Guide on Buying the Best Nesting Cups
or Stacking Cups
Stacking cups or nesting cups are inexpensive toys. Yet, they are fun, educational and can be played at different levels. Therefore, I would like to recommend you to get these for your infant.
These toy cups are sold in any toy store and they cost under 10 dollars per set. Many toy manufacturers make this kind of toys. However, in order to maximize the use of the stacking cups, I recommend you to follow the following guidelines when buying these toys.
When shopping for nesting cups, look at these features:
- Decent amount of of cups. Since you want to use these toys for stacking and nesting activities as well as to introduce size recognition, you should ideally get the ones which have more than 5 cups.
- One solid color per-cup. This feature is important if you want to use these cups for introducing colors to your kids. It is important to know that many manufacturers produce pretty stacking cups with motifs, pictures and all sorts of colors on the cups. However, this kind of stacking cups is not ideal for color recognition activities. If you want prettier stacking cups, choose the ones which has only a small amount of pictures in each cup so that so that they can make a good model for color recognition activities.
- Pictures at the bottom of the cups for vocabulary enrichment activities (optional).
Nesting Cup Recommendation
The basic nesting cups consist of 6-9 cups with different colors. I suggest you to get these cheap stacking cups from the local toy shop or online here
. The brand-name ones are of course prettier, but they are slightly more expensive and sometimes they only have a maximum of 5 visually attractive cups. In addition, the cups usually are decorated with pictures, rather than just having one solid color per cup. Since you want these stacking cups to also be used for stacking/nesting as well as color and size recognition activities , then it is better to have a basic set like I mentioned above than to have the prettier one which only has five cups or less.
If you want pretty cups, though, then I recommend the Rainbow Stacker from Small World Toys which is available here. The Rainbow Stacker cups from Small World Toys are pretty (I mean, beyond basic) , yet there are 7 cups per set which is a good amount for stacking/nesting activities. Plus you can also do color recognition activities with these cups .
If you want the wooden or cardboard kind, you can get the
stacking blocks which are basically square blocks of different sizes that can be either stacked or nested.
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Related articles:
Stacking toys-related:
Maximize the Value of Stacking Rings.
Tips on Buying Stacking Rings.
Play and Learn with Stacking Cups.
Guide for Playing and Buying with Stacking Blocks
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Links to other educational baby toys articles:
Guide to the Best Developmental Infant Toys for Babies 0-6 months
Guide to Baby Developmental Toys for Infant 6-12 months
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