Some of the commonalities in early learning toys are animal or doll shaped toys that enable simple artificial intelligence such as dialogue, body position recognition and interaction with people. Early learning is only part of the toy's function and is interspersed with the interactive process. The characteristic of this kind of early learning toy is that it greatly dilutes the "teaching" and is used more for "playing", truly realising education and fun.

According to the needs of children's growth and development, the selection of early learning toys should have the following six characteristics.

1. The colours of early learning toys. Young children's perception is not yet as perfect and mature as adults, so often those bright, prominent colours first to attract their attention. For example, a red flower among all the greenery is often more attractive to them than a white flower among the grey. Therefore, the colours of early learning toys should be bright and prominent to attract their attention from the very beginning.

2. The image of the early learning toy. The purpose of toys for young children is to let them indirectly understand nature, understand society and develop their thinking skills, if the image of the toy is too far from the real objective things, it will teach young children a wrong knowledge and concept.

3. The sound of early learning toys. Many developed countries, the simulation of children's toys pay great attention to the sound. Manufacturers often use advanced technology to toys installed with the shape of the audio, so as to produce a very good effect.

4, The safety of early learning toys. Some toys come with a great deal of danger at the factory. Either angles such as edges, or sharp and hard such as cones, a little inattention, will make the child injured. There are many reasons for this situation, but one of the main ones is that there is not enough knowledge about children's toys. Therefore, mothers must put safety in the first place when buying early childhood toys for their children.

5. The durability of early childhood toys. Whether parents or manufacturers, should start from the characteristics of young children, carefully selected, manufacturing toys with the level of the times, so that they have the characteristics of resistance to hitting and smashing.

6. Weight of early education toys. General toys should be made of light plastic, thin white tin, light wood, velvet, etc. This is in line with the characteristics of young children. The strength of young children is weak, can not hold too heavy toys, so should buy lightweight toys.