Your one year old is finding their feet, and how can we encourage this stage in their development? Hape has some good old favourites, –  ones they’ve brought right up to the minute. These carefully considered  Push Pals by Hape are in of wood, and in vibrant  colours,  all so simple and welcoming. Our eighteen month old tester just adored them. The bee with flapping wings, and the duck with its moveable, webbed feet which imitates a ducks slapping feet.  She pushed, pulled and sat down to examine them more closely, then up to see the wings of the bee’s wings a go-go and the webbed feet a slap-slap.

The Hape Push Pal, (Ducky) is available to buy online for £19.20 from YesBebe. (Bumblebee) is available to buy online for £19.20 from YesBebe.

And what about the four-wheeled Scoot Around which is perfectly-sized for your little one’s Le Mans adventures, roaring about building confidence.. Extraordinarily stable and maneuverable, with rubber wheels that don’t mark the floor and in  joyous colours.  The choice of higher handlebars ensures a continued comfortable, upright body position with even more room for growth. The Scoot Around is available to buy online for £58.93 from Amazon.

Oooh, and look at the handlegrips on   Hape’s Little Red Rider, the quality wooden walker which encourages early walking from as young as 12 months +, as well as nurturing your child’s sense of balance. But when they’re too tired to walk the Little Red Rider  transforms into a foot powered ride-on. There’s even a a little tray to store away toys as the end of the day. Or maybe they’d prefer to be van drivers for a while, transporting goods from one depot to another. Hape’s Little Red Rider is available to buy online for £52.99 from Amazon.