Playpens or play yards are too confining during this stage, although they may sometimes be necessary for safety reasons. Infants of this age enjoy stacking and nesting toys. Brightly colored rings and blocks, measuring cups, and pots and pans fit this stacking and sorting need. Toddlers enjoy crawling inside big boxes. Toddlers like balls, dolls, plastic figures and toys with wheels.
Toddlers also enjoy shape sorters, wind-up radios and large climbing toys.
Balloons Ages 2 and 3 Preschool children like learning with their hands. At 2 and 3 years of age, a child's eye-hand coordination is better, and he or she will like building towns and towers with blocks. Puzzles, large beads, pegboard and lotto games help develop skills that help later in reading and writing. Children this age also enjoy drawing or painting on a variety of surfaces such as textured papers, sidewalks or fabric. Preschoolers are learning to mimic adult behavior.