15 Best Educational Toys for Toddlers

The Learning Journey: Match It! Spelling helps toddlers develop reading skills. It uses puzzles to teach young kids about word formation, recognizing letters, and spelling. Each has cute corresponding pictures so they'll associate the words better. This includes 10 three-letter card sets and 10 four-letter card sets.

The Melissa & Doug Vehicles Wooden Peg Puzzle feature common vehicles illustrated using bold colors. Underneath each puzzle are full-colored matching pictures so toddlers can learn their proper places. This can also engage a child's hand-eye coordination.

This LeapFrog My Own Leaptop is a great way for toddlers to have their first laptops. It's customizable as tots can learn to spell their names and play through four learning modes that include games, ABCs, messages, and music. There are dozens of cute animal animations to watch and 16 melodies and songs.

The Maxim Deluxe Wooden ABC Blocks are classic toys that can help toddlers learn the alphabet and spell. It also aids in number recognition and counting skills. There are 32 alphabet blocks (including six duplicate letter blocks) as well as eight counting and math blocks. These blocks even have sight words on them.

With the VTech KidiBeats Kids Drum Set, toddlers can discover a love of creating music. It's a wonderful sensory toy that can help with memory visualization as well as phonic skills thanks to the play modes. There are four total modes: free play, follow-along, letters, and numbers. Also, there are nine varied musical melodies.

The WolVolk Musical Activity Cube Play Center features six sides for toddlers to tackle a variety of 15 activities. They encourage different skills to aid in a young child's development. These include using tools, pressing buttons, or turning a steering wheel. There are fun sounds, music, and lighting effects for sensory stimulation.

The Numbers & Colors Pig E Bank is one of the best educational toys for toddlers that make great use of an adorable piggy bank to introduce them to colors, number recognition, and counting. It features 10 different colored coins and an interactive talking pig that challenges tots to complete various tasks such as finding the correct numbered coin and dropping it inside.

The My First Crayola Double Doodle Board is rated as one of the 15 best educational toys for toddlers that stretch their creativity skills. It comes with one double-sided board — drawing side and finger-paint side — and three washable Crayola crayons. These toddler crayons have a tripod grip to help teach tots how to hold and write with them.

The LeapFrog Learning Friends 100 Words Book features three adorable learning friends (Tiger, Turtle, and Monkey) that take toddlers on a journey to introduce 100 kid-friendly words. There are multiple categories such as activities and colors and it's touch interactive, playing words, sounds, and music. Kids can use it in either English or Spanish.

The Prextex Classic Big Building Blocks provides toddlers with 150 pieces that fit inside the included carrying box. This features five different colors and each color has 30 pieces. There are both square and rectangular bricks and all of the edges are rounded for safety purposes.

The GEMEM Shape Sorter Toy comes with 12 different shape blocks all made in multiple colors. This toy is meant to aid in a toddler's development of differentiating shapes as well as learning how to sort and match them.

The Laugh & Learn Crawl Around Car is a fun activity center from Fisher-Price that features more than 70 songs, phrases, tunes, and sounds. It's a massive interactive toy to keep tots busy playing and learning numbers, colors, shapes, and even common greetings to build social skills.

With the Coogam Wooden Shape Color Sorting Clock, toddlers are introduced to numerous development skills such as shape recognition, colors, numbers, and telling time. The minute hand and hour hand adjust accordingly and each number features a different shape and shade of color.

This Wooden Animal Jigsaw Toddler Puzzles gives tots four fun animal puzzles to connect. They feature a bee, bear, ladybug, and butterfly. The wooden pieces are sturdy and use colorful, kid-friendly artwork to entice kids. These puzzles come with a nice drawstring bag to store them all in or travel with them.

The Aitbay Cool Math Game is in the top 15 best educational toys for toddlers that help them develop math and counting skills through a fun game. Featuring a vibrant smiling frog, this balance game comes with 30 double-sided cards, 19 miniature frog figurines, and a 1-10 digital modal. Kids can play math games at three skill levels, going up a level as they learn.