Top 20 Best Toys and Gift Ideas for 1-Year-Old Boys (2021 Review)

You can tuck the handle underneath for your little one to sit and play and pull it back out when they’re on the move. It’s a nice introduction to colors, numbers, shapes, and even some spanish words.

This wagon can help build motor skills, as well as, thinking skills including problem solving. The light up xylophone keys play music, sounds, and phrases.

As your baby gets older the Smart Stages technology allows you to change the learning content from more advanced and back.

Little boys will love dropping the ball into the top and watching it pop back out when they push it around. The colorful buttons help little ones learn colors, numbers, and construction objects.

Kids love to watch the balls pop through the chimney, into the scoop bucket, and then back again. This educational bulldozer can encourage movement and motor skills in your little construction worker. 

This white and green learning tablet is actually unisex so it makes a great Christmas or birthday gift for boys and girls. The tablet includes 25 pretend play apps, a light up touch screen, three play modes, over 20 songs and melodies, and three play modes.

You little one will learn letters, numbers, shapes, animals, colors and more. Let the games begin, the interactive colorful light display will keep those little ones entertained for sure.

The VTech wiggle and crawl ball provides sensory stimulation, helps improve motor skills, and also helps build motor skills. Your little one will have a blast watching and chasing after this fun-filled wiggle ball.

 The ball itself is really colorful and includes interactive animals that spin, twist, and slide. Animal buttons teach animal names, colors, and numbers.

The five flashing lights make it visually engaging and help keep your child’s attention.

This yellow and green colored float plane is a great gift for both one year old boys and girls. For those of you with kiddos that love water this might be some simple fun.

The propeller spins and the chunky oversized pontoons make it great for little hands, as well as, for floating in a bathtub or swimming pool. Your little one might not understand but it’s a good toy to use to explain the importance of taking care of the environment and things like recycling.

The Manhattan Toy company offers a diverse selection of fabric skin tones and hair types so that there are definitely options. This specific little guy measures 15-inches and is super soft and cuddly.

The dino-themed onesie has a fabric hook and loop closure making it easy for little ones to remove and change their clothing, as well as a removable diaper.

There are all sorts of accessories that can be purchased separately but this version comes with a matching dino-themed pacifier. Your little boy can learn some big brother nurturing skills with this little guy!

These colorful blocks allow your little boy to explore and create which works their imaginations. Hand eye coordination is definitely something your baby boy will take away.

You can set it up on the floor or in their highchair whichever works best. There are two little cars that come with this play set and kids just love it.

This first builders table is rather unisex but there’s an option for a pink version if so desired.

This is a multifunctional musical instrument. Your little boy can pull out the xylophone OR leave it in place and pound balls through the holes that bounce onto the xylophone and roll out of the escape hole.

The fine motor skills development is a plus as it helps build a child’s dexterity, hand eye coordination, manipulation of objects, arm movement, and the discovery of cause and effect. Tons of fun for little ones.

This thing is awesome. It starts as a stroller and as your child grows and evolves so does this trike. The handle for the infant trike is adjustable and removable so when your little toddler grows into a little kid it can be removed.

The footrest keeps babies feet safe while in the stroller but can be removed when your little boy or girl is ready to move up to the next level. A secure three-point harness and high backseat provides extra infant safety.

The canopy is adjustable to help keep the sun or rain off of your little one. Another gift that keeps giving.

This toddler pack contains a little insulated zipper pouch for storing snacks and drinks on the go. The main compartment has plenty of room for toys, diapers, and things toddlers want to bring along.

The adjustable mesh bottle holder is great for different sized drinks. It is bpa and phthalate free.

Easy to wipe down and clean which is a plus. You can purchase a Zoo Lunchie lunch bag separately that matches your child’s backpack.

This play house/tent play set comes with one square tent house ball pit, one traveling tunnel, and one teepee tent house ball pit. Pop it up and close it up in just minutes.

It’s highly compact so it doesn’t take much space to store it. It’s colorful and exciting for kids of all ages. It makes a great Christmas and birthday gift for boys and girls as well.

The Battat wooden activity cube has so much to offer for little hands. The gender neutral theme makes it a great gift option for boys and girls.

There are five sides to this cube and each side has different fun-filled activities for your baby boy to explore. Open and close doors to reveal different animals, spinning animal blocks, wooden beads that can be spun or moved along the rails, and much more!

At the moment Amazon offers five different disney themed sets each with three squirt toys. There is Finding Nemo, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Toy Story, and The Little Mermaid.

All of the pieces in this play set are just the right size for little toddler hands to get a good grip. For some reason little ones like to see cause and effect in action especially when it comes to water.

That being said, you may want to expect little puddles outside of the tub onto your floor occasionally because… that’s what kids do (LoL).

The Little Tikes Hide and Seek Climber makes it easy for toddlers new to walking. Instead of a ladder or steps it has a little rock climbing slope great for crawling up instead of walking up.

It is a great way for a little boy or little girl to get some physical activity and fun. The little windows at the top of the are great for games of peek-a-boo.

There is more than meets the eye with this sports center. The scoreboard helps kids learn their numbers up to ten. Shape buttons introduce shapes, sounds and numbers.

Songs, phrases, sounds, and words of encouragement can be heard from the built in speaker. Amazon currently has two color options available which is the red and black version or the yellow and blue with a green base.

This makes a great gift idea for your little boy but it also great for little girls too.

The three books that are included in this set are My First 100 Animals, My First 100 Words, and Numbers - Colors - Shapes. The books are colorful and each one contains 100 different pictures for your little ones to enjoy, learn, and eventually recognize.

Before you know it your toddler is going to go from babbling to talking and forming complete sentences. 

You and your little one can practice numbers and colors, the alphabet, and even a colorful map that displays the 7 continents all while learning how to safely play in the water.

The SpashEZ 3-in-1 sprinkler pool is inflatable made using high quality durable and BPA-free material. The pool is super shallow to help reduce risk of drowning or injury.

The pool is 60-inches in diameter making it a decent size for one adult to sit with a child or for a couple of kids at a time. Young toddlers and older kids can enjoy this pool together while stepping up their brain game.

This set of cars contains four different types of vehicles, a school bus, family vehicle, police car, and a fire truck. The soft cars are super easy to use all your kiddo has to do is pull the car back on the floor or a table and let it go to watch it roll away.

Your little boy or little girl will have fun watching the cars zoom away and chasing after them to do it all over again. 

Your little boy won’t even realize that he’s practicing his fine and gross motor skills. There is so much to explore and investigate with a lot of cause and effect going on.

Colors, pictures, bead mazes, springy flaps, gliders, and so much more your little guy will enjoy playing with. The entire tree is wooden and stands 22.5-inches tall and is 18-inches wide, with a water-based non-toxic finish for your child and your family’s safety.

This soft book is made of premium high-quality materials. The books are soft cuddly books with something that grabs attention on every page.

There are the sounds from the crinkle pages, a peek-a-boo mirror, and bright colors. It is durable and machine washer safe which is a plus because life happens and so do messes.