19 Best Educational Toys for Toddlers of 2024

Maybe your child is showing an interest in building but isn’t quite ready for grown-up wooden building blocks. This toy is a good one to consider.

When you’re on the go, these 80 colorful mega building blocks are packaged in a convenient bag, ideal for travel. They come in different sizes, all shaped to fit small hands and suitable for 12 months and older.

Your child might be kept busy for a while, building towers with matching or mismatching colors and fine-tuning essential motor skills. With this toy, the sky’s the limit when it comes to creativity. This classic option stands the test of time.

If your toddler has graduated from the plastic block option and is ready for something more complex, this popular toy will introduce them to construction and engineering. You shouldn’t have to upgrade this toy anytime soon, as it will keep them entertained for a few years down the line.

My 8-year-old still loves to create all kinds of train tunnels and other creations with these blocks.

The 60 solid wood blocks teach your child patience and coordination. Your child can stack the blocks precisely on top of each other, encouraging creativity and developing motor and problem-solving skills.

The best reward after the hard work? Knocking them down before putting them all away. An included wooden box allows easy storage and ensures no block gets lost before any upcoming playdates.

Is your little one getting bored of board books and ready for an upgrade? This interactive book keeps your young toddler entertained and stimulated during story time.

Teaching your child fine motor skills, the six thick pages are easy to turn. Sensory and language skills will be developed through colorful piano keys, flashing lights, and 40 different songs, sounds, and phrases.

As fun as this noisy book is, we love that it comes with volume control for quiet time or when you’re on the go. It’s also made of sturdy plastic material, which can withstand throws and rough use during exciting moments.

This choo-choo train is great for kids aged 18 months to 3 years. Toddlers can push and pull it easily. As your child grows, the 23 pieces can be assembled and disassembled, becoming one of the first construction toys your child might own.

The locomotive and three wagons contain numbered bricks — from zero to nine — teaching your child numbers and simple mathematics.

Two Lego Duplo characters and a kitty will enhance your child’s imagination and aid storytelling. Conceived with your child’s safety in mind, the brick size is perfect for small hands to grab and play with.

This LeapFrog “Leaptop” is suitable for little girls and boys who are 2 years old and over. It comes in a green and pink version. The side handle makes it easy to carry around when work needs to be done — just like mom and dad do.

This toy is ideal for role play and imitating busy parents working on their laptops. The large screen is easy to read and has four different modes. It includes alphabet learning, games and music, and even a pretend emailing function. This toy has a lot to teach.

To make it even more personalized, you can customize the Leaptop with your little one’s name to teach them how to spell.

This unique LeapFrog product is a favorite of my kids. The toy comprises fridge magnet letters your child can place on your fridge or any other magnetic surface. (Our fridge isn’t magnetic, so we like to use a cookie sheet.) Your child can combine the 26 magnetic tiles to form words, developing their alphabet skills.

When in need, the magnetic frog bus helps your child identify the letters. Simply place the letter inside the bus and press the music key. The friendly bus will then pronounce the letter and say a word associated with it.

To complete the learning process, the magnetic frog bus sings the alphabet song, among other songs, encouraging your tot to join.

This color-matching egg set for children aged 18 months and older teaches fine motor skills and creates imaginary play and stories.

Toddlers can mimic mom and dad, cracking and splitting eggs into two parts. Each egg reveals a different color and contains matching holes and pins to put them back together.

This set teaches colors and role play and educates kids on matching colors and numbers while improving their dexterity. It comes in a sturdy plastic case to put the eggs away when the fun is over.

Trucks seem to be one of the most popular toys for toddlers, so why not select one that’s educational too?

Large buttons on the side of the truck teach your child songs, sentences, and the names of the tools used during play. Your little one can place the colorful rounded rocks on the truck’s head, where they’ll roll down to the rear bucket.

Once in the bucket, unload the truck, and your child is ready to start all over again! As your little one grows up, a string allows the truck to speed up as it’s being pulled around the house.

My daughter and I have had many sweet picnics with this cute set.

The cute picnic basket is designed to improve social and motor skills. Made for two players, your child can share the picnic with a parent or another guest. This will help teach your toddler the notion of sharing and socializing.

From filling cups and using forks to placing fruits and sandwiches on plates, this toy improves your little one’s hand dexterity.

If they need a little help with role-playing, this picnic basket has three play modes: music, shapes, and colors. You can pack all the items neatly away in the singing picnic basket when lunch is over.

Is your toddler too young for a real desk but old enough for a fun and interactive option?

This multi-functional desk contains several activities. It should be quite a while before your toddler gets bored with it. It includes more than 20 melodies and a light-up display. It also teaches over 100 vocabulary words.

Place one of five interactive pages on the desk, and the desk will teach music, numbers, letters, fruits, colors, the human body, and more. Cards come with four different learning modes, and as your child grows, you can purchase additional pages to increase the challenge.

If your child wants to be artistic, flip open the desk lid to reveal a chalkboard. If your little artist is more of a crayon type of person, you can clip a sheet of paper over the chalkboard for colorful creations.

This realistic toy is a good option for older toddlers and comes in two different colors. The 73-piece cash register set includes an assortment of bills and coins. The cash register includes a solar-powered calculator for doing much more than imaginative play.

Children can pretend to swipe credit cards and punch in prices before the cash register opens, making that standard cash register sound. This would be a great toy to teach your little one about currency and counting. The oversized buttons are suitable for small hands, making transactions easy.

We can see why this toy is an award-winning item. The xylophone induces learning throughout. It helps develop motor skills such as dexterity, logic, critical thinking, and hand-eye coordination.

Suitable for even a 1-year-old, toddlers will enjoy pounding on the three colorful balls to produce sounds. When pounding fun is over, separate the xylophone to play individual notes. It also makes it easier to transport and carry around.

With rounded edges and non-toxic water-based paint, this sturdy wooden toy is also safe for children. Not to mention, it’s an attractive design. Hammer away!

This tablet comes in black or a stylish pink color and is suitable for children 2 years old and up. It includes a keypad, piano notes, four educational games, and eight progressive learning activities — spelling, counting, simple mathematics, reading, and more.

This tablet encourages pretend play, imitating parents and older siblings. An imaginary camera and calendar should keep your tot engaged for some time. The sturdy design can also withstand most shocks and drops.

Parents will be happy knowing that this toy comes with volume control, and when inactive, it automatically shuts off, saving that precious battery power.

This is another furniture-based toy my children have loved! Three progressive learning stages mean this smart chair will grow with your little one, increasing the challenge as they get older. You choose the required age range by sliding a switch.

It produces over 50 songs and sentences, encouraging your toddler to stand up, move, and dance. The included interactive book will take the fun further, encouraging children to find specific items hidden in the small storage area under the seat.

This chair can be much more than a toy. Your little ones can use it as a regular chair for everyday use and as a little hiding place for special toys.

Kids who enjoy a challenge will love this fishing game. It has six wooden magnetic fish and two fishing rods. Children can play the game alone when parents are busy or with a fisherman friend, encouraging social and communication skills.

This toy isn’t only fun and exciting; it also teaches your child numbers and colors. A wheel points out which fish number and color to look for, promoting the development of problem-solving and fine motor skills.

If your little one isn’t interested in fishing, the company promises to make it right, with a 100% happiness guarantee.

Is your baby or toddler fond of singing? This microphone isn’t only for pretend play — it amplifies your child’s voice for a real singing experience. It comes in blue or pink and is suitable from 3 months up.

Activated by a puppy button, the microphone can sing over 60 songs and phrases, encouraging your toddler to join in. From rock’n’roll to classical songs, it also features different animal sounds to encourage your baby’s hearing and language skills. Set the stage; we’ve got an entertainer ready to perform.

Visiting the doctor is no fun, but playing doctor is a whole different story. To make it even more realistic, this toy set even comes with a pair of doctor glasses.

With its 19 pieces — bandages, a name tag, forceps, a scalpel, a syringe, and more — this doctor kit might generate a future vocation. Your child can use a phone to stimulate imaginary play and book important check-ups, with lights and sounds adding to the fun.

A battery-powered stethoscope allows your little doctor to check the patient’s heartbeat. All the equipment fits inside a translucent case, so your toddler will quickly be on the go to care for their patients.

These floating bath toys come in a set of four. Built-in magnets allow the numbered boats — from one to four — to line up in order. They don’t only make bathtime fun and exciting, but they also teach little ones colors and numbers.

Are you concerned about your child’s safety? These bath toys are free of phthalates and BPA. They’re made with durable materials to make them last a bath lifetime. The rounded shapes have no sharp edges, so they won’t hurt or scratch your child’s delicate skin.

Their small size is perfect for a toddler’s hands. They can easily be dried after bathtime for the fun to continue on dry land.

This fun and interactive robot might soon become your child’s best friend. Combining learning and dance moves, this little robot sings and dances in rhythm. Large buttons located on its feet or tummy activate the music.

This toy encourages your little one to stand up and do the same, developing gross motor skills. My little one learned to do the little sway dance just like the robot.

Beatbo also teaches colors, numbers, and the alphabet.

We loved personalizing the songs to customize our child’s learning, and it’s so much fun for little ones to hear their voice in the robot. Record a sentence, or have your little one try, and Beatbo will remix your voices within a song.