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Holiday Gift Guide 2024

Check out this guide for some new gift ideas this holiday season





Infants (birth-3 months old): These are great toys to get your infants to track toys, practice tummy time, reach for their feet, grab toys, stimulate sensory skills, and improve their eye hand coordination skills!






3-6 months old: These toys allow your little one to explore, grasp, and touch different textures for tactile development along with improving dexterity. They also can encourage motor development such as tummy time skills, assisted sitting, and rolling.






6-12 months old: These toys are great for developing cognitive skills, eye-hand coordination, and motor skills. These toys help to encourage action words and easy labeling. They can also be used in a fun way to promote sitting, standing, cruising and walking!






Toddlers (1-3 years old): These toys are great for developing cognitive skills by allowing your child to explore and use their imagination. Utilizing these toys helps to encourage increasing length of utterances, modeling, and recasting. These toys also promote eye-hand coordination, walking, social interaction, motor planning, and color/shape differentiation!






3-5 years old: These toys allow your child to be creative by using their imagination. These toys are great for working on speech sounds, taking turns, and lots of language modeling! They also promote cognitive development, eye-hand coordination, social skills, strength, and balance.





5 years and older: These toys promote creativity, problem solving, cognitive development, eye-hand coordination, social skills, strength, ball skills, and balance. These games are also great for taking turns, critical thinking, and asking questions.






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The content in this blog should not be used in place of medical advice/treatment and is solely for informational purposes. All activities/exercises posted in this blog should be performed with adult supervision, caution, and at your own risk. Big Leaps, LLC is not responsible for any injury while performing an activity/exercise that has been posted on this blog. If you have any questions on the content of our blog, feel free to contact us at info@bigleapsct.com.

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