What to buy our 6 month old for Christmas to last till she is 1?

[BabyCJuly]

Hello there,

Our daughter will be nearly 6 months old at Christmas. Ideas to buy for her that will be good for that age and also has she gets to age 1? Her birthday is in July! Small and big present ideas would be fab! Thank you so much! A little stuck! Xx

Colourful books, pjs, a highchair, basically wrap anything she needs up because all she’ll want to do is scrunch and eat the paper

Baby bike

www.babipur.co.uk/triclimb-dobule-pastel-pikler-triangle.html this?

Wooden blocks/duplo, stacking toy, bead maze, books, ball pit

My ten-month-old daughter currently loves (gnawing) board books (especially feely ones), Tomi hide and squeak eggs, and playing with any bath-safe toys. She loves random household objects even more though, haha!

I bought my son a fish lave lamp floor standing and it's amazing - he absolutely loves it

Stacking cups.

A bubble machine
A swing for the garden
A little tikes rocker
A push along walker
A soft first dolly
Start her duplo collection (you will not reget it!).

Following as my daughter will be 6 months as a July baby too

My son at 6months loved:

• foil blanket
• plastic egg box toy
• disco light
• sippy cups

Books
Something for outdoors - maybe one of those trikes you push them along in?
Farm animal set
Happy Land
Duplo

All of my dc loved the Whoozit toy at this age:

www.manhattantoy.com/collections/whoozit

And stacking cups - so cheap but hours of fun!

What about investing in a Grimms Rainbow? She'll grow into it.

Grimm's rainbow
Triclimb
this was brilliant

DS is also a July baby, he could sit in the activity centre immediately, then use it to cruise around and now it's a little play table (you can buy a chair for it).

Sensory toys!
Light up balls/toys, maraca, tambourine

Infantino Sensory Balls Blocks & Buddies - 20 piece basics set for sensory exploration, fine and gross motor skill development and early introduction to colours, counting, sorting and numbers, 0m+ https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06VV2KPX8/ref=cmswwrcppapiii_VmtJFbTY3978C

Soft blocks (for chewing!) like in link above
Wooden sorting toys
Pull along little toy (to chase to practise crawling!)
Night light projector (turning and different colours)
Jumperoo

@PlantDoctor

My ten-month-old daughter currently loves (gnawing) board books (especially feely ones), Tomi hide and squeak eggs, and playing with any bath-safe toys. She loves random household objects even more though, haha!

the squeek eggs where a huge hit here at that age too, they seem so wierd to me but babies do love them

Wobble board. Will last her for years!

Jumperoo

I've got some of those hide & squeak eggs in my basket at Argos.
Are they worth it then?

@MsMiaWallace

I've got some of those hide & squeak eggs in my basket at Argos. Are they worth it then?

I thought they looked a bit naff but my DS got gifted some and he loved them

@MsMiaWallace, they are absolutely worth it - our 9 month old loves them and they’ve been known to occupy our 5 year old! They’re one of those toys that kids play with in different ways as they get older.

My DS has just turned 12 months. Hits over the last 6 months include:

A bubble machine
Stacking cups (to knock down, chase around and bang together)
Any kind of ball
Finger/hand puppets
Lift the flap books
Remote control (if you have an old real one that's even better!)

V-Tech do musical books which have been a huge hit with my DS since last Christmas (also a July baby)
Also Usbourne That’s Not My books have been great, and cloth books too.

Books in general will never go wrong!
Play remote control/phone/keys/smart watch type things also good - little fingers like buttons and fiddly bits.
The stacking cups are great - hilarious balanced on mummy’s head, make echos, bang together, make towers, hide smaller toys, good in the bath and paddling pool too. Best £1.99 I ever spent
We didn’t really do a “main gift” last year as we bought stuff according to development so we didn’t have it hanging around before needed. Baby doesn’t care he’s getting his jumperoo in February instead of December!

For our July baby we bought

Couple of Vtech flashy, noisy toys
Wooden tool box
Baby instrument shaker things
Stacking rings
Stacking cups
Board books
Lamaze toys

Basically it was just stuff that I would scatter all over the floor so he could roll around, handle them and chew them. The vtech things were a bit better once he could sit unaided.

My boy was a July baby so I remember this feeling too
Just looked at his first Xmas photos and he had:
Board Books,
Activity table (for when they start pushing up to standing)
Stacking cups
Vtech beatbo
And some little light up rubber balls we used to roll back and forth