Toys and Gifts for bedridden children

For children who are ill or injured enough to be bedridden, it is a special challenge to find enough activities to keep them busy and amused.

When using television or DVDs, careful selection can make it an educational and enriching experience as well as fun. Try to provide some sort of additional activity as well. Toys that can keep their minds active include jigsaws and small puzzles, drawing and craft equipment, and small musical instruments. A good adjustable bed table is a good investment.

• Young Minds - Educational products and toys catering for all children from newborn up. Based in Sydney, they offer free gift wrapping and flat rate delivery Australia wide.
  • Puzzles - Jigsaw puzzles, cube puzzles
  • Bilingual Dolls and Dolls
  • Budkins by Le Toy Van are collectable wooden bendable figures. Play with them alone or with your Dolls House, Fairy castle, Castle, Fire Station, Farm or Hospital
  • Papo Figures - Includes lions, knights on horses, merlins, kings, giraffes, knights, fantasy packs, elephants, dragons, fairies, crocodiles, chimpanzees with babies and cheetahs, queens, rhinoceros and zebras.
     
• Cool Things is all about the latest cool gadgets, gizmos and gifts that make you say "That's Cool."  Check out their
  • Sleepy Monkey with a tummy and ears made of a special new safety formulated glow in the dark fabric that when drawn on with a special UV pen starts to glow. Great for comforting and distracting children who have trouble falling asleep.
  • Glowing Gizmos for nightlights and projections.
  • Gifts for children include lots of novel gifts to keep them amused.
  • Soft Toys - often with a twist
     
• My Wooden Toys - is a Western Australian family run business offering quality, affordable wooden, educational, and fun toys for delivery Australia-wide.
  • Wooden Toys - includes puzzles, threading and lacing toys, dress up dolls, rattles and games. Many of these toys are reminiscent of the wooden toys we used to play with as children.
  • Puzzles - Brain Teasers, Tangram, Cubes and More - silhouette, princess and medieval castle puzzles, Tangrams, brainteasers, infants' chunky puzzles. Puzzles help your child with fine motor skills and spatial awareness.
     
• Peanut Gallery - Australian online toyshop offering a beautiful selection of wooden, educational and traditional toys for children aged birth to 8 years. Based in Victoria, flat delivery fee Australia-wide by Australia Post Parcel Post. For toys to help children challenge their minds during a number of stages of their development see their Puzzles & Games
   
• PeeDee Toys is a Melbourne-based toy shop with the widest range of brand-name toys. Delivers Australia-wide and to New Zealand, USA and Canada, England and Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. For games for children and the whole family - popular pastimes like Sudoku, Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble - see their Games & Puzzles