Baby Building Block
Buying Guide and Recommendation

Baby building block is a good toy to have because it is one of educational baby toys available out there.

Older babies like to stack and knock the baby blocks down, so the most obvious benefit of a baby building block for an infant is to improve fine motor skills. Baby will learn to grasp, lift and manipulate the toy building blocks using their little fingers.

Not to mention that there are other educational activities can be introduced to your baby while playing with the blocks. In addion, many manufactureres of baby building blocks today like to enhance their baby blocks so that their blocks become educational baby blocks.

But what is the best baby building block around ? And how to maximizize the use of baby building block ?

For babies, I recommend you to buy soft baby blocks or soft building blocks which are large and shaped like a cube. They are light and large, so they are easy for infants to handle. They are also soft so it won't hurt should your baby hits her head with the soft building blocks.

A lot of baby soft blocks come with bells which jingle when the blocks are shaked and hence can be used as hearing stimulation. Lots of the soft baby blocks also come with bright colors and huge pictures, so these blocks are good for your baby's visual stimulation.

I recommend ...

I recommend the IQ Baby Knock Knock Blocks.

This building block consists of sixteen soft building blocks which come in 2 different shapes - cubes and triangle shapes. The blocks are colorful and come with rattles, peek-a-boo flaps, and much more.

Why I love this toy....

I love this toy because it is truly developmental and of good value because your baby can use these baby building blocks from birth up to toddlerhood.

How can this possible ?

Well, to begin with, some of the soft building blocks come in black and white colors which are good for very young babies. Therefore, you can use these blocks very early with your baby by showing your baby the black and white blocks for visual stimulation. Some of the baby soft blocks also have rattles in them and others create a crinkle sound as they are squeezed. Hence you can also use these educational building blocks to give your newborn hearing stimulation.
As your baby gets older and learns to graps, she will be interested in both black and white blocks as well as the brightly colored ones, and will want to manipulate these soft building blocks by squeezing them till they give a crinkle sound or by simply lifting up the attached peek-a-boo windows and doors.

As your baby reaches 7-8 months, she can start playing knock and stack activities. In addition, young toddlers will enjoy these soft block too. So you see, these soft blocks go a long way. They are undoubtedly ones of the best infant educational toys or developmental toys available on the market today.

Where to buy

Any local toy store may have these soft baby blocks. If not, you can try to get these blocks online at currently low price (20% OFF MSRP) here.

You can start your baby with baby soft blocks as soon as your baby can sit upright, which will be around 5-6 months. As the baby is approaching her first birthday, the baby building blocks can also be used to enhance her hand-eye coordination as she learns to stack the toy building blocks.

Apart from being used as a stacking toy, here are some ways in which you can maximize the value of block play:

• Baby building block can be used to enhance vocabulary such as ' stack' and ' knock'.
  For instance, you can first stack the toy building blocks and ask your baby to knock them down. This activity will not only provide amusement to your baby as she knocks the baby blocks down, but will also enhance your baby's vocabulary as you explain the activity. If the baby blocks contain pictures, alphabets or numberst, you can talk about the them to your babies. The bottom line is : use these toys to talk about many things to your baby.
  
  
• They can be used for visual stimulation.
  If you own toy building blocks with bright colors and huge pictures, you can start showing them to your baby as early as 1 month for visual stimulation.
  
  
• They can be used for hearing stimulation. Some soft blocks come with bells which jingle when the blocks are shaked. They are good for hearing stimulation and you can thus introduce those even to a newborn.
  
  
• They can be used for gross motor skill activities. For instance, you can ask the baby to knock the stacked-blocks down, or you can ask your baby to throw the toy building blocks to you.

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