6 Month Old Babies

10 Fab Toy Ideas for 6 Month Old Babies

Many 6 month old babies are just sitting up with or without some support and if they aren't quite yet, they will do very shortly.

They are developing their fine motor skills and this is a key to a lot of their play. They love to explore with their hands and fingers touching objects, exploring different textures and toys and seeing what happens.

They will be interested by different sights, noises and sounds. This is why many baby toys have lights, music and sounds. It attracts their attention and keeps them occupied. Toys that have words, music and sounds, reading with books and talking and singing with a 6 month old can all help language development.

At 6 months, babies aren't crawling just yet, however some babies at this stage moving and will get to toys out of reach by rolling and reaching. Others will be content to sit or lie and watch and explore the world around them withouth moving yet.

Read on for some fantastic toy ideas for 6 month old babies below.

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Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes Musical Toy

My youngest son had this toy as a baby and it was one of our favourites.
The reason I loved it was because it was the perfect portable toy for taking out and about and entertaining him when he was sitting in a highchair or at friend's houses. It was a great size and lightweight so fantastic for just throwing in a bag and taking with you.
My son was mesmerised by the toy and it really engaged him for quite some time.
The toy itself plays music and babies also love the flashing lights that dance across the screen to each song. The handle is easy for babies to grab onto and hold.

The toy play 7 classical tunes. Babies love pressing the large button to change the tune to the next one. It has two different volumes and you can turn it off altogether when not in use.
There's beads on the handle for babies to play with too.
The other great thing about this toy is that it's really inexpensive. Yet despite it's low price we got lots and lots of use out of this one and it's one of the toy bestsellers over on amazon .

Vtech Sit to Stand Walker

The Vtech sit to stand walker is a fantastic toy to ensure you get the most use out of it.
You can detach the activity center on the front of the walker for 6 month old babies. Then they can sit or lie on the floor and play with the activity centre on it's own.
When they are ready you can attach the activity center to the walker and they can push it around or play with it on the front of the walker.
The activity center has lots for little fingers to do and it's perfect for developing fine motor skills.
Press the 5 piano keys that play music, spin the 2 colorful spinning rollers, use the 3 shape sorters, and press the 3 light-up buttons that develop motor skills.

There's also a pretend telephone handset which is fantastic for early role play. Babies and young kids love to pretend to copy adults and talk on the phone. Fine motor skills can also be developed by turning the mechanical elements with the handle.
There's over 70 sing-along songs, music, sound effects and fun phrases which is great for language development too.
When baby is ready to push the walker around, it can be used on both carpet and hard floors.

Books

There are tons of books for young babies and 6 months old is a fantastic age to start reading to babies if you haven't already. The younger you start the better. It's been shown that reading to young babies helps language development and increases vocabulary by the time they start school.

There are some fantastic electronic books that babies can enjoy playing with on their own as well as being read to. Check out the Vtech musical rhymes book below.

VTech Musical Rhymes Book

At 6 months old babies will be fascinated by the music and the flashing star. The book has 40+ songs, melodies, sounds and phrases so is fantastic for language development.
It's a great book for adults and babies to share together and you can start by reading out the rhymes to baby as well as by using the book as a toy.
As he or she gets older she will enjoy turning the pages. The pages are big and have been designed to be easy to turn.
Babies will also love pressing the 5 colorful piano buttons that make sounds and introduce colors and instruments.

Activity Table

The activity table is designed for kids from 6 months to 3 years. The great thing about it is that it does grow with your child so although they might not still be using it at age 3 it should last them for quite a while at least.

For 6 month old babies you can take off the legs and lay the toy on the floor. They can therefore do the activities sitting or perhaps if they lie on their front.

As they get older the legs can be added onto the table. This means that kids can use the table when they are standing up and cruising too. It will be the perfect height for them.

There is lots to look at, listen to, learn and do.
Altogether there are more than 120 songs, tunes & phrases. The songs teach about animals, colors, numbers and foods. There are also modes for English and Spanish. So there is lots to learn from playing with the table.
For fine motor skills there are buttons to press, spinners to spin, a barn door to open and close and piano keys.

Melissa & Doug Turtle Ball Pit

This is the perfect ball pit to entertain babies as soon as they can sit up.

It comes with 60 plastic balls, that babies can sit in and play with. Young children will love feeling, rolling and tossing the balls.

The genius thing about the ball pit is that clean up is so quick and easy. Just put the balls back into the turtle and zip it up.

Then when the toy is zipped up, babies will love feeling the turtle and exploring the peek a boo holes on the outside.

Little ones can t push and pull balls through the holes. There is also crinkling feet, a squeaking button, a textured ring, amirror, silky fabric tags, and an attached soft ball rattle to play with.

Baby Musical Instruments

Sometimes the classic toys without the flashing lights and sounds are the best and can entertain babies for a long time.
If you ever got to a baby music group, there will be lots of toys like this. I used to take my own children to music groups when they were babies and babies loved to play with these kind of toys.
The instruments featured have easy to grab handles. They are safe for babies to put them in their mouth which they are likely to do.

They are bright and colorful which attract babies attention. They will love to watch the beads in the shakers move as they rattle them.
They are obviously great at teaching about cause and effect.The set includes a mini tube shaker, baby maraca, baby rattle, and cage bell. They are also perfect for teaching babies about rhythm and how different instruments make different sounds.

Balls

There are tons of different kinds of balls for babies of this age. From sensory balls with different textures for babies to feel to crawl balls which play music and encourage babies to move to get them. There are small balls and babies of around 6 months of age enjoy sitting in and playing with balls in ball pools too.
Check out the activity ball below.

Activity Ball

This activity ball is lightweight and easy for babies to hold. It makes a great highchair toy in my opinon.
It's perfect for 6 months old when babies are fascinated with their hands and what they can do.
There is lots of activities on this toy which include a spinning paddle with a mirror, squeaker and clacking rings, roller ball with colorful rattle beads, spinning frog character and caterpillar bead chaser
The handles also features mulitple textures for babies to feel.
As it's lightweight it's a nice toy to take with you when you travel. It's the perfect toy to put into a diaper bag. Or perhaps can be used in the car seat or stroller.
Another plus is that it's a toy which gives a break from the flashing lights and music.

vtech crawl ball

The Vtech crawl ball is not an ordinary ball!

At 6 and 7 months my son used to be enthralled with watching the ball. The ball wobbles and moves slightly on it's own. My son used to love to watch it move and the lights.

As babies get older they can play and crawl with the ball. The ball features dog, cat and bear buttons to press to hone fine motor skills and learn about animals, colors and numbers.

There are 45 plus playful songs, melodies and cheeful phrases.

Skip Hop Explore & More

6 months old is the perfect age to get this toy as it has 3 different stages to grow with your child.

The first stage is pre crawling. There are lights and sounds to attract baby's attention. They can lift the bee out of the middles. The bee becomes it's own toy that wobbles and rattles

When babies start to crawl, you can set it to beginner crawler stage. The toy goes in a circular motion and stops and spins when they pick out the bee. Babies will delight in trying to grab the bee!

As their crawing improves, you can set it to the advanced crawler setting. The toy moves in a random pattern motions and they wil love to chase the toy. There are motion sensors to avoid hitting any furniture or obstacles.

Activity Center

This toy again is one that will grow with your child. Babies of 6 months can go around the activity center in the seat and play with the activities. The seat rotates 360 degrees, allowing baby to walk around play table
The activities include a piano station with 3 play modes, a flip book to activate melodies and silly sounds. There's a bead chaser, popping characters, and spinner. There's also a a teethable palm tree and lots more.
When baby is ready the seat removes to convert from a self contained walker to a toddler activity table.
It's a fab way to entertain babies while giving them exercise and wear them out at the same time. .

Laptop

The laptop is very fun, educational and has lots to do. It eaches about colors, shapes and animals, There's also a music mode.
In total the laptop features 115+ songs, melodies, sounds and phrases.
There's lots hands to do including a spinner, a moveable mouse which interacts with the screen, buttons to press and lots more.
There is a carrying handle which makes the laptop easy to carry around for fun on the go.
Babies love the sounds, lights and buttons but as they get older the laptop can be used for more imaginative play too.

Stacking Cups

One of the most inexpensive toys we bought our sons as babies turned out to be one of the most versatile and most used toys. The toy is stacking cups.

Stacking cups are a great toy for babies. Young babies around 6 months will just like to handle them. They may explore them with their mouth and try and knock them together. You can build a tower for them and encourage them to knock the tower down.

As they get older and their fine motor skills develop kids love building towers with the stacking cups. They are great toys for teaching counting and colors. Count the cups as you build the towers. The cups featured also have numbers embossed on the bottom which is great for number recognition.

Get them to pick the right cup according to it's color. They also make great bath toys. Kids will play for hours just filling up stacking cups and pouring the water out of them.

VTech Turn and Learn Driver

This is another great toy that babies will love and enjoy at 6 months but will still be enjoying when they're 2 years old as well.
Babies will love wanting to reach for the steering wheel and it's easy for them to hit the buttons. The buttons introduce babies to vehicles and animals.
There's lots for little hands to do including a signal lever that triggers fun sounds and music and a gear shifter that pushes and pulls to introduce opposites.
As they get older the driver is fantastic for role play. They can pretend they are driving a car and another vehicle. They can take any passengers to their chosen destination.
A toy with lots of learning opportunities and fun!

Fisher price laugh and learn puppy remote

This is a great toy for a 6 month old baby because they will enjoy playing with it straight away but it will also last them for a year or more of play after this.

6 month old will love pressing the buttons and learning about cause and effect. Press the buttons to hear the music, songs, phrases and see the puppy light up.

It's great for introducing colors, numbers, opposites and much more.

And of course, as they get older it's good for imaginative play, perhaps they can pretend to change over the TV channels.

Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Game & Learn Controller

This is a good toy for little hands to help their fine motor skills.

It's the perfect size to grasp. Little fingers will enjoy moving the joystick and press the ABCD and number buttons to hear exciting songs, sounds and phrases that introduce numbers, shapes, colors and more.

It might help babies stop grabbing other gaming controllers if they have their own too!

fisher price first blocks

This set features 10 blocks. You can stack them up and 6 month old babies will enjoy knocking them down.

They will love banging the bricks together. You can take the lid off at this stage and they will enjoy put in and take out play. They will love putting all the bricks in the bucket and taking them out.

As they get older the set makes the perfect shape sorter helping to develop fine motor skills. The blocks are also great to introduce shapes and colors.

vtech sing and pull puppy

The puppy is designed for children between 6 months and 3 years old, so it will grow with your child.

6 month old babies will love pressing the "1, 2 and 3 buttons". There are also little keys to play with on the ring in the puppy's mouth.

Press the button to hear numbers, colors and more.

As babies get older they can pull the puppy along by it's string while they are crawling or walking.

Pull the puppy's cord to hear music and sounds. They toy has a total of 60 plus music, sounds and phrases. It makes a fun learning toy.

laugh and learn kitchen

This was fantastically entertaining for my son when he was aged 6 months and as he grew older too.

He used to love opening the fridge and over doors and closing them again as well as switching on and off the light switch.

There is a great little shape sorter on the fridge and there's lots of objects that little hands love to feel and explore.

The kitchen has two sides of play that little kids can explore. The toy also has 75 plus songs, tunes, sounds and phrases too.

playing with a 6 month old baby

There are lots of ways to play with a 6 month old baby with toys and books which will help him or her develop her skills:

Communication
Babies this age will communicate with smiles, laughs and they will be babbling away with sounds (ba ba, da da). When you play talk ot him or or her and repeat back the sounds he or she says to faciliate language learning. For more language development read baby books together and sing nursery rhymes. Toys which introduce words, sounds and phrases are also great to encourage baby to learn the language. Toys that repeat songs and music can also be great for improving communication skills.

Moving
At 6 months, some babies will be rolling over and may get him and their hands and knees and rock. Encourage movement by placing toys just out of baby's reach to encourage baby's to start crawling.

Peek-a-boo
Peek a boo is a great game for babies of this age. They will learn that even though they can't see people, they still exist.

Clapping
Babies love clapping games. They like to watch and you can take their hands and show them how it works. It's great for learning sounds and rhythm too.

Explore with touch
Toys with lots of different textures are great. Perhaps he can squeeze a toy, touch some soft fur, put a teething ring in his mouth and lots more.