Getting a early start on your Christmas shopping helps you to minimize your stress but also your budget. Really it does!

You see by planning ahead (feeling less last minute) you will be less likely to make impulse purchases plus you can defer the costs over time.

Tips To Consider When Buying  Gifts For Babies & Toddlers:

Gift Shopping for Infants: Infants love bright colors and senses stimulating toys and items. At infancy babies thrive on stimulation, so when purchasing a gift for an infant consider that they are  visual, tactile and auditory explorers.  Their explorations into their senses help them to develop their curiosity, attention spans, memory and nervous systems.

• Consider the babies age when purchasing a gift for an infant. Make sure that it is age appropriate, meaning infants like to explore their worlds using their scenes and one of the main ones is their mouths so toys with small bits and pieces would not be an option.
• Music is a great gift for Infants because it has been reported to help stimulate their their brain development. Classical rhythms such as waltzes  or soothing instrumentals is shown to raise babies alpha brain wave states and ambient music, sounds of nature at a low soft volume help to relax your baby.
• Tactile items such as soft toys, blankets with silk boarders are also infant favorites especially if mum or dad is playing with them
• Visual stimulation could be a parents face and expressions while singing or reading a book to their baby. Items like baby centrals Winnie The Pooh projector which displays colorful animations accompanied with soft music is both visually and auditory stimulating to infants plus with its voice activated settings babies will also begin to develop a sense of accomplishment .

Best yet would be to talk with the parents of the baby your buying a gift for, they will offer incites as to what they might need, what type of toys and items their baby is attracted too.

Gift Shopping for Toddlers: At the toddler stage they are very curious and are developing a sense of independence, so when purchasing a gift for a toddler the same safety considerations should be taken much like you would for an infant.

• Check out if the toy is age appropriate for the age of the toddler.
• If your buying toys avoid lots of bits and pieces. They get either lost or if too small they can  still be a choking hazard.
• Musical items for the toddler,  help them with their auditory skills, sing-a-long songs are a favorite, and not only can be played at home but also in the car or on a trip. When playing music for your child  or gifting a musical toy make sure that it has volume settings  so not to be too loud for their sensitive ears.
• Build their sense of accomplishment and help them to learn on their own. Toys such as  stacking toys, sorters can keep their minds and hands busy as well as help them to feel a sense of accomplishment when they are successful for putting all the pieces together.
• Toy portability – Toddlers love their favorite toys and always want to bring them, with them. Keep this in mind when purchasing a toy item for a tot, can it be carried along on a trip, in the car?

Christmas Shopping For Infants And Toddlers At Baby Central Hong Kong

Shopping for kids and soon to be parents at Baby Centrals New Christmas Store will also save you time because we deliver plus we will wrap your gift purchases for FREE!

The New Christmas Store area is organized to make it easy to find that perfect gift.

Shop for: Gifts for Mum – Gifts for Girls – Gifts for Boys – Stocking Stuffers

Gift Ideas For Babies

Babies love stimulating toys and soft cuddly things.

Our Tomy Winnie the Pooh Sweet Dreams Light show projects Winnie the Pooh and friends on to the ceiling in three different modes.

Sleep time mode is where Winnie and Friends are sleeping with soft snoring sounds accompanied by the choice of three soft and calming lullabies.

Voice activated mode in sleep time mode is activated if your baby starts crying and the gentle sounds and sleeping projections restart to gently lull your baby back to sleep.

Wake up mode is where Winnie the Pooh and Friends yawn and giggle accompanied with wake up tempo songs.

Click Here to order your Winnie The Pooh Sweet Dreams Lightshow

For The Fashionable Baby

Babymio Leopard Bathrobe or the hooded Cuddle Robe

Made with 85% cotton this fashionable soft and cuddly bathrobe

or hooded cuddle robe is a soft warm after bath option for the fashionable baby.

Get your  Cuddle Robe for your infants

or The Leopard Bathrobe for your child 12- 24 months.

At Baby Central Hong Kong we also have a full selection of sleeper sets, soft toys and baby books for you to choose from, for that special baby on your gift giving list.

Toddler Gift Ideas:

Balancing Bug Stacker  – Stacking Toy – 6 months and older

A Lamaze toy, the balancing bug stacker is a fun toy for toddlers because they are very colorful but also stick together via built in magnets. Basically this stacking toy sticks together no matter which way you stack them.  Whew, a sense of accomplishment for sure!  Besides being stacking easy, by themselves the bug stackers bee’s, caterpillars, ladybug and butterfly  are also fun for your toddler to play with individually. The are the perfect size for your toddlers hands as well as being constructed out of mouth friendly materials.

Go See All Our Gift Ideas For Toddlers 6 months and over

Not sure what to get?

Gift Certificates are a nice solution that allows the recipient to select what they want and what they need.