2023 Gift Guide—Empowering Gifts for 1 Year-Old Girls

If you're looking for gift ideas for one year-old girls, you're in the right place! We dug through the hottest new books and toys, as well as some old favorites, so you won't have to.

Below are our favorite toys and books that encourage girls to grow up to be strong and successful. For the littlest girls in our lives, we focused on gifts that help them build basic skills, without reinforcing gender stereotypes.

TOYVENTIVE Wooden Kids Baby Activity Cube - Girls set

This activity cube is really affordable for how much fun's packed into it. It features bright colors, patterns and shapes, beads that can be moved around, a clock and so much more. We also like that it's made of wood.

Baby Einstein and Hape Magic Touch Piano

This piano is a fun way to introduce little girls to music. It includes three sheets of music with six different songs and is also perfect for freestyling!

Fisher-Price Giant Rock-A-Stack

This classic toy helps girls develop gross motor skills like balance and coordination, fine motor skills like dexterity and hand-eye coordination, and thinking skills by sorting and stacking.

Infantino Go gaga! Soft Foam Puzzle Mat

This soft mat is perfect for encouraging physical activity and play at an early age.

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This Is Music: Drums by Rekha S. Rajan

This book introduces little girls to the "four instrument families:" drums, horns, strings, and voice. Written by a world-renown music educator, this gift is great for any girl.

Little Treasures Board Book: Endearments from Around the World

by Jacqueline K. Ogburn

We love the sweet sentiment of this board book, illustrated by Caldecott-winning artist Chris Raschka. Little Treasures celebrates terms of endearment from around the world.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: Baby's First Book of Extraordinary Women

This book takes the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls we all know and love and makes them accessible to little girls! The book introduces little ones to amazing woment from history like Misty Copeland, Amelia Earhart, Frida Khalo and more.