Don't call me baby

[venta]

I require some assistance from the baby-aware among you, please. In a couple of weeks a sprog for whom I ought to buy a birthday present will be one. What does one give a one year old ? A boy, though I suspect that's not that relevant.

A while ago I happened on a craft stall selling nice wooden puzzles, and bought a brightly coloured, chunky jigsaw in the shape of a sealion. It has, I think, seven or eight pieces. Unfortunately, I'm now wondering whether perhaps that might be too babyish. Is he likely to be beyond it already ? What I know about the developmental stages of children could be written in quite large letters on a postage stamp.

So, er, any ideas ? If you were one year old, what would you want ? If you had a one year old, what would you want other people to give to it ?

Comments

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

hiya - a 1 year old will bang wooden jigsaw pieces about, put them in their mouth and drop them on the floor and generally enjoy them- but they won't even try to do a jigsaw yet.

Simple 4-8 piece jigsaws are probably "done" in the traditional way from about 2 and a half, with the number of pieces rising to about 24 by age 3 years. (there's a big variation between kids)

If the enthusiasm shown by my two is anything to go by, it depends on your friend's attitudes to noise and/or mess.

Very cool presents include xylophones, jingly bells and clackers. Big bouncyballs go down well too, as do tops that are simple ebough for child to bash them, or toys with exciting flashy lights/sounds in response to buttons.

Try these: (all things currently beloved by scarysaxon who's almost 1)

http://www.vtechuk.com/products-and-accessories/babys-laptop/

http://www.elc.co.uk/toy-41975

http://www.djmmusic.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=MX3008&eq=&Tp=

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BOOTS-BUTTERFLY-AND-LADYBIRD-SPINNING-TOP_W0QQitemZ270262649602QQcmdZViewItem?IMSfp=TL080806092a7938