subject: Tips On Buying Safe Christmas Gifts For Babies [print this page] Christmas with a baby can be a truly magical time of year. It can also be a bit intimidating. All that colour, all that wrapping paper, and the inevitable questing fingers and mouths of inquisitive little ones. How do you buy safe kids gifts "" gifts for babies that will enthrall without endangering?
Well, first up: you apply the same logic you use all year round when buying toys & games, learning toys and so on for the littlest members of the family. Anything with small pieces in it is out. Any toy or game with sharp edges is out. What you are looking for here are kids toys that will enrapture without piercing, scratching, scraping or getting stuck in the throat, ear or nose. Soft edges "" big pieces "" colourful "" tactile. These are good kids" gifts. They are safe, they are fun and they are educational.
Toys & games are a big hit with youngsters, provided you choose the right kind for the age range you are buying for. There is no point in buying a game with complicated rules, small bits to it or a slow average game length, if you are buying kids toys for babies. Get really simple games with large colourful pieces "" pieces that are as happy being chewed on and thrown around as they are actually being played with according to the rules of the game. Get soft toys that make noises. Rattles are good, and so are any stuffed representations of the animals and characters from your baby"s favourite stories or TV shows. You will find toys & games that rattle and shake are appealing to all ages of baby, right up to toddler.
Buying safe kids gifts is imperative at Christmas. You are trying to get something that makes the magic of the time come alive for the child, without making the whole experience a living terror for his or her parents. If you are buying for someone else"s baby, then, the first and best rule of buying safe kids toys is to ask the parents what they would recommend. No one knows a child and its habits better than its parents. That means no one is as well placed to judge what would be good and what would be bad for an individual baby, as the mother and father (or mother and mother, for that matter, or father and father). Ask, listen and buy accordingly.
Toys & games have a huge part to play in the mental and physical development of a baby "" that is why they are so popular, and always have been. Some of the best "" and also some of the safest "" are the simplest. For a really safe set of kids gifts, go old school. Buy toys and puzzles that you remember from your own youth "" the big wooden train sets, the huge building blocks and the shapes and holes type games. None of these have any small parts "" and you know they are safe because they have remained unchanged for decades.
