Tag: toys

Great Little Trading Company

| February 28, 2012

If you haven’t already discovered the wonderful Great Little Trading Company I recommend you have a look, even if it’s just to browse for inspiration through their selection of wonderful childhood items.

GLTC as they’re also known, sell the most beautiful quality products for babies and children from toys and games to children’s bedroom furniture and bedroom accessories.

I love their amazing selection of Toys and Gifts and they have a beautiful range of quality Baby and Toddler Toys that are built to last.

The Best Baby Activity Gym Play Mat

| February 12, 2012

Enjoying the Lamaze Pyramid Activity Mat

An activity mat and play gym is something worth buying before you have your baby as it can be used from birth and will often adapt to create new play environments as your baby grows.

Activity mats help to encourage tummy time and many have added features that allow baby to discover different textures, lights and sounds within the area of the play mat.

The Lamaze Pyramid Activity Matis the best baby activity gym play mat you can buy for your baby. It keeps our baby entertained for hours and encourages tummy time and imaginative play.

The Lamaze Pyramid Activity Mattransforms with each stage of baby’s development from newborn to tummy time to imaginative playtime, providing plenty of ways to play and interact.

It has a cushioned play mat which baby can lie on or sit on with a bright and engaging environment of characters with soft side walls which helped to keep our baby safe when she started rolling!

It folds into a play house for older babies to play with when they are able to sit up unaided.

The Lamaze Pyramid Activity Mat is reversible, with colourful pictures and characters on each side and includes an overarching rainbow which holds the soft sides of the mat up so your baby can lie underneath and gaze up at the rainbow and toys.

The toy figures can be attached to the rainbow or the play mat or they can be kept separate for your baby to play with individually. The activity gym play mat comes with 5 soft toys – boy, girl, baby, cat and flower.

Playing with the Lamaze Pyramid Activity Mat Toy Doll

The Lamaze Pyramid Activity Mathas a musical sun that can be attached to the rainbow or played with separately. The musical sun plays tunes and can be set to be activated by movement so as your baby enjoys kicking their feet in the air and on the floor, the music will play and the lights will flash to encourage your baby’s movements. And there’s a volume control on the musical sun so you can set it to your desired sound level.

It’s really important to introduce tummy time into your baby’s day for a few minutes a day. This helps to strengthen their muscles as they try to push themselves up off the floor and it encourages coordination. You can read more about the benefits of tummy time.

The Lamaze Pyramid Activity Mathas sides that can be folded up and held in place with velcro attachments to allow baby to see themselves in the detachable mirror and to look at the different characters.

This activity and play mat will be used daily by your baby. It can be simply wiped clean or machine washed when needed and it drys quickly so your baby won’t have to wait for their next round of play on the activity mat!

The Best Newborn Toys

| January 4, 2012

Newborn babies soon start to take an interest in things outside the sphere of Mummy and Daddy.

My baby loved to gaze at the Tiny Love Double Sided First Book with it’s vivid black and white pictures.

This is one of the best newborn toys. Our baby has played with this since she was a newborn and she still loves reading and playing with this toy now that she is 10 months old.

From age 3 months the reverse coloured side, with 3D illustrations and activities, keeps younger babies entertained with bright colours and crackly textured animals.

This book can conveniently be tied to your baby’s cot with the red ribbons attached to it.

Now my baby can sit up unaided she plays with this fold-out book on the floor, enjoying flipping it over and folding it up.

This first baby book will last months and months and provide hours of entertainment and play!

Here are some of my baby’s best newborn toys:

Skip Hop Baby Toys

The Best Baby Mobile

Lamaze Pyramid Activity Mat & Play Gym

Lamaze Octotunes Octopus

Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes