Seven toys for the first two years of floor play, shipped by our partner store
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My First Barn Plush Set with Farm Animals and Play Mat
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My First Barn Plush Set with Farm Animals and Play Mat

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Our barn is a soft house a baby can empty and fill again. Six farm animals live inside, each one finished in a different fabric, and the mat underneath turns the whole thing into a tummy time scene rather than a single object.

$18.98

Price and stock are held by the partner store and can change at any time.

  • A plush barn, a printed farm mat and six animals come together as one set, so a baby has somewhere to put things and somewhere to take them from.
  • Every animal is cut from a different material. Some hold a rattle, some crinkle under a squeeze, and the difference between them is the point.
  • Two openings in the barn walls let small hands fill and dump without help, which is the repetition that builds a steady grasp.
  • A mirror on the side panel catches a baby mid-play and gives back a face, the first object most infants study for longer than a minute.
  • Cotton and plush throughout, stitched without small parts, and washable after the months of mouthing that come with this age.
Specification
Age6 to 12 months and up
In the setBarn, play mat, six sensory animals
MaterialsPlush and natural cotton
SoundsRattle and crinkle, no batteries
CareWashable

Why we made it this way

Six to twelve months is when a baby stops only looking and starts moving objects on purpose. The hands can hold, the fingers are learning to let go, and almost every new skill arrives through repetition that looks like nothing much from the outside. We built the barn around that stage rather than around a theme.

The handle matters more than it sounds. A barn that can be carried moves with the baby between rooms, which means the toy keeps working in the kitchen while dinner happens and on a blanket in the park, not only in the corner where it was unpacked.

Parents tend to use the mat first and the barn second. For a baby who still tires quickly on their front, the printed mat gives something to look at close up; the animals come into it a few weeks later, once reaching across the body has become easy.

Bring it home

My first barn plush set is stocked by our partner store, which handles delivery, returns and any replacement part. $18.98 at the time this page was built.