Holiday Gifts For The Adventurous Toddler In Your Life
If you’re shopping for a puddle-splashing, couch-jumping, rock-stacking adventurous toddler then you’ll want to find gifts that allow their natural curiosity about the world to thrive. And while toddlers like dolls, magnetic tiles, and play kitchens adventurous tots also need things to support their love of exploration and creative learning — no matter the weather outside. So this year’s adventurous toddler holiday gift guide has both indoor and outdoor fun covered!
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Holiday Gifts For the Adventurous Toddler
Safe Coasting
The Step2 Up & Down Roller Coaster Platinum Edition™ gives toddlers the thrill of adventure and limit testing they crave while also ensuring the safety they need is in place. It’s so easy to put together that it can be taken out and then put back away in a closet — perfect for long days indoors when no one is up for going outside with a toddler.
Matching Shirts
The toddler years are the best time to match with a little mini me, and Nursing Queen offers super adorable matching sweater sets up to size 4T! Whether mama is nursing a little sibling or extended nursing a tot, she can wear her nursing-friendly sweater and the tot in her life can match!
Friend Holder
WildbBird’s ring sling doll carrier makes it easier for the toddler in your life to bring their best bunny, bear, or doll friend on all their amazing daily adventures. The ring slings match the adult carriers, so they can match their parents if they have any baby siblings!
New Ride
Every adventurer needs a bike for carrying treasure, pulling stuffed toys, and for general growth-mindset exploration, learning, and fun. Huffy’s new Grow Ride Move (GRM) bikes, which arrive 90% pre-built and offer three learning levels: Balance, Training Wheels, and Standard Riding. Not only do these bikes grow with each rider, but if your little one has a significant growth spurt, the Move-Up Program offers 25% off the next size within a year!
Imagination Builder
With a play couch, your tot can have a safe space to jump & crash, a cozy reading couch, a fort, or a slide… maybe even a pirate ship! Play couches are always an excellent gift for tots and preschoolers, and this one from Brentwood Home is one of my favorites. It’s free of PFAS & flame retardants and made in the U.S. with CertiPUR-US® certified foam to ensure little ones are not inhaling toxic fumes or touching unsafe materials.
The anything Toy
Play silks from Sarah’s Silks are truly the “anything toy” — Use a play scarf as a picnic blanket, a superhero cape, a race flag, the stage for other toys to play on, or to wrap up toys and gifts, or a rope when pulling toys! Whether you choose a play wand, a large silk, or a mini silk from Sarah’s Silks, it’s bound to be a treasured part of your adventurous tot’s play collection for some time.
Holiday Pjs
There’s no adventure like the holidays, and just the right PJs make all the difference. WildBird’s holiday Pjs are the perfect gift for staying up late to watch for Santa.
Treasured Moments
Handprint ornaments aren’t just for babies—making the ornament with their parents is a lot of fun and for some parents it’s the last set of prints they’ll get of their little one while in the “baby years.” Toddlers love the gift of time together, making memories, and parents enjoy physical items to remember their littles by!
