Toys for a 6 month old baby

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My baby is almost 6 months and becoming more and more active. He needs to be entartained a lot and easily gets bored with certain toys / activities. I am running out of ideas fast 😃🫣
I would be very greatful to hear some ideas: what was the best toy / activity that kept your 6 month old happy and entertained?

Interested in responses. My second is currently 6 months and, just like my first at this age, only interested in non toys I.e. the TV remote, a pair of goggles, desperate to eat nappy bags which obviously we keep out of reach.

The bouncer works for a few minutes at a time and beyond that we try to get out of the house as much as possible!

My daughter is 6 months and her fav things are her activity triangle toy, her play mat in the seating form now so she can play the piano bit with her hands and grab for the toys, she loves her pretend tissue box (pulls them all out then screams until I put them back in so she can pull them all out again), she loves those little fidget spinner things i stick them to the wall and she sits for aaages spinning and stopping them laughing at them, she loves her rattles and her ball pit! Still loves all of her teething toys! I also do her little sensory trays so I put water in a tray and add toys, she loves that! Her tummy time water play mat as well! Sticking post it notes to a wall and then she pulls them off!

Also ALL of the bath toys are a fav atm😂

I’ve got her lots of the “next stage” toys for Christmas and I think she’ll really love those.

My number 1 recommendation is to cycle toys so they don’t have the same ones every day, keeps things from getting boring x

The main thing that entertained mine at that age wasand probably kept me sane was going out to groups.

Activities usually entertain them for roughly 5 minutes. Have you tried things like jelly on the tray if their high chair or a Treasure Box?

At that age mine liked: play silks for peekaboo and songs, the Montessori ball drop/ object permanece box, small instruments for shaking and books books and more books.

Books, rattles, musical instruments - household objects!! Ball pit was much loved too and was v cheap from argos

Hide and squeak eggs! They are fab for several stages. Babies like to hold them, older babies like the squeak and tipping them out of the carton, and toddlers can start to match shapes and colours with them.

At that age mine was happiest if we were out and about as much as possible.

At home he was crawling so he liked a basket full of odds and ends to investigate. Not many actual toys but safe things like remote controls without batteries, wooden spoons, metal cups, just odds and ends from around the house.

Emergency foil blankets are also a huge hit at this age.

My DD is 8 months. For the last few months her favourite things have been:

• an orange bottle (PRIME) 🤷
• a wooden fruit puzzle from Amazon.
• stackable cardboard boxes with numbers and animals on them (she loved them but they have now disintegrated!)
• a tissue box with coloured/textured fabric she could pull out
• Lots of books (she loves books!) at 6 months we were reading standard picture books together and I also bought some sensory books which she is still enjoying
• we have a waste paper bin and I put things in there for her to find eg a wooden spoon. It was good to encourage crawling, I put the bin on one side of the room and she would crawl up to it
• bell shakers. She has two and loves them
• scarfs for peekaboo!
• her soft toy panda (had since birth but only started becoming interested in it at 6 months). 'panda' was her first words after mama.
• bubbles
• I also bought her a spaceship with silicon strings you pull through the holes. Hard to explain but you can find them on Amazon and it still is a real hit - also good for teething
• at baby groups she adores the rainmaker, maracas and puppets
• foil blanket
• looking at her reflection (we can spend ages standing in front of the window with her looking at her reflection and flapping her arms about!) it keeps her thoroughly entertained.

You really don't need and specific toys. Any object can be a toy - even a water bottle or a wooden spoon. At that age everything is new. There are two stages a baby goes through when they are given a toy. First they figure out what an object does. Then they figure out what they can do with it. The second stage is infinite. Think about how many things a cardboard box can be