five year olds:
"Princess of the Full Moon" by Frederic Guirma
"Madeline" by Ludwig Bemelmans
"Babar" by Dr. Jean Brunhoff
"Meet My Folks" by Ted Hughes
"Twelve years, Twelve Animals" by Yoshiko Y. Samuel
"We Want Sunshine in Our House" by Bernie W. Carlson & Ristilna Wigg
"The Woodcutter's Duck" by Krystyna Turska
Folk tales
Greek Myths
Six year olds:
"Kitchen Primer" by Craig Claiborne's
"The Plymouth Thanksgiviving" by Leonard Weisgard
"Dr Dolittle" by Hugh Lofting
"The Complete Nonsense Book" by Edward Lear
"Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
"Wonderful O" by James Thurber
Books for K-2nd
"A Bedtime Story" by Joan Levine
"Bennet Cert's Book of Animal Riddles"
"The Big Red Barn" by Eve Bunting
"The Book of Giant Stories" David Harrison
"The Carp in the Bath tub" By Barbara Cohen
"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" by Judi Barret
"Frog and Toad Are Friends" by Arnold Lobel
"The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein
"Harry and the Terrible Whatzit" by Dick Godenbach
"How I Hunted the Little Fellows" by Boris Zhitkov
"Scramble Egg Supper" by Dr. Seuss
"And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street" by Dr. Seuss
"If, I Ran the Zoo" by Dr. Seuss
"I'll Fix Anthony" by Judith Voist
"Ira Sleeps Over" by Bernard Waber
"Katy and the Big Snow" by Virginia Lee Burton
"Max" by Giovannetti
"My Grandson Lew" by Charlotte Zolotow
"Noah's Ark" by Peter Spier
"The Box car Children" by Gertrude Chandler Warner
"Freckle Juice" by Judith Blume
"Charolette's Web" by E. B. White
"James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
"Stuart Little" by E. B. White
"Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey
Easy Readers:
"Where Have You Been" by M. W. Brown
"The Dog" by J. Buringham
"Sam the Minuteman" by N. Benchley
"Shawn Goes to School" by P. Breinburg
"If, I had ...." by M. Mayer
"The Birthday Party" by R. Krauss
"I Like Winter" by L. Lenski
Reading books for Thrid to Fourth Grade:
"Jumanji" by Van Alsburg
"The Leatherman" by Dick Gackenbach
"Lentil" by Robert McCloskey
"Liza Lou & The Yeller Belly Swamp" by Mercer Meyers
"The Maggie B" by Irene Haas
"Matt's Mitt" by Marilyn Sachs
"Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel"
"My Grandson Lew" by Charlotte Zolotow
"Noah's Ark" by Peter Spier
"Erie Canal" by Peter Spier
"Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night" by Peter Spier
Read to books Thrid and Fourth Graders:
"The Swiss Family Robinson" by J. R. Wyss
"The Bird's Christmas Tale" by Kate Douglas Higgin
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain
"The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
"Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls
"Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin" by Marguerite Henry
"The Chronicles of Narina" by C. S. Lewis
"Black Beauty" by Anna Sewall
- Nintendo & Play Station Games
- "Tigger's Honey Hunt" 5-7y
"LEGO Racers" 8+
"Duck Dodger" 6-9y
"Mickey's Speedway" 7+
"New Tetris" 8+
18 Wheeler American Pro-trucker" 7-15
"Gil's Bible Jumble" all
"Green Eggs and Ham" 5-7y
"Legacy of Time" 8+
"Pikmin" all
"Star Ocean: The Second Story" 6+
"Jonah, A Veggietale Game" 5+
"Frozen Bubble" 8+
"Frogger" 6+
"Chu Chu Rocket" 8+
"1080 Snowboarding 64" 7+
- Science kits
- Check age recommendations on the box.
- Doll houses
- Lincoln Logs
- Legos
- Lite Brites
- Kites (older children)
- Frisbees
- Bike with helmet
- Roller and ice skates with protective gear
- Tonka and Matchbox cars
- Spiro graphs
- Knex sets
- Sports equipment
- Soccer balls
Basketballs
Baseballs
Baseball gloves
Basket-ball nets
Football
Badminton Set
Volley ball
Volley ball net
- Nerf balls
- Jump ropes
- Action figures
- Musical Instruments
- Younger Children:
Recorders
Percussion instruments
Older children:
Real instruments e.g. keyboards, violins, guitars, horns
- Marbles and Jacks (older children)
Pre-teen 9-12 Years
Always check toy labels for recommended ages!
- Art supplies
- Airplane and car model kits
- Games
- Topple
Simon
Battleship
Pictionary
Mastermind
Clue
Uno
Monopoly
Sorry
Trouble
Connect 4
Backgammon
Dominoes
Brain Quest
Boogle
Cranium
Jenga
Scattegories
Checkers
Scrabble
Yathzee
Trival Pursuit
Life
- Sports Equipment
- Hand-held electronic games
- CDs
- Remote control vehicles
- Video games
- LEGO racers
New Tetris
18 Wheeler, American Pro-trucker
Gil's Bible Jumble
Legacy of Time
Pikmin
Star Ocean; The Second Story
Frozen Bubble
Chu Chu Rocket
1080 Snowboarding 64
- Electric train
- Musical instruments
- Books
- Fourth to Sixth Grade:
"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
"Caddie Woodlawn" by Carol Ryrie Brink
"A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Little Lord Fountleroy" by Frances Hogson Burnett
"Alice in Wonderland" by C. S. Lewis
"Through the Looking Glass" by C. S. Lewis
"Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi
"The Cricket on the Hearth" by Charles Dickenson
"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickenson
"The Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Charolette's Web" by E. B. White
"Stuart Little" by E. B. White
"Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain
"The Railway Children" by E. Nesbit
"Five Children and It" by E. Nesbit
"The Borrowers" by Mary Norton
"The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
"Just So Stories" by Rudyard Kipling
"The Boy's King Arthur" by Sidney Lanier
"Children's Homer"
Child's Version of "Hamlet"
- Knex sets
- Telescope
- Microscope
- Science sets
- Puzzles
- Videos and DVDs
- A Christmas Carol
Dangerous Journey
Homeward Bound
The Hunchback Of Norte Dame
Jesus of Nazareth
The King and I
Land Before Time
Monsters, Inc.
Old Yellar
The Princess Diaries
The Rookie
Running Free
Skylark
Sarah, Plain and Tall
The Secret Garden
- Craft and Art Supplies
- Art Supplies
Paint by number kits
Craft Supplies
Leather kits
Latch-hook kits
Bead kits
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