Best Wooden Baby Toys Rated 6 Months To 2 Year
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If you are good sensory toys for you baby if you want, you're probably looking at it too wooden toys.
Toys as a this wooden stacking tower from Melissa & Doug, full of cheerful colors and a challenging game with different geometric shapes. I think every child needs a stacking tower :)
But there is also another kind toys which is very good for development. In this guide I look at the 8 best and what you should pay attention to when purchasing.
Let's take a quick look at the options first. Then I'll go into more detail about each of these choices.
Best wooden stacking toys for babies
A very fun stacking toy with 21 geometric shapes that you can combine or put back on the three pillars of the sturdy wooden base.
Best Cheap Wooden Stacking Toys
This Montessori toy combines a magnetic fishing game with stacking, stringing beads and a balance game.
Best wooden stack train
A nice train that you can pull along with the rope, but the best part is of course that you can build it the way you want.
Best wooden toddler puzzle
Where shape puzzles have a wooden handle on each piece, this one does not and the animals can more easily participate in imaginative play.
Best Classic
The nails are stuck in the wooden bench so that it is also suitable for small children and fun from about 2 years.
Best wooden cause and effect gears
Gears always have something magical for a small child. That's why the Melissa & Doug Caterpillar is so educational.
Best wooden toy cars for babies
These cars are already suitable from 1 year. Due to the rounded shapes there is nothing to hurt yourself and they are easy to grip.
Best activity cube
Jouéco is such a brand that makes fun and affordable wooden toys, and this cube is a very nice addition to the playroom.
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Wooden baby toys buying guide
There are some things to look out for when buying wooden baby toys.
Age
Of course, it must suit your age baby but still provide sufficient challenge.
Toys what they return to to try each time is often what they can discover something about.
At babies you want to be extra careful that there are no small pieces that they could put in their mouths. That's why all the sets on this list are safe for you baby.
Replayability
Much of the replayability has to do with the age challenge it presents.
It's how often they return to it after playing it a few times, and that's mostly down to what they can discover.
Toys with many different things they can discover, it is therefore good.
An example of this is the activity cube from Jouéco or the stacking train from Janod.
Bright colors are also very important at this age as they develop their sight.
Sustainability
Is the toys made sturdy? A baby I can't grab that hard yet, so that's usually fine. But it toys can suddenly fly across the room.
Wooden toys must therefore be solid, massive wood works best and preferably without small parts.
The wooden cars from B. Toys do so well because they are solid and sturdy wooden shelf from Melissa & Doug is also perfect.
They made the small parts of plastic because otherwise it would not be strong enough.
Top 8 Wooden Baby Toys Reviewed
Melissa & Doug Geometric Stack Tower
- Sturdy base and wooden pieces
- geometric shapes that fit together gives an extra challenge
- Not much else to play with
A very nice stacking toy with 21 geometric shapes that you can combine or put back on the three pillars of the sturdy wooden basis.
Children from about 1,5 to about 3 years old will love to match the different shapes or sort them by color.
Because they have different thicknesses, it is also quite fun to build, but it is mainly a shape sorting game.
The square building blocks in particular are a nice addition. They collapse in half, which creates an extra building challenge. You don't often see that in shape sorters.
Boby Fish Stacking Game
- Many games in 1
- Wood is sturdy and well made
- Trying to put too much in 1 game and just not well worked out
Boby's game is also very well built. It is made of Romanian beech wood.
This Montessoritoys combines a magnetic fishing game with stacking, beading and a balance game.
They themselves indicate that this is most suitable for 18 to 36 months, so 1,5 to 3 years.
- You can put the fish on the correct color on the play mat and then fish them up
- The large whale can be used as a base for stacking
- The back of the whale has rods to push the fish on
- There is a cord to thread the fish
It is indeed a lot of fun to play, but I have the feeling that they wanted to cram too many games into 1.
It's just not the fishing game. The fish should stand upright because the metal tip is on their nose. This is because there already had to be a hole in the middle for threading and stacking.
The threading is fun, but there are much more fun threading games. The whale is a bit crazy with wooden rods behind them because the fish can also use them.
You get a lot of game for your money and you don't have to buy such things separately, but it's not all that.
Janod Sophie the Giraffe Train
- solid wood
- Very cute theme
- Small pieces can be dangerous
A nice train that you can pull along with the rope, but the best part is of course that you can build it the way you want.
With 17 parts you can make a new creation every time. Each wagon has its own shape when they get the pieces from the train they have to put them back in the right place.
It is recommended from 18 months, but there are also very small pieces that fit in mouths, such as the red chimney pieces.
At this toys you should definitely stay with it, or put the smaller pieces aside until they are a little older.
Crocodile Creek 16 Piece Zoo Shape Puzzle
- Very sturdy construction
- Cute animals and bright colors
- Quite pricey
This 16 piece puzzle is very cute with so many cute animals.
Where many such shape puzzles have a wooden have a handle on every piece, this one does not. This also makes it easier for the animals to participate in pretend play.
We also have such an animal puzzle from Djeco and it does have that, but those animals never participate on safari.
The puzzle is very sturdy with bright colors. A really nice set to give.
Melissa & Doug Hammer Tap Pounding Bench
- Happy colors
- Nice system that makes nails come up alternately also gives a game element
- They grow out quickly
This is a fun classic. A hammer game with brightly colored figures.
The nails are stuck in the wooden sofa so that it is also suitable for small children and fun from about 2 years.
It is quite a well-developed system with a wood under the nails that swings back and forth as you hit the nails. If you knock one down, the other will come up again.
This makes it a bit more fun for toddlers to play longer, until they realize that one keeps coming up.
Of course perfect for training fine motor skills and hand eye coordination.
A disadvantage is that you don't have to hit very hard to get the nails down, which is also why they will grow out quickly.
Melissa & Doug Rainbow Caterpillar Gears
- Gears are perfect for cause and effect
- Learn colours, building and fine motor skills
- The gears are plastic
- Sprockets fall off easily
Gears always have something magical for a small child. That's why the Melissa & Doug Caterpillar is so educational.
It certainly holds their attention!
It's a sturdy one wooden base. What a pity that the gears are made of plastic, but that makes it a bit sturdier.
You can use the different colors baby also learn color recognition at the same time and it is of course wonderful for fine motor skills.
The gears fall off very easily when you pick it up. Of course, that also means learning cause and effect, but that means that you have to deal with a baby you're probably picking up all the time.
Maybe it's part of it, but for many parents this leads to frustration.
With 1,5 years they can also put it together again themselves.
B Toys Free Wheee-Read
- Well rounded and easy to grab
- Cheerful colors and fun design
- Don't drive very well
- Not sturdy enough for rough toddler play
These cars are made for the smallest children and are suitable from 1 year old. The rounded shapes mean there is nothing for them to hurt themselves on and they are easy to grip.
There are 6 wooden cars with a few different shapes. The type of handle in passenger cars is also funny. This way they can grab it easily.
Actually, these are the cheapest cars on the list and not Melissa & Doug's.
But then they aren't real toys cars for your toddler. Then you're better off buying another one. They don't roll very well and the design is a bit crazy.
But a very nice first set for you baby. The overall score of 6.7 is a bit low because I rated it on the same points as “real” play cars.
Joueco The Wildies Family
- Very solidly built
- Fun activities
- Very large
Age: 1+ years
What it is: a wooden cube measuring 14 cm x 13 cm x 13 cm with lots of things for little fingers to play with.
An activity cube offers a child many possibilities to play with and there are many different ones available. The advantage of a cube is that it is easy to store.
For example, this one has a pretty big bead maze to play with and my son really started to get the hang of it when he had it for a while.
At first he mainly played with the beads on the side and tried to get the blocks on the other side in the right holes as with a shapeshifter (more reviewed here!).
But the advantage of the cube is that you can easily store the bead maze in the cube itself, upside down, so to speak, so that cleaning up the rather large piece toys takes up minimal space.
Jouéco is such a brand that is fun and affordable wooden toys makes, and this cube is a very nice addition to the playroom.
It is solidly made, there are no dangerous parts and it offers enough to keep children of different ages entertained.
It really is the kind of thing he keeps returning to pick it up again and try something new with it.
For example, we think it is good to toys to rotate it every now and then so that he does not have too much at once, and he then discovers these again and again in the bedroom or in the playroom.
The toys As far as I'm concerned, this brand has only advantages, and it also looks beautiful on the gaming table.
Except the attractive appearance of it toys, it is also safe, made from natural materials and incredibly durable. At Jouéco, the environment plays a very important role.
It is time to think a little more about our nature and future, and therefore buy more products that are environmentally friendly.
Less plastic, more wood!
Conclusion
Babies still have so much to discover. The hand feeling of wooden toys is perfect for exploring nature.
With these sets, your little child not only has something fun, but also something that is good for their sensory development.
Always something to do for the holidays or rainy day?
Play Choice now has the ultimate activity book collection, with over 60 pages of fun coloring pages and educational puzzles.
Joost Nusselder, the founder of Speelkeuze.nl is a content marketer, father and loves trying out new toys. As a child he came into contact with everything related to games when his mother started the Tinnen Soldaat in Ede. Now he and his team create helpful blog articles to help loyal readers with fun play ideas.