Best Stacking Toys
Once your baby has mastered independent sitting, a whole new world opens up for them to explore. Stacking, grouping, and emptying objects will occupy a lot of your little one’s attention as their fine motor skills increase and picking up objects becomes easier. Enter: stacking toys.
Your baby is exploring objects in multiple ways: shaking, banging, and dropping toys and knick knacks. They enjoy observing cause and effect (like knocking over a stack of blocks, or emptying a bin), are practicing balancing skills, and can find hidden objects easily.
These are our favorite stacking toys for practicing grasping skills that provide tons of multisensory input.
Designed and manufactured in Denmark, this classic ring stacker from Mushie is made from 100% non-toxic, BPA, and phthalate-free plastic (chew away, little one!). The ring texture is super grip-y, and the muted color palette won’t offend your design sensibilities.
This Fat Brain stacking toy is a sensory experience. Each silicone cup is topped with a bubble that’s embossed with a unique texture and your little one will love pushing and popping them. The cups can be stacked and nested, or brought along for some fun water play during bathtime.
Manhattan Toy’s Cactus Garden is designed for mixing and matching, and best of all, they’re held together by magnets—a new and fascinating way for your baby to observe cause and effect. Each soft cactus stacker has three pieces with contrasting embroidery and friendly faces. There’s nothing prickly about these guys.
This soft stacker from Lamaze still offers plenty of multi-sensory input for your little one: Each ring has its own interesting textures, dynamic patterns, and crinkly sounds to delight the senses. The rings are easy for your baby to grip—minimizing frustration driven outbursts—and the bold rainbow colors will keep them engaged.
Janod’s Forest Stacking Toy has been designed to help one-year-olds learn to manipulate and organize objects. Ten sustainably sourced wooden pieces stack to create a vibrant tree, an adorable bumblebee, and a charming flower to pollinate. Feel-good bonus: This toy was created in collaboration with the World Wildlife Federation to support new sustainably made baby toys.
A tower of bright and cheerful spheres that encourages dynamic play and builds hand strength, Fat Brain Tobbles Neo are an Albee fave. The uniquely grippable texture makes stacking less frustrating for tiny fingers, and your little one will love seeing the tower wobble.
Mushie’s stacking cups come in a rainbow of warm earth tones and have contrasting designs printed on the bottom. Stacking and sorting these cups improves fine motor skills and lays the foundation for more complex tasks in the future, like handwriting. And it doesn’t hurt that the sophisticated color palette mixes seamlessly with home decor.
Finding What’s Right for You
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