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Educational Baby Toys
Safe Baby Toys for Newborn
Babies to Infants 12 Months old
Enjoy safe and
secure online shopping for educational, safe baby toys.
Unique, high quality infant toys including natural and
organic European baby toys, wooden European baby toy blocks, baby rattles
made from fabric, hard wood or natural rubber, as well as safe,
PVC free plastic bath toys by Tolo Toys and WOW Toys. We
have a wonderful selection of eco friendly, fair trade toys by Yellow Label Kids
and fell absolutely in love with the wooden European baby mobiles by
Kinderkram and Grimm's Spiel Und Holz. Vilac's,
made in France organic baby doll and beautifully lacquered wooden toys make
wonderful baby gifts!
Ape to Zebra is your one-stop-shop for a wonderful selection of
European baby toys, wooden baby toys and safe baby teething
toys,
baby grasping toys, stroller chains and travel toys for babies.
We specialize in multi-sensory, educational baby toys categorized by the baby developmental skills the toy supports.
Still can't find the
toys you are looking for? Let us know - we are here to help.
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Baby Toys
First Baby Dolls for Boys and Girls!:
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Soft European baby dolls, towel dolls and activity dolls made in Germany and Britain (United Kingdom). Choose from Kathe Kruse soft European dolls, the adorable Cuski dou dou and more
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Baby Dexterity Toys:
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Baby dexterity toys are designed with small baby hands in mind, encouraging your baby to explore the toys with their hands and fingers. Help stimulate baby fine motor development with these safe toys.
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Baby Grasping Toys & Teething Toys:
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Wooden teething rings, baby grasping toys and rattles. Natural toys that babies can safely explore with all their senses by Haba, Selecta and Kathe Kruse. Mostly European teething toys made in Germany and Sophie the natural rubber Giraffe is made in France.
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Baby Crib Mobiles:
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Wooden European baby mobiles made in Germany. European inspired, safe baby change table and crib mobiles. Adorable gnomes, dragons, knights or fluttering fairies - you choose!
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Baby Stacking & Nesting Toys and Wooden Building Blocks:
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Help your baby learn to stack with these quality, wooden baby building blocks by Heros, Haba, Melissa & Doug and Grimm. Baby discovery blocks, musical blocks and soft baby building blocks. Wooden nesting cubes and buckets that can stack over 3 feet tall.
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Baby play & discovery mats & Baby play gyms:
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Make tummy time fun with these developmental baby activity toys! Popular wooden European baby play gyms and fun to explore baby play mats.
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Ages: Newborn and Up
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Dangle and Drape
Made by
Haba Baby Toys
in
Germany
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Baby Soft Books, Board Books and Story Books:
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Soft baby activity books designed to encourage baby to explore. Lots of moveable elements, finger puppets and lots of sensory stimulation. Books with black and white visual stimulation and fun baby board books to read out loud with your baby
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First Baby car, boat, train or plane toys:
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High quality, fun baby toys that can be pushed or pulled. Will it be a soft or wooden European push and pull toys, the cute Press-and-go Inchworm or the fun Dancing Alligator? Lots of baby cars, trains, boats and planes to choose from.
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Music CDs and Instruments for Babies:
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High quality, safe musical instruments designed for small baby hands - Made in Israel. Fun baby Music CDs by popular performers like Raffi and Kathy-Reid Naimann, also musical performances by the Baby Einstein Band and Putumayo.
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Soft toys and stuffed animals for Babies:
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Safe, environmentally friendly Soft baby toys and Stuffed plush animals for your baby. Soft baby toys by Kaethe Kruse are made from Oko-tex certified cotton fabric - pesticide free, healthy toys for your baby.
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Baby Stroller Toys, Chains and Travel Toys:
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Wooden European hanging toys and stroller chains, made in Germany by Haba and Selecta. Soft baby hanging toys for prams and safety seats made in Germany by Kathe Kruse. Fun baby toys ready to entertain baby on the go!
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Baby Play Gym Toys, Crib Toys and Musical Boxes:
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Wooden hanging baby toys and soft baby hanging dolls. Musical toys made in Germany, black and white baby books and baby safe mirrors.
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Baby Bath Time Toys:
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Baby bath toys that can be used in the tub, on the beach or in the playroom. High quality, PVC free bath toys made by Wow Toys, Tolo Toys and Kathe Kruse Puppen.
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Baby Sign Language DVDs:
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Learn ASL with your baby - Babies learn to talk with their hands long before they can vocalize words with their mouth. With these tested and proven Sign Language DVDs you can have fun learning hand signs with your baby.
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Baby Educational DVDs:
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First Impressions and Brainy Baby are award winning baby educational DVDs. Have fun with your baby as you explore the world around us. Educational baby DVDs also stimulate language development.
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Baby Gifts
Baby Development
Baby development is all about playing and
bonding
Time flies the moment you bring your newborn home and watch how quickly
the small and helpless little baby grows and develops. It can sometimes be a challenge to keep track of what they can do, should do and what you need to do to help your
baby reach
critical developmental milestones.
At Ape to Zebra we are committed to provide you with
relevant information with regards to your child's developmental milestones as well as
information on the developmental skills targeted by the educational toys in our
store, in order to help you
choose fun toys that inspire, stimulate and encourage developing minds.
The
responsibility of providing a small child with a nourishing and loving environment that will promote growth and development while laying the foundation this child is going to build his
or her life on is definitely the most important job anyone can ever have. It seems challenging and some days it is. But it
can also be very rewarding. Educate yourself about baby and child development and always give your
child an ear that actually listens, a word that encourages and praise
and a firm but loving hand to guide your children by and lot's of hugs
and kisses. With these few tools you're off to a flying start an well on your way to a
successful parenting experience. Nothing can replace the
warm, loving and dependable relationship your baby build with his or her caregivers in early infancy.
Since babies develop at an amazing pace, you will find that activities (and sometimes toys) may need to be changed and adapted on a monthly
(and in the beginning even on a weekly) basis.
As you read articles and books on baby development and find activities and toys to enjoy with your baby, you need to remember that every baby develops differently. You will be able to tell very quickly after introducing
a new activity or baby toy if your baby is ready for it or not. If your baby is not ready for an activity - leave it and try it a few weeks later keeping in mind that babies also need to be challenged to grow (just like us).
Once you baby has mastered something - try introducing an activity or toy that you know
is a bit more challenging. It is important that you and your baby do not get frustrated with new activities or toys. The point is for both of you to have
fun!
If your baby gets frustrated – change to another activity you know she will enjoy and try the new activity later.
Another tip is to introduce new activities/concepts when your baby is fresh and responsive.
Always respect your child’s preferences and try not to push him to do something he is not ready to do.
Remember that newborns and babies also have preferences. It is important for
your baby's development and self esteem that you provide her with
choices whenever you have the opportunity to do so. She may not understand this at first but will realize soon enough
she can make decisions for herself.
As infants grow they are constantly learning about themselves and their world through their five senses – seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling. Stimulation of the five senses happens through play and interaction with
the people and objects around them. It is important to play with your
baby throughout the day by offering him ample opportunity for stimulation.
Babies build brain connections at a rapid pace. The more connections your baby can build
earlier, the better. Brain connections are made every time you
stimulate one of the senses. Even if you are just talking to your baby,
touching your baby, dancing with your baby, you are helping your baby
creating invaluable connections. You don't have to do extravagant things
or go out of your way to help your baby develop. Even wearing your
baby, being able to talk and touch your baby while you go about your
daily tasks can make an enormous difference in your baby's life and
development. Allow your baby to explore objects with different
properties. On its own hot or cold can be very abstract but let
your baby feel something hot and something cold and suddenly the whole
lesson makes a lot more sense. Put different textures in your
baby's hands and let them explore it. Let them explore (safe) objects with
their mouths and provide them with the opportunity to taste and smell
different things.
Ape to Zebra focuses on baby toys that are
high quality, educational and developmentally appropriate. We want
you to know that the products we sell have passed the highest
safety standards and have been carefully selected. We want you to
feel confident when purchasing a baby toy or gift that the manufacturers
have done their best to ensure the safety of the product. Relax and have
fun in our toy store! Please let us know by
phone, fax or email if there is anything that we can help with.
There are a few ways that you can shop at our site:
Use the left hand menu to navigate to a specific category.
If you are looking for a
special gift, we have selected items that we found to be great gifts for
babies,
toddlers,
preschoolers & kindergarten children,
primary school children and
Big Kids. You can navigate to these pages either
by using the left hand menu or the menu bar at the top of the page.
If you would rather view the toys categorized by type and age then it is best to use the menus that specify Baby and Toys and then you can go to the category you are interested in.
For people interested in finding educational toys and
gifts targeted at a specific developmental skill, you can either make use of the Child
Development menu in the left hand pane or use the main menu to
navigate to the Baby Development or
Toddler Development pages. We have classified Baby Development into:
For a quick overview of all our learning products and the developmental skills and age ranges associated with
the toys you can navigate to our
Development Matrix (link under Child Development in the left hand pane).
Our selection of newborn and baby gifts and toys include
developmental mobiles,
baby grasping toys, rattles and teethers and a great selection of baby building blocks, stacking and nesting cups
cubes buckets and toys and soft baby blocks
and by popular
manufacturers like Selecta, Tiny Love,
Tolo and Haba.
Our selection of
music for newborns and babies range from classical music and lullabies to fun songs that you can enjoy over and over again. Dance and sing to the ever popular music of
Raffi and
Kathy Reid-Naiman,
lullabies,
playtime music,
music for
singing along and
classical music by Mozart Effect,
Brainy Baby and
Baby Einstein.
Soft toys that always have something new for baby to discover.
Beautiful
building blocks manufactured by Boikido and Heros and imported from Europe.
Stacking and nesting cups and blocks and much more.
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