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The Ultimate Toddler Holiday Gift Guide 2022
- Learning Resources Posted On Nov 14, 2022
Your toddlers are taking big steps by recognizing names, saying words, and following simple directions. While celebrations are not all about the gifts, we've compiled a list of some of the smartest toys for toddlers that will keep your child’s attention long after the big day is over.
Sort & Seek Polar Animals
- All Kinds of Learning Fun: Kids learn counting, colors, matching, imagination, fine motor skills, and more with the help of these fun, friendly polar pals in this educational toy set!
- Five Fun Polar Animals: Each of the friendly polar animals doubles as a finger puppet that’s ready for all kinds of imaginative adventures!
- Grows With Your Kids: These polar animals and their toddler activities grow with your kids from toddler skills and beyond—build new fine motor skills during early pretend games, then move on using the set as an early math and color teaching toy!
Peek-a-Bird Learning Buddies
- All Kinds of Learning Fun: Kids learn counting, colors, matching, imagination, fine motor skills, and more with the help of the fun, friendly birds in this educational toy set!
- Five Birds, Five Different Expressions: Each of the friendly birdy finger puppets sports a different facial expression, which helps kids identify and talk about feelings and other social-emotional learning (SEL) skills!
- Grows With Your Kids: These birds and their toddler activities grow with your kids—build new fine motor skills during pretend games, then move on using the set as an early math and color teaching toy!
Spike and Friends Counting & Colors Book Set
- Learn Numbers and Colors with Spike and Friends: Counting and colors come easy with the help of Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog and his fun Fine Motor Friends in this board book adventure’s toddler activities!
- Learning’s Fine with Pictures and Rhymes!: As kids follow this exclusive full-color board book’s fun illustrations and playful rhymes, they’ll learn new skills from this number and color teaching toy!
- Fine Motor Fun: This educational toy set has 5 Fine Motor Friend figures ready to help kids explore their imaginations and build fine motor skills!
Carlos The Pop & Count Cactus
- All Kinds of Learning Fun: Kids learn counting, colors, matching, imagination, fine motor skills, and more with the help of the fun, friendly birds in this educational toy set!
- Five Birds, Five Different Expressions: Each of the friendly birdy finger puppets sports a different facial expression, which helps kids identify and talk about feelings and other social-emotional learning (SEL) skills!
- Grows With Your Kids: These birds and their toddler activities grow with your kids—build new fine motor skills during pretend games, then move on using the set as an early math and color teaching toy!
Snap-n-Learn Shape Snails
- Snail-tastic Skills: Kids build brand-new shape, color, and number skills when they mix and match this educational toy set’s 10 colorful snails!
- Three Ways to Match: Sort and match these two-piece snails by shape and number, or use them as color-teaching toys!
- Ages and Stages: Specially designed with little ones in mind, this educational toy set helps kids as young as 18 months build essential fine motor skills!
Hot Cocoa Time!
- ONLY ON AMAZON! This fun learning toy is EXCLUSIVE to Amazon, where you'll also find many more of our award-winning learning toys!
- Brew up mugs of pretend cocoa, tea, or coffee with these fun toy kitchen accessories!
- Realistic play food pieces include cocoa, kettle, cookies, and more!
- Build social and imaginative skills with every pretend cup!
Holiday Gifts for 5 Years and Up!
As they learn the basics of reading, writing, and math, your kids can use these toys to build new skills for kindergarten and beyond! When you give your kids toys from Learning Resources, you're giving them skills that last long after the holidays end!
Counting Surprise Party™
Unbox new counting and color skills in every surprise present! You never know what might be inside the presents of Counting Surprise Party from Learning Resources. Little ones will find a fun surprise toy within each colorful numbered box - from a little blue robot to a high-flying plane to a friendly teddy bear, and there are ten manipulative-style gifts in all that kids can wrap and rewrap and again. In addition to building new fine motor skills with every unboxing, they'll also build new skills in color and number recognition, whether they're sorting their toys by the colors on the boxes, counting up their stack of presents, or matching the dots on the present lids with the numerals printed on the boxes' fronts.
Plus, don't forget these free Printable Activities to go with!
STEM Explorers™ Brainometry™
Solve brain-teasing puzzle challenges that test your knowledge of shapes, critical thinking, fine motor skills, and more! Four colors and patterns also boost recognition skills. Includes 24 shapes and double-sided challenge cards. Designed with solo play in mind, these puzzles are a great way to build essential logic and critical thinking skills!
Rock 'n' Gem Surprise™
Crack open a colorful gem surprise! Little ones get a no-mess introduction to sorting, matching, and counting with the play geodes and gems of Rock 'n' Gem Surprise from Learning Resources. Using the included play hammer and chisel, kids can crack open each reusable play geode and discover the translucent plastic gemstones inside. Gems double as manipulatives and come in eight different colors and four different shapes - you might find a red heart, a purple triangle, a green diamond, or more fun combinations. In addition to helping kids learn early sorting, matching, and counting skills, Rock 'n' Gem Surprise also introduces kids to early STEM and geology concepts without the messy clean-up associated with real rocks and geodes.
MathLink® Cubes Elementary Math Activity Set
Build new elementary math skills one MathLink Cube at a time! Whether in the classroom or homeschool, students explore addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, geometry, and more with the fun math challenges found within the MathLink Cubes Elementary Math Activity Set from Learning Resources. Our most advanced counting cube activity set yet, this elementary educational toy pairs the popular hands-on math manipulatives with a fun set of challenges that grow with students' skills.
Plus, don't forget these free Holiday Printable Activities to go with!
Botley® 2.0 the Coding Robot Activity Set
Botley 2.0 helps kids as young as 5 learn to code through 100% screen-free play. Botley 2.0 knows multiple ways to code right out of the box— code him to move in six directions, play music, and even put on a light show! Discover Botley 2.0’s 16 fun interactions— transform him into a train, police car, ghost, and more! You can even test your memory with the lights and sounds of a game of Botley Says!
Plus, don't forget these free Printable Activities to go with Botley 2.0!
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Holiday Gifts for Preschoolers!
Our toys help kids build amazing preschool skills, whether they're exploring the wonder of words, learning new colors, or solving puzzling problems! These gifts will grow with your children and help you discover new learning fun every time you give a gift!
Oodles of Aliens™ Sorting Saucer
Grab the Tri-Grip Tongs, pop the dice, and help these aliens sort out their spaceship in a sorting game of cosmic proportions! In addition to sorting, this game builds three additional skills at once—strengthen your counting, color recognition, and fine motor skills every time you play! Includes 30 alien creature counters, as well as an activity guide with fun sorting games!
New Sprouts® Bake It!
Whip up batches of fun with our new Bake it! When the kitchen is just too tempting to resist, provide a colorful and fun collection of baking tools designed to encourage safe role-play. Little bakers will flip for this modern set featuring bakeware with rounded parts and easy-grip handles along with delicious, soft-molded cupcakes, and the cookies are the perfect recipe for toddler play! Work on imaginative play, fine motor, hand-eye coordination, early vocabulary/language, and social skills!
Jumbo Zoo Animals
Realistically detailed animals designed for little hands and big imaginations! Figures invite imaginative play and are perfect for vocabulary development. The activity guide includes facts about each animal and early science discussion starters. These animals are perfect for a winter sensory bin or for bringing the zoo into your home!
Ruff's House Teaching Tactile Set
Reach in and feel all the textures! Help the fuzzy dog find all the bones he hid in his doghouse. All bones are textured and made of rubber or cloth and feature smooth, silky, scratchy, bumpy, ridged, and more textures. Grasping, exploring, and manipulating the different textured bones leads students to further develop their ability to use their fingers and hands purposefully and improve manual dexterity.
Sort-'Em-Up Pups™ Activity Set
Build early sorting and critical thinking skills as your sort and match these puppy pals! Explore six ways to sort: group puppies by size, color, spots, and more. Pieces store inside the dog house for easy clean-up. In addition to sorting and matching, the Sort-'Em-Up Pups come with a big colorful dog house and fenced-in pens that are ready for all kinds of open-ended imaginative play!
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Stocking Stuffers for Little Explorers!
Are you looking for toys to encourage exploration and curiosity for your little explorer(s)? Maybe you're already thinking of your New Year's resolution to spend more time in the great outdoors, with afternoons filled with family nature hikes or child-led winter walks. Learning Resources has you covered! Consider these toys for your budding natural scientist and observant outdoor explorer, all of which fit neatly into a holiday stocking:
- Jumbo Magnifier & Tweezers: Strengthen those fine motor skills and investigate all things tiny with this durable set, which includes a hands-free, pop-out stand on the magnifying glass -- perfect for every feather, leaf, stone, and insect found on your next walk, whether it's around the block or on the trail.
- Headlamp Projector: This is a lightweight, two-for-one tool that includes a beam of light for evening adventures and doubles as a mini projector, with images of birds, mammals, and reptiles on two small disks! Let the imaginative play and educational storytelling begin!
- Big View Binoculars: Durable, simple to use, and with 6x magnification, perfect for your next adventure into the woods -- whether you're looking for birds or something more wild. Stomping around your neighborhood? Use these binoculars to encourage deeper observation of the world around them! Play I-Spy, go on a hunt for specific colors, and/or pair it with a journal to document all of your finds.
Looking for an easy way to stuff the stockings of multiple child explorers? Try these multi-packs!
- Big View Bug Jars: Cute, colorful, and practical! In the lid of each of these jars is a hidden magnifying lens, plus air vents for live specimens under observation. Set of six.
- Jumbo Magnifiers: Now, everyone can explore plants, insects, and other natural items to their heart's content! It comes in a rainbow of colors and is sized perfectly for little hands. Set of six. Spending time outside provides a wealth of benefits, from helping to regulate big emotions and calming the nervous system to strengthening gross motor muscles and providing new sensory exploration opportunities. Use these fun stocking-stuffer toys to foster scientific learning and so much more in the great outdoors!
About the Author, Sarah Yale: With a background in education, youth development, and restorative justice, Sarah Yale wears many hats, including Mom and Librarian. She endeavors to combine her love of children's books and the great outdoors to plan inclusive, play-based activities that foster curiosity and social-emotional learning. An advocate for literacy development, loose parts, and sensory play, Sarah's activities invite you to lean in, read up, and get messy together! See more of her ideas on Instagram at @staycurious_sadertot.
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