POTS Holiday Toy Picks for Kids: Holiday Gift Ideas to Inspire Creativity, Build Skills, and Spark Joy
Chaye: Cause & Effect Toys for Babies
Montessori Ball Drop: Baby simply drops the ball in the hole and waits for it to reappear, developing anticipation. This is the simplest shape sorter – with only one shape!
Sensory tissue box: Babies and toddlers pull different textured fabric tissues from a weighted box, just like mommy, Babies are encouraged to stand and walk to pull out and drop more “tissues”
Spin ‘n Surpise Lion: This toy is a baby’s first “jack in the box” toy and a great first cause-and-effect toy that builds up anticipation as the baby waits for the lion to pop up.
Sanam
Marble Run: An exciting and creative toy that addresses bilateral coordination, fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, and executive functioning.
Squigz: A toy for babies through adults. This toy works on hand strength, bilateral coordination, visual motor skills, and color matching, and can be used to build large structures for gross motor play too. Squigz provides satisfying sensory feedback when you pull them off a surface, and make them pop!
Pop the Pig Game: This fun cause-and-effect game for 2-6-year-olds challenges fine motor skills, bilateral coordination, grasp, hand strength, number and color recognition/matching, and counting.
Leah
Weighted Lizard: This weighted lizard provides deep pressure which is great for self-regulation.
Zipline Playscape: This is a great toy that provides sensory input to children in a safe way without destroying your couch.
Pop Tubes: There are so many games we can play Pop Tubes. They provide tactile stimulation and auditory feedback while developing fine motor skills, bilateral coordination, and hand strength.
Ariela
Sunrise Alarm Clock: If you have a child that takes a long time to get moving in the morning, this alarm clock is your new best friend! It gets brighter over 30-60 minutes to gently and gradually wake your child up before you ever walk into their room. For sound-sensitive children, keep the alarm sound low or off.
Flying Chickens Slingshot: For strengthening fingers, bilateral coordination, and lots of laughs.
Liquid Floor Tiles: Even the most reluctant-to-move child can’t resist exploring what happens when you step, slap, jump, and dance on these mats.
Rachel
Rainbow spinning and stacking toy: Great for size and color recognition, and visual motor coordination, and it's fun to watch the gears spin!
LCD doodle board: Super lightweight for on-the-go drawing and doodling, that can be refreshed with the touch of a button! Great for working on handwriting skills.
Sensory chew necklaces: They come in all shapes and textures, and can be a more subtle option for kids who need oral input throughout the day.
Gavi
Massage roller: Effective to provide tactile stimulation and desensitization, can be done by child or parent
Penguin Pileup: This super fun game challenges fine motor modulation and builds precision
Yoga ball with handle: Use this as a chair to provide dynamic balance, to lay on your tummy to work on core strengthening, and to bounce on for vestibular and proprioceptive input and postural control.
Laura (For Early Language Development)
Baby dolls with clothes/bathtub/toilet: effective for targeting pretend play skills and sequencing tasks
Pop-up games, such as Pop the Pirate- work on turn-taking and following basic directions.
Puzzles: Hide some pieces to elicit language (e.g.,"Where did the cow go?”)
Paige (Older Language Development)
Hedbanz: A great expressive and receptive language game for describing attributes, using grammar, and guessing a target word given descriptions.
Guess Who?: A great way to practice generating questions and taking turns.
Apples to Apples: Exposes children to different describing words and provides them with practice stating opinions.
Marble Run: This versatile toy targets problem-solving, and following directions, and encourages children to generate their own directions.
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