Toy brand staple Care Bears are celebrating everyone's uniqueness with its brand new Togetherness Bear. It was rated well among our Little Lab testers who found it soft and cuddly.
This washable paint ensures they can get their creativity flowing while keeping it stress-free for you. Parents and children alike enjoyed that it isn't super messy, but keep in mind that it uses a thicker consistency than normal paint textures to keep from dripping. There's a reason this won a Good Housekeeping Toy Award in — kids can customize their furry friends , rinse and repeat as many times as they'd like.
Just be prepared to soak them a bit to erase the past scribbles. Each set includes four pets and six markers, plus a scrub tub and brush so kids can repeatedly color the dogs, cat and rabbit. She can let her imagination go and role-play with the 27 mix-and-match pieces in this dress-up trunk that includes complete outfits for Ariel, Belle and Rapunzel. Sneak in some science with these cute critters that help kids learn the basics of coding.
These animals are a great screen-free way to introduce STEM principles, critical thinking , problem-solving and other skills as kids go through story-based adventures and challenges. Kids can plant real seeds around the border of this playset, and watch as a garden magically grows. Then, a fairy and a unicorn figure can frolic around the flowers, across the bridge, into the light-up mushroom house it turns on when you blow on it and past the working water pump.
You can also connect this with other My Fairy Garden sets. Take those blanket forts to the next level with this set of rods and connectors no more using the couch and chairs. She can build a rocket one day, and a castle tower the next. It comes with nearly 70 pieces, but blankets are not included. This globe lets kids travel the world through the magic of augmented reality. By using an app, kids can learn more about the history, geography and environment of each region by zooming in with a tablet.
There are more than 1, world facts included! This playset is basically a jumbo-sized flower pot that opens up to reveal secret compartments filled with 30! Best of all, the Blume doll can be "re-blumed" multiple times in the playset. She'll be on her way to building an entire Blume world. This game gets kids to work on matching and memory skills , and at the same time teaches them about countries around the world.
There are 24 pairs to match, each representing a different place around the globe. If the name alone wasn't enough to get you interested in this cute pup, the interactive toy will!
If you rub Ricky's sensors or speak to him, he will perform different moves and make sounds. Plus kids loved when his food comes out "the other end. Kids always love this textured foam, and now they can combine molding the foam with collecting the characters. Each pod contains a fantasy friend for kids to find and collect, and they can continue to play with the squishy compound, which is designed to not dry out.
The collectibles pop apart and kids can trade heads and bodies to make fun new combinations. She can strut her stuff on the stage with some animal backup. The Pet Starz friends can repeat what you say or sing , and dance including doing an awesome hair-whip. Remove the collar, and it becomes a sparkly bracelet. This board game is a kid-friendly version of the popular Rush Hour puzzle game for older kids and adults.
It's a great gift idea for kids since it'll help develop their critical thinking skills as they play. It comes with 40 different challenges that get increasingly more difficult as you play along.
This toy combines all the classic fun of Barbie with the excitement of a surprise, collectible toy. There are 50 surprises included, including a Barbie doll dip her in water to "reveal" which one you get , a Chelsea doll, three pets and plenty of accessories.
This water painting toy is fantastic for occupying bored kids. Just fill the paintbrush with water, and as kids "paint" with it, it'll reveal colors and hidden pictures throughout the book.
There are a variety of themes available, from letters and numbers to fairytales and farm animals. The water brush is easy for kids to grip and stores easily in the front cover. There's no mess, and once it dries the colors disappear again, so you can use it over and over. Bindi Irwin lends her voice to this talking microscope, which comes loaded with more than scientific facts.
The slides feature 60 beautiful full-color images, and you can switch it to quiz mode to see how much your kids retain. Stomp Rocket gets kids outside and moving, jumping on the air pump that launches the rocket into the sky. They'll unconsciously learn about physics as they adjust the flight path angle and force applied to counter the weather, like wind. This particular set includes three planes: a looper curves , a glider soars and a wildcat stunts , each requiring different inputs for the desired trajectories.
Fingerlings are still hot! These characters respond to sound, motion and touch. The fun fox will blink, turn its head, make fox chatter babble and even kiss at you. It's available in lots of fun characters and colors — there's even a series of narwhals!
It's never been easier for kids to create their own, awesome videos. This camera comes with animated backgrounds, easy editing capabilities right on the camera and special effects like time-lapse video. It also comes with a green screen to use as a background. Lots of times, you get a fun, cool compound, but don't have ideas about what to do with it.
The mesmerizing Foam Alive kit comes with scoopers, domes and cones so kids can make their own pretend ice cream. It also comes with three colors of foam. When she seems like she past prime Play-Doh age, this set gives the compound another dimension. She can build her own treehouse out of Play-Doh, and then personalize it with windows, doors and even a slide. It comes with seven colors of compound and two figures to play with.
Every product is independently selected by obsessive editors. Things you buy through our links may earn us a commission. Here, we home in on the 5-year-olds. With this in consideration, we present you with the following assortment of gift ideas, guided by professionals like Sachs as well as toy historians and Instagram parents. Months after first getting the game, rarely did a single day go by without his 5-and-a-half-year-old requesting at least one round.
The game is easy for kids to understand — you uncover a series of clues and a group of suspects, zeroing in on the guilty fox through a process of elimination — yet the choices to be made during each turn require critical thinking, planning, and teamwork. The collaborative nature of play minimizes conflict between siblings or friends, and allows parents to get in on the action as well.
Perler Beads are great for honing the already advanced fine motor control of a 5-year-old, while also allowing for open-ended artistic creation — the thousands of rainbow colors can be put in endless combinations onto pegboards in all kinds of shapes. The eggs are stackable and come with a storybook.
Made from percent-recycled plastic milk jugs, the pieces comprise all the essentials for growing produce right on the windowsill: three planting pots, soil pods, trowel, and different kinds of organic seeds. With this kit, kids are building robots of a variety of animals and then actually getting to watch them move, explains Laurie Schacht, chief toy officer of The Toy Insider.
A step-by-step manual makes the projects manageable with minimal adult assistance and involves steps like assembling LEGO-like blocks into the shape of, say, a sea otter or a fox, and then connecting them to a ready-made motor. Kiwi Crates, which are made for kids of all ages, were included in our 2-year-old guide and deserve to be brought up yet again as you can subscribe to the monthly kits for the 5-to-8 age range too.
Each kit is perfectly suited to the rapidly developing mind of the kindergartner and early-elementary-age child. Kiwi Kits always have hands-on maker and art projects, and they feature reading materials and integration with online activities. This microscope helps kids learn about the world around them, from the ants in their backyard to the snowflakes on their front stoop. If you turn off the zoom, it also works as a standard camera, letting kids take pictures and videos that they can upload to the computer.
She notes that blocks continue to be powerful educational tools for children as old as 9. The open-ended nature of the blocks allows them to grow with a child, teaching cause and effect, spatial awareness, and fine-motor skills while preparing them for learning math.
This city block set from Areaware will inspire conversations about city life and let kids build block versions of their own cities. The set comes with a paddock horse stable, an Arabian mare and foal, a rider, and accessories like a saddle, bridle, blanket, hay feeder, drinking trough — in other words, everything a 5-year-old might need to recreate a true-to-life scene.
The kit includes 12 individually wrapped clay eggs and 12 chisel tools. Doling them out over several weeks proved a bit more reasonable—and extended the fun. After a few days of watching them flitter about, we released them in the park. We bought the Moon in My Room for my son when he was a toddler for a couple of reasons, the first being that he was afraid of sleeping in the dark. The remote which we initially kept to ourselves lets him choose a phase and adjust the brightness, depending on his mood or how the actual moon looks outside.
As parents, we appreciate that the night-light shuts off by itself. Our son is now 10, but the moon is still on his wall. Aside from a live parrot, a treasure chest is the ultimate in pirate-themed accessories.
The middle slat of the bottom pops out to reveal a secret compartment, and the chest as a whole is large enough for stowing small toys and other miscellany. We added these jewels. Can there ever be too much treasure? They are available in a range of cute prints, including dinosaurs, monsters, unicorns, and cars.
And the designs on the jacket change color when they get wet for example, a white dog will turn purple and revert to their original state when dry again. The color shifts are really fun though after nearly two years of wear, many of the designs have permanently changed color , and my son has a ball putting up the hood and tromping through the elements without a care in the world.
All the kindergartners in my life are united in their love of this construction toy , which combines the joy of brandishing a power tool with the eternal awesomeness of dinos. The set comes with a child-safe power drill, a hand drill, and the parts for three dinosaurs these can be constructed to form a T-rex, a velociraptor, and a triceratops. An actual instrument, the Mini has nylon strings the first three strings on a real guitar, making the transition to a 6-string easier , and it is a comfortable fit for little hands.
The Mini is suggested for ages 3 and older; the starting age for the next model up, the Pro Acoustic , is 8; and the Pro VI Acoustic is for ages 12 and older. Handmade by the Amish in Indiana, the set includes 14 marbles and 45 sloping tracks, and it has blocks made of tunneled wood that can be stacked and combined any way you choose.
Together, kids and adults can build marble-racing runs in endless configurations that are as fun to design as they are to play with. Instead of castles and cubes, Clixo pieces can be used to build curving, jointed, movable creations. The piece Rainbow Pack has a variety of brightly colored, differently shaped pieces, and it comes with three spinners to make things like pinwheels, whirligigs, or helicopters.
I sometimes divvy up the pack for car rides, and the pieces stack together efficiently for cleanup. Willems ended the series at 25 books, and this set which comes with metal Elephant and Piggie bookends has all of them. Throw in the stuffed versions of Elephant and Piggie for the full story-time experience. A 5-year-old may be ready for that classic big gift: a first real bicycle. The semi-knobby tires perform well on dirt or pavement.
Ninja Warrior—style classes are popular in our community—they give high-energy kids an introduction to gymnastics and martial arts at an age when they might not be able to focus on traditional training in those practices. When the pandemic shut down the local Ninja gyms, our friends replaced their memberships with this fun obstacle-course kit for the backyard.
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