This toy encourages vocabulary development, both receptive vocabulary (how many words a child understands) and expressive vocabulary (words a child says/speaks). 

It's not a bad toy for a long car ride either!  Young children love anything that looks like a game.  Read on...

Does your child love books?  This is a perfect toy to engage the child further into the book. Or, perhaps you have a busy body who can't sit for a book... then use this to encourage attention by engaging the child in more than just sitting and listening would do.  This allows the child to interact with the story line, further enhancing their receptive language skills (how well they understand).

Toddlers love to imitate their parents or loved ones by cooking and making food for their families.  I can literally think of hundreds of ways that play food encourages child development, allow me to list a few...

Does your child love books?  This is a perfect toy to engage the child further into the book. Or, perhaps you have a busy body who can't sit for a book... then use this to encourage attention by engaging the child in more than just sitting and listening would do.  This allows the child to interact with the story line, further enhancing their receptive language skills (how well they understand).

Does your child love books?  This is a perfect toy to engage the child further into the book. Or, perhaps you have a busy body who can't sit for a book... then use this to encourage attention by engaging the child in more than just sitting and listening would do.  This allows the child to interact with the story line, further enhancing their receptive language skills (how well they understand).

Interactive electronic mat jump-starts active learning! Mat teaches children about colors, shapes and animal sounds while strengthening gross motor skills and developing deductive reasoning abilities.

This is a great set of books to teach children about holidays. I found myself buying separate books each holiday until I found this set which summed them all up.  A great set to have around the house!

This is more than just your basic telephone.  This teaches children to dial.  Children can dial their home phone number (encouraging memorization of this) and hear a message from a family member.  It's a great tool for teaching numbers, phone skills, and language skills in general.

Among my favorite books!  This book is great for teaching colors, animals, and sequencing.  Read this book with a young child to teach them concepts of colors and names of animals.  Use this book with an older child to teach sequencing (i.e., what happened first, next, last, etc). 

This toy has been on my fridge for 2 years.  An occupational therapist gave it to me at my baby shower!  She said her children loved it.... she was right.  I put it up when my son was only 10 months.  He knew every letter by the age of 2.  I must say this is a great product from LeapFrog.