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It's their first birthday! Make it memorable with our top toy picks by category. You'll find the best birthday gifts for their 1 year milestone. From activity toys to dolls and stuffed animals, we've rounded up our most popular toys for one year olds.

Activity Toys

For your 1-year-old, the best toys are activity toys. At Manhattan Toy, our developmental and activity toys give
your kiddo a first birthday gift that offers sensory, motor, and cognitive stimulation, all while providing engaging play. Below are a few of our favorite activity toys that will help ignite your tenacious 1-year-old's imagination and build on their emerging skills, helping them meet their cognitive milestones (learning, thinking, problem-solving).

This magnetic stacker toy is a fun and colorful way to encourage children to explore the fundamentals of early building skills, including stacking, counting and color differentiation. This stacker from Manhattan Toy features a wood base, five wood stacking discs of varying colors, plus a bear face-shaped topper that brings this interactive toy to life

This muscial trio of animals make the perfect gift for your budding music-maker!

This adorable, whimsical mushroom activity toy from Manhattan Toy is covered in a variety of fabric textures and filled with four playful figures! Encouraging your 1-yearold's motor development and cognitive learning, this activity toy is great for little hands to explore and manipulate

Encourage cause and effect learning, and motor development by filling this adorable five-piece bath-time crab activity toy with water. Completing your 1-year-old's bath time experience, your child will enjoy watching all four sea creatures float and bob above water.

Why we love it

Tree Top Adventure

Chosen as one of the best toys of the year by Parents Magazine and winner of a Scholastic Parent & Child Gold Star, help your 1-year-old unleash the explorer in them with Manhattan Toy’s wooden activity center that offers seated and kneeling play for young toddlers. The perfect first birthday gift, this wood activity center is packed full of exciting features: 4 quadrants in the shape of a tree, that offers your 1-year-old different activities to keep them entertained coming back for fun again and again.

Nurture Your Child's Development with Pretend Play

There is a rich world of pretend play waiting for your little one. Introducing your little one to a soft, easy-to-hold baby doll from Manhattan Toy around their first birthday will open a whole new world of possibilities. Dolls help your child develop motor and life skills, as well as enhance social and emotional development. Inspiring creative and nurturing role play in little ones, playing with dolls also facilitates language development as they talk to and care for their favorite doll companion.

Your 1-year-old will love toting and tucking in their own adorable first baby doll from Manhattan Toy. Great at encouraging and developing nurturing skills in children, this little
doll features a soft satin-lined interior, velvety soft exterior, and thoughtful details that make it the perfect bedtime companion.

Your 1-year-old baby is learning to walk, talk and explore the world around them. They are also developing their imagination and creativity
through role play with toys and dolls. Caring for their own little buddy on-the-go with a soft doll bed from Manhattan Toy is a great way to
encourage motor skill development, and language skills through nurturing role-play

Introduce your little one to the joys of nurturing and caring for their own baby with this soft baby doll from Manhattan Toy. This 12-inch soft and beautifully crafted baby doll is an ideal first baby doll. Encouraging role play, nurturing and care-giving behavior in your child, Wee Baby Stella can be changed, and she offers a variety of soft and safe accessories that allow
little ones a care-giving experience.

Develop your kiddos motor skill development, and language skills through nurturing role-play
with dolls. This doll diaper bag set from Manhattan Toy includes a magnetic bottle, 2 diapers, 5 wipes with plus a pouch, diaper cream and a diaper bag that opens to changing mat

Perfectly Sized For Snuggles

Velveteens

Velvety soft weighted plush toys are great for promoting self-comforting and empathy. This super soft plush toy with weighted construction is perfect for snuggling and is a great toy for your 1-year-old kiddo.

Kodiak

Encourage imaginative play with this plush bear from Manhattan Toy. The world can be a far less scary place for a little one with a huggable, comforting companion at their side. At a seated height of 18 inches, the Kodiak bear is both cute and cuddly and perfect for all the snuggles your little one has to give.

Our Favorites

Sensory, motor & cognitive learning all in one, this birdhouse toy from Manhattan Toy offers fill and spill play for young toddlers. The set includes four colorful rattle birds all featuring a
variety of fabric textures, and an easy-open roof and door perfect for tiny hands. Encourages motor control, cause & effect learning, hand-eye coordination, sensory stimulation.

Sensory, motor & cognitive learning all in one, this birdhouse toy from Manhattan Toy offers fill and spill play for young toddlers. The set includes four colorful rattle birds all featuring a variety of fabric textures, and an easy-open roof and door perfect for tiny hands. Encourages motor control, cause & effect learning, hand-eye coordination, sensory stimulation.

Encouraging the development of motor skills and language skills, this baby doll set from Manhattan Toy is a bedtime favorite that is scented with lavender and comes with a magnetic bottle and soft bear.

For snuggling and gentle rocking time, this rocker will really wow for first birthday.

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