favorite toys for 6-12 months?

hamilton.ja

I feel like I've forgotten what toys Bruce loved at this age. We somehow have nothing great for Evelyn, I think I gave a bunch away or to my sister. So I'm trying to add some stuff to her Christmas list. Anyone have any favorites? We have a jumperoo and I got a used sing along stage that all the local moms I know rave about. She has a sophie, a bunch of other small teethers, an activity triangle.... we still have a set of wooden stacking cubes from Bruce and an activity cube for when she's a bit older.

Mystery2B

C really liked the LeapFrog Learning Table when we were at friends houses starting when she could pull up...I bought her one between 10-11 months at a thrift store and she still likes it. That was our first battery operated toy, but for $3 I was in

The plastic ring stack, empty plastic colored boxes with flip lids (like a baby wipe box). The fisher price toy that looks like a barn that you push the button (has four) and the door pops open, she likes to shut the doors although she doesn't open them. 

Things that make noise when you shake them (like a vitamin bottle super glued shut with dry beans inside). 

A friend had rubber/silicone? textured  balls that the kids really liked. No idea what they're called...I think she got them at Costco but I didn't see them when I looked. 

crackerjackprinter

Declan loves Mady's toys.  So he LOVES playing with the play kitchen.  He also loves our block sets (we have cubes and the ones that have cylinders and rectangles, etc).  Anything he can cruise on he loves but it losing interest in those as he gets more and more mobile. 

He loves any kind of balls.  And my computer apparently, LOL

 

MrsBlayne

My DDs favorite thing is her walker. Mostly because she can reach the drawers in the kitchen and I let her pull towels and bibs out. And she can also chase the dog. Other than that, simple is better. Her other favorite activity is pulling books off the shelf and taking her toys out of their baskets.

blissfully_caffeinated

Activity table, ride on toy, sticks (they're nice sticks), maracas, walker toy (the kind they stand behind and push around, big wooden puzzles...

ETA: Oh, he's very fond of an empty wipes container. He pushes the button to open the top, closes it, opens it, closes it, and on and on for ages. He also likes emptying things. I have a short basket in the living room for books and toys. Mostly they are things people have given us. He empties the basket, I fill it up, he empties it. See a pattern here?

Sassy_Cassie

We're in the things that aren't really toys are good toys stage.  Right now his favorites are an empty travel-sized shampoo bottle, my cell phone, a spatula, his toothbrush...

But he's always been a big fan of anything that plays music. 

MELuckyInLove

EF: Wooden push toy with wooden blocks. Board books. Wooden puzzles (DD likes to take out the wooden pieces and play with them). Wooden instruments. Small felt animals that she carries around.

MIC: FP Learning Kitchen (the small one). Little people zoo. Leapfrog Potsy. iPlay My First Purse. Chicco Music 'n Play Table. 

She also loves to play with non-toys such as emptying the bins of outgrown clothes under her crib.

kdello

blissfully_caffeinated:

Activity table, ride on toy, sticks (they're nice sticks), maracas, walker toy (the kind they stand behind and push around, big wooden puzzles...

Teehee, this cracked me up! I know exactly what you're talking about, though!