If your kid is like most kids these days, they see you on your cellphone and immediately want to play with it themselves! The VTech Touch and Swipe Baby Phone is one of the best toys for 2 year olds because it perfectly meets your child’s need for their very own pretend cell phone.

This inexpensive toy comes loaded with 12 apps that respond to touch and light up. A slide button at the bottom of this pretend phone toggles between the app screen where they can check out apps for shapes, letters, time and weather plus more.

The music mode on this phone controlled by the toggle button has songs to help teach toddlers about ABC’s, 123’s and first words. The 15 sing-along songs loaded into it along with the apps will help to keep your little one engaged. With all those apps and songs in a single toy, this is a great gift for 2 year olds.

Bath time is a whole lot more fun with toys that can keep 2 year olds interested and engaged while you help them wash. This fun and adorable ferry boat lets you bring a little maritime fun into your bathtub. It is made of 100% recycled plastic from milk jugs.

The Green Toys Ferry Boat meets FDA food contact standards and is BPA, phthalate, and PVC free, so there aren’t any toxins in this toy. The ramp folds up and down to load and unload cars from inside the bath or from the side of the tub. The Green toy ferry boat floats lightly on the surface of the water while also being easy to push down under before gently floating back up. The quality of this ferry boat toy is great and is sure to be a bath time favorite for your 2 year old!

This Thomas the Train Engine play tent might be the easiest to assemble toy you ever encounter. The play structure from Play Hut twists into a flat shape for easy storage, but quickly unfolds into the full size tent when you need it.

No assembly required beyond twisting it open and shut. It makes a great play zone for your 2 year old to spend time in. Putting some toys in the play tent gives your toddler a fun Thomas the Train themed zone to play in, although a fire engine design is also available for little firefighters.

The measurements are 38 by 52 by 26 inches (H x L x W) allowing this tent to accommodate up to four toddlers at any time. It comes with a convenient carrying case so that you can take the structure with you, and has an optional tunnel that you can open to connect it to other play structures.

This beautiful toy combines the fun of a xylophone with balls to tap through holes with the xylophone hammer. As your toddler hammers the balls into the holes, they fall on different parts of the xylophone and introduce your child to the different musical notes. 2 year old boys and girls will love hearing the xylophone sounds as a reward for their hard hammering efforts.

If tapping the balls through gets boring, the xylophone under the holes slides out so your kid can play it with the hammer directly. You will love seeing your child develop audio recognition skills as they realize that different notes come out of different parts of the xylophone. If you need more convincing that this is one of the best toys for 2 year olds,

The Hape Pound & Tap Bench won the 2011 Creative Child Toy of the Year by Parenting Magazine. It comes with nontoxic finishes on solid wood, making this a great wooden to toy for 2 year olds that will last them well into their 3rd or even 4th years.

This is a classic, no brainer toy for 2 year olds. Mega Bloks Classic 80-Piece Big Building Bag are one of the best toys for 2 year old boys and girls alike because it helps to develop a creative side early on, even if the only thing your toddler builds are towers to kick over.

Mega Bloks is a great trainer for block toys they might like later on such as Legos, all while developing coordination skills as they fit the pieces together. These BPA free building blocks for toddlers come in a durable PVC free bag that zips up to quickly put the blocks away.

The big blocks are easy for 2 year olds to assemble and will have them entertained time and time again. The set comes with a little car on wheels to stack the blocks on and push around. If your kid really loves this set there are other Mega Bloks products that these blocks will also work with.