Top three toys under €10!
The most expensive toys are not necessarily the best ones. In the past year and a half, we’ve come across some great toys for under €10. These are my top three.
1. Stacking cups @ €6.99
These stacking cups are great. Little Man loves to build them up, one on top of the other and then SMASH then down to the ground! Sometimes instead of building them up, he has fun placing one inside the other. Who knew you could spend hours and hours playing with some coloured cups?
2. Shape sorter @ €9.99
We didn’t actually buy this one. It was a great gift from a friend of ours for Little Man’s first birthday. I had to take this picture from the Smyths toys website, because our one is so used at this stage that any photograph I take wouldn’t do the toy justice! But I guess that alone says a lot about how good this toy is. The wooden pieces are nice and solid, and they’re big enough that we don’t have to worry about Little Man choking on them. When he first started playing with the shape sorter, it frustrated him that he couldn’t get the shapes into their respective holes. But he quickly discovered that he could open up the lid, and pop the shapes into the new bigger hole! It took quite a while longer before he figured out how to fit the shapes into their intended holes!
3. Amazing Baby Black and White book @ €5.99
The third best toy for under €10 isn’t really a toy – it’s a book. We own a few different black and white books, because I had read how good high contrast is for young babies. This one is in a different league to the others however. Most of those black and white books don’t really have anything you can read to the baby. This one has a lovely rhyme that runs through the book though, and interesting images on each page for baby to look at. I’ve been reading it to Little Man since he was a newborn. And now that he’s a toddler, he still enjoys it. It has holes in the pages that he can poke his fingers through, a rhyme that he can recognise (even if he can’t yet say it along with me), pictures to look at, and best of all, it’s interactive! Well the last page is at least! It features a dial that baby can turn to make the spaceship leave a colourful trail as it zooms off!
Note: I realise that I have excluded the absolute best toy of all – James the Giraffe! But I can’t write about him in every post, now can I?!
We haven't forgotten you James!
Think I’ll have to start charging for use of my photos 😉
Thanks for some inspiration. When did your little one start to properly play with the shape sorter? x
Do you mean when did he start to sort the shapes? That took a while. A month or two after we got it I think. For ages he used to just open the lid and put the shapes in that way. And then for a month or two he would put everything in through the square shape on the top!
But he played with it every day from the day we got it – even if he wasn’t shape sorting!
Sorry Caro_mad – thought I had replied to this. Just seeing it again now. He started playing with the shape sorter at 12 months, but it took a month or two before he was actually sorting any shapes in it! 🙂
Thanks for some inspiration. When did your little one start to properly play with the shape sorter? x
Sorry Caro_mad – thought I had replied to this. Just seeing it again now. He started playing with the shape sorter at 12 months, but it took a month or two before he was actually sorting any shapes in it! 🙂
Cheap and cheerful with hours of enjoyment! Especially like the shape sorter-that will get their little minds working 😀
You know, one year on, he still plays with it now and again!
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