We know how important it is for kids to learn, that’s why we put together a list of toys that can help your kids learn while having fun!
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Age 2
Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Crawl Around Car
Mega Bloks Build ‘N Learn Math Building Set
You may just uncover a little math genius with this award winning 120 math themed blocks! Each decorated block features a math theme such as numbers or symbols so your child can learn basic math skills with confidence. The toy will enable your child to learn counting, equations, and other mathematical functions. The blocks will encourage creativity and provide endless fun. You can build in many ways including a school building or you can stack them on the rolling wheelbase to make a yellow school bus. Keep the learning going as you arrange and rearrange the numbers and symbols anyway you would like!
Melissa & Doug Farm Wooden Chunky Puzzle (8 pcs)
This extra thick wooden farm animal and barn puzzle is easy for babies to grasp. It’s a great beginner puzzle that will help them strengthen their hand-eye coordination and motor skills. It will allow babies to become more creative as they pretend to play with animals as they can be placed standing upright.
Age 3+
Brackitz Pulley Set for Kids | Educational Construction Set | STEM Learning | Building Toy | 77 Pc Set
This 77 piece educational construction set will encourage your child to learn spatial skills, cooperative play and pretend play scenarios. The set includes directions for 8 contraptions such as a moving drawbridge to a 4 foot flying zip line to a bucket escalator. Your little engineer will have tons of fun building and cranking contraptions that are able to haul, lift, slide, and move up/down with the pulleys, axes, hubs, hook, crank and strings that are also included with this amazing set.
PicassoTiles 100 Piece Set 100pcs Magnet Building Tiles Clear Magnetic 3D Building Blocks Construction Playboards, Creativity beyond Imagination, Inspirational, Recreational, Educational Conventional
This Picasso 100 Piece Magnet Set is a fun and entertaining toy that your child can play alone or encourage group play. You will see how imaginative and creative your child can be when they build their masterpiece. Your child will also gain a strong sense of colors, geometrical shapes (3D forms), magnetic polarity, number counts, and architectural design. The limits are endless with these Picasso tiles since each piece of tile can be easily replaced and you can build as big as your heart desires by adding as many pieces as you would like.
Kid K’NEX – Budding Builders Building Set – 100 Pieces – Ages 3 and Up – Preschool Educational Toy
These colorful and premium quality K’NEX 100 Piece Building Blocks are a fun way to help your child learn the basic concepts of building.This toy will also help with hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and problem solving. It comes with a big plastic tub to store your built models and loose blocks. It also comes with special pieces such as the colorful eyes, curly tails, flappy ears, big feet, bendable joints, and spinning propellers that your child can use to create their favorite animal by choosing from one of the 50 different animals on the instruction sheet that is included. Your child can be imaginative and creative by building figures or complex structures on their own!
Age 5+
Learning Resources Beaker Creatures Liquid Reactor Super Lab, Science Toy
This New Science collectible line from Learning Resources is a must have for all the young science fanatics. This awesome new kit incorporates an ultimate hands-on learning experience through science experiments such as the reactions of water, characteristic observations, and species classifications. Your kids will have a blast when they dissolve their reactor pads to discover which of the 35 mysterious beaker creatures will appear. In addition to this, when placing the Reactor Pods inside the Super LA’s center chamber, they will send water swirling through the tubes with the assistance of two hydro plungers, filling the chamber and triggering the surprising reaction. This will allow them to classify the mysterious beaker with the classification cards included. Is your beaker creature part of the Astrolyte, Frostonian, Oceanite, Buglette, or Minisaur family? Let’s put on our lab coat, goggles, and gloves and to find out!
Learning Resources Tumble Trax Magnetic Marble Run
The Tumble Trax Magnetic Marble Run was the awarded the Specialty Toy of the Year Award in 2016 by the Toy Industry Association. This dynamic toy allows children to uniquely create their own marble run. Empowered by magnetic pieces, its features include long, short, and curved magnetic foam pieces that can easily be repositioned to provide kids with a wide range of design combinations. This is an excellent way to develop their critical thinking skills and learning cause and effect relationships. They could build their own design or take the challenge to the next level by putting together the tracks pictured on the activity cards that are included with this set. Once finished with the roller coaster design just drop the marble and watch it come to life!
Osmo Genius Kit for iPad
The Osmo Genius Kit was awarded Time Best Inventory in 2014 and Toy of the Year in 2015. Once you have the chance to explore this kit, you can easily see how this can help promote innovation and creativity among children ages 5 to 12. This is the perfect answer for kids that can’t get off the IPad. Instead of unproductive games, it will turn their IPad into a hands-on educational tool that is entertaining and focuses on developing math, spelling, creative thinking, and drawing skills. The IPad app will react based on the kit game pieces. It comes with five award-winning games, an Osmo IPad Base, game playing pieces such as upper and lower case word tiles and stackable storage containers. For increased replayability, your child could always adjust to their skill level keeping them entertained for many years!
Age 8+
Evo App-Connected Coding Robot
Evo is the true definition of the next generation toy. Evo is a pocket-sized robot designed with polycarbonate shell, that is equip with some level of artificial intelligence. The tiny robot has been programmed with many of the latest tech innovations such as proximity sensors, bluetooth technology, optical sensors, and has enough apps in their online activity library to keep kids busy! Among the many features, the coding functionality is the most intriguing part of Evo. It teaches children programming with the OzoBlock editor or screen-free – using the stroke of a Color Code marker. Evo would be a great starting tool for anyone who are interested in computer programming. Evo is also compatible with most iOS and Android devices. Each Evo comes with a full robotics kit: USB charging cable, 1 playfield, 1 skin, carrying pouch, 4 color code markers, and Evo Experience Pack (free with Evo purchase).
Klutz LEGO Chain Reactions Craft Kit
This NAPPA Silver Award Winner was built by a team of experts who worked with educators and 11 year olds to invent the machine, then wrote a book to teach the skills and physics children need in order to create their own amazing machine. The Lego Chain Reaction Kit includes enough Legos and non-Lego parts to be able to design and build up to 10 Lego machines. From balls, strings, flags to funnels and a flag; you can really inspire to be creative. The machines are neat, and are able to swing, pivot, roll, lift, and drop. It also comes with a 78 page book that will assist your child through the projects. Having fun while learning will help with learning retention and reinforce the things they’ve learned.
Snap Circuits Jr. SC-100 Electronics Exploration Kit | Over 100 STEM Projects | 4-Color Project Manual | 30 Snap Modules | Unlimited Fun
The Snap Circuit Electronics Discovery Kit is a great choice for kids wanting to learn about electronics. It offers hands-on experience without tools or soldering. The concept is to snap the components together on the plastic grid to create a working electronic circuit or device. It contains over 30 color-coded and numbered pieces as well as real components such as snap wires, slide switches, an alarm circuit, a music integrated circuit, a speaker, and plastic grid. There are several series available which comes in more parts offering more of a challenge for the advance person. Not only will this kit teach how an electrical circuit works, but also how to design, build and following instructions.
LEGO Boost Creative Toolbox 17101 Building and Coding Kit (847 Pieces)
The LEGO Boost Creative Toolbox is one of the hottest STEM toys available. It comes with 840 LEGO pieces, plus a LEGO Move Hub that is enabled by Bluetooth low energy (BLE) connectivity, Interactive Motor and a Color & Distance sensor used to detect distance, motion and color. Kids can select which of the 5 model robots to build such as Vernie the Robot, Frankie the Cat, Guitar 4000, M.T.R.4 and Auto Builder. Each are progressively more challenging. What makes this toolbox so awesome is that each of the models are interactive like Vernie the Robot who can speak and respond to your kids and reacts to impact! LEGO creations does a great job inspiring the future and helps with innovation creativity. All robots can be controlled via a tablet or mobile phone and free downloadable app.
Ages 10+
Thames & Kosmos TKx400i Dual-LED Microscope
Your kids will be amazed when they explore the world living around them with this Thames & Kosmos TKx400i Dual – LED Microscope. They will be able to marvel at the hidden world with this awesome device since it comes equipped with precision mechanics, quality optics, and bright LED lighting. With the combination of a sturdy dense plastic base and the adjustment mechanisms it provides very reliable and exact positioning and focusing.This will expand the child’s imagination and supplement their learning with fun as they explore the gamut of different specimens. The instruction manual will instruct how to make your own slide preparations and a special magnifier function to view large objects such as an insect wing, coin, or rock. There’s also a full 48-page microscopy book for additional ideas for natural specimens to find, prepare, and observe with your microscope.
Magical Microbes MudWatt STEM Kit: Clean Energy from Mud! | Classic
The Magical microbes MudWatt will generate excitement for kids as they experiment with learning what’s naturally living in the soil in their own world. The MudWatt leverages the electricity-generating microbes as living fuel cells. Kids can measure their power, track the microbe growth, and even unlock the “Electric Microbe” comic book! They will have every opportunity to experience different types of soil and food from the refrigerator to maximize the power output.
