Gift guide | 0-1 years

From 0 to 1 year, babies develop from reflexive behavior to consciously exploring their environment.

View the newborn gift guide here.

3-6 months
Babies learn to consciously grasp objects, bring toys to their mouths and begin to roll. They are increasingly interested in different colours, shapes and textures.

1. Rattles and teethers
   A rattle helps develop motor skills. The sound attracts attention, which helps babies learn to focus and develop their hearing. Grasping, shaking and feeling the rattle promotes their hand-eye coordination and grasp reflex, and helps them understand that their actions cause a reaction, which is important for their cognitive development.
   Gift tip: Pacifier & Cord - teething ring-rattle , Mushie - Teething Toy Ball
2. Play side
   Play silk stimulates the senses of babies and helps with the first steps in sensory discovery and interaction with the environment. They love to touch the soft, smooth texture of the play silk. Feeling and grasping the silk stimulates the sense of touch and helps develop the grasping reflex.
   Gift tips: Sarah's Silks - play silk
3. Play mat
   Activity mats are equipped with various objects to touch, grab, and sometimes even bite. These mats encourage babies to roll, reach, and lift their heads, which strengthens their neck and back muscles.
   Gift tips: Wee Gallery - play mat
4. Crinkle books and touch books
   Soft books with different textures, sounds and colours stimulate the senses. This stimulates both sensory and cognitive development.
   Gift tips: Touch and sound books

6-9 months
At this stage, babies often learn to sit up on their own and start crawling, which greatly expands their world. They also begin to understand the principles of cause and effect, such as something moving or making a sound when they touch or shake it. Babies become more curious about their surroundings and want to discover how things work.

1. Activity centers and button books
   Toys with buttons to press, sliders to move, and sounds to explore help babies understand that their actions can cause reactions. These toys encourage cognitive thinking and problem-solving skills.
   Gift tips: Touch and sound books
2. Crawling toys
   Balls, cars or other moving toys encourage babies to crawl, which builds their strength and coordination.
   Gift tips: Natruba - sensory balls , Wooden Story - Wooden car
3. Musical instruments
   Musical instruments and rattles that they can use to make their own sounds teach them the principle of cause and effect and stimulate their hearing.
   Gift tips: Wooden story - rattles
4. Sensory bottles
   Sensory bottles are clear bottles filled with colorful materials, glitter, or liquids that move when the bottle is shaken, turned, or tilted. They are suitable for babies from about 6 months, when they begin to show an interest in cause-and-effect and visual stimulation.
   Gift tips: Petit Boum - Sensory bottles

9-12 months
In this final stage of their first year, many babies begin to pull themselves up on furniture and may take their first steps. They also refine their hand motor skills: they can now often pick up small objects with their fingers. They become increasingly interested in playing with objects that challenge them cognitively, such as sorting, matching and turning.

1. Blocks
   Stacking and knocking over blocks promotes fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and spatial insight.
   Gift tips: Wooden Story - Wooden blocks , Grimm's - blocks
2. Shape sorter and stacking cups
   Babies learn to recognize shapes and solve simple problems by fitting objects together. This stimulates fine motor skills, concentration and spatial insight.
   Gift tips: Wooden story - shape sorter , Mushie - Stacking cups , Wooden story - stacking game
3. Walkers and push carts
   These provide support and stability when learning to walk. Walkers give babies more confidence and encourage them to practice walking.

One beautiful, shared gift
Children are often showered with gifts. On their birthday and during the holidays. But eventually one gift will be the favorite and the rest will be redundant. Save all the money and go for one beautiful gift that will be played with for a long time. Quality over quantity. Open-ended toys are the solution. They have a long lifespan because they grow with your child. In addition, they promote ingenuity, creativity and fantasy. And brothers and sisters can also play with them. But toys that you can expand and collect are also valuable.
Investment gift tips: Grimm's - Large Pyramid Block Set