Which water toys to choose? Something for infants and older children

Are you also wondering what water toys to choose for kids? We show you what we have tried and tested. Safe and developing inflatable books, tubes and water puzzles that kids love. Don't waste your time searching the stores and the Internet, we've done it for you. And you won't find the classic rubber ducky here. Ahoy adventure! In the bath, at the lake, on the beach and in the pool.

You can read this text by jumping through the subsections, because we divided the toys by age and category.

Best water toys for babies

Infants primarily need calmness and gentle stimulation. At the very beginning, already gently pouring water on the baby from a soft bucket or silicone cup will be a great experience for the toddler. Take a peek at the multifunctional Done by Deer: silicone cup with earpiece Peekaboo Elphee.

The rubber and inflatable books and large silicone toys are safe while developing and entertaining. Introduce them around the time your baby is already sitting up. When the bobo is already holding his head steadily, you can install a special chair, or bath seat, which attaches to the edge of the tub. Sit the baby in it, and put a favorite bath book or one toy in front of it. At this age, babies do one more thing at a time, so for now, one thing per bath will do just fine.

Bath books

• . magical bath books Mudpuppy What color am I? change color when exposed to warm water. See also The colors of the ocean.
• . colorful and imagination-stirring B. Toys: baby bath gift set Wee B. Splashy

For children six months and older, we recommend slightly more advanced bath books for the tub and bath gadgets:

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  Little Dutch: Sailors Bay bath book

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  Lilliputiens: Lion Jack bath book with teether

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  B.Toys: Tub Time Booksin two versions: Colors and Numbers.

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What are the advantages of bath books for toddlers?

They promote both speech development and social competence if we are the ones reading to the baby. The development of these key skills continues from the birth of the child. Each of them is acquired gradually. The toddler starts with the basics and then gradually develops his competencies. For example, turning the inflated pages of the book teaches how to navigate the visual orientation system, that is, reading from left to right and understanding signs and symbols.

Depending on the form of the rubber toy, the child learns colors, numbers or still the natural world. It is also important to pass on the habit of reading and show that pleasure comes from it. By reading to the baby while splashing, you build positive associations with water and books and make bathing more interesting. This is especially important for toddlers who are not fond of the feeling of being wet and in the water.

So we especially recommend:

• magic Fiesta Forest bath book;
• Lilliputiens: crocodile bath book Jungle Splash.
• Lilliputiens Skip Hop: bath ringo Zoo Narwhal Ring Toss.
• Lilliputiens: Safari bath book
• activating toys Janod: Activities Buckets bath buckets

Bath toys for babies that stimulate motor skills:

• . bowls for creative play in the bathtub or on the beach Bilibo mini version favorable from the first months of life.
• . Little Dutch water blocks and cups: dry and wet stacking cup tower Stacking Cupsand Little Dutch: Ocean bath blocks.
• . Lilliputiens: Lion Jack bath book with teether.
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Bath toys for a few-month-old baby

The soft pliable and water-filled foam puzzle is a great toy for babies who can already sit up. The Quut brand delights with a whole host of safe and imaginative bath puzzles. The choice of themes is huge, for choice, color, age and water:

• Skip Hop: Bee bath fountain will work from nine months of age
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• . Fat Brain Toys: Pail Pals bath toy.
• . Quut: foam bath puzzles will tame the properties of liquid and how lightweight objects float on the surface of water. As baby grows older they will encourage independent building: Quutopia Rock the Boat, Quutopia Treasure Island and Quutopia Flower Power from ten months of age. Uthey will vary the bath and stimulate baby's imagination. Here you will see all water toys by Quut.

Bath toys for a year-old child

First of all, we recommend a classic and safe water toy, the bath book. If, on the other hand, you are simply looking for children's water toys without holes, i.e. those that you can easily keep clean, the booklets are simply a hit! A toddler who is one year old can already sit, so you can give him an inflatable toy or another soft object that he will watch and move. Turning and pushing light objects in the water, the baby exercises motor skills and becomes accustomed to the phenomenon of water buoyancy. Slowly sensory toys are becoming more important.

For little builders and all other little people, we recommend construction toys for water. Every child at this age needs fine motor exercises, and some may catch the bug for a long time.

We also highly recommend the designer and well-designed Boon - bath toys These gadgets develop motor skills and spatial thinking. Colorful connectors and cogs will familiarize toddlers and older children with the basic principles of mechanics and physics. Water pouring toys are classics that fascinate every child for long moments. Start with a small set, i.e. Cogs gears. Later, as needed, stock up on a larger one.

• Boon: Cogs bath teethers.
• Boon: bath tubs and in Cool
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• Boon: wider tubes
• Boon: tubes, larger pipes and gears
• . Moluk: Plui rain cloudshows how it rains.
• . B.Toys elephant and company: splash animals Squish & Splash Land of B..
• . water Labyrinth Circulodrome by Haba - at first you will build it yourself and show how it works, and when the child grows it will start building it itself. .
• Boon: Snug silicone cup and straw toppers
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• Skip Hop: Monkey in a Submarine
• Quut: Sloopi boat
• Plan Toys: wooden bath boat Yellow Submarine

Imagine that from the age of eighteen months it is already allowed to swim and bathe with large ships, provided ... that they are soft, edgy and collision with them is completely harmless. Soft and safe is the neoprene bath steamer Rhino Mariusby Lilliputiens. It consists of four pieces that are easy to dry and clean. A child of this age will also probably like the educational water book about Lemuir George.

Bath toys for a two-year-old

• . Moluk: Rain Cloud Pluifamiliarizes with the laws of physics, such as gravity and the properties of water. Great fun for pouring is the cloud and sun setwhich is an amazingly fun toy for the bathtub and pool..
• Liewood: Gaby Bath Toys 5 el. in three colors: apple blossom Apple blossom, dirty mint Dusty Mint and almond light brown and beige Almond.
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• . silicone ice cream cupcakes for water and sand play Bay Ice Cream Toy .
• . For both bathing at home and playing by the water and in the sand, the Cane BIOplastic Cooking Setby Dantoy will work well.
• . for water, sand and the table will also workthe BIOplasticsugar cane dinner setgreat adult imitation fun for any child - develops, stimulates imagination and teaches social skills.
• . Liewood: Gaby Bath Toysare five designer water pouring items.

Toddlers and bath trinkets for older children

Water toys for older children are items you can easily take on vacation, such as our bendable buckets Scrunch: a rollable silicone bucketor take to the lake, river or sea. They will also work great in the bathtub. It's only up to your child's imagination and interest how he or she will use the utensils to play.

For building and combining in an aquatic environment, use large foam blocks by Bakoba, for example: the Inventor Box construction setor animal Imagimals.

Creative foam water puzzles

Three-year-olds and three-year-olds are already in need of a bit stronger sensations and bigger challenges. So we hint that there are bath puzzles that children three years and older can play with. The Quut brand delights with a whole lot of soft, safe and fancy bath puzzles made of EVA foam. The choice of themes is huge: to choose from, to color and to water:

• . Quut: foam bath puzzle Quutopia Treasure Island.
• . Fat Brain Toys: Pail Pals bath toy.
• . Quut: 3D foam bath puzzle Quutopia Frogsor foam Quutopia whales
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• B.Toys: Tropical Waterfall sand and water grinder - colorful and multi-part for kids one and a half years old and older
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• . Quut: foam flower bath puzzle Quutopia Flower Power.
• . Quut: foam boat bath puzzle Quutopia Rock the Boat, Quutopia Swans, Quutopia Sharks, Quutopia Crocodiles, Quutopia Seals, Expedition to the MoonandTreasure Island - will add variety to the bath and stimulate your child's imagination. Here you will see all water toys by Quut..

Bath toys and accessories for three-year-olds and three-year-olds

Specially recommended:

• Tiger Tribe: Bath Ball Basketball Game
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• twist bath toys - we also refer you to spinwith Cogs gears, because it's not just the bus wheels that spin
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• . pressurized bath toys, such as the underwater pump-powered Skip Hop: Zoo Squeeze Shower Dog & Shower Dog.
• . Skip Hop: Zoo Narwhal Ring Toss bathtub ring with whale
• sole, balls and non-plastic bath glitter
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Remember that bowls and bath saltsare a great bath enhancer, and they take up very little space. After bathing, they disappear completely, and with them goes the problem of storage and clutter. They are also less expensive, and in addition to having fun, they provide skin nourishment and aromatherapy in the home bathroom. We recommend balls and soaps for children by Nailmatic and refreshing natural salves Dresdner Essenz. They can be used by children three years old and older.

See the three-color Supernova Bath Bomband the two-color blue and yellow musical Bubble Gang.

Add a drop of baby bath and shower liquid Be Happy and you're one step closer to happiness

If you are looking for a toy container for water, we can recommend Danish brand Liewoodboxes. Check out the box (for water or dry) Weston Storage Box. Made of plastic, they are water-resistant and lightweight - 60% of the composition isrecycled materials, and the remaining 40% is polypropylene.

Beach, sand and bath toys

If you're looking for something that will work just as well at the beach in the summer, there's plenty to choose from, too. Look out for toys that are not afraid of water, as well as sand, play, strong sun or the comfort of the bathroom. We have a lot of play utensils, tractors and dump trucks that can handle both sand and snow. Here are our favorite toys for kids for the beach:

• Dantoy: BIOplastic cane sand toys
• Dantoy: sugarcane sand toys for toddlers BIOplastic
• Dantoy: sugarcane sand toys BIOplastic
• Dantoy: sugarcane dump truck BIOplastic
• Dantoy: sugarcane tractor BIOplastic
• Quut: multipurpose Ballo bucket
• Triplet multifunctional spatula
• Quut: Cuppi Ocean sand and water toy set
• . Quut: Ringo hoop and ball setfor sand play.
• Quut: Cuppi Cherry Red sand and water toy set
• Quut: Triplet + Ringo beach toy set
• Quut: modern Magic Shaper mold
• Quut: Rak shovel and rake
• . Quut: Beach Set Backpack with Beach Toys - a set for advanced beach goers or siblings.
• Quut: large Cana Cherry Red watering can
• Quut: small Cana watering can
• Quut: Pira pyramid building molds
• . Scrunch: soft ball Scrunch Ball - recommended for the beach!

All of our outdoor toys for water and sand can be found here.

After playing, don't forget to thoroughly wash and dry the toys. It's also a good idea to use disinfectant liquid and put them on a dry surface to let the water drip and evaporate.

Hygiene is very important, and pay special attention to whether mold develops. Because of this, we only show safe toys without holes, but even such toys need to be thoroughly washed every so often. We wish you great fun in and on the water!

If you are interested in bath accessories for babies and older children read about them here -> water toys or bath toys.