What to give the boy for 1 year?

It would seem that at the age of 1 year, the boys are happy with any gift, if only the subject was fundamentally new, and therefore already interesting. But choosing a gift for a one-year-old baby is a more painstaking task than it seems, because you can buy something that will interest the child only one evening, and then it will be forgotten or forgotten, and you can buy something that will benefit and will be in demand for a long time growing boy and his parents.

Before starting to consider gift ideas for a boy for 1 year, donors must know exactly the features of this age. After all, it is they who ultimately form the list of possible gifts. Age nuances will make an expensive gadget completely useless for a one-year-old baby, and turn a bright ball into a useful and even necessary purchase. In the first year of life, the little one has achieved and achieved a lot: he has reached a new stage of development and this cannot be ignored. He is unlikely to be interested in rattles and tweeters, which were presented in the first year of life.

He perceives visual and auditory images in a new way, he forms speech, he is very emotional. And even if the peanut is silent, inside it, be sure, there is a constant conversation with yourself - outwardly this is manifested by babbling. Year is the age of self-awareness and with the emerging skills to move in space (crawl, sit, get up and walk), the child begins to actively “win back” his place in this world. He already shows character.

One-year-old children are very restless: they cannot stay in one position for a long time, do one thing, they are almost constantly in motion. For this reason alone, one should not choose gifts for the child that require perseverance and concentration. The only exception is motor actions - kids of this age are already interested in how the lid is twisted, how the box or door opens.

The first imitation appears in the year, and the child makes the first attempts to identify himself with the adults who surround him. This can and should be used when choosing gifts. Also, kids love to listen when they read and sing songs, and they will be happy with a good children's book by age.

If now parents and donors with their gifts will be able to support the desire for independence in the child, then they will certainly grow a very initiative, decision-making, responsible person. By the year it becomes approximately clear that what actually interests the boy more. Some already strive to disassemble the handle of the cabinet into parts, while others are much more interested in drawing and singing. Of course, this does not mean that now the child has chosen his life path, but it is necessary to support his current interests.

All mental development at the age of one year occurs only during the game. And the child plays during the entire waking time, he is interested in both static objects and moving objects, as well as their combinations (that is why at the age of one year it gives children such a sincere pleasure to concentrate shoving a spoon into a jar or pouring contents from a jar). Many children try to drink from a cup on their own every year, and they do it well. Some begin to master a plate with a spoon.

Some parents who are chasing speed development forcefully impose on their child activities and knowledge that are not of age, which can adversely affect the psyche of the baby, and therefore gifts for a year should be appropriate:

• age, mental and emotional development;
• interests and skills of the baby;
• physical abilities of the child;
• experiments, knowledge;
• contributing to physical development;
• as well as safe and quality.

Nobody knows better than parents all of the above features of his son. Therefore, it is precisely on them that the greatest responsibility lies in choosing a gift for a year. It is mom and dad who need not only to make their choice, but also to suggest practical ideas for other relatives and friends invited to such a significant celebration as their first birthday.

In principle, to please the baby is still quite easy. He enjoys everything bright, sounding, rolling, collapsible, etc. But parents must give the child a gift that will contribute to development, that is, developing.

Here are some popular gift ideas that match the development of a one year old baby and requirements for gifts for such kids.

• Children's vehicles, for example, tolokar. This is a large plastic machine, which will first be studied by him externally, and then the child will try to ride on it.But since he still cannot manage the control, the tolokar is equipped with a “live engine” —mom, dad or brother, who will push the machine, drag it by the rope with the baby sitting on it.

If the baby begins to claim its independence, he will be able to learn how to push his legs off the floor and so move in space. And interesting, and informative, and useful for the development of the legs and spine. You can also buy a kid a runbike - a small stable bike that is not ridden with pedals, but kicked off the floor.

• Jumping Devices: this includes gymnastic children's fitball (ball) and rubber animals (donkeys, horses, dogs), on which you can sit on your back and jump with pleasure. It’s not worth explaining that the jumping practice of the little one needs to be carefully monitored, and therefore, if you are looking for a gift that will take the child while mom is busy, this option does not work.

• Home sports complex - A great gift that will serve faithfully for more than one year, useful for the physical development of the baby, but it should be chosen taking into account the dimensions of the apartment. Usually, children's sports complexes take up a lot of space. Carefully compare your capabilities and your desires. If the house is private, you can buy a street sports complex for the kid, which will include ladders and slides, and much more. When choosing a home sports complex, give preference to models with mats, because the fall is the best teacher and coach of one-year-old athletes.

• Swing - A good option for those who have a sports complex at home, whatever one may say, does not fit. There are floor models that require a certain place, and there are suspension models that are easily mounted in the doorway, and when the child is rolling, they are easy to remove from the road, just throwing them behind a special mount. Choose a reliable swing from which the baby will not fall out, on which it is not injured. There are a wide variety of options for every budget.

• House for games - even in a small apartment, the baby should have its own place for games and experiments. Such a shelter can be a game tent or house, which is easy to install, and if desired, easy to remove. A tent is a cheap, simple option. A house with labyrinths, pockets for toys is a more difficult option, and therefore more expensive.

• Swimming pool - there are two options: water and dry. In a private house, where it is possible to put an inflatable pool on the street in summer, so that the baby can swim (a great way to temper), it is better to choose a water one. And for residents of high-rise buildings who do not even have a summer cottage, a dry pool with colored balls made of soft and medium hard plastic (a great way to massage and develop feet) would be a good alternative. There are double options that are more reminiscent of an inflatable game town. In winter, you can play with balls, and in summer - pour water and have fun swims and games in the water.

• Sandbox - A great gift idea for residents of a private house or owners of a summer residence, where this sandbox, in fact, can be installed. There are sandboxes of different sizes, designs, and capacities. There are dual-purpose products, the so-called sandbox-shells, one half of which is filled with sand, the other with water. There are products with a lid that can cover the sand from getting wet in the rain and feces of stray animals, who like to cope with the need for children's sandboxes.

To the sandbox you can buy a set of buckets, a scoop, molds for sculpting Easter cakes. Such a gift will serve faithfully for many years, because almost until school boys love to play in the sand.

• Cars - under this word lies the mass of all interesting and useful. A one-year-old child usually already pays attention to cars on the street, and therefore he can enjoy a small toy car (if it is not very small), as well as a large plastic bright car, in the back of which he can almost fit himself. Do not give a year-old expensive models on the radio - such technologies are too complex for the crumbs and more suitable for his dad. The main thing is that there should be no small parts in the car you have chosen, and large doors, wheels, the trunk open, spin and be securely fastened.

Whatever the temptation to give the child a real electric car, you should wait with this purchase. A machine that requires control (there are pedals and a steering wheel that needs to be rotated, reverse) is still difficult for the child: he may fall, be injured, get scared.

• Set of colorful cubes - A classic of educational games for the year. Cubes can be small and modest or large, from which you can build a whole town; soft and hard, with drawings and without, the child will be equally happy with them, because folding and combining objects with each other is his favorite pastime now. If mom and dad are afraid that the child may be injured on the hard edges of the cube, you can take a set made of fabric, there are such products.

• Sets of vegetables, fruits, animals the child should like it. By the example of animal figures, you can introduce the crumb to the natural world, and plastic vegetables will be an excellent imitation of the real ones, and the baby will be able to imitate his mother to “cook” dinner. Many of these sets contain vegetables and fruits, which can be divided into halves, and then combine them - this is their developing function.

• Finger paint - A great option for very young artists. Real paints are not suitable, because the child still does not know how to hold a brush in his hands and tries to taste everything. Finger paints are safe if the child decides to try them, they can be painted with their fingers, and they can also easily be washed off clothes and washed from the artist himself.

• Children's books for the little ones - This gift will please more than one day, because children are asked to read their favorite rhymes and fairy tales several times a day for months. The main thing is that the pages should be tight so that the child does not tear them. Pictures should be bright and eye-catching. There are special books in the series “My First Book”. The content of the books is simple, straightforward, which will be understandable to the baby.

You should not buy music books: psychologists are sure that at the stage of speech formation, inexpressive voice acting of nameless speakers only hurts. In addition, the child will not have the opportunity to learn something additionally, to clarify something, because the recorded voice of the announcer is not mom, she will not repeat twice about the duck.

• Set of "male tools" - all the boys are interested in hammering plastic pegs into the holes, hammering on the panel with a hammer and imitate again, but this time to dad. Special tools for the smallest representatives of the stronger sex help to develop fine motor skills, as well as meet the needs of a year in experiments.

• Useful and practical gifts - this includes clothes, bath products, bedding, sets of children's dishes, a night light in the bedroom, towels, etc. Such gifts are very useful for the child, but pleasant and interesting, alas, only for his parents, and not for the culprit celebrations. Since it was decided to give pants and a jacket for walking, do not forget to add the gift to a small, bright and pleasant toy for the child, so that he would also be interested, for example, with a sorter with large details.

Godparents traditionally have a very responsible attitude to choosing a gift for the godson. Of course, you can expect anything from the godmother, even what the parents ask her for themselves, but usually the godmothers look “into the distance” and give useful gifts that may come in handy if not now, but in a delayed perspective. Here are some non-standard ideas.

• Savings account or bank savings card in the name of the child - the baby will definitely appreciate the benefit of the gift from the godmother when he grows up and will be able to use the money accumulated there himself. An account must be opened for a minimum of 17 years, the first payment depends on the conditions of the bank, there should be the possibility of replenishment of the account.

A useful gift for a year can be a gold bullion or a valuable bank coin in a gift box.They will never depreciate, and if there are several such gifts until adulthood, the child will decide for himself where to invest them - in education or in his own business, for example. For this, he will be grateful to godfathers throughout his life.

• Tree seedling - This is a very symbolic gift that is associated with ancient traditions. If you plant his first tree with him on the baby’s birthday, you can watch how they grow from year to year. It will be his personal tree, the place of his "strength." In addition, the boy, when he becomes a man, can safely say that he has already planted a tree in this life. He can only raise his own son and build a house.

• A bottle of good wine - Do not be alarmed; nobody calls for a child to drink. This is another tradition. A good wine with a name label and a gift inscription is sent for storage until the child's 18th birthday or his wedding. Then the bottle will be solemnly opened and poured into glasses for a toast to those who helped the baby grow up big, strong and healthy.

Among the gifts from godmothers for a year also include:

• jewelry - a golden cross and chain, a golden bracelet for a boy;
• children's bible with pictures;
• casts of the legs and arms of the baby;
• dishes for the child, possibly with a personal engraving;
• silver spoon in a case.

Caring not only about the baby’s spirit, but also about his body, godmothers can give an orthopedic massage mat for charging and walking barefoot, balls and rings, baby skittles. To satisfy the yearlings' passion, opening, turning on and pressing will help the bodyboard (a board with a lot of interesting pieces - from dials to sockets and latches), which is easy to make with your own hands.

Grandparents are usually the most practical of all relatives. They are the ones who are in charge of the fact that the baby has new clothes, shoes, warm socks and a pair of new pajamas. Let grandma be herself and make such presents. Here are some presentation ideas from grandparents to the baby.

• Bedclothes, bedding - a set of bedding for the baby will never be superfluous, especially if you embroider the name or initials of the baby on it with your own hands.
• Clothes for baby (you should first check with your parents what exactly a little fashionista needs for the upcoming season).
• Among the toys, the choice is huge: From designers for babies with large parts to wheeler ducks (children are very interested in wheelchairs a year old), you can buy a simple musical toy in which there are several buttons and sounds understandable to the child, for example, you press a sheep, it bleats, you press a kitten and meows . There are not only such toys, but also interactive music rugs that do the same thing, but they can be rolled out on the floor, crawled freely and sit on them, and rolled up and removed if not needed.

The uncle and aunt of a one-year-old baby can very well afford “serious”, but original gifts, for example, an annual subscription to visit a children's group in the pool - swimming is useful and usually children really like it. Among these useful presentations can be attributed a certificate to the center for early development, and a paid and ordered photo session for parents and babies from a professional photographer. It is also unusual, but it will be useful to give the niece a baby suitcase on wheels if the family travels and takes the child with them.

Among the toys, according to reviews, for nephews often take developing tables, sorters, hamsters, repeaters. Also try to please the nephews with an abundance of balloons. Just take tight balls, preferably helium ones, to exclude a sudden sharp sound from a ball bursting on the floor, which the baby might be very frightened of. Uncles and aunts, like people close to the family, can give money in a beautiful envelope (the gift will be pleasant for parents who themselves will buy the child something that they consider necessary).

It is only necessary to warn against gifts for which parents “thank you” will not say for sure:

• living creatures - hamsters, kittens, puppies, fish, etc .;
• electronic toys that require certain skills;
• fragile toys with small details that the child can swallow, stuff into the ear, nose;
• luxurious mastic cakes to order - the child does not eat this yet, and if he does, he will not feel the value of the gift, he will not show interest in it.

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