19 Safe Christmas Gifts for Children Under 2 Years

This year, we’re bringing you a series of Safe Christmas Gift Shopping Guides. What better way to start off the holiday season? In this edition, we hand-picked our favorite safe and affordable toys for your teeny weeny under 2 years old, and we made sure that each one is free of the humbugs that don’t belong in your baby’s hands or under your Christmas tree. All of the products listed here are free of BPA, PVC, phthalates, lead, flame retardants and toxic finishes. Doesn’t get much better than that, huh?

We know you’ll enjoy crossing a task off your to-do list. Let’s hear it for one less thing to worry about!

Stay tuned for more Christmas shopping guides to come.

Infantino Spiral Spin Top offers brightly colored balls ramping up and back down again

Infantino Activity Triangle is full of colorful surprises with zippy buttons, rattling beads, spinning shapes, and a twirling puppy

Haba My Very First Games: Feeling & Touching is a game designed to develop a toddler’s sense of touch with easy-to-grasp wooden shapes

Sevi Activity Game House is a portable fold out activity mat featuring a hidden world of imaginary fun for trips on the go

Tiny Love Follow Me Fred can be placed on the floor in front of your baby so she can touch to trigger its movement, encouraging her to begin trying to crawl

Cate & Levi Hand Puppets help kids play, learn, tell stories and have fun but are also a powerful, unobtrusive educational method

Haba Little Miss Fidget Puppet is a cuddly glove puppet with many surprises for small explorers including a rustling arm, wind-up fidgeting hair, magnetic hand and a little mirror hidden underneath her waistcoat

Wonderworld Peek-a-Boo Ball rolls around, changes shape and stimulates baby to follow the friendly faces. Safe non-toxic colors, saliva-resistant.

Plan Toys Shape Matching Board challenges children to match the corresponding halves and place the completed shape on the board, perfect for differentiating colors, shapes and forms

Tiny Love Jumpy lets little mouths explore textured balls & rattling hands with bumps, and Jumpy moves and bouces when baby taps the head

Sevi Whistle Toy encourages your prodigy in the making with a beautifully crafted wooden whistle

Plan Toys Miracle Pounding develops hand-eye coordination as the ball is pounded into the toy and a new ball continuously comes up to replace it

Tiny Love Wonder Wheel Farmyard stimulates and develops the senses with bright colors, various textures and cheerful sounds

MiYim My Natural Good Earth Fairy Dolls are sure to land at the top of every little girl’s wish list. These natural cotton rag dolls come perfectly packaged in a reusable recycled cardboard gift box. The Fairies’ whimsical wings and linen accents give them a modern fairytale twist, surely to become a treasured classic

Plan Toys Shake ‘n Match Shape Sorter provides excellent educational value using six different colored shapes

Wonderworld Rolling Rainbow lets little ones place colorful wheels on three different tracks to create different sounds and patterns

Wonderworld Hopping Bunny Walker is crafted from rubberwood and bright colored bunnies hop up and down as the walker is pushed along

Tiny Love Musical Stack Ball Game thrills babies with shaking, rattling balls that are safe for mouthing and banging together

WOW Toys Sidney School Bus let’s kids sort the six packages by shape and color, then retrieve them by using the driver’s key

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