Fall and Halloween Toys For Babies & Toddlers

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Indoor play. Outdoor play. Sensory play. Fine motor play. All kinds of play!

We’ve rounded up our favorite fall-themed toys and Halloween toys along with seasonal books to read. Engage with baby and toddler both inside and outside! And be sure to check out the fall-themed sensory play ideas we chose with the help of our team’s Occupational Therapist, too!

Fall-Themed Toys for Babies

1. Corn Cob Toothbrush: A great first toothbrush for baby before their first tooth erupts. It’s easy to hold as it has two little handles, and the bristles (and corn kernel bumps!) provide nice texture to baby’s oral sensory system. I recommend introducing between 3-6 months of age, help baby hold at first, and then let them play and mouth it!

2. Pop-Up Toy: This fun wooden toy has four figures that baby can push down and watch pop up! It helps baby understand cause and effect and works on hand-eye coordination, too. Practice functional language like: push, down, pop, up!

3. John Deere MEGA BLOKS: A dump truck and large lego-type blocks. Practice reaching and grasping the blocks and putting them “in” and “out” of the truck bed, or work on stacking the blocks! This toy can definitely grow with baby into toddlerhood.

4. Melissa & Doug Pop Blocs: These cute farm animals pop apart and come back together! Work on strength and have baby try to pull them apart. Play with baby and make the corresponding animal sound, pause and see if baby imitates you. So many ways to play with this one!

5. My First Halloween Pumpkin Toys Playset: Each of these plush toys crinkle, squeak, or rattle making them so much fun to play with! Hide them all in the pumpkin and let your little one find them. 

6. O-Ball Apple: This is a classic toy for a little one under 6 months with a fall theme! It supports grasping (a skill we expect to emerge between 3-4 months of age and refine closer to 6 months), and it’s super affordable. The leaf on top encourages mouthing, too!

7. Peekaboo Forest Book: This soft book can be taken on-the-go, has silly rhymes, colorful pages and crinkle flaps to keep baby entertained while reading.

8. Fox Taggie: What is it with babies and tags? This toy is great for tummy time once baby can reach or just in the car to keep them occupied! The crinkly sounds and textures motivate them to keep touching it and exploring.

9. Halloween Bear Chime Toy: Hang this cutie on the car seat or your play gym and let your baby swat at it! The chime noise adds a sensory element to play.

10. Stacking Cups: These are great for grasping before baby can sit up and once they can sit better, build a tower and have baby knock it down! Use functional language like “on top” as you stack the cups! We love the beautiful fall colors they come in!

11. Halloween Corn Crinkle Teether: The cutest Halloween-inspired teether for your baby. It crinkles, too!

12. Laugh & Learn Camper Walker: Another one Alicia’s boys loved! The activities are fun and creative, and the songs are catchy! Baby can stand at it and play first, then build confidence and push it as a walker.

Fall-Themed Toys & Activities for Toddlers

1. Fall Stamper Set: For a fall-themed indoor activity, pull out this 24-piece fall themed stamp set and elevate your coloring time! Practice drawing, scribbling, and stamping. Encourage your little one to use their fingertips to hold the stamp instead of their whole hand. (p.s. – it’s okay if they can’t do it 100% correctly – they’re figuring things out!)

2. Tender Leaf Toys Botanical Press: Get outside and find leaves and flowers to press and preserve together. Make it a scavenger hunt and ask your little one to find leaves of different colors.

3. Pumpkin Picking Magnetic Tree: This fall-themed toy is great for fine motor skills, learning colors, categorizing, and sorting. It’s a great way to incorporate learning and play.

4. Lacing Apple: Lacing is another way to develop hand muscles and more precise finger movements. Work on lacing the caterpillar through the holes in the apple. Crunch, munch, munch!

5. Melissa & Doug S’mores Play Set: Your little one can “build a fire” and roast some s’mores! This is a perfect set if your family goes camping and you want to model the steps of building a fire, etc. Great for imaginative play!

6. Tender Leaf Toys Acorn Puzzle: Help the squirrel collect his acorns. This puzzle can be used for color recognition and counting skills as your little one grows.

7. Halloween Pumpkin Puzzle: Lift each piece to see what Halloween item is hiding underneath!

8. John Deere Hayride Musical Tractor: This musical tractor comes with a farmer and other animal friends to pop in the back for a hayride. Add it into your other farm toys for more pretend play.

9. Pumpkin House Puzzle: Such a cute fall-themed puzzle for toddlers. We love this brand – the pieces are thick and sturdy.

10. Mini Bubbles: These small, seasonal bubble wands work on fine motor skills as you practice blowing bubbles. They’re a good way to get outside and make play a little more magical.

11. Halloween Finger Puppets: These are fun to play pretend with, or take to the bathtub! They can work on finger isolation and other fine motor skills.

12. Montessori Sorting Tree: This is a beautiful wooden toy for toddlers. Your child can use the tongs to pick the apples and sort them into the correctly colored section.

Farm Toys for Babies & Toddlers

1. Melissa & Doug Farmyard Cube: My daughter loved this one! Baby can do hands-on play with crinkle pages, mirrors, and listen to melodies. Plus, the big cube is great for new sitters as they find their balance. They can lean a little on the cube if they need help getting back into a fully upright position.

2. Melissa & Doug Latches Barn: This barn is great for combining fun and learning! Hide the animals in the barn and watch your toddler work at the different latches and locks to bring the animals outside. Great for working on problem solving and building dexterity.

3. Hide-n-Go Moo Farm: Littles can reach into the flaps of the barn and feel for the different animals hiding. See if they can figure out which animal they pick by the feel of it. Then, match the baby animals with the mama.

4. Melissa & Doug Jumbo Knob Farm Puzzle: Hold up puzzle pieces one at a time and label the animal and their sound. Hand puzzle piece to baby and wait for them to model animal sound back to you. Use hand-over-hand to help baby put puzzle piece back into puzzle.

5. Melissa and Doug Blockables Farm: We love these new building toys from Melissa and Doug. Connect the wooden blocks together to build farm play scenes.

6. Plush Animal Farm: Soft and cuddly barn animals that make sounds when squeezed. These are great for labeling animals and mimicking their sounds and for pretend play, too.

7. Magnatiles Farm: Magnatiles rank as some of the best building toys for our family. This set is great to add farm play to the building fun!

8. Travel Wooden Toy Barn: This is one of my newest finds and we love it. It’s a barn toy that is compact yet comes with so many play options. There are wooden farm animals included for pretend play and even stacking.

9. Melissa & Doug Old MacDonald Sound Puzzle: Work on animal sounds with this interactive puzzle. Say, “The cow says…” then pause and see if your little one fills in the phrase with “mooo.” Then find the cow puzzle piece to hear the cow moo. Repeat with other animals.

10. Melissa & Doug Farm Friends Hand Puppets: These are great for imaginative play and storytelling. Come up with names for the cow, pig, horse, and sheep, and tell your own farm story!

11. Matching Eggs: These are great for color and shape recognition and fine motor skills, and can also be used for pretend play. Your little one can make you breakfast after collecting eggs from the chickens.

12. Melissa & Doug Shape Sorting Barn: A barn with endless possibilities! Use the farmer and animals for pretend play, or practice “shape sorting” them. The handle on the barn makes it portable.

Farm-Themed Books for Babies & Toddlers

1. Indestructibles Hello, Farm!: These books are chew- and rip-proof! They’re simple, bright, and great for babies to explore.

2. Noisy Farm: This book engages the senses with touch and feel aspects and different sounds.

3. Farm Tails: Different crinkle pages and playful tails to engage baby on each page. Take it along in the stroller or car seat, too.

4. Poke a Dot – Old MacDonald’s Farm: These books are great for promoting finger isolation and pointing. Label what you see and prompt your little one to imitate you!

5. Night Night Farm: “The sun is setting overhead, it’s time to put the farm to bed.” We love this book and it’s rhymes. Say goodnight to all the animals!

6. A Day on the Farm: Follow the Very Hungry Caterpillar to see who he meets on the farm. I love this one for baby because there are only a few words per page! Encourage your little one to flip each page with the tabs.

7. Barnyard Dance!: This book is great for imitating animal sounds and more. There are tons of functional language opportunities in this one: stomp, clap, dance, bow, skip, bounce, spin, and more!

8. Little Blue Truck: These books are so cute and always have a lesson in friendship, too. We love the illustrations and opportunities for imitation.

9. Hello, Farm!: This black and white contrast book is great for 0-6 months. It’s short and sweet and perfect for repetition.

10. Farm Animals Touch-and-Feel Book: This touch and feel book gets little ones engaged in reading by letting them feel the different textures. Touch the cow’s nose, then give him a scratch behind the ears.

11. Barn in Fall: A rhyming board book perfect for little hands. It talks all about the fall season on the farm.

12. Funny Farm Animals: With silicone touch and feel animals and bright colors, this book is great for engaging your little one. Practice imitating animal sounds on each page!

Fall Sensory Play Ideas

1. Felt Fall Tree Board: This felt board is a great tactile sensory activity and is easy to hang up and take down. Practice reaching and color identification as you and your little one decorate your fall tree, then pull the leaves off and repeat!

2. Pumpkin Carving Kit: After having an adult carve out the top of the pumpkin, have your little one help you by using the kid tools to scoop out the pumpkin seeds. Encourage your little one to touch the seeds with their hands and talk about what it feels like (gooey, slimy, wet, cold, bumping, etc.).

3. Sensory Leaves Activity Set: Use the textured leaves to complete sorting, matching, counting, and puzzle activities. Great sit-down activities for preschoolers and older.

4. Kids’ Rakes: Increase gross motor coordination while incorporating some full body heavy work as your little one helps you rake up the leaves into large piles. Encourage them to run and jump into the leaves and feel the leaves with their hands to complete the sensory experience.

5. My First Wagon: This kid-sized wagon is perfect for your toddler to get some heavy work in as they fill it up with leaves and pull it around the yard. Practice pulling, pushing, and steering as your little one navigates your outside area.

6. Fall Leaves Sensory Bin: The acrylic leaves create a hard sensory texture for your little one to explore as they work on color sorting, matching, and fine motor skills. Contrast with #8 to discuss the difference between the hard and soft textures.

7. Fall Sensory Play Rice: This colored rice is a perfect way to make any sensory bin or table feel more like fall! Hide different small toys or little pumpkins for your child to sift through and find. 

8. Fall-Themed Sensory Bin Filler Set: The felt leaves & fall colored pom poms create a soft sensory texture for your little one to explore as they work on color sorting, matching, and fine motor skills. Contrast with #6 on this list to discuss the difference between the hard and soft textures!

9. Harvest Squishmallows: These fall-themed soft and squishy pillows are a perfect addition to a sensory calm down area. Your little one can explore the soft texture of the pillow or give the pillows a big bear hug for some deep pressure sensory input.

10. Halloween Pumpkin Lawn Bags: So much great full body heavy work and gross motor engagement when filling up these fun leaf bags! Make the leaves ‘crunch’ by having your little one push the leaves down with their hands or help them balance on top of the leaves and stomp them down into the bag.

11. Farm Sensory Bin: These are fun sensory bins that come with all your little one needs to explore and have some seasonal fun. It has so many real-life textures and farm items. Use the sensory items to create a scene and have your little one engage in open-ended play with the items.

12. Glow in the Dark Halloween Toob: Put these small Halloween figurines into any sensory bin for immediate fun. You can grab any larger tupperware container, fill it with beans or rice, and pop these in for your child to find.

Outdoor Toys for Fall Play

1. Collapsible Crawling Tunnel: It fans out to be a big toy, but folds up to fit in the closet! This is a great toy to motivate baby to crawl. Pop some toys in there and encourage baby to get them and “bring them back.”

2. Gardening Tools: Little ones love to help, so encourage them to get dirty in the planting beds with their own set of gardening tools. Talk about what each tool is used for and model action words related to gardening (e.g., “scoop,” “dig,” “rake”).

3. Gardening Tool Set: Great for the little gardener! Practice pouring, digging, raking, etc. Push the wheelbarrow to do some heavy work as well. A great outdoor pretend play set for 2 years +!

4. John Deere Sand Toys: These can be used indoors and outdoors and have great reviews. A tilting dump bed and lifting front loader make them function realistically at an affordable price.

5. Green Toys Dump Truck: I absolutely love the durability of Green Toys. Model words like “bumpy, scoop, dump, go!” Practice functional language by loading things “in” and dumping things “out” of the truck! Great for crawling baby and well into toddlerhood!

6. Melissa & Doug Binoculars & Compass: Get outside and explore on a crisp fall day! Go for a walk and practice taking turns looking for birds in the trees. Use the binoculars to play I Spy and spot “something red” or “something flying.”

7. Bubble Leaf Blower: This is fun for the little one that loves to help in the yard. Let them engage in pretend play and “blow the leaves” while also having fun with the bubbles. Perfect for a seasoned walker, so 18 months and older!

8. Green Toys Wagon: Practice filling it up and pulling it around – indoors or outdoors! Talk about what you’re putting IN and taking OUT, and even have your little one practice cleaning up and putting things away. Great for heavy work!

9. John Deere Tractor: Our neighbor has this ride-on tractor and it drives really well. Paul was finally old enough to get on it at 2 years, but needed help driving it. Perfect for 3 years and older, as your toddler has to push the pedal and steer! Love the wagon attachment to haul things!

10. John Deere Sit’n Scoot: This is a super cute ride-on toy and can grow with your little one for pretend play in the future. After you’re done cutting your own grass, take them outside to finish the job!

11. Toddler Slide: A great starter slide, and I love that it folds up for easy storage. Rake the leaves and let your little one slide into them!

12. Kids’ Rake Set: Have your little one join in with the outdoor chores! Raking is good heavy work and they will feel a sense of pride in contributing.

Best Fall Books for Babies & Toddlers

1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s First Fall: Who doesn’t love Eric Carle’s illustrations? Join the Hungry Caterpillar and explore the wonder of fall.

2. Biscuit Visits the Pumpkin Patch: Follow Spot on an adventure to the pumpkin patch. This one is fun to read in the lead-up to carving pumpkins!

3. Duck & Goose Find a Pumpkin: This book has short, simple sentences and follows Duck & Goose as they search for a pumpkin.

4. Baby Loves Fall: We love a Karen Katz book! Colorful illustrations and lift the flaps on each page.

5. It’s Pumpkin Day, Mouse: In this book, Mouse paints pumpkins and each one has a different emotion/expression – happy, sad, surprised, etc.

6. Little Acorn: How does an acorn become an oak tree? This book explains it!

7. Fall: A touch and feel book with one word and picture per page all about fall!

8. You’re My Little Pumpkin Pie: We love all the books in this series! The cut outs in the book make it more interactive and the storyline reminds little ones how much they’re loved.

9. Lift a Flap Surprise Autumn: Not only does this book have lift the flaps, but pop ups, too.

10. I Love Fall!: This book is a sensory experience with touch and feel aspects and different “sounds” of fall – crunch in the leaves, crinkle the pie tin.

11. Where is Baby’s Pumpkin?: Baby searches the house for her pumpkin. Lift the flaps and follow her to find it!

12. Touch & Feel Fall: Another great touch and feel book with one image per page.

Halloween Toys for Babies & Toddlers

1. Montessori Stacking Halloween Toy: Sort, stack, and play with this Montessori-style Halloween toy. Have your little one sort the pieces, then stack.

2. Color Sorting Sensory Toys: Your toddler can squeeze and manipulate these sensory toys to move the balls into the correct colored section. They make great quiet toys for travel!

3. Magnatiles Spooky Travel Set: We absolutely love these mini Magnatile sets. They’re great travel toys, but we play with them around the house just as much.

4. Spooky Friends Wooden Puzzles: These smaller wooden puzzles are great for babies and young toddlers to explore. The little Halloween characters are so cute!

5. Sensory Popping Toys: Let your baby or toddler push and pop these silicone Halloween pieces. They’re great for practicing finger isolation that comes around 15 months of age.

6. Pop Tube Skeletons: These spooky skeletons pull, twist, pop, and stick to different smooth surfaces. See if your little one can position them in different poses.

7. Spooky House Puzzle: A 36-piece puzzle is perfect for toddlers. We love this brand with the sturdy pieces and beautiful pictures.

8. Halloween Crinkle Book: A festive soft book for baby to look at and explore.

9. Bat Teether: Teethers are always practical toys for babies. This little bat teether encourages grasping and sensory exploration with the soft and hard features.

10. Crayola Glow Haunted House Tiles: Build your own glow-in-the-dark haunted house with these magnetic tiles. Add other play figures to create a spooky play scene.

11. Halloween & Spooky Songs Tonie: This little bat Tonie plays all types of Halloween songs on your child’s Tonie Box. Think: Five Little Pumpkins, Monster Mash, and more!

12. Dress Up Clothes and Costumes: Dress up play is great for everyday, but it’s even more fun around Halloween time! Add a new costume or accessory to your dress up collection.

Arts and Crafts Halloween Toys for Toddlers & Preschoolers

1. Halloween Sticker Book: We love sticker books and this brand is one of our favorites. I love the Halloween scenes and the coloring pages included.

2. Color Your Own Halloween Tablecloth: If you’re looking for an easy and fun idea, your littles can color this tablecloth. Leave it up as a decoration and for arts and crafts in the future.

3. Halloween Crafts: Peel and stick the stickers on the Halloween character faces to create spooky crafts you can display around the house. This set is great to do with siblings, peers, or at a playdate with friends.

4. Spooky Dig Excavation Kit: Such a fun activity! A pumpkin to excavate and find glow in the dark figures as you dig. If you have a younger toddler, this will require help from an adult.

5. Halloween Hidden Pictures Book: Find all the hidden pictures in this book. It’s lots of fun for preschool age and up!

6. Foam Leaf Stickers: Use these fall stickers to decorate your pumpkins, or use them on paper or in other crafts. They’re super festive for the fall season.

7. Halloween Watercolor Book: A low-mess way to do watercolor painting. All you need is the painting page and a cup of water. The paint is already on the paper. 

8. Make-a-Face Halloween Stickers: These sticker sheets are great for creativity and fine motor skills. Make all kinds of faces on these Halloween characters.

9. Crayola Light-Up Ghost: This colorable ghost lights up. Decorate your own little night light. If your little one wants to change it up, you can wipe it clean and do it again.

10. Color By Sticker Halloween: We love these color by sticker books! They’re a great way to practice number identification and fine motor skills while having fun.

11. Halloween Activity Book: Your little one can practice tracing, coloring, connecting the dots and more in this festive activity book. Wipe it clean to use again and again!

Halloween Books

We love seasonal and holiday books in our house! These are some of our most-loved Halloween books for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers, too. Find our complete list of Halloween books online.

Don’t feel like investing in Halloween books? We get it. Write down some titles and head to your local library to see if they have any of these titles to borrow.

Fall & Halloween Pajamas

These are our favorite fall and Halloween pajamas for the season. Almost all of them are 100% cotton and super cute for babies & toddlers. Some even have matching styles for the whole family!

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