'Top Baby Gift for 2010'

The Tiny Love Symphony-in-Motion Musical Farmyard Mobile introduces a new generation of mobiles, based on studies showing that listening to classical music can encourage certain types of intellectual and emotional development, popularly known as the Mozart Effect

 

Fresh take on an old classic, the NooBoo Symphonic Stacker is a terrific sensory toy - a stacking and activity toy that's also musical. NooBoo Symphonic Stacker helps develop fine motor skills as it reinforces cause-and-effect learning.  

LeapFrog Interactive Learn & Groove Musical Table. It's a learning fiesta for your little one. This interactive, bilingual activity table engages and entertains your baby for hours with songs, melodies, twinkling lights and real instrument sounds, plus lots of things to spin, roll, slide, open and close.

 

 
 

 

 

 

Learning Band Walker. Baby's steps set learning in motion! This floor toy converts to a walker as baby grows. With every push, the walker sends the red drum spinning and the colorful organ pipes moving up and down -- all in time to a marching band ABC song.

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Roll-a-Rounds Drop & Roar Dinosaur. 6 months & amp;amp;amp;amp; up. This is a busy infant playset featuring a dinosaur theme and 4 balls with a unique action. There are colored paths that the balls roll down and other activities that add to the play.

 

 

Sassy Baby 6 Piece Toy Set. This set is the best way to help develop motor skills for that special baby in your life. Set includes 5 brightly colored teethers and rattles that help relieve the stress on young gums, and also helps your baby learn to play independently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fisher Price Bounce & Spin Zebra. 

 An enjoyable gift that can bring up a smile on baby face.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fisher-Price Safe Voyage Convertible Car Seat. It's the perfect car seat for your growing child from 33 pounds and easily converts to forward-facing for children from 20 pounds and 1 year old to 55 pounds. Providing reliable safety and comfort for your child well into the toddler years.

 

 

 

Melissa and Doug 100 Piece Wood Blocks Set. Kids can use their creativity and imagination to build all sorts of things with this 100-piece set. The structures are only as tall and wide as the child's imagination!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source : Top 10 Best Baby Gift Ideas 2010/www.squidoo.com/baby-gifts

Organic Baby Toys as Gifts for Young Children

"Natural baby toys, made from non-toxic, organic materials are a much safer, more eco-friendly option than conventional gifts for young children"

    Organic baby toys are often more difficult to find than conventional gifts for young children as they are almost never sold by major toy companies or at major toy stores. Also, they can be more expensive as the materials are more difficult for toymakers to come by, and the methods for production are more stringent. Still, these eco-friendly toys have much to offer. Look for a wide array of natural baby toys at online toy stores which focus on providing non-toxic, environmentally-safe choices.

Benefits of Choosing Organic Baby Toys as Gifts for Young Children

Why make the effort to buy organic baby toys as opposed to the popular products found in most toy stores? Toys made from natural organic materials such organically grown wood, bamboo, cotton, wool, and sustainable rubber are good for the children who interact with them and for the environment. They themselves are longer-lasting, but they also encourage a more sustainable planet.

 

Natural wood toys, such as dollhouses and puzzles, organic cotton teddy bears, and organic dolls are all non-toxic. They are made from raw materials which are never exposed to pesticides and harsh chemicals; they are not decorated with toxic paints, and they are not made of plastics or any synthetic materials. There is no danger of ingesting harmful chemicals if a baby or young child puts an organic toy in his mouth; there is no potential for constant exposure to toxins which could cause allergies,irritations, or skin problems.

Choosing organic baby toys also has a tremendous positive impact on the environment. Made with natural, sustainable materials, the production of each toy does not take away from the earth, while at the same time polluting it during the manufacturing process. Also, natural wood toys, organic cotton balls and other gifts for young children are likely to last much longer than conventional toys. They can be passed down and reused, minimizing the need for more toys to be produced, while remaining in excellent condition.

 
 
 

Also, these eco-friendly toys are not as harsh on the environment once they are finally discarded, while conventional toys tend to be thrown out after a few years, adding plastics, paints, and synthetic materials into the waste stream.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Source:
Organic Facts Website. Organic Baby Toys (accessed December 1, 2009).

6 Great Baby Gift Ideas

   If you're looking for the perfect new baby gift for your baby, or as a present for a little brother or sister, or friend or relative's baby, then you might have already chosen something. Alternatively, you might be wondering what would be most suitable.                                         

Here are some newborn baby gift ideas :

• A teddy is always a good idea, and will last a long time. Even in the age of TV and electronic toys a teddy will be played with for many years, and is likely to become baby's best friend.

• Choosing a mobile for the nursery will ensure that the baby has something to look when in the cot,whether last thing at night, or first thing in the morning when s/he wakes up. With lots of style and designs to choose from, you're bound to be able to find something that will be appropriate.

• Cuddly toys that are small enough to go in a cot, or that the baby will be able to take with them will be a permanent reminder of you, and so you'll know that your newborn baby gift will get lots of use for many years to come.

• Bath toys will help getting washed become even more fun. With stackable toys, as well as frogs, fish and boats, you can make bath time educational too.

• A rattle will help the baby develop his or her grip, and hand and eye coordination, and so will be useful as well as colourful and noisy. Why not help the baby learn the some of the essential skills that s/he'll need later on in life.

• Tactile toys will encourage the baby to touch and feel, and learn about different textures, and explore different materials. What sort of tactile development toys will be best for the baby in your life?

       Now you know what sort of things are suitable, which newborn baby gifts will you decide on?

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"my baby"

    

   Baby - a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not   yet begun to walk or talk; a very young child; an infant;

 Quotations

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on"

[Carl Sandburg Remembrance Rock]

"Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last"

[Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby]

"The invisible bond that gives the baby rein to discover his place in the world also brings the creeping baby back to home base"

[Louise J. Kaplan Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual]

"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one"

[Leo Burke]