It’s crunch time. To make things easier, here’s a one-stop shop for the best toys for every kid, from the future baker to the future architect to the toddler who just won’t stop pulling off their booties. See below, and if you’re interested in any deeper dives, we’ve also got toys for 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds, the hottest toys of the year, the hottest toys that aren’t sold out, and the best novels for 11-year-olds.
Everyone has this, and if they don’t have it, they really, really want it. You can still get it before Christmas for $50.
They’re also available on Amazon, but shipping times are unconfirmed.
Bizzy Bubs just came out this week and do just about everything a fingerling does — crawl, laugh, fart — except instead of monkeys, they’re babies.
Tumblstix are the new fidget spinners. They don’t do much more than somersault, but hey, fidget spinners didn’t do anything besides spin when they took over the world, either.
And for those who really wish fidget spinners were still a thing, here’s a whole fidget combo set.
The mini-dolls at the center of this sphere are wrapped in seven layers of cellophane, each layer unveiling a new sticker or keepsake. Heads-up, your little one might try to film themselves opening this for YouTube fame.
The robe Prince George wore to meet Obama can also be monogrammed. Very royal.
In this game, you’re handcuffed to the board until you solve enough mazes and puzzles to escape. First one out wins.
Pile the sticks on the blaster. You don’t know when it’s going to pop … until it does.
Go around a circle pouring water on the soggy dog. The joy is in finding out who this cute thing is going to shake off on.
Num Noms: They look like food, they’re supposed to smell like food, and they’re adorable.
These colorful magnetic tiles stack and combine in infinite varieties.
Last year’s fad was Hatchimals, and this year’s follow-up is Hatchimals Surprise. The surprise is twin Hatchimals. As your child watches them hatch and then grow from baby to toddler to kid, the twins also respond and interact with one another, telling secrets between themselves, playing games, and dancing.
Tyler’s a baby tiger who’ll playfully pounce and nuzzle when you pet him. His favorite chew toy is a rubber chicken.
Flip is the new fad of things made out of sequins that flip back and forth, with different colors on each side. It’s fun, it’s glittery, and tweens love it.
When homework gets too stressful, these turn the bath into a colorful, olfactory experience.
The Hexbug is a very small, alienlike robot with tiny legs and arms that moves around this track by vibrating like crazy.
Oonies are little sticky balloons that you inflate and then attach to each other. Each box of Oonies also comes with add-ons — like connectors, pellets, and eyes — so that you can create jungle animals out of your sticky balloons and then make long chains of them.
Digiloom is a digital loom. You design friendship bracelets and necklaces on a computer program, and then send that information over to the loom. Press a single button, and then sit back as the loom weaves together your very own designs.
Merge is an augmented-reality video game, much like that very hot dog. You hold your phone up in front of the cube (or put your phone in a VR-like headset and look at the cube), and the boring plastic box becomes a whole new world of games, challenges, and activities to play with.
It looks like a kids’ fitness band, but it’s actually a device that senses when you move your arms and legs, and creates a specific beat and song based on that flailing, each body part controlling a specific sound.
A shape sorter — in pleasantly muted and pastel colors — that also has a sound for each corresponding shape. For kids just learning their shapes and colors.
Luvabella is a baby with hundreds of lifelike expressions and interactive responses, like the ability to say over a hundred different words.
Artist Blanca Gómez designed this game to be hung up in any doorway. The beanbags look like little birds.
Start drawing with green, and your picture will come out in yellow and blue and whatever colors they look like mixed together, too.
They’ll have fun baking it together, and then even more fun eating it.
Each of these six scissors cuts in a different pattern, from squiggles to zigzag.
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