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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a 14 month at home and am having trouble trying to figure out what type of toys are appropriate for this age. I feel like most of the things I find online would bore him. I'm looking for something stimulating, educational, or something that will help develop motor skills (or any other skills he should be developing at this age). I want him to be challenged and learning something new.

My mother-in-law recently made a piggy bank type thing out of a coffee can, and gave him poker chips to put in like coins, which he liked and was able to do, and I liked because it was working on motor skills and he actually had to think about what he was doing.

Any suggestions for other home-made things like this that are appropriate for his age? I'm open to buying toys or making them, I just have a hard time finding anything that seems age appropriate and isn't too baby-ish.[/quote]

Have you taken a peek at http://www.naeyc.org/ecp/resources/goodtoys ? I was trying to find a link to Denver Developmental, which has a 6 month by 6 month breakdown of types of toys that are age appropriate (with a handful of homemade recommendations per set); but it seems they're behind an expensive paywall.

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DC has had a lot of professional intervention with tips regarding developmentally/age appropriate toys - let me underline that I'm a layperson repeating what I recall, so this may be worse than nothing. Take it or leave it -

At about that age, it's important to limit the number of toys that are out at a time. Not severely, but I think we're around 10 or so - over the course of a year, it turns out you kind of accumulate a lot. He was easily frustrated and bored when we had a floor full of toys; within days of restricting the options, he's paying a lot more attention to individual toys and staying longer before switching. Before I sound like a monster, there's also a basket he can reach into with more toys - but one comes out, one goes in (I'll concede this is more a "best effort" than a realized ideal). It's mostly to make sure each toy looks like a distinct item rather than part of an indistinct pile.

Cause-effect (manipulate a switch/button and an animal pops up) and single form puzzles (a picture of a farm where a 1 piece cow fits in the cow space, a 1 piece pig fits in the pig space...) are two of the unmentioned categories of toys for this age.

I'll also nod to the drawer full of things to play with - especially if you want to do some like work with "organizing" - two cups that fit one inside the other seems to be fascinating every day to DC. Or pretend cooking (a small skillet and a safe spoon). [/quote]

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