suggestions please! I want to get a retro toy for my 10 month old grandson for xmas...

[CTyankee]

and his first birthday will be January 21 (he was an Obama Inaugural Day/MLK, Jr. Day baby!)

He only has one retro toy: the old fisher price phone.

The corn popper comes to mind but he isn't walking yet.

He has the cups that fit in graduated sizes.

He also needs another bedtime book as he only has one.

Please give me your ideas!

(Did I tell you he's adorable?)

[CC]

1. If it is his first

birthday the corn popper is a great idea. He might not be walking now but he will be any day and will love it.
These are a hit with both boys and girls.





I had given one to the next door neighbors son for xmas one year. He loved it so much he slept with it for over a year. That boy loved to hammer.

[CTyankee]

2. I remember that one! Good idea for a bit later...

He's having fun rolling things on the floor and dropping things over the side of his playpen...

[HarveyDarkey]

3. I'm kinda partial to these

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-2-LOQUAI-HOLZKUNST-GERMAN-WOOD-WOODEN-TRAIN-4-PC-SET-AND-MINI-TRAIN-/301030084078

[CTyankee]

6. for a little older kid, yep!

[Major Nikon]

4. If you want his parents to hate you....

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2464963

[CTyankee]

5. Oh, of course! How nice! He'll LOVE it!

[Major Nikon]

8. My uncle got me one when I was about that age

In revenge my dad bought one of my cousins a cap gun with a supply of 1,000 caps. My uncle called shortly after to declare a truce.

[grasswire]

7. another good one is the shape sorter

You know, the ball with holes in it for differently shaped pieces.

[CTyankee]

10. Yep. I remember. For later I have an alphabet letters puzzle he can fit into a board...

I had them for my granddaughters, expecting that they would visit more often. They didn't so they are still there, sadly unused...

[grasswire]

13. sorry to hear that

I have some of those too.

[femmocrat]

9. There are a ton of good baby books.

I just got some at Barnes and Noble (the only bookstore we have here They have soft books and vinyl books you can get wet. My granddaughter liked the ones with the little finger puppet built in. There was an entire section of them! Have fun, it's hard to decide.

How about one of those stacking ring toys?

[CTyankee]

11. Great idea! I have a wonderful B&N near me. There is also one called "Barnes and Noble at Yale"

which is the old Yale Co-Op from days of yore...(there was also one called the Harvard Coop up in Cambridge). I even found kid books in Italian for my other (bi-lingual) grandson!

As you can imagine this store is super preppy baby!

[femmocrat]

12. I would love that store!

They also have educational baby toys. Our B & N didn't have much of a toy selection, so I am off to (ugh) Toys R Us tomorrow.

[CTyankee]

14. go to a college town and see if you can find a B&N there or another type of bookstore.

I'll bet you can find something very similar. Snobs, you know...LOL...

[CTyankee]

15. I thought the stacking ring toys were still available! Don't tell me they're not! ACK!

I can't believe they're now considered "retro"!!!

Geez, what has happened to us...we must be idiots...

[No Vested Interest]

16. Large wooden blocks - for stacking, throwing, and later assembling a fort, etc.

No colors or letters on them.
The Vermont Country Store (catalogue) has a nice selection of Fisher-Price toys, though pricey, but, if it's what you want and no one else has them, sometimes you have to pay the long price. Of course, there's always Ebay and thrift shops.
They showed about 8 or 10 Fisher-Price toys, including the milk bottles and the Clock, likely also the xylophone.

[CTyankee]

17. Excellent! I had almost forgotten about the Vermont Country Store! The xylophone would be

wonderful! I'll try it...

[LuckyLib]

18. A take on retro, this simple toy delights toddlers

who are learning to walk:

http://www.brio.net/ToPlay/Toddler/Pull-alongs/30367_AntwithEgg.aspx

[CTyankee]

19. REALLY cute! I love them all!

[No Vested Interest]

21. Brio (company?) has been around a long time also. nt

[Texasgal]

20. I say wooden blocks

Very retro and safe! Plus, they are just cool.