Favorite Toys at One Year

Lately we've been going a park that has a sandbox. I always pack a plastic ice cream pint container filled with an empty chevre cheese tub and a few metal lids, and my little guy has a blast digging and scratching the surface with those. Until another kids comes along with a dump truck. Luckily Christmas is coming up!

We have DIY'd toys with success--tissue wrapping paper, plastic food containers, mini pumpkins, an empty tissue box with a toy hidden inside. We get most of our manufactured toys secondhand. Here are some that he likes at one year:

• Stacking boxes
• Farm animal puzzles--particularly one that makes sounds
• Wooden blocks--my mom found over a hundred of them used
• A little yellow Hot Wheel
• Wooden truck (anything with wheels, really)
• A sit and ride toy 
• Anything that can be a drum, including a drum
• Tambourine
• Balls