Educational Toys that encourage your baby to start crawling

Crawling is probably the first step your baby will take towards becoming mobile. This is a big step for your baby. As he or she starts crawling, your baby will start to learn more and more about the world around him or her.

Babies usually start to crawl when they are around six to nine months old. Crawling generally start once you baby has learn to sit unaided. This is a sign of your baby getting more control of his or her body.

Your baby may not necessarily crawl the conventional way you expect him or her to. Some babies do not crawl at all and miss this development milestone completely. Commando crawl is a type of crawling babies adopt specially in the early stages of the development. A baby that commando crawl will keep their belly against the floor as they crawl.

The bear crawl is when the baby is crawling with the arms and legs unbent. A bear crawler is generally not too far away from the development milestone of walking. Some babies who miss out the development milestone of crawling may use rolling as a method of getting mobile.

As your baby learn the important milestone of crawling, as a parent you can help encourage your baby with educational toys. Baby toys and especially musical toys encourage your baby to crawl towards the toy to reach it. Below you can find some of the best educational toys that you can buy for your baby that is showing first signs of crawling or has already started crawling.

VTech Crawl and Learn Bright Lights Ball

This educational toy is suitable for babies from 6 to 24 months and contains many activities for your baby. The ball is motorised so it can roll on its own allowing your baby to follow it. When the ladybird located on the top of the ball is turned, the ball plays musical melodies. The ball also contains buttons to introduce animals and their sounds, colours shapes and numbers to your baby. The ball also lights up stimulating your baby’s sensory development. This is a truly educational musical toy.

Tiny Love Follow Me Fred

This is a truly amazing learning toy from Tiny Love. This is another musical toy with bright colours, shapes and sounds which will enhance your baby’s learning skills. Fred’s speed can be adjusted to suit the development milestone your baby has achieved with his or her crawling. Fred will start moving when your baby makes contact with the toy. Fred’s body can be adjusted such that he moves in a straight line or a circle.

This is another musical toy. The toy contains a mirror which most babies around 6 to 9 months find interesting. The toy can be switched such that its wheels are locked or not. This learning toy makes music, lights and sounds.

This is another musical toy that helps your baby’s crawling. This is actually two toys in one. The first is a toy that helps encourage crawling. When you push on the snails tail the toy moves forward. You can also take the shell on the snail’s back off as a multi purpose toy you can stack, shake and squeeze.

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