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Gift Ideas 2021

For Children With Visual Impairment 

Gift Ideas

A Shared Vision families often ask us for recommendations on what to buy their very young child who’s blind or visually impaired. We’ve got the list of perfect, sensory toys! Here are some of our favorites. You can order most of them through Amazon to make shopping even easier. Click on each of the pictures below for more information about each of the gifts, including how to purchase.

Reading time gifts

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My First Body Board book. Children can learn about their body in My First Body, an informational board book featuring images illustrating parts of the body. The bold, visual images are labeled clearly and promote early learning and language skills.
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Never Touch a Panda! Board book. Children, ages 0-4, will love: exploring the bumpy silicone touches on every page; Stuart Lynch's bright and funny illustrations; and laughing at the funny and easy-to-read rhymes.
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Maze Book: Follow Me Around the World (Finger Mazes) Board book. Follow Fox through seven exciting and colorful trail scenes that can be explored using fingertips to trace along the grooved mazes on the pages. In each busy scene there are recognizable sights to spot and charming animal characters to search for as you travel from continent to continent.
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beiens Soft Baby Books. High Contrast Black and White. Non Toxic Fabric Touch and Feel Crinkle Cloth.
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teytoy Tummy Time Floor Mirror. Double High Contrast Activity Developmental Black and White Baby Toys. Baby first book teaches your little one how different things feel by touch with these soft High Contrast toys.
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Uncle Goose Braille Blocks. An educational toy for those who want to learn to use Braille to communicate. Use your fingertips to trace the clean, European-style font that accompanies every Braille letter.
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Magic Water Coloring Book-4Packs. Eco-Friendly and Safe Design: Unique technology and non-toxic water injection fun books, so that children can enjoy the fun of painting without ink, which makes children very safe.

Musical gifts

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Fisher-Price Smart Stages Kick & Play Piano, Crib-Attaching Baby Toy. The Smart Stages Kick & Play Piano lets your little music lover kick up some fun while they learn about colors, shapes, numbers, and animals. When your baby kicks or presses the five piano keys, the play mat responds with multicolor "dancing" lights, music, and silly animal sounds.
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PicassoTiles Kid's 49-Key Flexible Roll-Up Educational Electronic Digital Music Piano Keyboard w/ Recording Feature. The lightweight rollup piano can be handheld easily by children and can also be placed on the floor or desk, making it become the best travel companion toy. You can easily roll it up for easy storage in a closet or under the bed when not in use to help save space.
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8" Rhythm Sticks, Pair. Natural finish wood combination rhythm sticks. Shorter 8" length is commonly used for early childhood. Includes one smooth and one ridged stick in each pair.

Fine motor gifts

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BunMo Pop Tubes Sensory Toys. Poppin’ Pipes are fun and functional sensory toys that pop, stretch, and connect making these pop tubes the go-to toy for playtime. Ages 3+.
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Kinetic Sand Beach Sand Kingdom Playset. Bring the beach indoors with the Kinetic Sand Beach Sand Kingdom! The sandcastle building playset comes with 3 lbs. of Kinetic Sand that magically feels like wet beach sand even though it’s actually dry. Ages 3+.
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8 Piece Tegu Pocket Pouch Magnetic Wooden Block Set. The perfect toy for building on-the-go! Whether in the car, plane, the diaper bag, the purse, or at the restaurant; now you can "thinker" wherever you are. Ages 12 months and up.
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Melissa & Doug Farm Animals Sound Puzzle - Wooden Peg Puzzle With Sound Effects (8 pcs). Hear eight realistic animal sounds with this 8-piece wooden sound puzzle with the sturdy wooden puzzle board. Ages 2+.
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Melissa & Doug K's Kids Take-Along Shape Sorter Baby Toy With 2-Sided Activity Bag and 9 Textured Shape Blocks. The Take-Along Shape-Sorter is part of the K’s Kids line of early developmental toys.
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Plastic Coil Spring, Glow-in-The-Dark Magic Rainbow Slingy. Glow-In-The-Dark Toy that the kids will love and play with. This Magical Springy can bring a lot of fun and happy memories for you and your children. Ages 3+.
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0-12 Months: Welcome your child to the world with playthings that help them build brand new neural connections—while connecting with you. 1 Year: Support your toddler’s natural curiosity with playtime that builds new skills and encourages exploration. 2 Year: Encourage your child’s budding independence—and learn early STEM lessons—as they grow from baby to big kid.
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Hexalites multi-color touch-activated LED mood lights. These hexalites are shaped like hexagons and easily adhere to your wall. They change colors with just a tap of your hand. Add more lights to create unique shapes.
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ThinkMax Wrist Foot Rattles for Baby, 8 Pcs, Soft Animal Wrist Rattles and Foot Finder Socks - Elephant, Monkey, Piggy and Puppy. Bright vivid colors and cute animal faces visually stimulate your baby's vision and encourage baby to touch and explore.

Bath time gifts

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Glowing Bath Time Cubes. These cute cubes light up in the water and turn off when it drains, so kids will enjoy longer tub times. Ages 3+.
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Bath Toys, 8 Pcs. Light up floating rubber animal toys set. Light up automatically when you put them in the water. Flashing brightly and slowly that your kids loves to playing with them during bath time. Ages 12 months and up.

Gross motor gifts

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Skip Hop Developmental Learning Crawl Toy. If you’re looking for toys to help baby crawl, you won’t “bee” disappointed with this one! Designed to grow with your baby through three stages, our motorized crawl toy challenges and encourages little ones learning to crawl with colorful lights, energetic tunes and sweet buzzing sounds.
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smarTrike Toddler Trampoline with Handle. Ages 1-5 Years, Foldable. This 3-in-1 Activity Center combines an indoor foldable trampoline & a baby ball pit, and built to entertain kids of multiple ages, year-round and for years to come.
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The Braille Superstore Beeping Foam Disk

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