Best Toys for Kids

Toys are great for children with growing minds and bodies. How children see the world as a baby differs significantly from when they are a toddler or reaching kindergarten. Their dexterity, understanding, and imagination grows in leaps and bounds, and you need educational toys to cater to their abilities at any age.

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Best Toys for Babies

Babies are learning to grab things and hold things. They also like to explore the world by putting toys in their mouths. A simple and colourful rollerball and teething ring combo can satisfy the sensory needs of touch and movement, and get a good chew at the same time. Plush toys which are easy to hold and shake and smash around fulfill the start of learning about gross motor skills and different textures.

And at the other end of the tactile spectrum, some solid wooden toys, which feel different and grip different, and make noises too.

Best Toys for 1 Year Olds

Children growing up begin to understand the world around them and how their bodies work. Giving them toys that push their imagination, that engage their gross muscles skills, teaching them balance and coordination, help your child get ahead in leaps and bounds for their future.

Now they are learning about sounds too—musical instruments and toys they can grip and bang about. 

They’re also learning to walk, and having some help to keep their balance, such as a toddler walker or a musical walker, will have your littlest one walking with confidence in no time.

Take your young ones outside to experience the sun, the surf, and the earth. Make sure they have a hat, though. They can build sandcastles and take photographs of the beautiful views.

My Happy Helpers has a massive range of educational and fun toys for one-year-old children.

Best Toys for 2 Year Olds

2-year-olds are now running around, curious about the world. They’re learning words and the links between objects and names. Their motor skills are better, they are more coordinated, and they need more challenges for their growing minds.

Start with their muscle coordination with a balance board or a balance bike, which are great for getting outdoors and being fit and healthy.

Stretch their imagination with a farm playset, Lionheart’s Castle, or a big green recycling truck.

Massage their mental vibes with shape sorters, begin with the alphabet with a colourful wooden train, or what about a massive activity cube!

Give your children the toys that allow them to grow into wonderfully intelligent little people, happy, healthy, and playful.

Best Toys for 3 Year Olds

Your 3-year-old is on the cusp of kinder, socialising with people their own age. Their world will become huge and awesome, and we have toys to help them tackle this new experience.

Splash some colour with a 5-in-1 painting easel or perhaps a brightly coloured shape jigsaw puzzle.

Build up their imaginative play with a treehouse, or a city block playset great for building worlds and playing in them.

Stretch their minds with puzzles, help them understand how shapes can fit together, learn patience and problem-solving. Give them a 36 piece floor puzzle, or a groovy building toy puzzle.

My Happy Helpers has loads of toys to prepare your children for pre-school, reading, learning, playing, and making friends.

Best Toys for 4 Year Olds

4-year-old kids are amazing. Their language skills are growing, learning new words all the time. Their brains have figured out math and logic, and they hunger for things to compare, to give labels and meaning to, and they are curious about the world around them.

Toys for a 4-year-old need to feed this learning boom. Big wooden toys, like a flatbed truck, a wooden service station, or even a sailboat, can have them relate the play to what they see out the window of the car on family road trips.

They can begin to understand diverse family dynamics through our finely crafted dollhouses, such as the Merrywood Rosewood Cottage, while playing with the Sunny Doll Family.

Get them building with their hands and playing with their imaginations, with a BRIO World range of toys. And who doesn’t like trains? We have a Warehouse set, a Firefighter set, a Farm railway, and a battery-operated toy train set too.

Give your children the best start in life with toys that teach, so they learn through play, thanks to my Happy Helpers.

Best Toys for 5 Year Olds

A 5-year-old understands more than they can say. They’re building their vocabulary to match what they’re learning as quickly as possible. They are more coordinated and want to run and jump and climb and show you all the cool things they can do. Your 5-year-old is starting to learn independence, what they want to eat, what they want to wear to school. It is a time of humungous growth, physically and mentally.

You want to look for top toys that can give your kids a lot to identify and understand and give them outlets for all their creative energy. We have some fun wooden food baskets full of colourful wooden food items: a bread basket, a seafood basket, even a playful fruit basket. You’ll have them identifying and eating healthy food.

Have fun with sound and movement, with some Move Your Body discs. Make animal noises, walk like a duck, All good fun.

We have a wide range of tough wooden toys for active play, with tractors, trucks, airplanes, and a helicopter. Even a rocket ship! 

Browse our full range of toys for your 5-year-old angel, online at My Happy Helpers.