2023 Holiday Toys Buying Guide

The Watchitude Indoor/Outdoor Kids Pickleball Set comes with two kid sized paddles, 2 quiet rubber silicon balls which will bounce on floors and most carpets.

The Bilibo needs only your child’s imagination to be so many things: a turtle shell, a sand scooper, a water bucket, a Martian helmet.  A wobbly, spinning seat. A stool. A steppingstone. A cradle for dolls. A snow mold. You get the gist. A must-have for any playroom.

The Rody Horse ride-on toy builds balance and strength. It has a perfectly contoured shape for balancing and his ears are easy for little ones to hold as they bounce along.

Micro Scooters have been rated the number one kids scooter by the New York Times’ Wirecutter website. These three-wheel adjustable scooters use the rider’s body weight, balance, and core strength to turn. It’s the perfect first scooter for your kiddos.

The Veggie Board from Plan Toys adds a healthy serving of fruits and veggies to pretend food play! This beautifully crafted set develops coordination, concentration, and imagination. Kids love to slice the food in half with the wooden knife. We love that it is sustainably made.

The Play World Tree House, a high quality 31-piece wooden playset, will bring hours of imaginative play and storytelling to your toddler. The adorable wooden figures can take rides on the 3-car train, have a snack on top of mushrooms, climb the ladder into the treehouse, or take turns on the tree swing! Packaged in a beautifully designed box, it’s an heirloom quality playset that promotes creativity, hand-eye coordination, and spatial understanding.

Yes, Barbie is hot this year with the release of the Barbie movie, which introduced a whole new generation of kids to the wonderful imaginative world of Barbie.

SMARTMAX My First People is a wonderful introduction to magnetic building and discovery for toddlers. The 4 expressive heads click easily onto the 4 chunky colorful bodies. Match them with the 4 magnetic hats to create a gardener, chef, construction worker, or firefighter… or mix for silly imaginative looks!

The Magna-Tiles Downhill Duo 40 Piece Set takes on new levels of creativity and imaginative play by adding vehicles to the well-loved Magna-Tiles universe. Free play or create racetracks using Magna-Tiles sets in your collection.

New in 2023 is Oppi Piks, a construction toy designed to stimulate children’s development, concentration, and creativity. Kids will love to stack the silicone cones in three different sizes and colors, and balance the solid beech wood boards into towers on top. It’s an open-ended toy that is ideal for competitive or cooperative play, or even solo building.

Animal-loving preschoolers will have a wild time learning planning, problem solving, and visual perception skills with Safari Park Jr.! The goal is to follow the challenges to move the animal figurines into the correct spots for a photo op.

Add Sloth in a Hurry to your family game night! This fast-moving improv game combines imagination and a little silliness. Draw a WHO card, a WHAT card, then spin for HOW… and act away! Develops creativity, imagination, and self-confidence.

From the makers of the award-winning card game Sleeping Queens comes a brand-new adventure: Sleeping Queens 2, The Rescue! Use strategy, quick thinking, and a little luck to save the kings from a parade of perilous predicaments.

Let your kiddo turn their room into outer space with the Astrolight Bluetooth Speaker and Projector projects a field of green stars across the room, along with three different color projections: earth, stars, and nebula. Soothe stargazers to sleep with the included white noise, or connect music via Bluetooth speaker.

Bring the snow inside! We know, why do that when we live in Wisconsin? Because kids enjoy experiments with snow, and the Instant Snow Station lets kids make instant snow and use it to build snowmen, make a snow globe, and more.

Kids can extend into mechanical engineering by building a giant Cyber Hand they can wear over their own hand and use spring loaded controls to pick up small items, pet the family dog — the kid is in control! No motors, water, or electricity required!

Virtual pets teach kids about caring for others. Virtual pets like Pet Rocks are still around, but Bitzee is a newcomer to the scene that is a digital pet that responds to a touch! Kids grow their Bitzee baby to an adult through feeding and playing with them and rocking them to sleep.

Help your little ones learn empathy at an early age with the companionship of an Adora Adoption Doll. To encourage nurturing and pretend play, Adoption Dolls come with a Certificate of Adoption, pacifier, hospital bracelet, diaper, grey blanket, and crib.

Cereal-sly? For a serving of arts and crafts that’s an excellent source of fun, Check out the Kellogg’s Froot Loops DIY Bracelet Kit. Inside this realistic cereal box-style package are a bowl, spoon, and 2 dissolvable pouches. Creative tweens and teens can place each pouch in water and watch as it dissolves to reveal mystery bags – just like magic! The bags contain everything needed to make 4 cereal-sly cute cereal-themed bracelets.

Discover a BFF bonding activity for birthday parties, weekend hangs, or sleepovers: the Friendship Bracelet Maker! Crafty tweens and teens get creative as they learn different weaving patterns.