https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:53:19 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1748101 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:28:28 +0000 autumnlove 1748101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@grizz: Love the cutting set! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1748081 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:15:32 +0000 dolphin 1748081@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@photojane: We have that and DD loves it too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1748070 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:08:24 +0000 Boheme 1748070@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: just those two toys! His real fav things are disgusting, like the dogs' food and water bowls, his diaper pail,, etc. Baby dirtball. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747982 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:26:22 +0000 looch 1747982@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I bought an expensive and complicated wooden shape sorter....you know what my son played with, a cardboard shoe box that i cut some holes into. He liked to stuff his set of play food in there!</p> <p>I got the B squeeze blocks, my son loves them, they're soft and they stack surprisingly well. He also liked sponges, lol.</p> <p>Just about anything you get will be played with creatively, lol, so I'd get a few nice looking wooden things to please your adult sensibilities and hope for the best. I like Haba and Janod brands a lot, for inspiration. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747981 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:26:20 +0000 MsLipGloss 1747981@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Oatmeal: *ouuuuch* At least she couldn't call you winky or blinky afterward. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747978 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:25:20 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1747978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsLipGloss: @Smurfette: Getting poked in the eye with a yogurt spoon also ranks up there with painful baby injuries.<br /> @lawbee11: Those blocks are awesome. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747977 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:24:54 +0000 MsLipGloss 1747977@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: My LO head butted me a couple of weeks ago and my top lip instantly swelled up on one side! Didn't think I would need a helmet and a mouth guard to survive toddlerhood! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747976 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:24:24 +0000 lawbee11 1747976@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsLipGloss: LOL! The corners are very sharp!</p> <p>@Smurfette: I don't know why I'm even wasting my time. Should just tell people to give her empty water bottles. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747973 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:22:38 +0000 Smurfette 1747973@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsLipGloss: Sippy cups hurt like hell when dropped on your face. R gave me a swollen lip for three days. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747970 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:22:04 +0000 Smurfette 1747970@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsLipGloss: So I should get her bows and bags for her birthday, done! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747969 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:21:32 +0000 MsLipGloss 1747969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: A block to the face is no joke! I took one to the foot and totally cried big crocodile tears over it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747968 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:21:23 +0000 Smurfette 1747968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: well duh, electrical sockets are far more exciting. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747967 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:20:54 +0000 MsLipGloss 1747967@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@photojane: That's so funny! I have several little baskets/furry halloween trick or treat baskets (one is a fox) that she uses the most . . Every few days or so, I leave an assortment of odds and ends in there for her to find too (she now loves to dump things out as much as putting things in). But you are so right . . . they find the most random things! I also keep gift bags in a closet that she loves to help herself to. And (gift) bows . . . she loves bows! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747966 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:19:23 +0000 lawbee11 1747966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsLipGloss: Got it...watch out for flying blocks. </p> <p>@Mrs. Oatmeal: The cupcake set is really cute!</p> <p>@grizz: Ooh that tunnel is cute!</p> <p>@Smurfette: Yeah, I could see her getting bored easily with the maze. They have one at the ENT's office and she likes it for a little while but then wants to move onto sticking her fingers in electrical sockets. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747960 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:16:35 +0000 MsLipGloss 1747960@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I forgot to add balls! We have 4 or 5 balls that LO plays with all the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747958 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:15:28 +0000 Smurfette 1747958@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@grizz: Holy crap, your kid will play with something for an hour? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747955 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:14:40 +0000 Smurfette 1747955@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: R has had a maze type thing like the first link since she was 4 months old. She has never been into it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747952 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:14:14 +0000 photojane 1747952@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsLipGloss: Sadie's the same. So much so, I bought her a few canvas totes from the Dollar Tree. She just walks around stuffing things in there all day. Sometimes when I'm cleaning at night I'll find crazy things in there... utensils, tape, DVDs. I don't even know where she finds these things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747945 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:12:44 +0000 Boheme 1747945@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: We have this one. We probably play with it, no lie, a solid hour a day! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Melissa-Doug-Sunny-Patch-Tunnel/dp/B0032MYYBE" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Melissa-Doug-Sunny-Patch-Tunnel/dp/B0032MYYBE</a></p> <p>I forgot earlier... He is also obsessed with the Melissa and Doug play food, especially the set that Target carries that you can "slice". It comes with a little wooden butter knife. He will slice food and try to feed us for well over an hour :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747944 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:12:14 +0000 photojane 1747944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swedishfish: Most days we don't even turn the sound on! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747941 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:11:16 +0000 MsLipGloss 1747941@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@photojane: That's really cute! My LO loves to carry around baskets and bags. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747938 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:10:27 +0000 swedishfish 1747938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@photojane: R has this too and always presses the butterfly button to hear the same song. Cute but drives me crazy! Haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747934 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:09:58 +0000 MsLipGloss 1747934@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: I have not seen those before (they are awesome!). . . they would be great! Just a word of caution though, my LO has developed a habit of *tossing* (or throwing!) her blocks after she is done with them (to the side, or over her shoulder). So, just stay on your toes in case yours does that too (I have had a few really close calls!). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747927 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:07:08 +0000 lawbee11 1747927@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: Thanks!</p> <p>@photojane: That is SO cute...and there's a strawberry :)</p> <p>@MsLipGloss: Have you seen these blocks? DH wants to get these for M! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Goose-Periodic-Building-Blocks/dp/B005JAE052" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Goose-Periodic-Building-Blocks/dp/B005JAE052</a></p> <p>@Bookish: Yes, I could see M doing the same thing. She has the Vtech walker and she loves taking the phone off and it banging it all over the walker! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747926 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:06:32 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1747926@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: Anything that Melissa &amp; Doug makes is awesome - have you seen the cupcake set? Too cute! Hape toys are good also. We have a wooden shape sorter that's fantastic, and a set of stacking bowls that are really great. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747919 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:04:19 +0000 Bookish 1747919@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: G has 2 bead mazes, and she likes them! She mostly likes to carry them around and bang them on things :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747918 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:04:12 +0000 MsLipGloss 1747918@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: We were gifted the little bead maze. LO rarely plays with it. She has in the last 2ish months than she ever has before. But it's certainly not a favorite toy.</p> <p>She absolutely loves her shape sorter, wood blocks (a gift!), and a set of plastic cups that she loves to stack and unstack repeatedly. (the plastic cups are from an eatery DH frequents . . . it only serves drinks in these cups. they're big plastic tumbler cups).</p> <p>She also loves her Ikea tent! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747916 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:03:06 +0000 photojane 1747916@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sadie got this picnic basket for her first birthday, and still loves it &amp; plays with it every day:</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/LeapFrog-Shapes-Sharing-Picnic-Basket/dp/B004560BPY" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/LeapFrog-Shapes-Sharing-Picnic-Basket/dp/B004560BPY</a> </p> [attach=1879/14/n8gi56.300x300.51m4Zvpm9qL._SY300_.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747904 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:00:03 +0000 hilsy85 1747904@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: this one:<br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Play-Tents-See-Tunnel/dp/B0007YDC0E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1404928784&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=pacific+play+tent+tunnels" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Play-Tents-See-Tunnel/dp/B0007YDC0E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1404928784&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=pacific+play+tent+tunnels</a></p> <p>same one that they use in his gym classes and he loves it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-educationalearly-development-toys#post-1747900 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:59:18 +0000 lawbee11 1747900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@grizz: @hilsy85: Which tunnel do y'all have? </p>