Best Montessori Toys For 1 Year Olds | Gift Guide 2023

This common Montessori toy is great for 1 year old kids. It is simple but teaches children shape, color, and size-differentiation skills. Melissa & Doug make beautiful toys we love the quality of.

Small hands can grab the rings and over time will learn to stack them.

A classic in a Montessori school and homes are wooden blocks. These are colorful and come in different shapes. The nice thing is that these can be used for many activities for many years.

Building blocks are great for kids as they really encourage open ended and imaginative play. It also teaches them that there is balance and gravity in the world.

Another similar stacking toy. The rings here fit into the round spaces around the stick like a puzzle. It is great to practice colors, fine motor and hand eye coordination.

This fun toy is awesome for the little ones to learn about gravity and logic. With the cute animals they can play animals running from each other.

We like that it is made of wood compared to other similar toys, making it more sturdy and can fit with other wooden toys to create a whole world.

Match shapes with this puzzle. The bottom of the wood piece where the puzzle pieces go is not colored. To make it easier for your child we recommend coloring it yourself to match the color of the puzzle piece.

While learning to walk your child might at first only use it on the floor playing with and pushing it. Once they can walk your child will love to pull it and bring it places.

The elephant is super cute and a favorite among kids. If you have multiple they might all want one.

These 4 colorful figure sticks pop up and down. The springs are concealed in the box. It is very simple but entertaining for young kids.

This is one of our favorite Montessori toys for 1 year olds and it is designed to encourage hand-eye coordination and is great for color matching.

A great toy for practicing fine motor skills, size differentiation, and hand and eye coordination for young children.

It is a bit more advanced than the earlier ring stacking toys but when your child is closer to 18 months or almost 2 years it will become easier.

This toy on the other hand is very simple and perfect for a first birthday. It introduces hand-to-eye coordination as well as basic logic skills.

For small children that are just starting to play with toys this will be interesting even if it may look very simple for you.

This Montessori toy is also great for the very small kids. Train hand-eye coordination and basic logic skills.

The simple design keeps focus on the toy and task while the colors of the balls still bring in fun and excitement.

One of our favorite Montessori toys for 1 year old kids and great for very early hand-eye coordination and basic logic skills. While you can use the coins to put them through the opening up top, you could also place other objects in the drawer.

When opening the drawer, a one year old might be surprised there are coins or other things in there.

These rainbow blocks are bright and fun. Your child can use them as bridges, combine them with other building blocks, or simply create different shapes.

Each piece is angled which means one has to stack them with the angle being the same. These stacking games are awesome Montessori friendly toys.

With these stacking cups you can make bath time even more fun. Simple pouring activities can be a great learning activity for practical life skills. Of course they can be stacked in the play room, at the beach, anywhere.

It gives your child an understanding of sizes and you can practice colors with them. Great for Montessori classrooms or playrooms at home.

This very cute set of animals can be used for different things. You can balance and stack them, learn animal names or just pretend play with them.

Balancing them might be harder for a child that just turned 1 but at the end of the year it will be easier. It’s also great because you can use them for many years to come for different activities.

This set comes with 1 Turtle-mother and 3 Turtle-kids. It helps kids by improving fine motor skills and sensory practice. In the beginning kids will need help but it is a good toy to keep kids occupied once they got the hang of it.

Does your child like pulling on things? Making a mess and play with everyday household items? With this tissue box you don’t have to worry about paper or other things being torn apart and laying all over the floor.

With the different colored “tissues” you can also play other sensory games with the children.

Toddlers love getting into music and playing around with different instruments. If you’ve noticed this is one of your child’s interests, consider this set. It has a bunch that you can rotate between. If you have all of them out at once, chances are you’ll never hear quite again.

This is great to get to know rhythm and how low or high volume one can play instruments.

This little piano is awesome for toddlers that are into music. There is the option to follow the colors on the music sheet to play a song. If that is still a bit too hard for your child, you can turn on auto play and the next key that is pressed is automatically the next note. Even older children might enjoy this a lot.

Since 1 year olds are in the phase of learning to walk, this balance board can be first used for climbing on it, and balancing on it later. Use it as a goal, to sit on like a rocking chair.

Even when your child gets older, this will stay a fun toy since it can be used for many different purposes. It has been a family favorite even among older toddlers.

To us this is one of the best montessori gifts. This set comes with an arch, a ramp and a triangle to climb. It’s fun way to encourage gross motor development for a long time. Young toddlers as well as big kids will enjoy it. Of course a one year old will be limited as to what they can do and an adult should always watch.

When learning to walk being able to hold on to things is very important.

A walker wagon that will be fun for your kid for sure! They can sit in it and be pushed around in it or use it as a walker to learn to walk. They can also put toys in it to push them around.

It is very versatile and can be used with friends or siblings. We prefer this walker over others with toys in-build because it is less distracting.

This small bike is great for a first birthday as a lot of 1 year olds are too small for some of the bigger sized balance bikes out there.

It can be difficult at first for your little one to find balance and they might need time to push themselves forward. With time kids love being able to use these bikes to get to places in the room while they can’t fully walk yet.