With so many options available now for children, looking for open ended toys for 3 year olds, could be a bit overwhelming.
With this list of options, I’ve some of Amazon’s top toys that will give your toddler endless imaginative play.
This pipes toy is such a great open ended toy that will keep your toddler entertained.
It sparks creativity, my only caution would be to make sure your child doesn’t take the scooper pipe and pour the water outside the tub.
It includes 5 uniquely shaped pipes made without BPA or PVC.
Melissa & Doug Pattern Wooden Shape Blocks
This wooden set is great for learning shapes and what you can create with shapes.
The set is 120 wooden blocks in its own box with is an added plus.
Helps with hand-eye coordination, color recognition, and problem-solving.
The set comes with 2 double-sided boards to give your toddler even more creative play options.
This toy is recommended to kids 3 and up due to the many pieces.
This open ended toys is a 24 piece starter set that bounce sticks to almost any smooth or flat surface and is super flexible.
Does your toddler love to build? Squigz is fun little suckers that can be used to create cars, robots, jewelry, and more.
Geometric Board Blocks by BettRoom
This geometric sort set can inspire your toddler’s imagination as well as promote their physical and intellectual development.
It helps with learning hand-eye coordination, colors, and learning to shapes.
The set contains 20 pieces that are detachable and removable.
Plus it is non-toxic, lead-free, BPA free, and Phthalate free making this among the top open ended toys for toddlers.
With the carrying case, this makes the Wikki Stix perfect for travel.
It contains 144 Wikki Stix for tons of fun with a 12-page activity book full of illustrations to spark creativity in your toddler.
Perfect take along to the doctor’s office, in the car, or on the plane, Wikki Stix offers quiet, clean, and hands-on fun.
The product is made with non-toxic food grade wax and hand knitting yarn.
KidKraft Wooden Rural Farm Train Set
The train set lets kids explore what it’s like to tend the animals, collect eggs and raise crops with 75 colorful rural-themed pieces.
KidKraft open ended toys help with cognitive development and creativity.
The farm tracks are interchangeable and compatible with all other KidKraft trains and most major train brands.
It’s the perfect starter set as the collection can grow as your toddler does.
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Monkey Noodle Stretchy String Fidget
With Monkey Noodles, your toddler can stretch, pull, twirl, wrap and squeeze them, then watch them bounce back to their original shape!
They’re perfect for sensory and tactile stimulation and are hypoallergenic, non-toxic, and free of BPAs, phthalates, and latex.
Fidget and sensory toy great for children with ADD/ADHD, OCD, autism, or high anxiety levels.
These toys help to reduce stress, increase focus, and promote a sense of calm.
This is a 5-pack set, each unit is 12 inches long and stretches up to 8 feet!
Skoolzy Rainbow Counting Bears with Matching Sorting Cups
The rainbow counting bears are perfect open ended toys for 3-year-olds.
A wonderful occupational therapy toy for toddlers that will improve hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.
The bear counters are also great as sensory autism toys or math Montessori toys for toddlers.
These toys are non-toxic, BPA-Free, Lead-Free, and Phthalates-Free.
LEGO DUPLO All-in-One-Box-of-Fun Building Kit
The Lego Duplo is open ended toys for imaginative play with large bricks for toddlers. This all in One Box comes with a total of 65 pieces.
This set is actually for 18-month-olds to 5-year-olds, so let their creative imagination run wild.
This other good thing about this set is the carrying case. It’s great for storage and also a take along.
The toy offers endless hours of creative play allowing your toddler to build and rebuild whatever they can imagine.
Melissa & Doug Wooden Train Cars
This is an 8 piece wooden train set that is about 3 inches long with magnetic couplers making it a breeze for your toddler to connect each train car.
Melissa & Doug never skimp on high-quality materials and if you have the Melissa & Doug rugs or train tracks, it makes the ultimate playset.
Skoolzy Peg Board Set – Montessori Toys for Toddlers
Another good one from Skoolzy, this pegboard set comes with 30 lacing pegs in 6 different colors.
Your toddler can easily match colors as they stack and nest the pegs into each other.
The pegs are oversized which makes it easy for little hands & fingers to grasp and stack on the pegboards to build towers as stacking blocks.
Great for building fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, strengthen visual perception skills, and visual-motor coordination.
Certified non-toxic, BPA-Free, Lead-Free and Phthalates-Free.
Melissa & Doug Primary Lacing Beads
This is another lacing set, but with beads but is still good for open ended toys. The toy comes with 30 colorful beads in 6 different colors, and in a variety of different shapes.
This toy helps to develop fine motor, cognitive, and visual perception skills while promoting hand-eye coordination.
Skoolzy Preschool Large Lacing Beads for Toddlers
I know it probably seems as though I keep going with the lacing toys, but they are such wonderful open ended toys for toddlers.
They are fun toys that really teach and that is what makes them so great.
The Skoolzy lacing beads come with a total of 30 large string beads in 5 different colors and comes with a travel tote.
A great occupational therapy toy, children can sort and lace as they learn colors and shapes.
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