8 Hands-On Learning Gifts To Get Your Little Genius This Holiday

This holiday season, it's to take the guilt out of screentime! Pair these play-based learning games from Osmo with a tablet to fuel your little one's imagination, creativity, confidence, reasoning, and more.

For a fun introduction to math and coding:

1. Select up to five ~mathemagical~ games with your child to create the Math Wizard Bundle.

Help your first or second-grader become a math wizard, and have a blast while they're at it! This curriculum-based learning series combines digital gameplay with hands-on activities to familiarize your child with geometry, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and measurement. With games involving food, dragons, airships, and plenty of magic, your little one won't even realize they're being taught core math skills amidst all the fun and adventure.

Price: $259

2. Get your child geared up for the digital world with the Coding Starter Kit.

Created by a team from TIDAL Lab at Northwestern University, this research-backed kit is designed to teach essential coding skills in progression with three different learning games. Your child will place together physical colored blocks to compliment the digital Coding Awbie, Coding Jam and Coding Duo games to go on outdoor adventures, compose music, and solve puzzles. They'll be engaged for hours and ready to take on the 21st century!

Price: $99

For interactive art and creative exploration:

3. Inspire your child's inner artist with the Creative Starter Kit.

A whole new way to doodle! This kit blends artistic tools and technology with games to help your child not just draw, but to think visually and problem solve in new, creative ways. A creative board and dry-erase markers are included so your child's physical drawings directly interact with the digital games Monster (where whatever they draw becomes part of an animation); Newton (where they draw obstacles on the board to interact with onscreen falling balls); and Masterpiece (where they can create amazing artwork based off simple to trace lines and create time-lapse videos of their process). 

Price: $69

4. Help your child draw and bring their favorite characters to life with the Super Studio Artist Bundle.

Six games are included with this kit: Monster, Super Studio Mickey Mouse and Friends, Super Studio Disney Princess, Super Studio Frozen 2, Masterpiece, and Newton, so your child can use their very own hands and imagination (and detailed, helpful instructions) to create the animated friends they love.

Price: $119

5. Immerse your child in make-believe while instilling essential skills with the Pretend Play Bundle.

Your child can be their very own entrepreneur with a combo of pretend-play games: Pizza Co. and Detective Agency. They'll familiarize themselves with math and money concepts while operating a pizzeria and then switch over to detective duty, where they'll travel the world and engage in observation and critical thinking inspecting clues, and learn about geography and different landmarks and cultures. Maps, magnifying glass, and (pretend) pizza all included!

Price: $68.60

For delighting and encouring the littlest learners:

6. Light up your preschooler's day with the joy of early learning with the Little Genius Starter Kit.

This holistic kit is designed for ages 3–5 and includes four hands-on games that cover off on a handful of core skills, including early literacy, language and communication, and fine motor skills. Your little one will have a blast building letters and shapes with squishy colorful sticks and rings, dressing characters for a party, finding solutions to obstacles, and going on adventures, while watching everything come to life onscreen.

Price: $79

And for a wholistic introduction to all the skills Osmo seeks to build:

7. Encourage your child to go full STEAM ahead with the comprehensive Genius Starter Kit.

In this kit, five different interactive games combine digital with physical action so your child can learn by doing. They will arrange tangram pieces to match-on screen puzzles, building visual problem-solving skills; learn to spell 1000+ words; explore physics with bouncing balls and accelerating platforms; draw to perfection with simple outlines; and solve math problems through fun and experimentation. They won't meet a challenge they won't like with this dynamic kit!

Price: $99

8. Supercharge your little one's math and creative confidence, reading, visual thinking, and SO much more, with the 20-game Super Osmonaut Starter Kit.

Introducing Osmo's most super kit yet! Little ones ages 6–12 can get excited for hours upon hours of educational and exploratory fun, with games that encompass math, reading and vocabulary, coding, business concepts, art, geography, history, to name just a few core subjects. Plenty of stackable storage is included to keep all the components of this big-time kit organized!

Price: $399

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Let your child experience the joy of play-based learning with Osmo this holiday. Explore the products that are the best fit for your family today.