Top Gifts for $10 or Under for One-Year-Old Boys and Girls

There are times when you need to buy a non-gender specific gift for children of a certain age, in this case one-year-olds. Perhaps there's you're attending a neighborhood, church or community gift swap. Or your daycare provider or play group is exchanging holiday gifts. There are many toys which are appropriate for either a one-year-old boy or a one-year old girl.

Anyone who has been around one-year-olds know that they are quite content with and empty tissue box or a big wooden spoon and some pots and pans. Because they are easily entertained it is not necessary to spend a ton of money on a gift for a one-year-old. In fact, it's possible to spend very little. Here is aholiday gift guide for buying gifts for $10 and under for one-year-old boys or one-year-old girls.

Gifts Under $10 for One-Year-old Boys and Girls

Baby's First Blocks by Fisher-Price. The only thing one-year-old boys and one-year-old girls like better than stacking things ups is knocking them down. This set of 12 large plastic blocks come in different geometric and organic shapes and four different fun colors. As a bonus, the cover of the block box is a shape sorter, encouraging children to learn the difference between the four differently shaped blocks. These blocks for one-year-old boys and girls retail for $9.99.

Bucket of Beads by Sassy Baby. Help any one-year-old girl or boy develop hand and eye coordination with these colorful and easy-to-grasp "beads." The Bucket of Beads is a set of 18 textured shapes that can be linked together. The beads store conveniently in a handled plastic bucket. Sassy Baby recommends this toy for babies nine months and up. Retail price: $9.99.

Chatter Telephone by Fisher-Price. When you see a toy in a store, and you remember playing with that toy as a child, they must still be making it for a reason. This is one of the most basic, battery-free and fun toys you can buy for a one-year-old boy or girl. It does not have a lot of pieces, just acolorful phone on wheels that a one-year-old can pull along by its string. Retail price: $5.

Corn Popper by Fisher-Price. Take another trip down memory lane....Remember the fun Corn Popper that you pushed around the house? The one that makes the pleasant "pop pop pop" sounds when the colorful balls bounce up and down? It's been around since 1957. Any toy that has stood the test of time is worth giving a spin. Fortunately, classic toys like this are still being made and are available at a reasonable price. Retail price: $10.

Linking Letters by Sassy, Inc. One-year-old babies love to chew everything, including plastic links. This set of 26 colorful links has a link for each letter of the alphabet. Boys and girls with both love to carry and chew the links. The Sassy Letter Links are textured, encouraging the one-year-old baby to touch them and pick them up.

If you connect two or three links together a typical one-year-old boy or girl will have fun waving it around in the ear and making noise with the letter links. The links are also useful because they can be used to attach toys to strollers, high chairs, or baby chairs. This gift for one-year old boys and one-year-old girls retails for under $10.

Lil' Snoopy by Fisher-Price. Everybody loves puppies, especially one-year old boys and girls. Why not appease their petcuriosity with a no-mess, no-fur puppy of their very own. This small puppy is just the right size for one-year- olds to pull by its thin red leash, or grasp with both hands. The Lil' Puppy, which retails for under $10, is an active little dog. When the one-year-old tugs the leash to take Lil' Puppy for a walk, the puppy barks in approval, wags his little tail, turns his cute head and wiggles his brown ears. Fisher-Price's recommended price: $6.

Pull Back Racer with Wayne One-year-olds love to watch toys speed by them. Any pull back toy will do that. This Pull Back Racer With Wayne (Wayne is removable) is for one-year-old boys and girls. Retail price: $9.99. Sassy Baby also makes a popping pull back turtle that also retails for $10 and under.

There are inexpensive and fun toys for one-year-old boys and girls. This holiday guide is just a sampling of the toys available for under $10 for one-year-old boys or one-year-old girls.