How to choose Baby Toys, Kids Toys and Baby Gifts
How do you find great baby toys or kids toys or a unique baby gift? The first step would be to find a great website with the best toys; and you’ve found it (at least we think so).
But all baby toys, kids toys and baby gifts are not created equal. There are thousands of toys to choose from? How do you know which is a good toy? How do you know if the toy is age apporpriate? And more importantly than age appropriate, how do you really know if the toy is matched to the development of your child. Well, it's easy if you use the ebeanstalk 'system'.
Baby Toys: how old is a baby? A newborn? Yes. A 3 month old? Sure. Even a 15 month can be considered a baby. So selecting toys for this wide age group must be taken seriously and with great care. We pride our selves on having the best baby toys, not by just how they look, but more importantly how they work and how the baby interacts with the toy. Making sure to have a unique selection of toys – wooden baby toys, fabric and plastic toys all make up our great selection of baby toys.
Kids Toys: Again, picking great kids toys is not easy? What is a 3 year old doing? A 3 and a half year old? What do they need? When do letters kick-in? What about numbers? Our kids toys run the complete spectrum of what any 1 year old, 2 year old through 7 year old needs.
Ebeanstalk is all about your child’s development. We have “Child Experts” (psychologist, special educators, pediatric occupational therapists etc.) that help us pick out all of our baby toys and kids toys. Not a single toy gets through to our website without our experts testing each and every one of them. They play with the baby toys and toys for kids to find out if they are stimulating, or challenging enough for the age group given. They test each toy for possible safety hazards, or defects (if the toy has it, we don’t use it!). In addition to our experts, we have a group of 700 moms across the country that also helps us pick out the best toys for your little ones. We like to get feedback from regular every day moms just like you who know the best toys for their children from their own experiences!
You may be asking yourself besides the help we get to pick out our kids toys or toys for babies...what else makes Ebeanstalk special and different from any other toy site? The answer is the way we organize our baby toys and kids toys. Most toy stores and toy websites organize toys by Manufacturer or Brand. We think this makes shopping for toys extremely difficult, so we grouped all of our toys by age – this makes for a very unique and easy way to purchase toys. All of our toys are matched to the age increment of 3 months. You may not know that a baby that is 3 months old is very different from a baby who is 9 months old; so the baby toys they are playing with should be very different to move them forward developmentally and increase dexterity. A 3 month old will be starting to reach for objects and bang toys together during play, while a 9 month old will start to push toys (toy cars etc.) and throw objects. Then finally at 12 months old when they get the hang of walking, they will be using pull toys.
Another thing that Ebeanstalk has: Instruction Cards! Each toy for a baby or toy for a kid has its very own instruction card. The front of the card has the Name and Picture of the toy. It then has the Age, the toy Description, Why We Love it, our Head to Toe System (this tells you what skills the toy focuses on whether it be imagination, education, language, dexterity, emotional, locomotion, social, or all!), and lastly the Graduated Play Ideas written by our Child Experts. These Graduated Play Ideas give you all the ideas and help you need to get the most out of this toy for your child’s development and education. The back of these instruction cards also have Developmental Milestones for each individual age written by our experts.
So next time you’re trying to find fun, great baby toys, kids toys or a baby gift, there is no need to look any further; Ebeanstalk has it all.
