Holiday Beauty. Gift Guide. Gifts For Men. Now You Know. Latest Family. Customize Select the topics that interest you:. New Moms. Parenting Humor. Plus, intrepid scientists get a petri dish, an eye dropper, a mini geode, brine shrimp eggs and a hatchery station. The Q-Ba-Maze big box includes cubes consisting of different colors and designs to be used as scaffolding, ramps, and paths to help young builders learn basic physics.
You can create marble maze sculptures in any form such as animals, robots, towers, and geometric shapes, which encourages kids to think outside the proverbial box. STEM learning doesn't have to be a chore. Young chemists craft soap and bath bombs, testing how look, smell, and work, while exploring the science behind different chemical reactions.
Kids connect the pieces to build whatever robot shape they can dream, and it can dance, race around, and drive. It has a built-in microphone and camera, plus a touch sensor and a distance sensor. Because the starter kit comes with 12 modules, it's fun without being intimidating. The kit comes with nine starter rocks, but kids will be encouraged to get outside and collect their own.
Having trouble getting your 7 year old schooler to shower? Eliminate sudsy battles with this Bluetooth speaker, which is waterproof obviously and can be immersed in water up to three feet.
Plus, it delivers 10 hours' of battery life, so your kid can blast his or her music of choice for hours sorry, not sorry. A great quote can uplift, inspire, entertain. Kids get 36 quotes that speak to them, to arrange in an artistic collage. Bonus: It's a nice reading lesson. Kids get 55 color-coded, real circuit components that snap together to create anything from a strobe light, to an LED light that changes colors, to a propellor.
And they can connect it to an iPhone or other device and play music as the lights change. Sure, you can buy erasers. But where's the fun in that? This kit comes with eight colors of eraser clay, one pencil, a clay shaping tool, and two sheets of paper craft displays.
So kids can make sloth-bacon-football erasers. Or anything else they dream up. If your kid is piano-curious, this is the way to go. It has built-in speakers and 61 keys with LED lights, so kids follow the lights and learn the basics of playing the instrument.
The music progresses only when they play the correct piano key, so there's actual incentive to focus and learn. They also get access to instructional videos, games, and tons of sheet music. Yes, slime is gross. But it's also pretty damn cool. This kit comes with pre-made magnetic putty, fluffy slime, glow in the dark putty, liquid slime, color-changing putty, snotty slime, bouncing putty, and one packet of slime powder so kids can make their own. This cool as hell 3-string guitar has an accompanying app, so kids learn to play, for real.
Loog's 3-string guitars reduce chords to the basic triad, making the learning process faster and easier. Encourage that green thumb with this gardening kit, which includes everything kids need to play, grow, and harvest veggies and herbs. Each customized kit comes with fully rooted starter plants, and the pots are perfectly fine for city dwellers because they're right at home on a balcony or patio.
A building kit and jam session in one: Kids put together three instruments a pan flute, an ocean drum, and a box guitar and then learn to play them. Sometimes, a toy is just damn fun. This is that toy, which looks like something Jeff Koons dreamed up. Squeakee farts, begs, and pees. He reacts to voices, and will roll over for a belly rub. Plus, kids can pop him and then use the pump to inflate him back up. A two-sided game that's perfect for cold winter afternoons, this one has shuffleboard on one side and flick-the-disc on the reverse side.
It's made from sustainable wood, and is great for group and family play. Foosball that isn't an eyesore: This is the design-forward table-top version of the classic game. The rules remain the same: Kids twist or move the bars to kick the ball to the opposing goal.
It's made of rubberwood. Chic and retro, Melody Ellison rocks a look. She's in a houndstooth A-line dress, patent leather shoes, and of course, sunglasses. She has a soft cotton body, and her movable head and limbs are made of vinyl. She's just all-around cool.
Avengers, assemble! Best of all, the game scales up as players become more adept at carving out their paths to victory. Retro yet deeply cool, this set features the iconic, time-traveling DeLorean, which has working lights and the mandatory flux capacitor. The set includes Marty McFly, Dr. Emmett Brown, Einstein the dog, the skateboard, and plutonium to make that great lil' movie come to life. If like so many kids, yours is into gaming, this one is a winner. Kids build a community from scratch on a deserted island, customize their characters, and bond with other residents.
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Please try again. Give us a little more information and we'll give you a lot more relevant content. Your child's birthday or due date. Girl Boy Other Not Sure. Are they into underwater adventures and longing to dive for treasure? The action from the video game comes to life when my son uses the mix-and-match character pieces to create his hero and launches some villainous schemes for them to crack.
The bonus: Screen time is traded for playtime. In this solo puzzle game, the player is a UFO beaming up cows. The game comes with 60 cards that show you how to set up the pasture and where to place the cows, and the puzzles become increasingly difficult as you advance. Googly eyes, pom-poms, beads, glitter, paper tubes, pipe cleaners in a range of colors—the Kid Made Modern Rainbow Craft Kit is a portable craft studio housed in a case made for carrying.
Put it in front of any kid and they can use their imagination to turn a piece of construction paper into a three-dimensional item. If you need a larger craft stash, we recommend a 1,piece kit, also by Kid Made Modern, in our guide to gifts for 8-year-olds. Highlights still includes classics like Goofus and Gallant , the two polar-opposite boys who are always doing something naughty yet good. But the year-old magazine has also been updated with a modern and diverse cast of characters.
Every month, its 40 pages are packed with puzzles, games, short stories, recipes, art projects, and an advice column. I gave my daughter a subscription three years ago. Our house now has stacks of Highlights, because my kids refuse to let go of the back issues, and they reread them whenever they have the chance. My husband and I were amused when our son gave a demonstration of his recently acquired hooping skills as a part of his third-grade parent-teacher conference.
We called on the expertise of an old friend, Amy Goldstein, who directed the documentary The Hooping Life , which explores the subculture of serious hoopers. The durable polyethylene hoop Goldstein recommended from Oregon-based Canyon Hoops is a splurge. But I know that thinner, flimsier hoops tend to kink out of service within months. And I liked the idea of getting a quality tool to help our not-into-sports kid perhaps excel at an unexpected new pastime.
The inch version is a good choice for kids between about 6 and 13, according to the company. When it comes to toys, a doll is as classic as they come. Those by Our Generation are life-like and offer an alternative to the ever-popular—though much more expensive—American Girl dolls.
We recommend those in our guide to gifts for 8-year-olds. Each doll there are 19 to choose from in the Deluxe line comes with different outfit options and a few accessories, and most come with a chapter book that tells a short story in which the doll is a character.
These dolls have a diverse range of skin tones, backstories, and brushable hairstyles, offering plenty of options for your child to find a match. Robots and other physical toys and games can offer a whimsical and tactile way for kids to learn basic principles of coding.
Artie is an adorable robot that can hold a marker to draw different shapes and designs—like a square—on a piece of paper. The robot pairs with an app or website that kids use to program Artie to create their works of art, advancing from simple, visual drag-and-drop instructions to coding in Python, a popular programming language.
Once kids get the hang of it, they can let their imaginations run wild, said STEM education expert Elizabeth Gajdzik, who recommends Artie for kids ages 7 and up. Artie comes with four washable markers, but it can accommodate any skinny pen. A downside is that Artie runs on AA batteries, instead of being rechargeable. Happily for everyone, they were magically replaced with the soothing Music Maker Lap Harp.
The harp comes fully assembled with 12 different song sheets that slip under the strings and show kids where to pluck; each string corresponds with a printed note.
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