Count and play with your toddler and help them develop early math skills. 
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Let's Count!

With this crate, your toddler will build early math and logic skills with sorting and matching puzzles.

Connect textures and shapes to numbers with 10 tactile counting cards.

Toddlers can practice spatial awareness by identifying three shapes and nesting the nine pieces together.

Toddlers can practice their fine motor skills by placing four cylinders into a toddler-sized puzzle base.

Count the bumps or holes on each numbered cup before stacking them up tall or playing with them in the bath.

Over 20 pages of research-backed guidance, development milestones, and activities to try at home. 

Drop tokens into the slot on top and open three doors (or peek through a window) for “Let’s do it again!” play.

This ring puzzle has six mini puzzles to encourage problem-solving and proud toddler “I did it!” moments.

From radishes to raindrops, follow along to count from 1 to 1,000.

When it comes to nailing number skills, repetition is key. Fortunately, toddlers love repetition. So try familiar counting rhymes or songs — music and math make an irresistible
combination!

Your kid is a born scientist. And seeing how objects move and fit into space takes up much of their play time, er, scientific inquiry. Support their curiosity with plenty of gozinto” games, as in: Can this go into that?

Your toddler is busy figuring out how the world works — through play. Problem-solving toys like nesting boxes, stacking rings, and puzzles provide them with age-appropriate challenges to try and try again until . . . bingo! They’ve got it.

Most kids aren’t ready to start matching and sorting on their own until after they turn 2. But pointing out things that are the same and different — like how people walk on two legs and dogs walk on four — helps your child make the connection for these foundational math skills.

Young toddlers can begin dividing things by same and different — a foundational math skill. You can help them by naming the shapes and colors of things: Your plate is round. That giraffe is yellow. This orange is . . . orange. (Sorry, baby, it can get confusing!)

Your toddler needs to hone their hand muscles for all sorts of everyday activities that will come later on, from writing to playing sports. To strengthen their grasping skills, try a game of two legs/four legs, where you pile up stuffies and ask your child to pick out the ones with two legs and the ones with four.

It’s tempting to explain everything to your toddler, but try asking them why questions instead. For instance, Why doesn’t this piece fit into the slot? Even if they don’t have the words to answer (yet), this encourages your child to be curious and lead with wonder.

Placing one block on top of another seems simple. But as your toddler figures out the best way to balance an object and prevent it from toppling, they’re stretching their hand muscles and their brain in one go. Try upping their game by encouraging even more problem-solving. Can you make another shape with
these blocks?

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Let's Look!

With this crate, your toddler will refine their motor skills and develop hand-eye coordination through open-ended play.

Fitting shapes and peg people into the car lets your toddler experiment with hand-eye coordination.

Identify and mix up translucent colors by stacking, balancing, and letting light shine through five shapes.

Three chubby crayons double as creative stacking toys that build your toddler’s grasping strength.

Drop the star into the maze for a wiggly demonstration of cause and effect.

Over 20 pages of research-backed guidance, development milestones, and activities to try at home.

The back-and-forth ramp lets toddlers learn about cause and effect with two cars and two optical illusion wheels.

Play hide and seek with a dinosaur as you push and pull the sliders to find it.

Right now, your toddler is learning some
amazing sleights of hand-eye coordination.
Holding crayons, grasping spoons, and stacking blocks (around three at a time!)
are just the beginning.

Time to pull out those big crayons. Because the more your toddler practices using the small muscles in their hands and wrists — whether they’re scribbling, grasping, or turning pages — the stronger their fine motor and grasping skills become.

Your toddler’s newest superpower? Making things happen all by themselves! As they experiment with cause and effect (Hmmm, what happens when I pull all the utensils out of the drawer? Oh! They make a big sound!), try to meet them with humor and encouragement — it does wonders to keep the learning going.

Playing with your toddler is important (and fun), but supporting their solo play is crucial, too. It helps them build self-sufficiency and confidence, it teaches them to problem-solve, and it widens their imaginations. And bonus: It gives you some downtime. Happy baby, happy grownup!

When your toddler does puzzles, they’re not just honing their hand muscles — they’re also working out their noggin. And remember, although it’s tempting to fit that cow piece in for them, your child learns more when they figure it out themselves. So moo-ve over, grownup!

Toddlers love imaginary play — from dressing up their stuffies to “baking” mud pies to throwing make- believe tea parties where you’re the special guest. And fine-motor activities like these do double duty by building their hand-eye coordination, too.

Set a young child in front of a stack of blocks or sorting shapes, and they’ll get busy! These time-and-toddler-tested toys do wonders to develop finger and brain dexterity.

Young children still have difficulty properly identifying colors, so whether sorting blocks or socks, help by giving the words to colors: These socks are yellow. Those blocks are green.

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Let's Explore!

With this crate, your baby will explore shapes, space, and senses through spatial awareness and tactile play.

Drop four coins into different-sized slots to help your baby practice problem-solving and hand-eye coordination.

Your baby can push, spin, and slide the colors and shapes to strengthen fine motor skills.

Suction the maze to a table and let your baby push six colorful beads over and under to practice their fine motor skills.

Pull the two puzzle pieces apart and reveal the hidden mirror to play a game of “Who’s that baby?” together.

Explore cause and effect with hidden rockers that pop the blocks up when your baby pushes the people down.

Search for Ellie the elephant as she hides among colorful objects.

Your little one’s attention span is growing, and they’re looking to you to show them the way — literally! Babies pay attention to the same objects as their parents, so when your eyes wander during play, so do theirs. Help them focus by minimizing distractions and really tuning in during play.

Your little explorer is learning that certain actions have predictable results. Encouraging them to press buttons
to make toys sing or push their trains to make them move will help them understand they have the power to make things happen!

Your baby is discovering just how mighty their little fingers are, especially when it comes to pinching objects between their thumbs and forefingers. Help build those muscles and coordination during meal time by experimenting with finger foods and exploring utensils.

Encouraging your little one to explore independently gives them a chance to experiment and figure things out on their own — important for building confidence and resilience as they grow older!

Your baby’s brain is hard at work, and you may notice exciting changes as they problem-solve during play. They’re figuring out how things go together and learning by experimenting on their own and watching you.

If you’ve noticed an uptick in separation anxiety, it may be because your baby has begun to understand that things (and people!) are still there, even if they’re out of sight. Your little one is learning to look for things that disappear, so now is the perfect time for peekaboo and seek-and-find games!

Your baby has been developing this essential skill almost from birth. At this age, blocks and nesting cups are great toys for spatial concepts. So is hearing plenty of positional vocabulary (above, under, around, next to ) to understand where objects are in space.

Your little one is seeing clearly now and getting really good at focusing on moving targets. At this stage, babies love looking at objects in motion. So if your child is looking for entertainment, don’t be surprised if their new go-to includes dropping food, utensils, or anything else from their high chair.

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Developed especially for infants and toddlers, Panda Crate is grounded in the science of early childhood development, made helpful, practical, and convenient for parents.

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