Offering toddler lock games for the budding animal lovering in your family, this toy lets your little one learn through role-playing, transforming into a vet with this adorable and versatile veterinarian toy set.

If your kid loves car toys, you could also consider getting steering wheel toys, and then graduating to ride on toys once they’re a bit older). Its compact size makes it easy for traveling, and it would even fit on most bookshelves for simple storage. There are three different buttons: one that sings an alphabet song, one that sings a numbers song from one to five, and one that simply speaks to the child.Skill development: Matching keys helps develop children's hand-eye coordination and thinking skills during the busy board movement skill toy.

This shape sorter house toy comes with a total of 12 differently shaped blocks that can be put in their coordinating openings, either on top of the toy or through the various doors. Also ideally a keyring would have been helpful to prevent losing any of the keys but I tied them together with a piece of string. New List Item Landing Net Telescopic Folding Fishing Pole Extending Fly Trout Carp Course Sea GBP 10. If you’re also looking for lock and key toys for your little Einstein, we hope our curated list of the best rated lock and key toys for toddlers helps you decide on the best choice for your family. Some mention that the keys are not color-coded, but they are still great for keeping them quiet for a while.

With that said, once they’re unlocked he loves spinning the arch around and pushing it back in to the hole.

Once your little one has mastered the puzzle, they will be able to unlock the doors to retrieve the shaped blocks by matching each color-coded key to the correct door’s lock.I think this let's it down as much younger children love to play with keys, so I've added coloured key covers so that he can colour match instead. Once our little one had developed basic fine motor skills (and she decided her fake plastic car keys were no longer cutting it), we thought we’d get her a lock and key toy that: 1) lets her play with much-coveted keys, and 2) has some developmental value, too. The VTech Latches and Doors Busy Board is good for little toddlers, whereas the Melissa and Doug version is more suited to older toddlers and kindergarteners.

If you have an older toddler, or your child has already mastered sorting basic shapes, check out the Battat Shape Sorter House. For car crazy toddlers, both the Battat Shape-Sorting Garage and Melissa and Doug Garage are good choices. This three-stall garage toy houses three push cars of matching colors and comes with three color coordinating keys, strung together to make sure they don’t get lost. There are ambulances, locomotives, school buses, police cars, fire trucks and ice cream trucks because the wheels rotate easily.Each of the 26 locks in this ABC lock and key toy has an upper and lower case letter on one side, and a simple picture on the other. We’d also say this isn’t so much a toy as a good activity when your toddler or kindergartener is feeling focused or needs something quiet to do. These toys have many developmental and educational benefits, and are great for practicing and perfecting developmental milestones. While the manufacturer doesn’t provide an age range for this, we’d say it’s probably suitable for preschoolers and older, as the pieces are too small to serve as younger toddler toys.