Infants will place everything in their mouths since this is their strongest tool for the senses of touch and taste. It is the adults responsibility to provide safe play materials. As soon as babies can grasp, they enjoy grasping toys such as rattles, teethers, squeeze toys, and light cloth toys. It is also helpful to provide toys that encourage an infant to reach and grasp, such as mobiles. Toys that produce sound or visual effects when squeezed or shaken are particularly enjoyable.
Young toddlers are up and walking with increased motor and language skills.
They are ready for a variety of play materials. Exploration takes center stage as the infant becomes more mobile, this becomes a quest to understand the world. They are interested in putting things together and taking them apart, as well as in playing with toys that have switches, knobs, and dials. Recommended toys Activity quilts, stuffed animals without button noses and eyes, bath toys, soft dolls, baby swings, squeeze or squeaky toys, music boxes or mobiles, picture books, and simple pop-up toys.