10 Best HABA Board Games for Toddlers 2024

This is a beautifully designed board with a couple of roads, different colored homes with matching magnetic spheres, navigable roadblocks, and a traffic layout that comes together like a puzzle to tackle. A magnetic wand is attached to the board via a string and guides the balls to their matching homes. Some roadblocks can be moved to make way for the balls, while others may lead to dead ends if not guided strategically. There’s a slot on the board for storing the wand when it’s not in use.

The game’s goal is to get all the balls guided to their matching garages. This can be done by sliding the magnetic wand over the plastic cover sheet to move the balls inside. One of the roadblocks can be rotated to allow one ball to pass at a time. The other roadblock can be guided out of the way to another route, freeing up the current pathway.

Your toddler can learn to recognize the different colors of the balls used in the game and count how many of each color there are. A precocious toddler might even figure out basic subtraction to keep count of the balls that still need to be guided home.

Since the board is covered in plastic and the magnetic wand on the other side of this barrier, your toddler will develop better visual-spatial skills as he/she learns to pick out the balls by applying the magnetic wand to the right spot in order to guide them.

Guiding the balls along the various paths and twisting and moving around the roadblocks will build up their motor skills. And lastly, the game requires a little strategic thinking to get the roadblocks out of the way so the balls can reach home.

This magnetic board with vibrant colors provides excellent value for money as it keeps toddlers engaged for hours. It is sturdily built, and the intelligent design ensures that you have all the pieces in one place, secured to the board. There’ll be no missing parts with this game. It makes for an excellent traveling companion to keep your little ones from noticing the long hours on the road.

Toddlers do not need any adult supervision to learn how to play this board game. It will develop their concentration and critical reasoning skills as they learn to navigate the board with ease after repetitive use. It doesn’t get dull as there are multiple routes to the different destinations, and once they’ve figured it out, most toddlers will take it up as a challenge to get the balls to their right homes in the shortest duration possible.

This dice-based game is super easy for toddlers to understand. It has a die with six different pictures of food for the very hungry bear. Cardboard cutouts of the food pictures are also included in the package, along with a spoon and a plate. It’s as simple as rolling the dice, picking out the matching piece of food from the plate, and feeding it to the bear with the spoon provided.

It’s a pop-up bear in a box, with a big cavity for the mouth. Food pieces fall into the box that also backs up as storage for all the package pieces. A reusable lid is also included in the box so you can securely put it away when not in use.

Toddlers can learn to match pictures, roll a dice, understand the concept of using a spoon, feeding, and hunger. This game helps your toddlers improve their memory, cognitive skills, and motor skills as they learn to hold the spoon properly, manage to get the pieces of food onto the spoon and feed the bear.

The game also offers the perk of a simple lesson in healthy foods – carrots, strawberry, spinach, blueberry, rice, and more. Besides learning to identify these foods, your toddler will also learn about their colors.

The box’s build is sturdy, and the cardboard cutouts are thick enough to withstand rough use. The artistry and pictures are top-notch, with bright colors used to make the bear and the foods stand out. The pieces are pretty big and pose no choking hazard.

This is a maze board with beads that need to be moved from the maze center to their matching number and color sections. Beads are placed in the central triangle on the board, and a magnetic guiding pen, attached to the board, is used to move them. Children need to guide each bead to the correct section: the five white beads need to go into the white area with the chicken and rest in the five slots for eggs, and so on. Once all the beads are in place, the game can restart again in reverse.

The board has a few roadblocks and alcoves that help your toddler move around one bead at a time and leave behind the other beads following due to the magnetic pen’s strength. While a little daunting at first for children at this age, these obstacles encourage problem-solving and make your toddler think and strategize about getting all the colors to the right section.

Besides the maze activity, the board also serves as an introductory learning guide to counting numbers. There are five different colors of beads and five domestic animals in matching colors. You can teach your kids to identify these colors and animals and match them by color.

This game promotes your toddler’s concentration skills, improves their motor skills, develops better hand-eye coordination, and adds to their vocabulary and comprehension.

The board is made of lightweight lime plywood, has vibrant colors, and is designed to fit perfectly in a toddler’s lap. The balls, made of plastic, make minimal noise as they move on the board and are secure behind the clear plastic cover. All the number stations have a small recess that stops the beads from moving out of their slots when the board is tilted in different directions.

There’s also a slot to store the magnetic pen when it’s not in use. The game is a small, flat board that can be carried around with ease, especially while traveling.

Moving the beads and the pegs around the board with the magnetic pen will keep your toddler engaged for hours even if they don’t grasp the concept of numbers, matching colors, or mazes.

All aboard the number train! This is a small, flat, circular board made of light plywood covered with a thick transparent plastic sheet. The balls inside the maze are made of plastic, while the guiding pen attached to the board is magnetic. The pen can be tucked into its storage slot when not in use.

The board features a blue number train with wagons sporting numbers from 1 to 5. There are five different colored balls, again varying in number from 1 to 5. Loading the balls onto their respective wagons by matching their numbers and colors is the aim of the game.

At the beginning of the game, all the balls are parked in the pyramid at the base. A small, circular, wooden block in the center of the board with an alcove can be rotated around to allow the balls to pass to the different wagons.

The blue and green theme of the board is eye-catching, and the colored slots for the balls make it easy for your child to figure out what goes where. Your child will learn the first five counting numbers, the names of five different colors, and grasp the concept of matching.

The board also introduces them to the idea of train wagons. It builds up their concentration skills, improves their motor skills, encourages them to think strategically to solve the obstacle course, and keeps them engaged for a long time.

Although this toy is aimed at kids two years and above, kids above the age of 18 months will also be able to play with it and grasp its simple concept with ease. It’s almost like a teaching aid for toddlers.

The package consists of three boards with cut-outs for three basic shapes – a circle, a triangle, and a square on one side and colorful flowers on the other side. The cutout side assists in the ‘Shapes Game’ while the floral side assists in the ‘Color Game.’ The cut-outs take the shape of a butterfly with the wings outstretched.

Two big dice are also included in the package, one has colors on it, and the other has three different shapes. Wooden triangles, squares, and circles in red, blue, and yellow, respectively, the three primary colors, round up this board game’s contents. The wooden pieces fit perfectly in the cardboard cutouts. Gameplay involves casting the die to decide which color and what shape goes on to the board next.

This toy is made in Germany, so you can be assured of its superior quality. Toddlers need to fit the right shapes into the cutouts. Initially, they might struggle with the color and shape matching, but eventually, they’ll get the hang of it as they grasp the meaning of different-sided figures.

It’s an entertaining way to teach your little one about primary colors, shapes, and numbers. It introduces your kids to fundamental geometry. While not exactly a jigsaw puzzle, it does lead your kid to grasp the concept of what goes where. It improves motor function, reasoning skills and adds to their knowledge about their surroundings.

This game is more fun when played in the company of others. It introduces your kids to the idea of tidying up after playing.

A tomcat called Tiptop is the key figure in the game. Tiptop has a lot of toys that he’s been playing with all day. Now it’s time for Tiptop to clean his room and put all his toys back in their proper places. How’s Tiptop going to do that all by his lonely self? Fret not! Your toddler’s there to the rescue! Along with a few friends.

The game includes a shelf box that needs to be assembled with the three toy chests. There are pictures of different toys on the door showing where they go on the shelves. Your kids need to fill the chests with the 18 toy tiles, indicated by the pictures on the shelves. There are slits in the door through which tiles can be pushed inside the chest. These tiles display images of stuffed animals, building blocks, and various vehicles. There’s one shelf each for the three different kinds of toy tiles. A wooden cutout of Tiptop is also included in the package.

This game encourages your kids to clean up after playing, introduces them to the concept of putting things in the right places, helps them with dexterity, object recognition, placement, and vocabulary. Even if your toddler doesn’t grasp the concept immediately, it will introduce them to the idea of following rules and directions as they figure out the game.

The box is sturdy and well-built with thick cardboard cutouts, enough space to hold all the tiles, and easy to set up, pack up, and store.

This is another offering in HABA’s magnetic board games series for toddlers. It has a board featuring a whimsical tree with colorful fruits, birds, animals, insects, and baskets. There are three colored balls (red, white, and yellow) that act as apples, pears, and bird eggs. The pears need to go into the orange basket on the ground, apples into the grey bag beside the trunk, and eggs into the bird’s nest in the tree.

In a verdant green that matches the leaves on the tree, the magnetic pen attached to the board guides these balls to their respective destinations. Children need to figure out what paths to take to get the balls into the right holders.

But you don’t need to restrict the gameplay to guiding these balls to their endpoints. Your child can get creative and decorate the tree by placing the bright balls at strategic locations. The magnetic wand can be stored on the board in the slot provided.

The lightweight board is made of plywood and has a thick plastic covering to stop the balls from escaping. It’s small and sturdy and can be carried around on long journeys to keep your kids engaged.

The friendly animals, caterpillars, the butterfly, the bee, and the birds, are there to guide your child along as they move the balls across the board. Besides improving your child’s motor skills, visual-spatial skills, and concentration, this board will also add to their vocabulary, introduce them to counting numbers and some colors.

The magnetic pen is quite strong and drags along more than one ball, which might get a little frustrating at first. But, with clever tricks like taking the right turns and paths, your child will eventually manage to separate the different colored balls and sort them into the right containers.

This is one of the simplest of HABA’s board games for toddlers. It is a wooden palette that has 16 pegs in eight different colors. Each peg has a matching wooden ring that needs to go on the peg. The concept is straightforward, and so is the execution.

It’s a small, square, wooden board that has circular holes to hold the cylindrical pegs. You can remove them from their holes and move them around on the board with ease. The rings and pegs can also be stacked on top of one another as the broad base design facilitates their balance.

The rings and pegs are made of wood, and organic stains are used to bring about their vibrant colors. The quality of the wood and paint ensures no chipping or peeling even after prolonged usage.

Your child will learn the names of eight different colors, identify shapes like cylinders, rings, and circles. The board will help your child understand the idea of matching things, stacking items, and creating patterns with different colors and shapes. You can also teach them to count with the help of the different colors and shapes. It will also improve their fine motor skills while encouraging them to think creatively.

You don’t have to limit the rings and pegs’ usage to playing games on the board. They can easily be turned into props for other creative games and imaginary stories.

This board game is basic and straightforward so that early learners can be introduced to colors and shapes. It’s a two-sided board with colors and shapes on one side and an outdoor scene with domestic animals on the other side. It has a simple maze-like cutout with colored pegs that can be moved about in all directions. The plywood board is lightweight. The pegs are huge, so your infant will not have difficulty grabbing onto them and moving them along the slits.

The aim of the game is to move the pegs to the matching color area, whether it’s an animal, a tree, a house, or a horse. So the red pegs go to the top of the house while the green pegs go to the tree. Black and white pegs go to the cow while the horse gets the orange and brown pegs. So many colors, animals, and things to learn about!

The board’s other side has four shapes: a yellow circle, a red bar, a blue triangle, and a green square. The circle gets one peg, the bar gets two, the triangle three, and the square four. Matching the pegs with the right colors requires color recognition, while visual-spatial skills, fine motor skills, and logical reasoning are necessary to move the pegs to the right places.

This board game will keep your child engaged for long hours, improving their concentration and reasoning skills. Kids can also learn to count by differentiating between the varying number of pegs in different colors.

It’s a two-in-one game that improves your child’s vocabulary and awareness of their surroundings as they learn to recognize geometric shapes and count numbers.

This board game is slightly different from HABA’s regular board game offerings. It has a magnetic pen attached to the board, but the items that need to be guided aren’t secured to the board. In this iteration, the magnetic stick acts as a fishing rod and has a worm attached to it. The other magnetic pieces are in the shape of various aquatic creatures.

It’s also slightly more challenging to play as per the rules, and many toddlers might not be able to grasp the complexities involved in the game. However, it encourages them to push their boundaries, understand the rules, and eventually play the game as intended.

The box that contains the various sea creatures is colorful, has a lot of room for imaginative gameplay, and acts as the water body where your toddler can go fishing. The sea dwellers have a magnetic component and get attached to the rod when it’s in the vicinity.

The game makes your toddlers think, introduces them to the concept of rules and limits, and encourages them to get more creative to improve gameplay. The fishing action enhances their visual-spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, motor skills, and concentration.

Initially, your toddler might just use the board as a fishing game. You can gradually acquaint them with the rules of the game, explain the usage of the dice and the concept of rewards via the four collecting boards with pop-out toys.

The rules of the game are pretty simple. Cast the die, fish out the matching toy based on the color or the symbol, win a matching colored pop-out toy! This board game will keep your kid interested in it for a long while until they ace the rules and learn to fish according to the rules of the game.