25 Awesome Language Learning Toys Toddlers will LOVE this Christmas!
1. Color & Shape Montessori Matching Box Set – Amazon
This fun set helps toddlers learn their colors and shapes as well as building their matching skills. This playset helps encourage language learning when toddlers identify the colors and shapes. This is sure to be a hit on Christmas morning!
2. Busy Books – ASH Paper Designs
You can encourage your toddler’s language learning and independent play with these great toddler busy books! These quiet book sets are great toddler activities that keep kids engaged and occupied. They also help familiarize your toddler with a variety of locations and what we do there. The best part is they are learning and strengthening their fine motor skills while giving you a little peace and quiet!
3. Peekaboo Learning Farm Set – Amazon
This adorable 10 piece set includes 5 little barns that house 5 little farm animals. My son Tanner absolutely loves playing with this little set and identifying all the animals in the barns. This has helped boost his vocabulary and encourage his language learning. He loves using them while he sings Old McDonald!
4. Leap Frog 2-in-1 LeapTop Touch – Amazon
When I bought this for Tanner he played with it for over an hour straight and has been obsessed with it for weeks now! This is an amazing language learning tool that toddlers absolutely love. This can help increase their vocabularies and introduces them to using a tablet with several fun games. Trust me – this will be a GIGANTIC hit on Christmas morning!
5. Flashcards – ASH Paper Designs
Flashcards are a great tool for language learning! They encourage speech development and photo memory, and they’re TONS of fun! They are such a HUGE tool for Tanner with his behavioral and speech therapy. He LOVES his flashcards and always gets a little jealous when mommy sends a set to someone else haha. They are available as digital downloads and fully assembled laminated cardstock!
6. Interactive Alphabet Wall Chart for Toddlers – Amazon
This great tool helps kids learn their alphabet and can also help boost kiddos vocabularies. This particular brand has several variations including 100 words, dinosaurs and counting! Learning the alphabet and it’s sounds is a crucial foundation to get your kiddos ready for Kindergarten!
7. Learning Resources Sorting Surprise Picnic Baskets – Amazon
This fun set encourages language learning and counting skills. Toddlers will also build their fine motor and sorting skills when they’re playing with this set. Each picnic basket includes a matching treat. These little surprises are small so it’s recommended for children 3 years and older. This will keep toddlers busy for a while!
8. Talking Flashcard Toy Set – Amazon
This set is a lot of fun and very educational. There are 192 double sided cards for a total of 384 sight words. This can help greatly increase a toddler’s vocabulary and encourage their language learning. Tanner loves playing with this set and has picked up several words from it! I love that it helps him pronounce the words properly.
9. VTech Touch & Learn Activity Desk – Amazon
This is another one of Tanner’s favorites! It teaches over 100 vocabulary words and has more than 20 songs and more than 20 activities included! This desk is such a fun way to encourage language learning with any toddler! There are additional mats you can get for the desk including body parts, shapes and colors, musical instruments and more!
10. Amazon Fire Tablet for Kids – Amazon
I waited until he was 3 to let him have one, but Tanner is hooked. Listen, I know screen time is a concern for all of us, but I also see the benefits in letting him play with his tablet. The great thing about these is that they come with a year of Amazon Kids which includes tons of learning apps and kids shows. The parental controls are fantastic with an easy setting to limit screen time according to your schedule. Plus they’re usually pretty inexpensive around Christmas time!
11. Fisher-Price Little People Big Animal Train Toy – Amazon
I am a HUGE fan of the Little People line from Fisher-Price! Tanner loves them and seems to really explore his pretend play with these toys which is a BIG thing for him! This set includes a large train and several animals along with a conductor. I love that these pieces will mix and match with the other sets he has as well. Identifying the animals and playing with this in general will encourage language learning and pretend play!
12. Melissa & Doug See & Spell Wooden Educational Toy – Amazon
This is a great toy for older toddlers that helps teach them how to spell basic sight words. Each card includes a picture and places to lay the letters to spell it out. The boxed set includes 8 double-sided spelling boards and 64 letters. This set helps encourage language learning and helps get older toddlers ready for Kindergarten!
13. Morning Boards – ASH Paper Designs
Morning boards are a great way to teach younger kids about the days of the week, temperature, mood and weather! They are also good to keep older kids on task and organized. These are also great for homeschoolers! Kids calendars are a great teaching tool for ages 3 to 6 (for the most part). These are available as digital downloads and fully assembled laminated cardstock versions!
14. Number and Alphabet Flashcards – Amazon
This great set is part flashcards and part puzzle! There are 26 letter cards and 10 number cards along with the corresponding wooden pieces to match. It also has calculating signs to start working on simple math problems! This is sure to encourage language learning and a BIG hit on Christmas morning!
15. Wooden Number Puzzles for Toddlers – Amazon
This set covers so many educational bases and it’s SO much fun for toddlers! Counting to 10 and sorting shapes is just the start with this. This toy helps promote language learning and counting skills. Identifying the shapes included is also a great skills for toddlers to practice. This is another one that is sure to occupy them for a while!
16. Handwriting Practice Book for Kids – Amazon
This set is amazing for handwriting practice and language learning! This helps teach kids how to write their alphabet and numbers 1-10 and is dry erase so the learning is endless! Since it does come with dry erase markers it’s recommended for older toddlers and kindergartners to use.
17. Learning Resources Counting Surprise Party – Amazon
This is another great sorting toy that also does double duty on the learning side! It encourages fine motor skills and language learning with it’s little surprises inside the presents. It has 10 presents that each hide a surprise! This helps with counting and vocabulary also. It’s another with smaller pieces so it’s recommended for kids 3 years and older.
18. Leap Frog My First Learning Tablet – Amazon
This was a big favorite for Tanner when he was a little younger! He got it for Christmas last year and it was his first little tablet like this. He was in love and it really helped increase his vocabulary and teach him different sounds. I highly recommend this for the 18 -24 month crowd for Christmas!
19. Montessori Wooden Tracing Boards – Amazon
These boards are a great option for writing practice without the mess which means they’re great to get all toddlers writing. I worry about my son with markers unattended, so these are perfect and I don’t have to hover! Since they’re wooden you can take them anywhere and they’ll last a very long time! Also a great option for road trips!
20. Montessori 13 in 1 Wooden Shape Sorting & Stacking Toy – Amazon
This toy packs a PUNCH! There are so many different activities included that your toddler will be busy for quite a while! There are small parts so again it’s for ages 3 years and older. This set encourages language learning as toddlers identify shapes, colors and numbers. Fine motor skills are also put to the test with this one! Such a great educational toy that any toddler will be thrilled to get on Christmas morning!
21. Melissa & Doug 4 in 1 Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle sets – Amazon
These sets are so great for your toddler that’s ready to move on to jigsaw puzzles. Tanner started working on those shortly before he turned 3. I introduced wooden peg puzzles pretty early and he has always loved them! Melissa & Doug have several different themes available and Tanner has a few wrapped under the tree. He’s going to be so excited!!
22. Wooden Shape Color Sorting Clock – Amazon
I got this for Tanner along with several other right before he started in-home behavioral therapy when he was two and a half. I was drawn to it because it would last for a while as he learns his shapes and numbers and as he advances to learn time and how the clock works. Not only does it encourage language learning, but it also promotes fine motor skills with the lacing feature on the numbered shapes. Toddlers of all ages will love this one!
23. Wooden Peg Puzzles for Toddlers – Amazon
We LOVE puzzles in our house! I introduced these to Tanner shortly after he turned 1 and he was hooked pretty instantly. He’s tall so at that point he was standing at the coffee table all the time playing and it felt like a good time to start. We started with him wanting me to say the name of each piece as he pulled them out, then he advanced to putting them back in and now he’s an expert. These have provided a huge base vocabulary with him and definitely taught him his alphabet! There are tons of options out there, but these are by far his favorite lately.
24. The Learning Journey: Match it – Spelling Puzzles
This is such a fun activity to combine matching skills with language learning. Older toddlers will absolutely love these! They encourage fine motor and cognitive skills with the jigsaw puzzles and matching features. This will be a big hit with Tanner on Christmas morning!
25. Balance Math Game – Amazon
If you haven’t figured it out by now, I LOVE toys that cover multiple developmental skills. They are so important for my son in his therapies and he also loves the stimulation! This game covers counting, math and language learning all in one. Toddlers won’t have any idea they’re learning while they’re having fun, but you will!
