27 of the Best Toys for 1 Year Olds

This space-themed activity center features four quadrants of multilevel play. Includes eight wire bead runs, 11 gliders, a springy crescent moon and rover solar panel, two wood clacking doors, five spinners, and a sliding transparent door.

This 9-piece interactive pull toy comes with one bus and eight blocks to help kids learn about shapes and enhance their problem-solving skills. By fitting the animals into the spaces and pulling the toy with the rope, kids can have fun while improving their fine motor skills, among other benefits.

Kids can use this train set indoors or outdoors, and with or without the train track! Pushing the train along with their feet, kids can use this toy to improve fine motor skills.

Little ones can keep their hands busy with a beaded adventure land, a shape sorter, a stand in a queue, a turnplate, and a tap to the bottom activity. This cube can be used to help develop motor skills, logic skills, and perseverance with ten pieces including wooden balls, shapes, a wooden pounder, and more.

Kids can bundle the Creatures Full of Feelings board book with their favorite animal to learn emotion recognition through verbal and non-verbal cues. Animal options include an alpaca, hammerhead shark, Bigfoot, honey bear, unicorn, narwhal, slumber sloth, and a sprite.

This set of three bathtime toys includes a scoop-and-pour wrapped around a green Dimpl bubble, a doughnut that pours water like rain or a stream, and a starfish covered in poppable Dimpls.

This grocery cart's interactive features include a roller-drum with food images, puzzle boards, shape-sorting holes, and chunky food pieces. Kids can push the cart and store the pieces inside for easy cleanup.

Babies and toddlers can push down on the orange button and watch as the balls pop and move around in the snail's shell! The Snail Ball Popper can be used to teach fine motor skills and cause and effect, but also is a fun light-up toy!

Kids can use real water to help Peppa Pig take a bath! This playset encourages interactive role play, improves motor skills, and helps kids gain water confidence.

Preschoolers can enjoy their very own gaming station with this kid-friendly swivel chair, attached joystick, and pretend headphones. The included interactive tablet teaches letters, numbers, and animals, and features gaming sound effects.

Little builders can get creative as they practice their standing skills while building on the table. Then, they can knock their creations over and start again! The set includes a table with two tumble features, 23 building blocks, and a Block Buddies figure.

These innovative Balu Organics Ball Pits are comfortable and fun for kids to play in. The ball pits come in four materials — Original, Premium, and Ultimate Organic, and four colors — Black, White, Pink, and Grey Velvet. Balls are not included, and it is recommended to buy 4-6 sets of balls to add to…

This seven-sided, wooden activity center is full of vibrant, educational activities that help improve fine motor skills. Toddlers can engage with wooden vehicles and figures, a bead maze, number panels, a colorful clock, connected gears, and more.

Make baby's first doll a cute one! Parents and toddlers can choose a fabric doll, hairstyle, and a playset to go with it. Dolls feature a fabric loop for an interchangeable hairstyle, a removable outfit, and a magnetic pacifier.

Toddlers can make music as they walk around the house with and play the attached musical instruments. This walker has adjustable speed settings for kids walking at different stages.

This friendly-faced flower pot features six two-piece flowers that kids can assemble and rearrange. Each of the flowers is a different color and they are printed with the numbers 1-5, with a bumblebee on the sixth. Kids can store the pieces inside the flowerpot, which has a handle for on-the-go play.

The classic fun of Hot Wheels becomes toddler-sized with this playset. It features more than 50 sounds and tunes, 360-degree loop tracks, and Wheelies cars.

They grow up so fast … but they're not ready to drive on their own just yet! Toddlers can pretend to drive this realistic ride while parents push them along. It's available in blue or pink.

Babies can pat lightly on the squishy drums, feel the cymbals bounce, and create their very own music. The set features sound effects and animal sounds for extra sensory play.

As toddlers push or pull the AlphaPup by its string, it will wobble, light up, and play phrases and music, including “The Alphabet Song.” Kids can press the alphabet buttons to hear letter sounds, songs, and phrases.

This interactive play window features two sides — day and night — and teaches kids about climate and weather, colors, shapes, manners, and more through more than 100 phrases, sounds, and activities. It also converts into an activity table.

Stick-O Baby Shark Friends is a bumper 30-piece set which creates the main shark characters, plus ‘Goldie' the fish, ‘Vola' the octopus, a reel-in magnetic fishing rod, and a host of other sea-themed animals, plants, and models. Stick-O features magnets safely sealed inside— with Magformers rotating magnets, pieces always connect.

This GO Tots set features four double-sided wooden GO Tots friends kids can roll, stack, and tumble in the wooden double-sided barn with built-in carrying handle. The five-piece set includes six animal characters and two farmers, a colorful wooden barn with silo, haystack, and sliding doors. Compatible with other GO Tots play sets.

This plush koala has an outfit with buttons, snaps, zippers, and buckles to help kids learn how to dress themselves. The koala also has shoes with a hook, a loop strap, and laces to tie.

From the word experts at Merriam-Webster, this board book introduces 150 single words and short phrases to help get babies talking. It features multiple everyday activities with familiar words, as well as images to go with each word.