toy for one year old boy

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I am attending a one year old's birthday party. What is an appropriate gift for a boy at this age. I want to spend about 50.00.

[bugglemom]

My son loved the Leap Start Learning Table by Leap Frog.

[burkesilver]

All the little ones in our playgroup 12 - 14 mos. love the Step2 Push Around Buggy


http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/ref=1042332_bxgy_cc_img_b/602-9862682-0809463?asin=B00000IZEM

[new_mommy25]

I second the Step 2 Buggy. That is one of my DS's favorite toys.

Other favorites around here

Little Tikes Cozy Coupe
Little Tike Discovery Sounds Kitchen
Fisher Price Little People sets
Little Tikes basketball hoop
play piano, xylophone, drum, maraca's etc.
Ball Pit http://tinyurl.com/6e9ue
wooden blocks and Fisher Price peek a blocks
Books

[jubilee]

My son's favorite gift at one year old was a wagon- and it will be a hit for many years. We have a radio flyer one, but I wish it was the plastic type that has seats and seatbelts. Here is one at Target, but they are everywhere. http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/ref=br_1_4/601-1282212-9714508?%5Fencoding=UTF8&frombrowse=1&asin=B000031XDE
I will have to disagree on the Leap Frog table that another suggested- I think my son lost interest at about 12-13 months. It is designed for a younger crowd- like 8-12 months old.
I love the "Signing Time" videos- which teach youngsters to use sign language. Very helpful in this pre-verbal stage! It relieved a lot of stress of trying to figure out what my son wanted- of BOTH of us! :) They are at www.signingtime.com- I'd recommend the set of volumes 1-3. The set in VHS plus a CD are $55.
Hope that helps!!

[essnce629]

Another vote for a wagon or the Signing Time DVDs! I actually got my son a wagon on Craigslist for only $20 and it was a huge hit at his 1st birthday party with all the kids (aged 10 months to 3 years old). We have the green plastic Step 2 one. We also just got Conner vol. 3 of the Signing Time DVD set for Christmas and we all love it. I love watching it with him and I've already learned all the signs. He's also learned 5 new signs from watching it. We started signing with him around 4 months old and he had already learned a bunch of signs without any videos or books which is why I only bought him the 3rd volume (I had already taught him most of the signs from vol. 1 on my own).

***Latia
Conner 8/19/03
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[barbarhow]

If you have an IKEA near you-they have a little castle tent. Little I say-all three of us sit in it to read books...It is about 4 feet tall, and then 4ft wide and long. Really cute for a boy. Jack keeps all his stuffed animals in there-he will go in there alone and read books, etc. If I lived closer every kid I know would be getting one for his birthday. They were 29.95 in October.
Barbara-mom to Jack 3/27/03, a Red Sox fan
expecting #2, a Yankee fan, around 5/9/05!