On this list of Kmart toys, NAPA paediatric therapists have compiled their favorite toys for babies, children, and toddlers! In addition to being a ton of fun for kids, these toys were also chosen based on their specific capabilities for helping develop cause and effect skills, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, motor planning, and executive functioning skills. Happy playing!
These awesome musical instruments are a simple and easy way of teaching your little ones that their actions result in a response. This helps your child to develop early communication and cognition skills. The instruments rely on the lightest touch meaning these toys are perfect for kids that haven’t yet developed the fine motor strength to push on buttons.
Kmart has a range of resources that can be used for motor skill development, sitting, crawling, walking, balancing, jumping, and throwing. Many of these toys can be used on their own or be used together to create an awesome obstacle course.
This is a great for encouraging your child to stay in tummy time, propping their body up and using their arms to interact with the water.
This is a fantastic sensory tool that will encourage your child to move in and out of the tent (crawling/ creeping/ walking), encourages lots of pretend play and can also be used with tunnel, as an end point of an obstacle course or could be set up in your home as a regulation area!
The balance trainer is great to use for children to develop their sitting balance, tolerance in four-point position and standing balance.
Children can work on their balance, motor planning and coordination.
Great for kids to practice their balance, stepping up and stepping down.
This is great for developing eye hand coordination, throwing, motor planning and another great obstacle course item.
There are endless ways to use this set including stepping over the markers, walking around the marker, jumping through the hoops, climbing under the poles.
Get ready to move, stretch and exercise as a family with this fun yoga spin game, such a great way to develop strength and encourage mindfulness in your family.
There are some really incredible and affordable toys at Kmart for all ages that are great for developing fine motor skills.
This water drawing mat allows children to draw with just water and water will evaporate over time, allowing it to be used over and over again. It’s a great way to encourage children to hold pencil, make marks, learn to draw and write without creating too much mess!
Great to use during bath time and in water play to encourage your child to develop hand strength by holding and squeezing.
Kmart stocks a great basic tool set for play-doh which encourages a range of hand skills including pushing, squeezing, manipulating and bimanual skills.
A great way to encourage fine motor skills, bimanual control and concentration. Create patterns for your child to copy and thread to encourage pattern recognition, colour recognition and visual perception skills.
This game is great for developing grasp on a utensil, fine motor accuracy and eye hand coordination.
Kmart now stocks ‘Smart Games’, which are multi-level logic games great for developing children’s executive functioning skills. Executive functioning is the cognitive processing of our brains and include problem solving, planning, working memory, flexible thinking and attention. There are many of these Kmart kids games available for different age groups. We narrowed it down to our top two choices.
Link: Amazon (currently unavailable online at Kmart)
Link: Amazon (currently unavailable online at Kmart)
With multiple clinic locations worldwide, NAPA is committed to helping children lead their happiest, healthiest lives. At NAPA, we take an individualised approach to therapy because we understand that each child is unique with very specific needs. For this reason, no two therapeutic programs are alike. If your child needs our services, we will work closely with you to select the best therapies for them, creating a customised program specific to your child’s needs and your family’s goals. Let your child’s journey begin today by contacting us to learn more.
