Age-appropriate play boxes for babies aged 0–18 months

Brand: mushie (Houston, USA)

After birth, your baby’s hands are usually clenched into fists and will gradually begin to open around the second month. Through grasping exercises with the teething ball, Paul & Lori explain how your baby learns to open and close their own hands. The teething ball’s unique shape and material will continue to fascinate your baby for months to come!

Brand: Babyeye (Stuttgart, Germany)

Newborn babies are not yet able to distinguish colors. High-contrast patterns and clear shapes, however, are soothing for your baby and capture their attention without causing sensory overload. In addition to helping your baby begin to focus on simple contrasts, Paul & Lori show you through this book how to familiarize your baby with your voice, speech rhythm, and tone.

Brand: Hape (Mücke, Germany)

How fascinating the colorful rattles sound and move! With these three eye-catching baby rattles, Paul & Lori explain why lifting the head and spending time on the tummy and side are important for your baby, what to focus on during these activities, and what you should keep in mind.

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

The perfect companion for the first year of life and even beyond! Paul and Lori show you the most important development milestones at a glance and provide you with clear definitions of key technical terms. This way, you learn about early childhood pedagogy from birth and can see everything your baby learns during their first year. (Size: DIN A2)

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

Cool in summer – warm in winter. Since a baby’s nails should not be trimmed from birth, scratch mittens can help protect your baby from accidental scratches, injuries, or scars. The black-and-white pattern of our mittens also naturally attracts your baby’s attention, supporting self-awareness and encouraging them to discover their own hands.

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

The fascinating crinkling sound of this cloth encourages your baby’s natural curiosity and invites them to explore by touching, while engaging their hearing, grasping, and sense of touch all at once. Paul & Lori will also explain what cause-and-effect relationships are, how your baby develops an understanding of them, and what all of this has to do with our exciting crinkle cloth!

Crafting Instructions (approx. 5 min)

Contrast cards with simple or more complex shapes promote your baby's concentration and eye muscles.

Learning, developing, and having a wonderful childhood - that is the goal of Paul & Lori! With our CLEVER DIY guides, we want to inspire parents, step by step, to craft together and show how easy crafting can be! Besides fine motor skills, color perception, and concentration, science (Prof. Dr. Constanze Kirchner, University of Augsburg, 2005) identifies three further educational potentials of three-dimensional design:

• Identity formation
• Self-perception, intelligence, and communication skills
• Compensation, creativity, and imagination

Crafting instructions (approx. 20 min)

Sight is the least developed sense in newborns, but your child is learning rapidly to focus on and track objects with both eyes.

Learning, developing, and having a wonderful childhood – that is the goal of Paul & Lori! With our CLEVER DIY guides, we want to gradually inspire parents to craft together and show just how easy crafting can be! In addition to fine motor skills, color perception, and concentration, science (Prof. Dr. Constanze Kirchner, University of Augsburg, 2005) identifies three further educational potentials of three-dimensional design:

• Identity formation
• Self-perception, intelligence, and communication skills
• Compensation, creativity, and imaginative activity

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

Keep track of your baby's development from an educational perspective with the milestone tracker, create your own educational photo album of your baby, and get access to important tips and special topics available exclusively to our customers.

Special topic months 1 - 3: Sleep tips

Paul & Lori Softcover Guide for your baby’s first three months, featuring tips, helpful information, and lots of fun play ideas that help your baby learn through play. We do the research so that you can focus on what matters most: having fun together.

  Expert Tips: Discover the joy of purposeful play – inspired by experts in neuroscience, education, and child psychology, and based on early childhood preventive medical check-ups in Germany, as well as the educational approaches of Montessori and Fröbel.

  Educational Play Ideas: Paul & Lori introduce you to countless play ideas, both with and without our toys, designed to support your baby’s positive development during months 1 and 2.

  Developmental Information: Paul & Lori lovingly explain the social, emotional, communication, motor, and problem-solving milestones your baby experiences during their current stage of development.

Brand: Fabelab (Copenhagen, Denmark)

This completely non-prickly strawberry is designed to be easily knocked over or rolled across the floor. But how can it be that this strawberry always gets back up with a little jingle whenever it tips over? With lots of fun, Paul & Lori will introduce you to the basics of the educational concept of “cause and effect.”

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

The shape of the two interlocking discs encourages your baby to explore them with their hands. Together, we practice a new motor skill: transferring an object from one hand to the other. Using the Montessori discs, Paul & Lori explain how, from around the fifth month, your baby begins to develop what is technically known as the “radial palmar grasp.”

Brand: mushie (Houston, USA)

Food isn't for playing with?! You can start introducing solids around the age of 6 months. Using this teething pretzel, Paul & Lori explain exactly how best to introduce solid food and what you should definitely keep in mind. 

Brand: heutink - educo hands on education (Zelhem, Netherlands)

How exactly does independent play work according to Montessori? How can you best interact with your baby during play, and when should you give your baby some space? Using Move the dolio, Paul and Lori give you valuable tips that will help you when playing with your baby from month 6 all the way through childhood! In this tricky toy, the focus is on motor skills!

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

These soft rattle socks playfully support your baby’s motor skills as well as their grasping, tactile, and auditory senses through their gentle sounds. The sounds encourage your baby to deliberately move their legs and bring their feet toward their face. These exciting socks are simply begging to be explored!

Instructions (approx. 2 min)

Faces, reflections, 3D understanding, and self-perception – mirrors are elementary in the Montessori method. In the third month, your baby begins to develop a fascination with faces, making more eye contact and imitating facial expressions or laughter. Paul and Lori explain the phase of self-perception your baby is currently in and how a large mirror strengthens their sense of self.

Learning, developing, and having a wonderful childhood – that is the goal of Paul & Lori! With our CLEVER DIY instructions, we want to inspire parents step by step to craft together and show how easy crafting can be! Besides fine motor skills, color perception, and concentration, science (Prof. Dr. Constanze Kirchner, University of Augsburg, 2005) identifies three additional educational potentials of three-dimensional design:

• Identity formation
• Self-awareness, intelligence, and communication skills
• Compensation, creativity, and imaginative activity

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

Keep a constant pedagogical eye on your baby's development with the milestone tracker, create your own educational photo album of your baby, and get access to important tips and special topics exclusively for our customers.

Special topic months 4 - 6: Baby massage

Paul & Lori Softcover Guide for your baby’s first three months, featuring tips, helpful information, and lots of fun play ideas that help your baby learn through play. We do the research so that you can focus on what matters most: having fun together.

  Expert Tips: Discover the joy of purposeful play – inspired by experts in neuroscience, education, and child psychology, and based on early childhood preventive medical check-ups in Germany, as well as the educational approaches of Montessori and Fröbel.

  Educational Play Ideas: Paul & Lori introduce you to countless play ideas, both with and without our toys, designed to support your baby’s positive development during months 1 and 2.

  Developmental Information: Paul & Lori lovingly explain the social, emotional, communication, motor, and problem-solving milestones your baby experiences during their current stage of development.

Brand: Duden (Berlin, Germany)

Discover, admire, and feel. Why are realistic picture books important? In this tactile book, your baby will discover true-to-life images without unnecessary embellishments, helping to develop attention, concentration, and the ability to recognize familiar objects. Learn how you can support your baby’s fine motor skills, vocabulary development, and early speech development.

Brand: heutink - educo hands on education (Zelhem, Netherlands)

The four large sensory balls allow your child to experience different textures, colors, and patterns. But Paul and Lori don't just have creative grasping exercises in store for you; they also explain various cognitive concepts and introduce you to toy rotation the Montessori way!

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

It’s fascinating to see how many colorful scarves can gradually be pulled out of the box! Through various activities with the Montessori sensory scarf box, your baby learns and develops in six different ways. We focus on hand-eye coordination, introduce the concept of “cause and effect,” and practice supported sitting, lifting the head, and maintaining balance while lying on the tummy. We also introduce your baby to the basic geometric shapes of a circle, square, and triangle!

Brand: Heutink – Educo Hands On Education (Zelhem, Netherlands)

An important skill is coordinating both arms and using them simultaneously. This 3D puzzle helps develop shape recognition and the ability to match and combine pairs. Paul & Lori explain the educational concept of heuristic play, which gives children the opportunity to experience learning processes independently by discovering the world for themselves. They love to use all their senses in the process and aren’t always particularly careful. Discovering unusual shapes and using them creatively for play – that’s what it’s all about!

Crafting Instructions (approx. 8 min)

A box with a ball helps your child make connections and understand how things work. They learn that objects continue to exist even when they are not directly visible. This can be explored in both simple and more complex ways – Paul & Lori will show you exactly how! At the same time, we strengthen hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.

Learning, developing, and having a wonderful childhood – that’s the goal of Paul & Lori! With our CLEVER DIY instructions, we want to inspire parents step by step to enjoy crafting together and show just how easy crafting can be! In addition to fine motor skills, color perception, and concentration, research (Prof. Dr. Constanze Kirchner, University of Augsburg, 2005) identifies three further educational benefits of three-dimensional creative work:

• Identity development

• Self-awareness, intelligence, and communication skills

• Compensation, creativity, and imaginative thinking

Crafting instructions (approx. 30 min)

Feeling, pulling, practicing fine motor skills and much more! A DIY sensory board is fun to make and fun for your baby to explore. It trains grasping skills and encourages exploring with hands instead of the mouth. In addition, your baby learns problem-solving, cause and effect, and much more!

Learning, developing, and having a wonderful childhood – that is the goal of Paul & Lori! With our CLEVER DIY instructions, we want to inspire parents to craft together step by step and show how easy crafting can be! Besides fine motor skills, color perception, and concentration, science (Prof. Dr. Constanze Kirchner, University of Augsburg, 2005) identifies three further educational potentials of three-dimensional design:

• Identity formation
• Self-perception, intelligence, and communication skills
• Compensation, creativity, and imaginative activity

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

Keep a constant eye on your baby's educational development with the Milestone Tracker, create your own educational photo album for your baby, and gain access to important tips and special topics exclusively available to our customers.

Paul & Lori Softcover Guide for your baby’s first three months, featuring tips, helpful information, and lots of fun play ideas that help your baby learn through play. We do the research so that you can focus on what matters most: having fun together.

  Expert Tips: Discover the joy of purposeful play – inspired by experts in neuroscience, education, and child psychology, and based on early childhood preventive medical check-ups in Germany, as well as the educational approaches of Montessori and Fröbel.

  Educational Play Ideas: Paul & Lori introduce you to countless play ideas, both with and without our toys, designed to support your baby’s positive development during months 1 and 2.

  Developmental Information: Paul & Lori lovingly explain the social, emotional, communication, motor, and problem-solving milestones your baby experiences during their current stage of development.

Brand: Carlsen Verlag (Hamburg, Germany)

Your baby is now discovering many new ways to express themselves. During this stage, it is important to support them by being loving and especially empathetic, particularly when they are sad or angry. This comforting book helps both of you explore emotions in a playful context, while its durable, tear-resistant material can withstand every emotion.

Brand: TickiT (Tonbridge, England)

What may seem obvious to adults can be a real mystery to children. For example, why some things are light while others are heavy, or why some objects float on the surface while others sink. Your baby can explore these very mysteries with the reflective sensory balls.

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

Between the tenth and twelfth months, your baby learns to deliberately grasp objects using their thumb and index finger, a skill known as the “pincer grasp.” This puzzle cylinder block is designed to help your baby practice this important skill while continuing to strengthen their hand and arm muscles.

Brand: sigikid (Mistelbach, Germany)

Our cuddly doll is designed with a simple, neutral appearance that leaves plenty of room for your child’s imagination. At first, it may simply be a soft fabric toy with an interesting shape and new colors, but this cuddly doll will be a loyal companion for you and your child for many years to come.

Crafting Instructions (approx. 5 min)

Opposites help your child categorize and understand everyday experiences. Using realistic examples, your child can learn to distinguish things based on their key characteristics and become curious about what their respective opposite might be. Through play, your baby develops an understanding of concepts such as open/closed, empty/full, and many more.

Learning, developing, and having a wonderful childhood – that’s the goal of Paul & Lori! With our CLEVER DIY instructions, we want to gradually inspire parents to enjoy crafting together and show them how easy crafting can be! In addition to fine motor skills, color perception, and concentration, research (Prof. Dr. Constanze Kirchner, University of Augsburg, 2005) identifies three further educational benefits of three-dimensional creative work:

• Identity development

• Self-awareness, intelligence, and communication skills

• Compensation, creativity, and imaginative thinking

Crafting instructions (approx. 25 min)

Different materials and properties, even when things look the same; we are building an initial understanding of size and order. Are the bean bags identical or actually different?! This must be examined closely!

Learning, developing, and having a wonderful childhood – that is the goal of Paul & Lori! With our CLEVER DIY instructions, we want to gradually inspire parents to craft together and show just how easy crafting can be! In addition to fine motor skills, color perception, and concentration, science (Prof. Dr. Constanze Kirchner, University of Augsburg, 2005) identifies three further educational potentials of three-dimensional design:

• Identity formation
• Self-perception, intelligence, and communication skills
• Compensation, creativity, and imaginative activity

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

Keep a pedagogical eye on your baby's development with the Milestone Tracker, create your own educational photo album of your baby, and gain access to important tips and special topics exclusive to our customers.

Special topic months 10-12: Heuristic play

Paul & Lori Softcover Guide for your baby’s first three months, featuring tips, helpful information, and lots of fun play ideas that help your baby learn through play. We do the research so that you can focus on what matters most: having fun together.

  Expert Tips: Discover the joy of purposeful play – inspired by experts in neuroscience, education, and child psychology, and based on early childhood preventive medical check-ups in Germany, as well as the educational approaches of Montessori and Fröbel.

  Educational Play Ideas: Paul & Lori introduce you to countless play ideas, both with and without our toys, designed to support your baby’s positive development during months 1 and 2.

  Developmental Information: Paul & Lori lovingly explain the social, emotional, communication, motor, and problem-solving milestones your baby experiences during their current stage of development.

Brand: Heutink – Educo Hands On Education (Zelhem, Netherlands)

Your baby can now figure out how many things work and solve problems independently. The wooden box helps strengthen their hand and finger muscles while giving them hands-on, exploratory experience. Your baby learns to solve problems by pulling out the drawer of the wooden box to find the ball inside.

Brand: TickiT (Tonbridge, England)

10 large, identical wooden coins! Of course, it will be a little while before your child is ready to count and do arithmetic, but what role does mathematics play in early childhood? How can identical objects help children gain fascinating, playful experiences with numbers and quantities from an early age? Together, take your first steps into the world of combinatorics!

Brand: Carlsen Verlag (Hamburg, Germany)

The babbling phase gradually comes to an end as your baby begins to learn and speak their first clear words. As a rule, babies develop a clear cognitive understanding of language much earlier and respond accordingly. This book takes your baby on an exciting journey of discovery through the body, familiar objects, emotions, and senses, helping them learn new words through realistic pictures and playful exploration.

Brand: TickiT (Tonbridge, England)

Keys have a magical appeal to children toward the end of their first year of life. That’s why we offer you a safe alternative that your child can explore with their mouth without any concerns. Discover complex shapes, make a first connection with numbers and sequences, and practice threading together. Explore the world of numbers and Numicon patterns through play while encouraging your child’s mobility.

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

Together with the wooden coins, the cardboard bank card (available in red or yellow) creates your baby’s very own first wallet, which they can use to practice their fine motor skills and even “treat” someone to a little something. How do you make your own wallet, how can you play with it, and what’s hiding on the back of the bank card? Is it a voucher?

Crafting Instructions

Often, it’s the things you don’t want your baby to touch that fascinate them the most. That’s why we’re going to make a little wallet together that your baby can have all to themselves. This allows them to develop an understanding of object permanence and practice deliberately pulling objects out of the wallet using just two fingers.

Learning, developing, and having a wonderful childhood – that’s the goal of Paul & Lori! With our CLEVER DIY instructions, we want to gradually inspire parents to enjoy crafting together and show them how easy crafting can be!

In addition to fine motor skills, color perception, and concentration, research (Prof. Dr. Constanze Kirchner, University of Augsburg, 2005) identifies three further educational benefits of three-dimensional creative work:

• Identity development

• Self-awareness, intelligence, and communication skills

• Compensation, creativity, and imaginative thinking

Crafting Instructions (approx. 10 min)

The first cash register is initially just for play, and you can practice educational concepts such as "inside and outside," advanced object permanence, and even a bit of counting.

Learning, developing, and having a wonderful childhood—that is the goal of Paul & Lori! With our CLEVER DIY instructions, we want to gradually inspire parents to craft together and show how easy crafting can be! Besides fine motor skills, color perception, and concentration, research (Prof. Dr. Constanze Kirchner, University of Augsburg, 2005) identifies three additional educational potentials of three-dimensional design:

• Identity formation
• Self-perception, intelligence, and communication skills
• Compensation, creativity, and imaginative activity

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

Keep a constant eye on your baby's educational development with our Milestone Tracker, create your own educational photo album of your baby, and get access to important tips and special topics reserved exclusively for our customers.

Special Topic Month 13-15: Movement Development

Paul & Lori Softcover Guide for your baby’s first three months, featuring tips, helpful information, and lots of fun play ideas that help your baby learn through play. We do the research so that you can focus on what matters most: having fun together.

  Expert Tips: Discover the joy of purposeful play – inspired by experts in neuroscience, education, and child psychology, and based on early childhood preventive medical check-ups in Germany, as well as the educational approaches of Montessori and Fröbel.

  Educational Play Ideas: Paul & Lori introduce you to countless play ideas, both with and without our toys, designed to support your baby’s positive development during months 1 and 2.

  Developmental Information: Paul & Lori lovingly explain the social, emotional, communication, motor, and problem-solving milestones your baby experiences during their current stage of development.

Brand: heutink - educo hands on education (Zelhem, Netherlands)

This peg game trains fine motor skills and wrist muscles, which are also important for drawing and writing. And what role does parental praise play in a child's development? How much praise is healthy, and is too little praise developmentally inhibiting? Paul and Lori give you valuable tips for character building and fostering creativity in your baby.

Brand: Carlsen Verlag (Hamburg, Germany)

Great playgrounds, daycare, walks through the forest - the world outside your own four walls is becoming increasingly interesting for your child. What can be learned from all these new experiences and why is a familiar place to retreat important?

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

By picking up, stacking, and tapping the blocks together, your baby develops a variety of motor skills. And of course, one of the most exciting activities at first is knocking down the carefully built towers! Simple wooden building blocks also make it easy for your baby to learn about matching colors, shapes, and opposites.

Brand: heutink - educo hands on education (Zelhem, Netherlands)

More complex object permanence, cause and effect, fine motor skills, memory training, counting and sorting. By inserting the correct discs into the correct slot, your baby learns so many cognitive and motor elements at once.

Crafting Instructions (approx. 30 min)

Part of our Clever Do-It-Yourself! collection! Together, we’ll create a personalized fine motor skills book with ease. Get ready for a sensory journey for your baby!

Learning, developing, and having a wonderful childhood – that’s the goal of Paul & Lori! With our CLEVER DIY instructions, we want to gradually inspire parents to enjoy crafting together and show them how easy crafting can be!

In addition to fine motor skills, color perception, and concentration, research (Prof. Dr. Constanze Kirchner, University of Augsburg, 2005) identifies three further educational benefits of three-dimensional creative work:

• Identity development

• Self-awareness, intelligence, and communication skills

• Compensation, creativity, and imaginative thinking

Crafting Instructions (approx. 2 min)

Even if you feel like you know your baby inside and out and can read their every wish from their eyes, communicating through signs can take your communication to a whole new level when your child starts to “talk” to you using gestures.

Learning, developing, and having a wonderful childhood – that’s the goal of Paul & Lori! With our CLEVER DIY instructions, we want to gradually inspire parents to enjoy crafting together and show them how easy crafting can be!

In addition to fine motor skills, color perception, and concentration, research (Prof. Dr. Constanze Kirchner, University of Augsburg, 2005) identifies three further educational benefits of three-dimensional creative work:

• Identity development

• Self-awareness, intelligence, and communication skills

• Compensation, creativity, and imaginative thinking

Brand: Paul & Lori (Stuttgart, Germany)

Use the milestone tracker to keep a pedagogical eye on your baby's development, create your own educational photo album of your baby, and gain access to important tips and special topics exclusively for our customers.

Special topic month 16-18: Language development

Paul & Lori Softcover Guide for your baby’s first three months, featuring tips, helpful information, and lots of fun play ideas that help your baby learn through play. We do the research so that you can focus on what matters most: having fun together.

  Expert Tips: Discover the joy of purposeful play – inspired by experts in neuroscience, education, and child psychology, and based on early childhood preventive medical check-ups in Germany, as well as the educational approaches of Montessori and Fröbel.

  Educational Play Ideas: Paul & Lori introduce you to countless play ideas, both with and without our toys, designed to support your baby’s positive development during months 1 and 2.

  Developmental Information: Paul & Lori lovingly explain the social, emotional, communication, motor, and problem-solving milestones your baby experiences during their current stage of development.