SmartMax My First Safari Animals

Magnetic animals for hands too small for anything fiddly.

Eighteen pieces — soft animal parts that click onto magnetic bars, so a one-year-old can build a giraffe without any dexterity at all. Then, inevitably, put the giraffe's head on the zebra's body, which is the actual point.

SmartMax is the magnetic construction side of the same Belgian company behind SmartGames, built deliberately chunky and safe for the 1 to 5 age bracket. Compatible with every other SmartMax set, so it extends rather than gathers dust.

Perfect for: toddlers, first birthdays, grandparents after something that lasts, and the crazy combos that follow within about ninety seconds.