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Under 1 Year Old
1. A four-wheeled, Hape "Scoot Around Ride-On" wood bike with rubber wheels that'll take it easy on your floors as your toddler develops motor skills as well as strength and balance (because wood ain't light).
2. A Fisher-Price Rollin' Rovee with four play modes as the baby grows from an infant to a toddler to a preschooler teaching the alphabet, counting, opposites, and how to follow directions while busting out 190+ sounds, songs, and phrases.
3. "Rock me, Amadeus!" A magic cube so kiddies can compose and remix some of Mozart's classical music masterpieces. It's baby's first beats lab but, like, totally classy and classical.
4. A Learning Resources "Max The Fine Motor Moose" for building coordination, hand-strength, and color-matching skills in the tiniest of hands. And now we really know what antlers are for!
5. A talking and singing LeapFrog Yum-2-3 Toaster to learn all about numbers, colors, and the most important meal of the day! The best part? Can't burn the toast.
1+ Years Old
6. A set of handcrafted, nontoxic constellation blocks to learn the symbols, names, hemispheres, and scale of magnitude for 16 constellations in the night sky.
7. An Educational Insights plush vegetable garden for kids who show an interest in developing a green thumb (and parents who'd prefer them not to track any more dirt into the house).
8. A "Learn-A-Lot Avocados" game, because one's love of guacamole's main ingredient should start at an early age. Plus this toy really helps with the old color identification and matching skills.
9. A three-wheeled micro scooter with an adjustable handlebar to grow with your toddler as they improve their balance and motor skills while whizzing by at seemingly breakneck speeds.
10. A Learning Resources "Peekaboo Learning Farm" with five barnyard finger puppets (and their respective colorful barns) for little hands to develop motor skills and little minds to begin to master some math.
11. A personalized superhero cape to get your kids into cosplay while encouraging them to create their own characters and stories. Plus, who doesn't look great in a cape?
12. A Manhattan Toy wooden pony activity center with flapping ears, gliders, spinning dials, bead runs, a shape sorter, and letter recognition which makes total horse sense for your toddler.
3+ Years Old
13. A three-chord Loog Mini acoustic guitar so you can start teaching your little punk kid the entire Ramones catalog. Comes with flashcards with chord diagrams and full access to the Loog Guitar app. Hey! Ho! Let's go!
14. A Little Tikes Rescue Tales "Scrub 'n Groom" bathtub playset that really works! Kids can practice giving the plush Chocolate Lab an actual bath (with water) and a working shower head. Best of all? No wet dog smell!
15. A pair of "Fly-noculars" (that's a plane + binoculars) so kids can explore the great outdoors up close (but, you know, from far away). And if it gets too hot out, the Fly-noculars turn into a personal fan. Bonus: personalize the plane with different sets of included stickers.
16. An "itsy pack" of Clixo building toys combining origami, magnets, and building blocks for a completely new and unique way for kids to create and play.
17. An Educational Insights "Design & Drill Bolt Buddies" rocket, because there's no better way to get kids into STEM than by building a spaceship for an astronaut and his puppy pal and using the eco-friendly packaging as a play set.
18. A 22-piece shaking, tapping, beating, and blowing wooden instrument set to serve as your toddler's very own beat-lab, just as long as they don't actually beat anyone with their new musical toys.
19. A handmade engraved child play workbench for teaching twisting, sawing, and screwing skills with five toy screws and nuts, three toy nails, five toy tools, and more. The kids will be watching This Old House in no time!
20. A FurReal "Moodwings" baby dragon interactive pet toy with flapping wings and eyes and a tummy that changes color depending on its mood. So yes, this dragon is indeed a mood.
21. A built-to-last, no lead, no plastic, nontoxic, 14-piece magnetic wooden block set for kids to create all manner of creatures and objects that will serve as a soft introduction to all types of modern art.
22. An Anna or an Elsa Frozen 2 musical adventure singing doll that belts out "Some Things Never Change" and "Show Yourself," respectively. At least you can give the TV a rest (but not your ears).
23. And a Play-Doh "Kitchen Creations Candy Delight" playset, because you can't have all that Play-Doh and not have the proper instruments to turn it into different types of sweet clay-based confections.
24. A set of Magna-Tiles for recreating the works of children's author Eric Carle while building 3D versions of beloved characters like "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."
25. A children's play tent with options for a floor mat, pillows, and flags, because when they're this young, camping indoors can be a much easier proposition than the not-so-great outdoors.
5+ Years Old
26. An Operation Pet Scan board game just like the classic version, except this time kids play as a veterinarian trying to remove the things that Rex-Ray shouldn't have eaten. Remove a piece successfully and Rex will "fart or bark in relief." So, there's that added element too.
27. A Buddha Board for painting rich, inky, water-based images onto a "canvas" that will slowly fade as the water evaporates. We don't know art but we know it's not messy.
28. An Uno "Nothin’ But Paper" card game made from fully recyclable materials (for the first time ever). Now kids can get as much enjoyment from helping Mother Earth as they do from dropping a Wild Draw Four card whenever they play.
29. A Learning Resources Botley The Coding Robot 2.0 activity set, because it's never too early to get the kids into coding. Botley can be programmed to follow a sequence of up to 150 steps including following plotted courses and avoiding obstacles. The best part, it's all screen-free!
30. A Grouch Couch game to teach children the importance of never losing the remote control! But seriously, they're going to love this seat (get it, love seat!).
8+ Years Old
31. A LittleBits Star Wars Droid inventor kit for teaching would-be Jedi the ways of coding with 22+ app-based missions. And yes, this is the droid you're looking for.
32. A 360-degree-rotating 3-in-1 LED globe, constellation map, and night light to illuminate your child about not only the world they live in but the stars in the heavens above. And if that gets way too scary (or deep) that night-light will sure come in handy too.
33. A Grounded for Life Family party game (by the makers of What Do You Meme?) where the player who makes the funniest (or most outrageous) sentence combination wins. Think of it as a kid-friendly Apples To Apples.
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