These 50 Best Baby Christmas Gifts will make your holiday shopping so easy and fun! Great for ages 0-12 months.

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Baby Christmas Gifts

My Top Baby Christmas Gift Guide for 2023 is finally here!

This gift guide is filled with 50 of my all-time favorite toys for your baby (that I wish we got as gifts:)! These toys are beyond amazing for babies 0-12 months. But the absolute best part of all of the gifts below is that most of them will also grow with your baby! Your little one will play with these toys for years! I kid you not, most of the toys below my 4 and 6-year-old got as babies, and they are still playing with them years later – the gifts that keep giving!

Head Straight to These Christmas Gifts for Baby

Educational Gifts for Baby

Music Gifts for Baby

Activity Gifts for Baby

Bath Time Fun Gifts for Baby

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MUST-HAVE EDUCATIONAL GIFTS FOR BABY

These Educational Gifts for Baby will make learning time more like playtime. They are fun, interactive, colorful and are great for the baby’s development. Plus, all of the toys below are so fun your baby will get years of play out of them!

Mushroom Garden – Early educational toy with colorful light-up mushrooms to learn numbers, colors and play music.

Shape Sorter Trucks – Encourage exploration and imaginative play to immerse your child in the fun of shape sorter car!

Latches Wooden Activity Board – Grab a coffee because your baby will want to play with this for hours! Wooden Latches Board is an entertaining and educational activity play board that helps kids build dexterity as they navigate latches that hook, snap, click, and slide.

Geometric Stacker – Wooden Educational Toy – Features 25 colorful wooden pieces of rings, octagons, and rectangles that can be matched and stacked on three rods.

Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Piggy Bank – Songs, phrases and sounds introduce counting, colors, Spanish and more. Rewarding songs and sounds introduce cause and effect and put-and-take play with the coins encourages motor skill development.

Rainbow Caterpillar Gear Toy With 6 Interchangeable Gears – Turn the gears slowly and watch each interlocking segment move the next, or see how fast your child can make the caterpillar “crawl” on the wooden base

Explore ‘N Grow Busy Gears – With 11 interchangeable gears that spin, plus music, sounds, and twinkling lights, this toy for 1-year-olds is like a party in your playroom! Woo-hoo

Deluxe Pounding Bench Wooden Toy With Mallet – A classic pounding toy with a design twist. As the colorful, non-removable pegs on the bench go up and down, they play peekaboo, taking turns showing their friendly smiles.

Pop-Up Pals – 4 pop-up animals, ready to pop out and play! Meet a friendly lion, an elephant, a Peppy bear, and a Dalmatian!

Baby Toy Zoo Series 26pcs Soft Alphabet Cards with Cloth Bag 


MUST-HAVE MUSIC GIFTS FOR BABY

These Music Gifts for Baby are a fun way to get a baby jam band started! Watch baby’s eyes light up when you hand them their first musical instrument. All babies love music and these interactive toys will help baby find their own rhythm.

Nino Percussion Shaker – Shakers are a fun and easy way to learn about the foundations of music!

10pcs Musical Toy Set – Each rattle has different grips, shapes and tasks to assist in fine motor skills.

Dance & Groove Rockit – Rockit has a light-up face, motorized ears, and textured hair and feet for your baby to explore, plus a belly-full of hands-on play!

Take Along Tunes Musical Toy – Inspires a lifelong love of music with this best selling favorite with thousands of 5-star ratings!

Fisher-Price Classic Xylophone – Classic, baby-favorite musical pull toy with thousands of 5-star reviews!

Fisher-Price Linkimals Lights & Colors Llama – The llama’s 25+ songs, sounds, tunes and phrases introduce your baby to different colors. And when other Linkimals friends are around, llama chats, sings, and lights up with them!

Hape Wobbling Melody Penguin – Penguin Musical Wobbler guarantees baby’s delight, as they make this penguin pal waddle, spin, rock, and roll. Soothing, tinkling sounds awaken baby to the joy of music.

Musical Toy Caterpillar – Music caterpillar’s head has built-in music, squeezing the head, cheerful and lovely music will sound. Fun music can greatly attract the attention of babies and stimulate their interaction.

Beat Bop Baby Bongo Baby Toy – Give your little explorer a head start on creative rhythm-making! Music-making comes easy when little ones start exploring the flashing lights and fascinating sounds of this stunning, bongo adventure.

Mozart Magic Cube – Educational toy teaches how sounds combine to create 8 Mozart masterpieces.


MUST-HAVE ACTIVITY GIFTS FOR BABY

These Activity Gifts for Baby are great toys that help baby get their wiggles out! Whether it’s tummy time or crawling time, these toys are designed to let baby play and explore while stimulating both their brains and their little bodies.

SoftZone Climb and Crawl Foam Play Set  – This Crawl Activity Play Set is designed to let infants and toddlers climb, crawl, and slide on a collection of five foam shapes. Has hundreds of 5-Star reviews!

Toy Tree Top Adventure Activity Center – The Tree Top Adventure wooden toddler toy is packed full of motor skill activities. Your little one won’t even know they’re practicing their fine and gross motor skills as they investigate all of the features offered by this tree-themed activity center.

Inflatable Tummy Time Water Mat – Watch as your infant enters our fish tank Wonderland wide eyed and fascinated by the bright colors sharp contrasts and cute floating toys.

Activity Jumper for Baby – Colorful lights and playful songs and sounds reward every jump your baby makes in this Jumperoo. Plus, with all those exciting hands-on activities and a spinning seat to take them all around, little ones can jump on in and get exploring!

Llama Plush Rocker – The back and forth motion of these wooden rocking horses and other rocking toys can be a great way to give your child soothing and calming input.

Tummy Time Prop & Play – The perfect plush pal to soothe and snuggle baby during tummy time and floor play.

Activity Gym and Playmat – With a woodgrain-patterned structure, this baby gym has a whimsical outdoor feel. 

Wooden Baby Play Gym – This Montessori toy encourages early motor skills while giving infants something to hold and manipulate.

Interlocking Alphabet Crawling Mat – The baby care play mat has 36 foam floor tiles with each one representing a letter in the alphabet as well as each number from 0 to 9. This is a fun way to teach your kids the basics, plus the bright colors will surely be a hit for them.

Sit-to-Stand Learning Walker – Get ready to walk. Little ones can play with the detachable activity panel on the floor while discovering animals, colors, music, shapes and numbers. 


MUST-HAVE BATH TIME FUN GIFTS FOR BABY

These Bath Time Fun Gifts for Baby will turn any bath time into fun time! These bath toys will bring endless hours of fun to baby’s bath time routine. Also, the baby wash is our all-time favorite baby wash and smells ridiculously good.

Bath Stack and Pour Bucket Rinse Cups – Perfectly sized for little hands, these colorful buckets provide endless tub time play while helping to build motor skills.

Float and Play Bubbles Bath Toy – Delight your baby with floating bath bubbles that rattle, bobble, spin, and shine.

Baby Hooded Towel – Our hooded bath towels feature favorite Zoo animals and embroidered details for an oh-so-sweet look! (more animals here)

Wind Up Swimming Penguin Bath Toy – The penguin really swims through water, making this bath toy a swimming success. Simply wind up his arms and watch him go!

Bath Toy Organizer – The enlarged extra storage space can hold more toys in one place and keep your kids’ bath toys from sitting in the bathtub.

Little Boat Train – All aboard this set of six boats that link together to make a train of tub time fun. 

Little Splashers Happy Buckets Set Bath Toy – Take the Rainy Day Catching Set for a bit of play and also wash off the soap and bubbles at the end of bath time!

Moby Bath Tear-Free Waterfall Rinser Bath Cup – Bath cup features interior fins that channel a steady flow of water to ensure quick cry-free rinses.

Natural Baby Wash – Complete Hair and Body Wash Made for babies with dry, sensitive skin, or allergies our 2 in 1 baby wash and shampoo cleans hair, face, body or sensitive areas.

Baby Muslin Cotton Washcloths – It is not irritating and it is very healthy for your baby’s sensitive skin. Each baby washcloth has a little loop for you to hang.


MUST-HAVE STOCKING STUFFERS FOR BABY

These Stocking Stuffers for Baby are all tried-and-true baby toys that will entertain baby for hours!

The First Years Stack Up Cups – Over 38,000 5-star reviews! When building baby’s toy collection, start with these classics! Nesting cups are popular for offering simple-yet-fun ways to play. 

Winkel Rattle and Sensory Teether Toy – This time-honored classic is a true parent ‘must have’ and a baby ‘go to’.

Bumpy Ball – The bright colors, bold patterns, and easy-to-grasp bumps make this ball a must have!

Peek-A-Boo Forest – Peek-a-Boo Forest is an interactive soft book that allows your little explorer to learn about different animals that live in the forest. This baby book has durable pages with soft peek-a-boo flaps that are easy for little fingers to open and close, promoting hand-eye coordination.

Toys Dimpl – It’s so simple, yet oddly, so brilliantly fun, fascinating, and impossible to put down… for babies… or adults!

Bandana Buddies Baby Activity and Teething Toy – Little hands stay active with this colorful character as baby explores patterns, textures and sounds. Ideal for fun at home or on-the go, this cute companion rattles, crinkles and has a soft bandana teether for multi-sensory play.

Freddie The Firefly – Keep your little one engaged and entertained for hours with the Lamaze Freddie the Firefly. 

MiniSpinny – Get your little one’s senses spinning with excitement wherever they go!

Textured Multi Ball Set – Easy-to-grab, bright and textured design for babies to develop tactile senses while having fun

First 100 Words – Your little ones will love discovering new words, animals, trucks, and more in these bright and colorful board books!

The First Years Learning Curve First Keys Teether – The First Years First keys are five brightly-colored keys that swing on their ring to make a lively click-clack sound. A classic baby toy with thousands of 5 star reviews.

Banana Massaging Toothbrush – The Nuby Massager is sized for maximum effectiveness and easy for baby to hold.

Rattle & Roll Car – Fun Rattle Sounds. Rattle beads inside the wheels make fun sounds, and bounce around playfully as the car rolls along.

Bath Bobbers Toy – Turn your tub into the arctic with Munchkin’s arctic-inspired Polar Bear and Penguin Bath Bobbers.

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