31 Gifts and Toys for 1-Year-Old Girls

Until now, peekaboo has meant your hands over your face.

In this soft flap book she lifts each flap herself, so she decides when the surprise comes. In a doctor's waiting room, settle her on your lap and let her pick which page to open next.

GUND's soft food truck belongs with a one-year-old who hauls her toys from room to room in both fists.

Carting things between spots is her favorite game right now, and this one arrives with plush extras to load up. Her day's haul ends up heaped by the front door, waiting for the next trip.

The BIG Bobby Car Classic lets a new walker scoot down the hallway on her own steam.

BIG rates it from 1 year, but early rides go best with a grown-up walking alongside.

If she claps along whenever someone sings, this wooden piano from Hape and Baby Einstein lets her add notes of her own.

The keys answer a light tap of her fingers, and her made-up melodies turn into duets with any grown-up who sits down to play beside her.

Most toys she swats roll out of her grasp, and someone has to go fetch them.

Hape's penguin wobbler leans away from her palm and rocks back upright, so it stays right in front of her for swat after swat.

The stretch when she pulls herself up on furniture but won't let go yet is the time for this BRIO walker.

She grips it with both hands and it moves along with her, giving her a sturdier handhold than your fingers. It is adjustable, too, so you can change the setup as she gets steadier.

Tuck this plush Abby Cadabby into her arms at daycare drop-off, and she has a doll to hang onto while she waves goodbye.

If Sesame Street plays in your house, she may know that friendly face from the screen. If it doesn't, Abby is just as easy to hug.

This Fisher-Price DJ table turns a toddler's habit of banging on every surface into a beat she gets to control.

She slaps trays and cabinet doors just for the noise, and here every slap answers back with music. Its play deck waits in the living room for her next jam whenever she crawls back over.

Her knees start bobbing the moment music plays, and this LeapFrog robot gives her songs of her own to dance with.

She answers any melody with a wiggle and a clap, and a cheerful character gives that habit a partner. The Song Bot sits on the living room rug beside her, right where her bouncing happens.

While you unpack groceries, a toddler who follows you everywhere keeps her Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn pup hugged tight.

Trailing a grown-up is her main game, and a pup of her own keeps her company on each kitchen lap. By the last bag, her new friend sits wedged under her arm.

The Little People farm gives a 1-year-old girl a barn full of animals to look after.

Its maker labels it for ages 1 and up. She can open the barn door, press the water pump and tuck the animals in.

A soft GUND cockapoo puppy is right for a one-year-old who pats every dog she meets and squeals at each wagging tail.

With Nayla, she has a pet of her own to squeeze, kiss and lug from room to room.

If the one-year-old you have in mind clutches a stuffed friend in every photo, LeapFrog Smarty Paws gives her another to squeeze.

Now that she toddles on her own, she wants a pal to grip and haul along on every wander. Her Violet ends up wedged under her arm, shown off to each visitor at the door.

This GUND doll gives a 1-year-old girl a cuddly companion to tote along on wobbly walks.

She feeds it pretend bites at snack time, holding her spoon up to its mouth.

Press one Infantino block onto another and it holds, the same push she already uses to jam lids onto pots and boxes.

Even a lopsided stack of two or three keeps its shape, so whatever she builds is still standing when you come over to look.

These Plus-Plus blocks give her pieces to push together and pull apart on the play mat.

Plus-Plus rates the set for ages 1 and up, so expect a grown-up to show her how pieces join at the start.

VTech's Drop and Go truck swallows whatever a toddler drops inside, then tips it all out for her to scoop up again.

Filling and emptying containers is how she plays right now, and this load rides wherever she shoves it. The empty bucket waits beside the couch for her next armful.

Should the girl you have in mind shove chairs and laundry baskets around, this VTech wagon gives her something meant to roll.

Moving big things is her current game, and when she sits beside it, the sides hold something for her fingers. Her loop from the sofa to the front door turns into a regular route.

From her high chair, she drops things just to hear what happens.

Her fingers hook easily through the open ball shape of this Bright Starts Oball rattle, and every wave or toss ends with a sound.

One fist on a bead is all it takes to drive it up, over and down the looping track of this wooden Melissa & Doug maze.

The beads stay on their tracks, so not one of them ends up under the sofa.

Melissa & Doug's farmyard cube tumbles across the rug whenever a toddler pushes it, bringing a new animal into view each time.

She points at every pig and cow in her picture books, and here each shove shows her another to greet.

Munchkin Falls gives bath time something new to pat and watch from her seat.

Bath play needs a grown-up within reach the whole time, so it works best as a shared routine.

This HABA spiral coils around her stroller bar, so bright loops to pat and pull ride along to the park.

She grabs at anything hanging near her these days, and fastened in place, it never drops onto the sidewalk. At the park gate, the loop she has twisted furthest is the one she holds up for you.

This HABA ball suits a 1-year-old girl who loves to grab and chase things across the floor.

The maker labels it for 6 to 24 months. Roll it across the rug and she crawls after it.

After breakfast on the living room rug, this LeapFrog toy is for a girl who drops her toys into cups and boxes.

Its pieces settle inside each other, so her game of putting things in gets a neat ending every time. Taken out again, the same parts make a tower to topple before the next round.

When you want a gift for a noisy one-year-old girl, Hape Put-Stay rattles give her sounds of her own to make.

She bangs on anything within reach just to hear it, and each one answers every wave of her fist. The set waits beside her plate at lunch for her next drumroll.

This VTech Ferris wheel gives a 1-year-old girl a wheel to spin and animal buttons to press.

It sticks to a smooth surface with a suction cup, so it stays put on the kitchen floor while she plays.

Pointing is how she asks questions now, one finger on a picture and her eyes on you for the answer.

This soft book is full of feet for the two of you to puzzle over, so reading turns into a back-and-forth she gets to lead.

The Radio Flyer Push & Pull Walker Wagon suits a 1-year-old girl who pulls herself up and wants something to hold while she steps.

Its locking handle gives her support as she pushes it along. Later it turns into a wagon for her garden tools and stuffed friends.

The one-year-old who mimics every grown-up habit, from stirring pots to tapping keys, gets an ABC device of her own.

Copying adults is her favorite game right now, and here the letters are hers to poke at whenever she likes. The tablet stays on the living room rug, ready whenever she wanders back for another turn.

Fat Brain Toys InnyBin is a sensory shape toy for a toddler girl busy poking at everything.

She spends her days stuffing things away and fishing them back out, and this toy plays along. Set it beside the sofa, and she can empty it and refill it while you sort the mail.