Top Christmas Toys for Babies and Infants in 2022

Looking for toys, other parents are buying for their kids? We have compiled the best-selling, award-winning, high quality, visually appealing toys for babies for Christmas 2017. All these toys encourage your babies to explore, discover, visualize and verbalize.

These are the most engaging toys for newborns and some have brought back memories of our favorite toys from years gone by. You cannot go wrong with any of the toy on this list. We encourage you to, play with passion, laugh with love, and bond with your baby. Most of all have fun growing together.

Here is the list of best-selling toys for Christmas 2017.

Melissa & Doug K’s Kids Pull-Back Vehicle Set

This is a set of 4 colorful, soft pull-and-go vehicles (school bus, family car, fire truck and police car) for babies and toddlers.  These are soft and lightweight toys, easy for toddlers to lift and roll. These are sturdy, stable and have the optimal speed for toddlers to play.

These soft, lightweight fabric vehicles in four exciting designs are easy for a baby or toddler to lift and manipulate, and the removable cloth coverings separate easily for laundering. It also features rubber threads that wind the motor gears and self-rolling wheels.

These soft, lightweight vehicles mimic the best of toddler’s world like busses and cars. This toy is designed keeping in mind that toddlers and babies just have to give a little push to get big acceleration. And then can just pull them back and release move across the floor.

The action of grasping and pulling back is great for fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination; the activity of driving and collecting the vehicles benefits large muscle groups and coordination, too.

Young children get even more miles per gallon with a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes, and the illustrated characters and everyday themes inspire conversations, cognitive connections, and imaginative play. The bright colors of these vehicles nurture early vision, focus, and color awareness.

Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes Musical Toy

This award-winning bestseller, easy to grasp and the colorful toy has 7 baby friendly classical tunes which can be toggled through large buttons. The colorful lights dance across the screen whenever any song is played.

The caterpillar bead chaser handle is very easy for little hands to hold and move anywhere. This toy also has volume controls like off, low and high volume switches. This is a perfect toy for developing auditory mechanisms and music appreciation in toddlers and babies.

Tiny Love Baby Toy, Follow Me Fred

The Tiny Love Follow Me Fred is an adorable puppy with 3 friendly, intriguing sounds and motions that are sure to delight your baby. The puppy moves when touched, and barks as a reminder to come and play.

Activated by your baby’s touch, this self-rolling puppy will encourage crawling, and fun buttons and sounds will enhance your baby’s cognitive development. You can even set toy’s rolling speed to customize it throughout your baby’s crawling stages.

Manhattan Toy Winkel Rattle and Sensory Teether Activity Toy

Manhattan Toy Winkel Rattle is an award winning and a true “must have” toy for infants. It is a mesmerizing maze of safe, soft, continuous, lightweight tubes which is perfect for a teething baby to chew on. Its colorful design is very visually appealing to babies and the middle piece contains a pleasing rattle sound which helps reinforce cause and effect learning.

This is a great first toy for babies as develops motor skills by promoting clutching and two-handed play. Winkel can also be refrigerated to provide a more soothing experience for particularly sore baby gums and teeth.

Vulli Sophie la Girafe

This toy Sophie the Giraffe is full of discoveries and activities to awaken baby’s senses. It is a perfect toy for facilitating baby development.

• Sight: The dark and contrasting spots all over Sophie the Giraffe’s body provide visual stimulation and make her easily recognizable to baby. She soon becomes a familiar and reassuring object.
• Hearing: Her squeaker keeps baby amused and stimulates his hearings.
• Taste: Sophie the Giraffe is very flexible and has lots of parts for baby to chew like ears, horns, legs. She is perfect for soothing baby’s sore gum when teething and is completely safe. Made of 100% natural rubber and food paint.
• Touch: Sophie the Giraffe is perfect for baby’s small hands. She is very light and her long legs and neck are easy for baby to grip. She is very soft to touch, stimulating soothing physiological and emotional responses.
• Smell: The singular scent of natural rubber makes Sophie the Giraffe very special and easy for your child to identify.

Fisher-Price Bright Beats Dance & Move BeatBo

The Toddler Toy of the Year award winner, Fisher-Price Bright Beats Dance & Move BeatBo is an adorable animatronic pal that encourages baby to get up and move and helps teach the baby. By pressing BeatBo’s large colorful LED grid tummy or any of the 3 buttons on feet, it will play fun songs, learning content, or dance moves.

Music, songs, phrases, lights & bright colors all help stimulate your baby’s senses.It has 3 major modes. In Dance ‘n Move Mode, BeatBo’s shaking hips, nodding head and lively music will encourage your baby to move around. Learning & Games Mode will help in teaching your baby about alphabets, colors, counting and more.

The Freeze Dance mode will be a lot of fun for your baby. It also has customized Sing-Along Mode in which you or your baby can record a phrase and BeatBo will remix it into a song.

HABA Magica Clutching Toy

This hand-crafted Magica colorful clutching, teething, wooden toy is easy to grasp for the young children’s hands and perfect for babies aged 6 months and up. It is an old fashion, hands on toy that encourages babies to experience the tactile world around them while engaging their gross motor skills.

The wooden balls threaded on elastic will instantly capture your baby’s attention and feature smooth, naturally finished wooden beads strung together with elastic. The balls have brightly colored, non-toxic, multi-layered water based finish and solvent-free lacquers, making the surface extremely resistant to wear and tear allowing the toy to be taken from the hand to the mouth.

These wooden clutching balls are designed for tiny hands to reach for, grab, pull, twist, and rattle. These tactile development features of the balls have also been shown to be helpful to those on the Autism spectrum. When your baby will delight in manipulating the wooden balls, a clicky-clop sound is produced, allowing them to explore sound and cause and effect.

Green Toys Shape Sorter

The My First Green Toys Shape Sorter is a safe toy, with no sharp edges or small parts. Its unique design allows the set to be played within the traditional elliptical configuration, or separated into two hemispheres that can lay flat on the floor. This Shape Sorter toy helps in developing recognition of shapes and colors while also encouraging eye-hand coordination, problem-solving and fine and gross motor skill development.

The two-part elliptical Shape Sorter and 8 colorful shapes (2 stars, 2 circles, 2 squares, 2 triangles) are a perfect size and weight for toy baby’s little hands. Each piece slides easily into the chute cut-outs on both the top and bottom of the Sorter, which opens with a simple twist, separating the two halves and letting the pieces out again.

The lightweight shapes are perfect for little ones just learning to grasp, while older toddlers can practice fine motor skills and color matching This toy has no toxic or harmful external coatings and also meets FDA food contact standards, making it safe for teething babies to put in their mouths. It is also dishwasher safe for easy cleaning.

Edushape See-Me Sensory Balls

See-Me Sensory Balls feature four 4" see through sensory balls o a different color each. Edushape Original Sensory Balls feature very thick skin and an inflation/deflation basketball/soccer ball pin receptacle to contour to your needs.  Tactile Sensory Development and Easy Grip design make it a perfect therapeutic toy for your baby. The balls are made from high-grade plastic and seem durable and long lasting.

The sensory balls are perfect for developing your baby’s tactile senses and gross motor skills. The texture of these colorful balls provides tremendous sensory and dexterity-building play. Your baby can squeeze, roll, throw, kick and see through these textured play balls. The sensory ball improves hand-eye coordination and can also be used to improve socialization skills when enjoyed in group play.

LeapFrog My Pal Scout

LeapFrog My Pal Scout is a soft, green, cuddly customizable puppy in which you can personalize the learning with your child’s name and favorite food, animal and color, easily right in the box, with your smartphone, tablet or computer via the internet. It comes with 5 pre-loaded songs, 4 learning songs, and 3 playful melodies, or you can select and download your choice of learning tunes and lullabies from an online list of 30 songs.

My Pal Scout will teach your baby things like first words, numbers, animals, food, feelings and emotions, counting and colors. It also features a lullaby timer with 5, 10 or 15 minutes of bedtime music, a blinking collar and volume control to help little ones transition to quiet time.

Features of a Good Toy for Babies

A toy designed for babies should promote gross motor skills. A very good toy develops sensory, fine motor, gross motor, creative, linguistic, emotional, logical and communication skills.

A toy nurtures early childhood development in three key skill areas: physical, cognitive, and social. With interactive designs and multisensory features, a good toy promotes constructive play and effortless learning, keeping interest high and new skills flourishing throughout the baby and toddler years. A toy should have the ability to stimulate and sooth combines with its development focus, including Skills, Hand-Eye Coordination, Socialization.