What should I buy for a one year old boy's birthday present?

[panader0]

My kids are grown and I'm out of the loop these days. Any ideas?

[meegbear]

1. Goto www.toyrus.com ...

You can do a sort based on age. Select "12-24 months" and go from there.

[1gobluedem]

2. My nephew is a year old

They like toys that move. Or at least he does. For Christmas I got him a soft car that moves (he also likes to chew on it) but he also has a train that moves and other cars that move; he thinks they're great. Some wind up which is even better.

[Zephie]

3. I think books are good gifts!

http://www.kiwifamilies.co.nz/Topics/Gifts-and-Presents/Books-for-1-Year-Olds.html

Maybe something with a puppy? :) The site also has by age for toys if the kid isn't from a bookish family. The site is for New Zeland, but it's got good suggestions and you can always order from another source if you see something you like.

[seabeyond]

7. there are lots of good, sturdy books for that age that allows the child to start finding a love

for books and a time parent can sit close with child and cuddle and learn.

my boys always wanted and got books for bdays and christmas

[Heidi]

4. We gave our friend's 1-year-old son an HST "We can't stop here. This is bat country" T-shirt

for his birthday. :)

http://www.redmolotov.com/catalogue/tshirts/all/this-is-bat-country-tshirt.html

[MilesColtrane]

13. Have I told you lately that I love you?

:D

Baby Gonzo! HA!

"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the Gerber began to take hold."

[Heidi]

15. !

Not lately, and not nearly often enough. :rofl:

This year, little Indiana will get a toddler-size aloha shirt from me and -- if CMW's feeling generous -- his first uke. :D

[HopeHoops]

5. Anything loud enough to annoy the living shit out of the parents.

At least that's what people always bought for OUR kids when they were that age.

[seabeyond]

6. you could wrap empty boxes and he would be happy. there were cups different sizes and colors

that the boys played with a lot when little. stacking, fitting, sorting. good for different skills in many ways. barney talking/stuffed dinasaur was a favorite. farmer says where you put it on an animal, pull string, and it makes animal noise a good one.

a lot of these are going to be things that parent has to play with the kid, but will hold the interest and teach.

but really, for years, toys for christmas and bdays so easy, and spend very little money.

[Deep13]

8. savings bond. nt

[Phentex]

9. Wood puzzles. I like the personalized ones...

with the child's name. But other wooden puzzles are good too.

[whistler162]

10. A U.S. Mint set - I have been giving one to my Nephew

for 5 or 6 years, wish I started earlier. Good investment and a interesting item. Others will buy him toys.

http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TopCategoriesDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogId=10001

[Arugula Latte]

11. If he can stand and walk, a big cardboard box.

:)

[backwoodsbob]

12. any sit on toy that helps with balance..

riding whatevers that he has to propel

[LynneSin]

14. A large box and some wrapping paper

Seriously, after the gifts are opened (probably by the adults), the kid will probably end up spending more time playing with the empty boxes & paper then he/she will with the toys

[LisaM]

16. A big bouncy ball.

Doesn't cost much, won't hurt anyone, and they have hours of fun with it.

[Arkansas Granny]

17. I have found some really nice baby and kid toys at Melissa and Doug.

http://www.melissaanddoug.com/?m=677&c=0&o=adwords&gclid=CO_sg4jB4KgCFQpm7AodmiS01w

They are well made toys, powered by imagination. Every one I've gotten so far has been a hit with the child that received it.

[MicaelS]

18. Something he can take apart, and then put back together

When I was a boy I loved doing that.

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. Here are some of the most loved and used educational toys my boys had:

MegaBloks were a fave for my kids and they used them right up into grade school. They're like Legos for tiny tykes. (Obviously don't get the fancy sets with the smaller edible pieces just yet. LOL) We must have had 3 or 4 very large sets combined, and we would make gigantic towers out of them and then knock them down.

Their other fave non-electric toy at that age were hammer toys. Hammer a peg into a hole. Hammer a ball into a hole.

For electric toys they loved the V-tech baby "computers" and Leap frog stuffed toys. I think they learned to read to much faster from playing with them.

[applegrove]

20. Bath toys. But make sure they are made with safe plastic.

[freshwest]

21. Anything he can't eat or get stuck in his ears or nose. Oh, and world peace.

[pitohui]

22. he won't remember it so my suggestion is not to buy anything but if you must

it's kind of throwing money away but...

if you have to impress the parents, who will remember it, the traditional gift used to be a share of disney stock...don't know if they still sell stock by the one share though...but it's something the parents can put away from the kid and maybe 18 years later he can buy something he needs with it

he's one, right now, he doesn't have any needs

[stuntcat]

23. stuffed toy of an endangered animal

By the time he's old enough to care the toys will be all that's left of those critters.


:rofl: no, really :rofl: :rofl: :crazy:

[Blue-Jay]

24. Buy a gift for the parents instead.

Movie tickets or a modestly priced dinner. Offer to babysit while they go out on a date.

That baby doesn't need any crappy toys. Wait until he/she is old enough to actually *do* something.

[jmowreader]

25. Washing machine box

No washing machine. Just the box. Little kids love empty boxes nearly as much as cats do.

[NNadir]

26. "Young Hickory and the Granite Hills..."

...the biography of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, a horrible racist drunk, and unsurprisingly, a relative of the 43rd President of the United States - the second President not to have been elected to office - George W. Bush.

One of the most valuable things a young person of the coming generation can learn is that by studied mediocrity, one can end up in the White House and work toward the destabilization of the entire country.

[surrealAmerican]

27. A great big ball...

... at least 24" in diameter. I have yet to meet a one-year-old who can resist one.

[MiddleFingerMom]

28. If you buy a stuffed animal for THAT young a child, don't go by how cute it is...

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I used to buy plush animals for my niece and nephew up to the age of 3 or 4 --
sometimes the animals were plug-ugly, but their parents were always amazed at
how much the kids LOVED those toys. Wouldn't put them down.
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Their parents were pretty hard-core preppies... and I used to get in a little
dig at them by buying the kids a LOT of plush stuffed alligators.
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