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
Washable, quick set-up, sensory play, 9 toys
Portable toy for visual, auditory, & cognitive development
High contrast book for developing eyes
Fun sensory take-along toys to introduce cause and effect
Rip proof, high contrast, learn nouns and verbs
Textured washable soft toy with pictures & colors for sensory play
Learn vocabulary though rhymes
Soft sherpa toy with crinkle sound, teether, and various textures
7-12 Months
Promotes fine motor skills, color, & shape knowledge
Develop imitation, pre-reading, and sensory skills with one toy
Multi-sensory book for teething babies
Learn colors, shapes, counting, fine motor skills, problem-solving capabilities, & more!
Water/ chew/ rip proof, Rhymes/ songs promote language development
15 toys/ activities, helps with gross & fine motor skills, cause/ effect, vocabulary, & more!
Promotes oral language growth & less behaviors
Huggable, learn colors, learn through music, 3 language
1 Year
Colorful toy which promotes fine motor skills, babbling, and hand-eye coordination
Colorful pop-ups which encourage fine motor skills, cause and effect, and color awareness
Interactive categories in English and Spanish that encourages pre-reading skills.
Build color recognition, sorting, and counting skills with easy to grasp storable pegs
Highly engaging book to learn vocabulary through music and twist and slide play
Classic cause and effect toy for vocabulary growth and fine motor skills
Learn through auditory (sounds buttons) and visual support
Learn color recognition, sorting skills, pretend play, & vocabulary with this farmer's market toy
2 Years
Hands-on, screen free play with 16 reading and learning cards/ words, sounds, quizzes, & music
Fun matching/ sensory game, single or group play, highly customizable
Highly engaging board book with reusable stickers can be used to help tell the story
Fosters language/ emotional development and pretend play
A fun and interactive book to get kids interested in reading! For kids 2-4 years old.
A favorite cause-and-effect toy! Practice motor skills, eye tracking, predictions, & turn-taking.
Montessori educational method. Simulates real-life scenes and helps kids to develop basic skills.
Teaches cause & effect, shapes, colors, motor skills, language (130 songs, phrases)
3 Years
Set includes: Number, ABC, Animal, and Fruit puzzle. It builds fine motor, vocabulary, and problem-solving skills.
Promotes creativity, following directions, colors/ shapes, fine motor & matching skills.
5 stories. Simple repetition builds comprehension & early sentence structures
Colorful LCD writing/ drawing pad, promotes academic, creative, and pencil grip skills
Teaches sequencing, days, counting, and early vocabulary growth
Dishwasher safe sensory toy, promotes fine motor and problem solving skills
Fun repetition for sequencing, prepositions, & early literacy skills
Promotes pretend play, sentence generation, prepositions object function, & categories
4 Years
Make 3D structures with versatile toy, learn STEM concepts, patterns, and pretend play
Promotes sentence building, use of descriptive words, & knowledge of how to ask & answer questions.
This series builds vocabulary, sentence structure, & early inferencing through stories.
Portable play set, promotes creativity, vocabulary skills, prepositions, and more
Encourages interactive and imaginative Play, creativity, and story-telling
Helps to build pre-reading skills ike letter forms, storytelling, and spacing.
Supports memory, vocabulary growth, and sequencing through playful repetition
Promotes coordination and balance while encouraging pretend play. Non-slip rubber grips.
5 Years
Beloved wordless book, heartfelt story of a boy's Christmas adventure. Work on sentence generation and description!
#1 NY Times best seller, hilarious story about a boy, tacos, & dragons. Work on description, blend, /l/, & /t/ sounds, and more!
Ultimate mess-free sensory toy, promotes commenting, sentence generation, & creativity
Interactive book, reveals a hidden picture when a page is lit up from behind. Work on requesting, describing, and prepositions.
Encourages vocabulary, joint attention, and interactive communication skills
Boosts vocabulary, inferencing, and social-emotional understanding in children
Fun STEM toy, promotes following directions, vocabulary, observation & critical thinking skills
Builds vocabulary, inferencing, perspective-taking, and emotional awareness
6 Years
Strengthens imagination, problem-solving, & storytelling skills
Encourages empathy, problem-solving, and comprehension through creative storytelling
STEM toy which can help teach turn-taking skills, problem solving skills, and fine motor skills.
Supports prediction, retelling, and discussing solutions to problems
Build 2D or 3D art, fosters creativity and imagination, work on sentence generation, description, compare/ contrast
Work on descriptive vocabulary, comparing/ contrasting, inferencing, & retelling
Boosts imaginative play, problem solving, number knowledge, and functional language.
Boosts vocabulary, comprehension, and making text-to-self connections
7-10 Years
Supports high level language skills like: inferencing, themes, main idea, point of view, & more
Hilarious book which encourages prediction, retelling, and discussing family relationships
Learn life skills & essential language skills (multistep directions, comprehension, & more)
Hilarious stories, build reading skills, comprehension skills, & more.
Boosts vocabulary, categories, and word retrieval in fast play
Encourages perspective-taking, prediction, and discussion of social dynamics
Encourages storytelling, sequencing, and imagination
A fun comic book, builds humor, comprehension & narrative skills