20 Best Toys for 1-Year-Old Girls 2024

The Munchkin Squirtin Bath Toys are farm-inspired. These squirt and float toys will inspire imagination that will stay with your child long after the bath is over. Kids will look forward to bath times because of these adorable tiny water-squirting creatures. Munchkin ranks as the no. 1 on the Baby IRI data for bath brands which should say a lot about the company’s products. The farm-themed bath toys (a pig, cow, rooster, and sheep) are perfect for bubbles and bath games.

These Munchkin Squirtin Bath Toys provide an opportunity for parents to teach their 1-year-olds the names and behavior of the four farm animals. Kids will also build motor skills while squeezing and playing with the toys.

The product is made with BPA-free materials, but customers have mentioned that these bath toys attract mold, but this set of toys should be mold-free if properly rinsed out and kept in a dry place after fun bath time. Also, soaking the toys in a 5% solution of household bleach (1 part bleach to 9 parts water) for twenty minutes should take care of any problems that do occur.

Safety is understandably the main concern with any sit-to-stand baby walker, and the VTECH Sit-to-Stand excels there. There’s no risk of children falling on their face if the walker travels too fast. The walker is sturdy enough to provide a protective cushion when your little girl falls back in it. The VTech sit-to-stand learning walker also features an adjustable 2-speed control allowing you to check the speed of the walker.

You can also use the lock mode feature to keep the walker in place while your little girl plays with it. This walker is made with high-quality non-toxic plastic, a compact easy-storage size, and comes in frustration-free packaging.

The best baby walkers should support your little girl’s head, and her feet should be able to touch the floor when using the walker. It’s safe to say that the VTech Sit-to-Stand Learning Walker is an educational toy that’s more than just a baby walker. This model does more than assist your child’s mobility as she learns to walk. The walker is decorated with educational fun features such as piano keys, fun telephone, small doors, music, etc.

The colorful buttons pay homage to the entertainment console on modern vehicles. Your 1-year-old will certainly be entertained by the assortment of telephone, animal, piano, and music sounds that come out of the buttons.

Children can start teething as early as 3 months old and as late as 14 months old. Teethers are toys that your child can chew on for relief from the pain and discomfort of teething. There’s scientific evidence that tender gums can be soothed by applying mild pressure on them which explains why teething children chew and suck on whatever they can. One major reason the Nuby Ice Gel Teether Keys is so popular with parents is that the toy is made with BPA-free, phthalate-free, PVC-free, and latex-free materials, making the product perfectly safe for your little girl.

This toy is a ring with three gum-friendly keys attached to it. The keys are filled with cooling gel and textured to soothe sore (teething) gums. The toy is washable and can also be refrigerated to provide the relief your child’s gums crave. Everything about this toy appears to be carefully thought out, from the safe and durable components to the bright colors and rough surface that prevents the predictably drool-covered toy from slipping out of tiny hands.

Kids can play with these stack-up cups throughout their first year and beyond without getting bored of them. The set has a compact design that makes them easy for transport. They’re lightweight, have no sharp edges, and are sturdy enough to survive rough handling by older kids. Your ittle one will also love the clattering sound the stack makes when knocked down.

This is an open-ended set of toys that lets kids play wherever and however their imaginations take them. You won’t have to tell your little girl what to do; just hand them over and watch her stack them in all kinds of ways: biggest on the bottom or smallest on the bottom, in order or out of order, one tower or multiple towers.

This toy will engage your little girl for months as she works through the process of getting all 8 colorful cups in the right order. You might not have thought that a stack of cups could spark creativity and build motor skills, but the First Years Stack Up Cup Toys does just that. Although the manufacturer categorically states that this isn’t a teething toy, but don’t worry about that too much. The cups are made from BPA-, lead-, phthalate–free, durable materials that can be chewed safely.

While this toy appears similar to the Munchkin Squirtin Bath Toy, Barn Buddies on our list, the Nuby Floating Purple Octopus Interactive Bath Toy offers a unique experience. The Nuby octopus is specially designed to teach hand-eye coordination as kids have fun trying to splash the 3 hoopla rings on to the octopus limbs. Unlike most bath toys, the Nuby Octopus is watertight, eliminating the risk of molds. And the material is easy on the gums because kids chew anything.

This product is also made with child-safe BPA-free materials, and it exceeds all government safety regulations and standards. If you are looking for a toy to make bath times fun and interactive adventure that can also train your little girl’s hand-eye coordination, the Nuby Floating Purple Octopus Interactive Bath Toy is one of the best toys you can find.

Get your little girl excited and propped for a dance with the Fisher-Price Rattle ‘n Rock Maracas. This product is very popular with parents. Maracas are used to complement Latino beats. This toy does not produce accurate maraca sounds, but babies love the low-key sound and it is unlikely to startle them when they shake it. Maracas are still an excellent device to introduce your little one to music.

This is another modest toy that introduces children to the concept of cause and effect as they rattle each maraca. The toy also helps children develop fine motor skills as they grab and rattle the beads. The maracas each have 3 rattle beads topped with a soft pom-pom that stimulate textural senses.

This pair of maracas is also an unobtrusive tag-along toy for your little girl wherever she goes. Fisher-Price has designed this product with colorful elephant details, a compact size for tiny hands, child-friendly fabric for the pom-poms, and durable lightweight plastic.

When daddy gets his big fat Lazboy recliner and mommy gets her nice Tempur-Pedic mattress; don’t deny your baby her Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Chair. This is an educational toy disguised as a chair that features an assortment of controls that prompt songs and sounds. The chair is painted in bright yellow with a smiley face on the backrest.

The controls and gadgets are compact for tiny hands. This chair can easily become your little girl’s favorite toy helping while also helping her understand the life lessons of cause and effect. Songs and phrases like “down” and “up” are activated when your child sits on the chair or gets up. A voice cue or song is activated when kids turn a page on the flipbook nestled on the left armrest. Lifting the main seat reveals an illustrated space that prompts an “Open” and “Close” response when the lid is flipped up or down.

The chair offers 3 “smart stage” levels of 1 to 3 that grows with your child. You can set the learning levels yourself or just enter your child’s age for an automatic level change. The Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Chair will educate and engage your little girl’s attention with its more than 50 sing-along songs, tunes, phrases, lessons on colors, shapes, numbers, counting, and first words.

Toy building blocks have been scientifically proven to help kids build valuable skills like spatial thinking, social skills, creativity, imagination, logical thinking, and more.

One of the highlights of the Mega Bloks First Builders Building Toys is the vibrant colors that form artful patterns from simple constructions. The blocks could have been designed to fit a little more tightly, but the ease of separation helps make using this toy frustration-free for children without the help of an adult.

This kit comes in the Big Building Bag stuffed with 80 pieces of large building blocks, including extended studs and a stackable base with 4 wheels. The pieces of this First Builders building blocks can be used in combination with other Mega Bloks building sets.

The Kiddieland My First Minnie Ride On car will help your little girl develop fine motor skills as they grasp and use the steering wheel to maneuver the car through smooth or rough terrains. Painted in bright girly pink and made from sturdy plastic, this toy car is an excellent Disney-themed ride-on toy to amuse and assist your little girl as she starts learning to walk. We also like that the seat can be flipped open and the inside used for storage.

The low seat design makes it easy for 1-year-olds to climb on and off the car. Kids can also hold the back handle for support as they practice walking while pushing the car along. The low plastic wheels provide a smooth and stable ride. The steering, gear shift, and ignition are functional complete with a revving engine. Your little girl will be entertained by the Minnie mouse stickers, music, signal lights, honking horns, and other Disney-themed dials and buttons. This car runs on 2 AA batteries which are included with your purchase.

Shape sorters are classical educational toys. The colorful balls on the rolimate Wooden Hammering Pounding toy fall on the xylophone and produce musical tunes when whacked by your little girl. This wooden toy is designed to fuel imagination and curiosity, build motor skills, and more.

Pounding the toy is a good muscle exercise for your 1-year-old, while the different colors and shapes can help her identify various colors and shapes. The toy is handcrafted from natural wood and painted with non-toxic lead-free paint, and this rolimate toy exceeds ASTM and CPSC safety guidelines.

Shape sorters such as the rolimate Hammering Pounding Toys Wooden Educational Toy are great learning tools for autistic children too. More so, this is easily the perfect toy for kids that enjoy smashing stuff; give her this rolimate hammering and pounding toy instead. The set includes 1 tap table, 3 colorful wooden balls, 1 wooden hammer, 6 colorful shape blocks, 1 xylophone, and 2 xylophone sticks.

Kids love to investigate the content of their mom’s purse whenever they get the chance. The Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn My Smart Purse is more than a fashion accessory and source of entertainment for your little girl. This smart purse features 3 stages of play and more than 50 songs, sounds, tunes, and phrases. It will offer your kid foundational lessons on counting, Spanish words, opposites, greetings, and more.

The smart purse can be set between 1 to 3 learning modes to suit your child’s developmental stage and age. As purses are never without contents, the Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn My Smart Purse contains a hand mirror, a credit card, child-friendly keys, a bracelet, and a rattle phone so your child can pretend play while learning.

All of the accessories can be stashed in the purse when your little girl is done playing with them. Your preschooler will love having her very own smart purse and babies will love the lights and sound effects the purse makes.

The VTech Sort and Discovery Activity Cube is a musical and educational toy. This cube has six sides that hold five educational and entertaining activities. The cube boasts plenty of mesmerizing attributes such as lights, sounds, and bright colors to inspire and entertain your little girl. There’s also a beautifully illustrated plastic book with pages that can be turned attached to the toy. The toy also plays more than 75 songs and melodies. This is functionally a discovery activity cube that introduces early learners to numbers, colors, animals, shapes, sounds, and songs.

More details include piano keys, animals to slide along the track, a shape sorter, a light-up spinner, and more. More so, playing with this feature-packed cube will help train your child’s motor skills, concentration, and creativity.

Little girls will have a blast tapping to the songs of this interactive BEST LEARNING Mushroom Garden. Kids will have to concentrate and follow the colorful patterns that light up on the mushrooms. When in music mode, each of the mushrooms acts as light-up piano keys. There is a volume control settings for the sound, so you don’t have to worry about the toy being too loud.

The toy has 4 learning modes with four different functions: colors, games, numbers, and music. These learning modes are also designed to adjust to your little girl’s fledging skillset through progressively more difficult levels. This toy can introduce kids to numbers, counting, pattern recognition, colors, concentration, and music through the act of play.

The BEST LEARNING Mushroom Garden inspires imagination, train hand-eye coordination, develop problem-solving skills, build memory, and creativity. The toy has won multiple awards through the years including Mom’s Choice Gold Medal, Tillywig & Academics’ Choice Brain Child Award Winner 2017, the Family Choice Award Winner 2018, the Creative Child Preferred Choice, and Creative Play of the Year Awards Winner 2019. The toy runs on 3 AA batteries which are included with your purchase together with an instruction manual.

As a child, I enjoyed strutting around on my squeaky-sounding little shoes complete with flashing colorful lights. This footy delight is taken a lot further with the M SANMERSEN Foldable Piano Mat complete with flashing lights as well. The piano has 8 functional keys that play piano notes, 6 animal sounds, and pronunciations when kids apply pressure on the mat by stepping on or pressing their hands on it. The illustrated white keys are wide making it easier for your little girl to differentiate each key and its functions.

Kids can have fun-filled exercise dancing to the tunes and the music they generate from the mat by stepping on the bright white keys, after which the mat can be folded down to the size of an iPad tablet for easy storage. There’s an on and off switch and volume control for when your little one insists on stamping on this soft-padded mat but you need peace and quiet.

The M SANMERSEN Piano Mat also has Record/Playback functions. There’s also an energy-saving feature that can be set to automatically shut down the mat after 2 minutes. The manufacturer assures this mat is made with non-toxic materials that pass safety standards of the CPSIA, ASTM F963-17, and CPC, and it has a generous 50-ound weight limit.The toy comes with a user manual and runs on 3 AA batteries.

There can hardly be a finer playset to introduce your little girl to percussion musical instruments than the Ehome Wooden Percussion Instruments Toy. The impact on kids of practicing with musical instruments has enormous developmental benefits such as improved brainpower, better social skills, discipline, creativity, patience, confidence, self-expression, etc. This set packs 15 different musical toys including shaking, tapping, beating, and blowing instruments; all fantastic toys for physical and mental development. The Ehome toy musical set is even better enjoyed as a “band,” which can further lessons on collaboration and teamwork.

Safety should be the priority when making toys for 1-year-olds or toddlers since kids of that age mouths nearly everything they touch. The Ehome Wooden Percussion Instruments Toy for Kids is made with CPC-approved non-toxic materials so you can be reassured that your little girl’s health is protected while using this toy. The instruments are made from wood, so they are as durable as they are functional.

However, the set has small pieces as well, so adult supervision is recommended to prevent choking hazards. The myriad of musical instruments comes in a beautiful backpack for easy storage, but you should probably avoid hanging the bag by its straps with the musical gear inside to avoid ripping.

The Fisher-Price Little People Sit with Me School Bus is a small toy that can impact life lessons through pretend play. This is a simple toy that can make a big difference in the life of your little girl. There are two “little people” on the bus: Eddie and Emily. Your little girl can get the “journey” started by pressing the Discovery Button to flip open the stop sign. Emily, the driver will wish Eddie a great day at school as the journey begins.

The door can also be popped open by pushing a button to let the little passenger Eddie out. Kids will have fun activating the bus lights, sounds, and songs. Kids will also learn to place Emily on the driver’s seat to get the bus to play fun sounds and songs including the popular “Wheels on the Bus” song. These activities will help your little girl understand cause and effect. The biggest downside is that Eddie is the only passenger on the bus, but you can purchase [amazon url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YGP1XD5″]additional passengers[/amazon] to give the vehicle a proper school bus vibe.

Fisher-Price Little People Sit with Me School Bus Vehicle is the right toy to get your preschooler acquainted with the experience of “rolling” to school together and making friends with other passengers.

Handing over a bunch of keys to your toddler to play with is a big “no, no” because keys are made of brass and lead, both of which are toxic. There’s also the chance that the child will cut herself while playing with a bunch of keys. But there’s no denying the fact that kids are fascinated by the jangling of keys and that’s where the B. toys Funky Toy Keys for Toddlers and Babies comes in.

Unlike the Nuby Ice Gel Teether Keys, the B. toys funkykeys is an electronic toy with a realistic keys design complete with a functional remote and realistic car sounds and flashlight.

While the Nuby Ice Gel Teether Keys is an excellent teether toy, this Funkykey is an electronic set that is less a teething toy and more a pretend play toy. For example, a teething toddler may not have much use for the flashlight built into the rear of this toy but the parents probably will.

All the same, there’s no denying the flashing lights and other interactive gizmos on this toy will entertain and educate your child. The bean-shaped remote (key fob) has four buttons each with different functions including horn, engine, alarm system, and doorbell sounds. The button for the flashlight is embedded on the side of the key fob.

This toy is made with BPA and phthalate-free materials making them safe for your little girl. The manufacturer is right; if your child can be entertained by regular keys for a good while, they’re never going to want to put down these toy keys! The toy runs on 2 AAA batteries, which are included along with a strap.

Ball pits originally known as ball crawls, ball pool or ball pond are guaranteed to provide plenty of fun for your child. The Hide N Side Ball Pit, Play Tent, and Tunnels for Kids is the best choice to introduce your 1-year-old to the fun of inflatable ball pits.

Inflatable ball pits are not just about entertainment; it’s a valuable way to building gross motor skills, hand-eye coordination, creativity, and imagination. Ball pits are known to have a therapeutic influence on kids who need a place to relax.

The multi-sensory setting of ball pits is also helpful for kids with learning conditions such as ADHD. One of the highlights of this toy is how easy it is to pop open and fold down the set with frustration-free easy locks.  Lightweight and durable, this set is made with 190T soft polyester fabric and thick steel wiring so that your little girl can enjoy a safe and long-lasting ball pit experience.

Though it has been reported that ball pits are may for children due to the thousands of germs that could be found in the plastic balls, the Hide N Side ball pit set exceeds all CPSC and ASTM toy safety standards, so this toy is safe for your child—though you should use the opportunity to teach her about personal hygiene. This set also features a basketball hoop and a dart game, and is sturdy enough to be used outdoors as well as indoors.

The LeapFrog Spin and Sing Alphabet Zoo is your little girl’s very own crystal ball. All your child has to do is spin the ball and be educated depending on where the wheel stops. The ball can be set to teach about animals, alphabets, or music modes.

When set to animal mode, your little girl will learn the names of animals and the sounds they make. This feature resembles the [amazon url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1450805752″]World of Eric Carle: Around the Farm[/amazon] interactive book for 3 to 7-year-olds except that the LeapFrog Spin and Sing Alphabet Zoo is an educational ball that preschoolers can spin to activate various effects.

The buttons to push or slide are suitable for tiny fingers and can help them build gross motor skills. The toy also helps to improve language skills. Spinning the ball will help develop your little girl’s dexterity, while the spinning beads and flashing lights will help stimulate her color perception. Children are guaranteed to have a ball spinning this ball, watching the flashing lights, and discovering new worlds.

Encourage your child to have a picnic of education with the LeapFrog Shapes & Sharing Picnic Basket. This toy is a basketful of education in manners, shapes, food groups, colors, and more.

LeapFrog went out of its way to beautify this picnic basket with an eye-catching design. The bright colored cutleries inside the basket are also made with premium child-friendly materials perfect for tiny hands. The basket talks, sending out songs and phrases in a delightful voice.

You can set the basket to one of three modes; music, shapes, and colors, or picnic time. The basket also lights up for that extra “wow” factor. Your little girl will be taught simple manners like saying “thank you” and “please.” The basket voice will also build your child’s vocabulary by using rainbow-themed songs to teach her about colors, shapes, and prepositions. This toy offers so much value both for the mental and physical development of your kids.