Infants:

• O-Balls by Oballs. $8-17. Easy to squish, soft for infants.  Can play catch with infant; teaches motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Babies like to teeth on it.  PVC and Latex free.  Can be put into dishwasher. 
  

• Plan Toys fruit.  $16. Wooden fruit has velcro so when child "cuts" it the noise is realistic. Plan Toys is a "green" company.  The fruit is made of rubberwood once the rubberwood tree stops producing.
• Toddler Tote by Laurie. $16. Stacking pegs crepe, colorful puzzles.  Teaches concentration, fine motor skills, color & shape recognition.  Lots of fun in a small carrying case. Works for restaurants and traveling.

• Take apart Plane and Take apart Crane Truck by Battat. $ 26.50. Use your cordless drill motor to .... well... take it apart and put it back together. Also comes in a crane truck.
  

• Your Body Puzzle by Belzac/HaPe. $24. A wooden multi-layer puzzle allows you to go from clothes to skin to organs to bones and back. Both girls and boys are available.
  
• Eye Can Art.  $25.  Seattle-based, women owned company. Everything you need for an art project in a can.  Projects tested in classrooms first.  Also available in Wax Drawing kit, Book in a Box kit, Sumi-e kit.

• Root Beer Kit. $27.50/ $8 refills. Makes two gallons of root beer.  Good science project for the entire family.  Why do you need yeast?  So much sugar?  Where does the carbonation come from?  Takes about three days to ferment.  Good tasting; a bit like Thomas Kemper.
  
• Mad Libs. $3.99.  Good and entertaining way to learn the parts of speech.  Good price.