to ask for your best baby toy 6 - 12 months?! struggling...

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Can’t keep ds entertained. Any toy ideas very welcome!!!!!

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Honestly pottering around, trying to crawl, then stand/ cruise and walk are the most entertaining things for a baby.

At 6-12 months nothing is really going to keep them 'entertained' for long.

I'm sure you have more than enough toys for them, just involve them in your own activities. Go for a walk, go to the supermarket and chat about what you see, sit them beside you while you make lunch or wash up.

stacking blocks are good. A small selection of musical instruments in a basket that they can feel and bang. My kids both liked this type of toy:

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But yes, I agree with PP, nothing is going to have them entertained for hours at that age.

Nothing much.
Are they crawling or walking? As that makes a difference in what. Ds walked around 8.5 months and then liked toy pram for pushing, brio sausage dog to pull around and garden play sandpit

Mostly it’s his age, they naturally have very short attention spans but my DS’s absolute favourite toy at that age was the Fisher Price talking mixing bowl.

Stacking cups - the ikea ones are good

Tomy hide and squeak eggs

Shallow tray of jelly (embed plastic toys in it if you have any - bath duckies, dinosaurs etc), or a washing up bowl with an inch of bubbly water in the bottom and let him splash.
give him a couple of saucepans and a wooden spoon (get ear plugs!) and let him bash them.
Anything is a toy at that age if it's new to them!

Not a toy, but ours were most entertained by looking at humans at that age. Take them for a pram walk to somewhere busy (shopping centre - Ikea is perfect for crawlers- or soft play, even if they are too young to really climb they will be fascinated by what other kids are doing). It's the Best way to pass a couple of hours without needing a new activity every 5min.

Otherwise- water and watering can/ cups

At that age DS's favourite toy was an empty raisin box 🙈 They can amuse themselves with the weirdest things. Everything is still so new and interesting to them.

I second both of these!

Taht's what I meant, not blocks! Although both work.

House hold items are also good. Ones with different colours, feels and textures, that they can pick up and chew and bang. A little basket full of a selection of different things that they can sit and look at and feel is good.

Fisher Price Laugh & Learn puppy has been a huge hit - DS got it for Christmas at almost 7 months, & still enjoys it at 13 months. You can set it so it plays through a series of songs and that would buy me 10 minutes or so to prep lunch/hang up a load of laundry.

Books - the felt flap "Where's Mr/Mrs" ones have been a favourite since about 9 months.

Pop up animals - we have a Chad Valley one with 4 animals, again since about 9 months.

DS is 11 months and has been obsessed with his stacking cups since about 7 months old.

Any wooden toys gets banged against another wooden toy, and that seems to delight him.

Mega blocks?

Door bouncer. Highchair toys that squeak. Hide and squeak eggs. A rubber spatula for chewing and banging on the highchair

Fisher Price Laugh & Learn puppy has been a huge hit
THIS too! My DD got it at about 10 months. Handed it down to her younger brother and he’s now 2 and won’t go to bed without it. Definitely the longest lasting toy we’ve had.

My DD didn't like annoying me playing with those f*ing eggs until she was over 12 months. I then periodically hid them.

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this was (and still is) a favourite with my DS.

Also, stacking toys, a ball, musical instruments, and anything that’s not actually a toy!

@Reugny

To be fair, at 6 months, toys were mostly things that I played with to amuse him.

I used to put 3 stacking cups of different heights in a line, with an egg of top and pretend they were medalists at the Olympics. 😆

Treasure baskets are best for babies this age, mix & match random everyday items for them to touch, bite, shake. Could be wooden egg cups, spoons, paper/fabric which rustles/Different textures, fill an empty bottle with dried lentils/beans or water + glitter with a wee bit glucose (then seal top so it doesn't leak!) Pans etc to bang in the kitchen , balls to throw & crawl after. Touch & feel books.

For mine it was just endless games of peekaboo!