The holidays are the perfect time to rediscover the magic of play, and Playful Presents is here to help you find the best toys for everyone on your list—whether they’re 5 or 55! Toys aren’t just for kids; they bring joy, laughter, and creativity to people of all ages. From classic games that spark nostalgia to new favorites that challenge the imagination, this guide is packed with ideas to make unwrapping gifts as exciting as when you were a kid tearing into your favorite holiday surprise.
What makes this guide extra special is its focus on fun for everyone. Whether you’re shopping for a toddler with endless energy, a teen who loves the latest trends, or an adult who could use a break from “adulting,” we’ve got something that will bring a smile to their face. Play is universal—it connects us, lightens the mood, and reminds us to enjoy the moment. So, this holiday season, give the gift of fun and watch the joy unfold, one playful present at a time!
Lucky Bears
Lucky Bears is a brand-new board game that celebrates America’s National Parks. It just finished a very successful Kickstarter campaign and is now shipping the game.
The game was designed by a mother/daughter team who have a shared love of the National Parks. Designed for simplicity and quick play, Lucky Bears makes it easy for anyone to explore national parks in just a minute or two, with each game lasting about 15 minutes. The game features 64 tokens, each representing a different U.S. national park. To win, players want to be the first to put their park tokens in order. They need to be strategic though, as Lucky Bears, Hungry Bears, and the Sneaky Bear introduce fun and unpredictable twists that can change the course of the game.
Lucky Bears is more than a game; it’s an adventure that encourages learning, discovery, and quality family time.
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Klee Naturals – Twinkle Forest
There’s no better time to add some cheer under the Christmas tree. The Twinkle Forest deluxe makeup kit is sure to bring all the happiness and cheer with all of Klee Naturals’ classic clean makeup essentials. The Twinkle makeup kit includes the lavender Rainier Blossom eye shadow, the beautiful Niagara Blaze eye shadow, and our bestselling Newport Whisper blush, tasty Raspberry Sugar and Peach Cobbler lip shimmers, the fruity Fiesta Candy roll-on fragrance, water-based Austin nail polish, seasonal special Festive Dragon glitter gel, a rainbow powder brush, and two eye shadow applicators.
Klee Naturals offers a natural, non-toxic alternative to mass-market makeup that is typically filled with artificial dyes, fragrances, heavy mineral oils and other petrochemical ingredients. Klee makeup is made of the highest quality minerals, natural preservatives, and other good-for-you ingredients.
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Tiny Easel
A unique brand that brings the joy of art and creativity into the hands of young artists.
Tiny Easel Wonderland
This enchanting art kit includes high-quality canvases, paints, brushes, and easy-to-follow guides. It’s designed to make art accessible and engaging for kids, encouraging them to bring their imaginative ideas to life. Each kit is carefully crafted to deliver an all-in-one art experience, with themes that captivate and inspire young creators. Perfect for parents and gift-givers looking for meaningful, screen-free activities that children can cherish long after the paint has dried. $38.00
Tiny Easel Mini Art Kits are a compact, delightful way to ignite creativity in young artists. Each kit comes with a themed mini canvas, an array of vibrant paints, brushes, and an easy-to-follow guide that simplifies the painting process while leaving room for individual expression. Designed for kids who love art or are just starting to explore their artistic side, these kits are perfect for rainy days, playdates, or holiday gifting. The Mini Art Kits provide everything needed for an engaging and screen-free activity that brings hours of fun and produces a lasting keepsake. $19.99
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Gecko Run: Marble Run
Gecko Run takes classic marble runs to the next level with new creative challenges and less restrictive building requirements. This innovative marble run uses a specially designed system of flexible tracks that does not require any support structures. Attach the tracks to surfaces with the help of clever nano pads, which work like nanoscopic suction cups, to create a strong, but temporary bond. Because the pads are not glue-based, they can be quickly and easily repositioned many times without any damaging adhesives or sticky residue. Each unique configuration promotes hands-on experimentation, supports problem-solving through trial-and-error, develops motor skills, and encourages creativity for kids and their grown-ups!
Ages 8+ | MSRP $14.95-$34.95
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Pinball Machine Maker: Gumball Rally
The sweetest pinball machine ever! Build a pinball machine that uses edible gumballs as the pinballs. First, follow the step-by-step instructions to assemble the machine. Then lay out the targets and obstacles on the playfield. Finally, test and refine your design while you practice your pinball skills! Hit the targets with the gumballs to score points. The gumballs whiz around the machine, bouncing off bumpers, spinning spinners, ringing the bell, and sliding down tracks. By building and playing with this pinball machine, you can explore lessons in physics and mechanical engineering as you build and play with the pinball machine. Learn about force, motion, collisions, simple machines and more.
Ages 8+ | Ages 6-12+
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PO’ UP! Card Game
Exclusive 10% discount with the code HOLIDAYGIFT10
PO’ UP! Card Game: College Edition celebrates Black college students and graduates representing Historically Black Colleges (HBCUs) and Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). This nostalgic card game will have you feeling like it’s homecoming year-round. Each card will bring you back to your college days through hilarious moments, embarrassing memories, and nostalgic conversations.
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BoT Talk
BoT Talk, a cutting-edge child safety device that’s the perfect holiday gift for kids and parents developed in Japan and now available in the USA. BoT Talk combines advanced AI technology with high-precision GPS tracking, two-way voice messaging, and abnormal movement detection to ensure your child’s safety at all times. Its waterproof, durable design and 3-week battery life make it ideal for active families. Parents can enjoy peace of mind while their kids confidently explore, knowing they’re just a voice message away.
With its simple setup and compact, kid-friendly design, BoT Talk strikes the perfect balance between safety and independence. This device is a must-have for safety-conscious parents, grandparents, and teachers looking to keep a protective eye on the children they care for, without needing to be overly intrusive.
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Alpha Toys
Smart Steps® Space Spin Sensory Wheel
Age: 6 months +
Price: $12.99
Get baby mesmerized with the Smart Steps Space Spin Sensory Wheel ($12.99.) This standing, space-themed toy offers multiple molded tactile strips around the globe’s edge for your child to grip and spin with their small hands. Each hemisphere features different internal apparatuses, with colorful globes, stars and rockets that that go in circles as your baby spins them. Each time it spins, the Sensory Wheel produces sounds, teaching causal relationships to baby through play. The Space Sensory Wheel can stand upright or be gripped easily at the base for more hands-on play. Recommended for babies six months and older, this toy is out of this world!
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Block Race Car Set
Age: 8+
Price: $16.99
The Wise Block Race Car is adorned in a striking white and light blue color scheme and is a great introductory set for newcomers to Wise Block due to its elegant simplicity and striking exterior. Its compact size makes it the perfect candidate for utilizing the RC feature to make tight, maneuverable turns.
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Super Wings 5-inch Classic Character 4-pack
Age: 3+
Price: $34.99
The 5-inch Classic Character 4-pack which includes Jett, Donnie, Astra and Paul. Each figure is excellently sculpted and portrayed in paint applications so that they’re very on-model to the characters in the TV show. Not only that, but each has a unique, fun, simple and satisfying transformation to go from vehicle mode to robot mode. Transforming has never been easier or more satisfying; switching modes is a cinch! In robot mode, their limbs have articulation so you can have even more imaginative and immersive playtime. Plus, they stand on their own for excellent display potential in either mode.
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Crawligator
Age: 4 – 12 months
Price: $89.99
The Crawligator is a developmental toy for infants that provides mobility and promotes healthy infant development through tummy time play. As a STEM.org authenticated Early Childhood Educational Product, the Crawligator develops gross motor skills, hand-eye coordination, cognitive and sensory, builds strength and supports independence. Designed to move just above the surface of a smooth level floor on high quality ball caster wheels. Ergonomically designed to enhance the comfort and positioning of the infant, the Crawligator allows the child to rest comfortably on their stomach. In this position, the baby can improve gross motor skills and practice bilateral coordination, using the arms and legs in reciprocal movements.
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Dreamighty Super Blanky
Age: 3 – 12
Price: $39.99
“Cool Aunt” Karen Bonnici invented Super Blankys® homemade blankets with sleeves as gifts for her young nieces and nephew. She’s always been a homemade gift maker but the outsized reaction to these gifts helped her see she just might have the seed for a successful entrepreneurial idea. While the first iteration wasn’t perfect, the wearable blankets were beloved and she learned a lot from watching the kids wear and play with them. She designed the sleeved wearable blankets to resemble a cape and had the brainstorm to patent and trademark Super Blankys! Perfect for ages 3-12, this cozy fleece wearable blanket for kids doubles as a bold sweater blanket for kids. Designed for comfort, and imaginative play, it’s ideal for chilly days and bedtime.
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Fun in Motion Toys:
TECTI
Age: 12+
Price: $44.99
Cubes with tectonic moves! TECTI presents a turning point in building toys with an innovative kinetic building system. With TECTI, people can build over 50 kinetic structures out of interlocking, movable cubes. Each cubotic structure shifts into different shapes with tectonic-like movement thanks to built-in hinges. Love a certain shape? Lock your creation in place with a keystone – a single cube to insert into your structure to prevent it from moving. Or keep exploring how your TECTI shifts and what you can create next! TECTI is scalable, modifiable, and easy to disassemble to create the next big thing. When you’re ready for more, combine kits to build bigger superstructures! Assembly required.
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HyperTiles
Age: 5+
Price: $24.99
HyperTiles® are simple, super-versatile hyperbolic shapes that can be linked together in an infinite number of combinations that can move & flex – providing endless options, surprising outcomes, and hours of 3-dimensional adventure! When you are ready to explore more, combine more sets to build bigger shapes! HyperTiles are STEM.org authenticated and STEAM accredited. This means it has been tested and proven to support science, technology, engineering, and math standards, supports the development of 21st-century skills, and engages students through hands-on learning and collaboration. For each purchase of HyperTiles, a portion of the proceeds are donated to humanitarian and environmental charitable organizations.
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Shashibo – Holographic 2.0 Series
Age: 8+
Price: $25
Unlock the mystery of the #1 best-selling Shashibo – the Original Magnetic Puzzle Cube. Shashibo stands for shape-shifting-box and just 1 magically mysterious Shashibo transforms into over 70 shapes. Will you be able to discover all the shapes one cube can make? There are over 50 designs to choose from! What’s more, you can collect & connect them to form large, geometric structures. With 36 rare earth magnets in each cube, you can combine several Shashibo to expand your puzzle cube into another dimension. Build larger geometric shapes and create unlimited possibilities as you add cubes.
About the Holographic 2.0 Series:
The Holographic 2.0 Series sparkles under the light and reveals a secret pattern under black light!
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Fireside Games:
Ultimatch
Age: 10+
Price: $9.95
Description: Cooperate to match cards and make your way up the pyramid as a team in this exciting, colorful, addictive game. Make clever matches by number or color. Will you use 1 card or 2? Addition or subtraction? Mix colors (yellow + blue = green)? Will you risk a card now or save it for later? Can you guess what card the other player needs? Make a perfect match of both number and color to feel the thrill and gain the rewards of an Ultimatch!
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Zoomies
Age: 10+
Price: $24.95
In Zoomies, you’re a dog walker helping your pups at the dog park make friends, become the leader of the pack, collect bones, and get the zoomies. Your goal is to score the most points by matching a dog tile to the middle of the table and placing a scoring token on that tile. Tokens give you points based on adjacent dogs, bone icons, and more. Play your dogs right and you can add points to a previous token while digging up a whole new way to score. At the end of the game, score each token to see who’s top dog.
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Castle Panic
Age: 8+
Price: $34.95
Monsters are attacking your Castle. Can you work together in this cooperative game to stop the horde, or will the Monsters destroy Castle Bravehold? Castle Panic is a cooperative tower defense board game for 1 to 6 players.
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My First Castle Panic
Age: 4+
Price: $24.95
In My First Castle Panic, a group of monsters is racing out of the woods and coming right at your Castle! Players need to catch all the monsters before they smash the Castle flat. Send out your brave defenders to match the color and shape of the space where a monster is to catch it. But watch out! The monsters move closer to the Castle every turn, and more monsters keep coming! No reading required. Teaches matching, strategic thinking, taking turns, and more. Cooperative gameplay means no sore losers. Preschoolers can play independently.
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HEADU
Dinosaurs Under the X Ray
Age: 6-10
Price: $29.99
Reconstruct the environment of the Mesozoic age and discover the skeletons of the giants from the past using the special UV flashlight, just like in a real natural history museum. Challenge your friends with 40 cards of the most well-known dinosaurs! Use your UV flashlight and observational skills to classify and get to know dinosaurs. Learn all about the evolution of the dinosaurs and their extinction, tracking a complete timeline of events from the ancient past.
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Human Body under the X-ray
Age: 6-10
Price: $22.99
Stimulate scientific thought from a very early age! Fit the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together and study the picture you’ve built to see what an amazing thing the human body is. See in fascinating detail the vital organs, systems, bones and lots more. Then use the UV flashlight to find the things hidden from the naked eye, completing the included missions.
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Writing Lab Montessori
Age: 3-6
Price: $28.99
Children learn to write and read through self-directed play. Excellent play value for multiple educational activities for the home and the classroom. The product contains: 4 farm puzzles; 16 shape tiles; 5 two-piece animal puzzles; 5 letters and words animal puzzles; 5 number and quantity trees with 15 shaped fruits; 20 baby animal memo tiles; 1 vegetable garden puzzle with 8 shaped vegetables; didactic guide.
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Flashcards Tactile Montessori and Tactile Animals Montessori
Age: 1-4
Price: $14.99 and $28.99
Children learn about touch and manual skills and develop their bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. This set includes tactile play materials to engage one or more of a child’s senses: touch, sight, sound, smell, and taste. The flashcards kit contains: 12 large cards and 12 colored shapes. The animals kit contains: 6 large animal puzzle cards and 6 tactile texture cards.
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Montessori My Little House
Age: 2-5
Price: $28.99
Children discover their identity and autonomy and develop their personal intelligence.
With a focus on the child’s independence, freedom, and natural interests, Headu Montessori toys offer engaging early learning activities inspired by the Montessori method. Match the household items into their appropriate room and build your house to your liking! This set includes 8 house component cards and 32 object tokens.
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Micador
Micador jR. Amazing Ideas! Draw! Pack
Age: 3+
Price: $12.99
Drawing is one of the purest and most fun means of expressing oneself, so it’s no wonder kids can’t help but draw! To encourage development of 2D art skills, the Amazing Ideas! Draw! Pack is the optimal choice! Framed with a range of activities, the Amazing Ideas! Draw set comes with a wide variety of mark-making supplies and drawing surfaces to allow your child to experiment and explore with their artwork. This pack includes 10 activity cards, 6 colored pencils, 1 graphite pencil, 6 oil pastels, 12 sheets of drawing paper, 5 sticks of colored chalk, 1 pencil sharpener and 1 eraser.
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Micador jR. The Amazing Ideas! Make! Pack
Age: 3+
Price: $12.99
For some people, it’s much easier to express creative concepts with physical media and learn with their hands. The Amazing Ideas! Make! Pack is far more centered around 3D art and sculpture. The Make! Pack forgoes the drawing utensils in favor of hands-on materials providing kids with the proverbial building blocks needed to craft their own sculptures or arrange abstract shapes and colors into representational beings (just add googly eyes!) The set includes 10 x activity cards, 5 x 50g modelling clay, 1 x modelling tool, 3 x wooden craft sticks, 30 sheets of colored paper, 10 x assorted cardboard googly eyes, 1 x roll of paper tape.
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Micador early stART Alphabet Crayons
Age: 2+
Price: $25.00
These alphabet crayons encourage spelling and fun educational play while coloring and drawing! They come packaged in a durable carry case for simple clean-up and easy transport. Designed for safe use by children aged 2 and up, they are ideal for encouraging early literacy and creative learning. Set comes in 10 vibrant colors to inspire creativity. Great for educational activities and imaginative play!
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Trip Jones:
Trip Jones Kid’s Guide to LA (and Kid’s Guide to NYC *coming soon*)
Age: 6+
Price: $19.99
Each Trip Jones Kid’s Guide is intentionally designed for youngsters to get really excited while creating a balanced and well-research itinerary with content that kids will find engaging. Since kids relate and connect with other kids, these guides are from the point of view of two new cool characters: young explorer guides, Jet Jones and her brother Trip Jones, who guide and recommend the best places Los Angeles. The format of collectible cards makes it easy to pick a few places for a day or weekend outing or try to tackle them all in a week. The four categories include a wide range of budgets and interests meant to include the opinions of everyone in the group. Family travel is a compromise – requiring plenty of flexibility and making sure each family member has agency in the agenda.
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World Tech Toys
Big Heads Spider-Man (Captain America, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and TMNT Leonardo)
Age: 6+
Price: $9.97
Each Big Head features two propellers and an internal coaxial motor system, which keeps the toy stable as it hovers in the air. Big Heads respond dynamically to a player’s hands when they try to “catch” them. Upon detecting a hand underneath via its patented infrared sensor, the motor speeds up and rockets the Big Head back into the air. Thanks to the lightweight yet durable material, it’s always a safe and easy landing. Big Heads includes an internal rechargeable battery and a USB charging cable. Simply plug it into any USB port for a quick recharge.
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