With busy schedules, who has time to sort through endless products online? Lil’ Bits Picks are the essentials that we personally use, love, and recommend to families.
Thoughtfully selected to support cognitive, social, and communication growth, you can feel confident that what you’re getting isn’t just fun, it’s purposeful too.
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0-6 Months
Visual Quiet Book: Auditory, tactile, and visual input to grab baby's attention for increased learning
Play Gym Mat: Washable quick set-up sensory play mat with six detachable toys
Light-Up Rattle: Easy to hold early educational tool to encourage early milestones
Sensory Play Kit: Fun sensory take-along toys to introduce cause and effect
Flip Fish Baby Toy: Multi-textured washable soft toy with pictures and colors for sensory play
Portable Mobile: Take this toy for visual, auditory, & cognitive development wherever you go!
7-12 Months
Tummy Time Toy: Develop imitation skills, pre-reading skills, and sensory skills with one toy
High Contrast Book: Sturdy, non-toxic, rounded board book that helps with visual discrimination
Shape Sorter: Dishwasher safe shapes that promote fine motor skills and color matching
Squeeze and Stack Blocks: Soft teething blocks to encourage functional play with pictures/ numbers (BPA free)
1 year
100 Words Book: Interactive categories in English and Spanish that encourages pre-reading skills.
Musical Rhymes Book: Highly engaging book to learn vocabulary through music and twist and slide play
Shape Sorter with Sounds: Colorful toy which promotes fine motor skills, babbling, and hand-eye coordination
Pop-Up Pals Toy: Classic cause and effect toy for vocabulary growth and fine motor skills
Food/ Color Sorting Set: Learn color recognition, sorting skills, pretend play, & vocabulary with this farmer's market toy
Busy Gears Toy: Spin and stack cause and effect toy with colorful gears, music, sounds, and lights
Fine Motor Hedgehog: Build color recognition, sorting, and counting skills with easy to grasp storable pegs
Wooden Pop-Up Toy: Colorful pop-ups which encourage fine motor skills, cause and effect, and color awareness
2 years
Inno Pad: Hands-on, screen free play with 16 reading and learning cards/ words, sounds, quizzes, & music
All Better!: Highly engaging board book with reusable stickers can be used to help tell the story
Ned's Head: Fun matching/ sensory game, single or group play, highly customizable
Plush Puppets: Fosters language/ emotional development and pretend play
Shape Sorting Cube: Sturdy wooden toy, problem solving, motor skills and color/ shape recognition
Pound and Roll Tower: Durable wooden toy, teaches cause and effect, size differentiation, and colors
Interactive Learning Train: Train set with blocks, promotes pretend play, motor skills, number/ shape/ color recognition
Dino Pull Toy: Teaches cause & effect, shapes, colors, motor skills, language (130 songs, phrases)
Toddler Busy Board: Montessori educational method. The sensory board can simulate essential real-life scenes and help your kids to develop basic skills.
Don't Push the Button!: A fun and interactive book to get kids interested in reading! For kids 2-4 years old.
Ball Pop Toy: A favorite cause-and-effect toy for toddlers! Also practice motor skills, eye tracking, making predictions, and turn-taking.
3 years
Biscuit's Neighborhood: A Box of 5 Stories: Five fun-filled Biscuit stories: Biscuit, Biscuit Plays Ball, Biscuit Goes Camping, Biscuit Feeds the Pets, Biscuit Loves the Library
Skillmatics Search and Find Educational Game: Six write and wipe activity mats, Search & Find includes 12 repeatable activities. Enhances observation & logical reasoning skills, designed by educators and play experts!
Water Doodle Mat: No mess, reusable mat, promotes creativity and hand-eye coordination, stencils & tools included
Big Red Barn Playset: Classic toy, encourages vocabulary development & promotes social, motor, & pretend play skills.
Play Food Set: Promotes pretend play, sorting, matching, vocabulary, motor, and social skills, 70 pieces
Camping Play Set: Promotes pretend play, sentence generation, prepositions object function, & categories
Montessori Wooden Peg Puzzle Set: This set includes: a number puzzle, an ABC puzzle, a wild animal puzzle, and a fruit puzzle. It builds fine motor, vocabulary, and problem-solving skills.
Squigz Starter Set: Food grade, dishwasher safe sensory toy, promotes fine motor and problem solving skills
Electronic Writing Pad: Colorful LCD writing/ drawing pad, promotes academic, creative, and pencil grip skills
Wooden Shape Puzzles: Promotes creativity, following directions, colors/ shapes, fine motor & matching skills. Kids can try to build what is shown on the cards or create their own designs
4 years
Pete the Cat Box Set: This set includes five books: Pete the Cat and the Bad Banana, Pete the Cat: Pete’s Train Trip, Pete the Cat: Scuba-Cat, Pete the Cat and the Surprise Teacher, and Pete the Cat’s Groovy Bake Sale
Set of 100 Magnet Building Tiles: Make 3D structures with versatile toy, learn STEM concepts, patterns, and pretend play
Balance Stepping Stones for Kids: Promotes coordination and balance while encouraging pretend play. Non-slip rubber grips.
Magnetic Dress Up Set: Portable play set, promotes creativity, vocabulary skills, prepositions, and more
See & Spell Wooden Educational Language Learning Toy: Helps to build pre-reading skills ike letter forms, storytelling, and spacing.
Microscope for Kids: Includes 60 beautiful full-color images and 2 modes of play, Fact Mode and Quiz Mode. This toy promotes sentence building, use of descriptive words, and knowledge of how to ask and answer questions. It will grow with your child!
Create a Story Pre-Literacy Cards: Encourages interactive and imaginative Play, creativity, and story-telling
5 years
Kinetic Sand: Ultimate mess-free sensory toy, promotes commenting, sentence generation, & creativity
Coding STEM Toy: Screen-free 45 piece set, learn problem solving, basic coding skills, & critical thinking
Smart Educational Globe: Develop key skills in geography, problem-solving, and memory through engaging AR activities and quizzes. Encourages sentence building, descriptive skills, comprehension skills, and asking/ answering questions.
Science Lab Activity Set: Fun STEM toy, promotes following directions, vocabulary, observation & critical thinking skills
On the Farm: A Shine-A-Light Book: Interactive book by Susie Behar, reveals a hidden picture when a page is lit up from behind. Work on requesting, describing, and prepositions.
LEGO Classic Building Toy Set: Great for encouraging creative play and fine motor skills. Includes pieces to build a toy car, globe, flower, guitar, house, smiley emoji, a parrot, and much more (1000 pieces).
Dragons Love Tacos: #1 NY Times best seller by Adam Rubin, hilarious story about a boy, tacos, dragons, and a party. Work on description /t/ sounds, and more!
Dinosaurs: A Shine-a-Light Book: Interactive book by Susie Behar, reveals a hidden picture when a page is lit up from behind. Work on requesting, describing, and prepositions.
Where the Wild Things Are: Award winning book by Maurice Sendak, follows a young boy on an adventure to a wild land. Great book to work on retell and /r/ sounds.
The Snowman: Beloved wordless book by Raymond Briggs, heartfelt story of a boy's Christmas adventure. Work on sentence generation!
6 years
Lite-Brite: 6 templates (or design your own) & 4 light-up options. Work on fine motor, description, colors
Straw Constructor Toy: Build 3D structures! Talk about object function, build creativity, fosters imaginative stories.
Pix Brix: Build 2D or 3D art, fosters creativity and imagination, work on sentence generation, description, compare/ contrast
I Need My Monster: Amanda Noll's story about a boy without his monster, work on retell, emotions, & description
Glowing Marble Run: STEM toy which can help teach turn-taking skills, problem solving skills, and fine motor skills.
Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Peculiar Pets: Color and customize your pets, then wash them clean and start again! Scribble Scrubbies are the perfect toy craft for toddlers and kids which encourages creative play!
There's an Alligator Under My Bed: Mercer Mayer's story, boy lures an alligator out of his room, work on retell, categories & prepositions
7-10 years
Snap Circuits Jr. Electronics Exploration Kit: A safe and fun way to introduce children ages 8+ to the basics of electrical engineering! Builds problem solving and comprehension skills.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing: Hilarious tale by Judy Blume, great beginner chapter book, work on main idea & summaries
The Wayside School 4-Book Box Set: Hilarious stories which will build reading skills, comprehension skills, and more. Practice concepts like theme, main idea, and answering questions with this classic series.
DoodleJamz JellyPics: Sensory Drawing Pads Filled with Non-Toxic Squishy Beads and Gel – Includes Stylus.
S’mores Sandwich Cookies Kit: Learn STEM skills while learning valuable life skills. Also helps with comprehension, multistep directions, and more!
Holes: Classic, award-winning book to build comprehension and reading skills.