Here's a secret parents don't want to admit: Most of the kids' learning toys out there are educational in some way. Even the most shameless, licensed TV- or movie tie-in, if it gets kids into the world of their imaginations, fosters pretend play or encourages role-playing, has some kind of value.
But we will admit that some learning toys have more instructional value than others, and if you're looking to work on specific skills with your kids � or develop a budding area of interest � you might want to check out these educational learning toys for kids.
Homeschool Africa has found learning toys that deliver high marks on both fun and entertainment. The team spends the entire year meeting with toy companies to keep up on the latest and greatest offerings, and then calls in the best to put them through the paces in the Little Lab to ensure they are safe, durable, and well-constructed. We look to see that a toy has skill-building attributes across a range of development skills, including physical (gross and fine motor), educational (math, reading, writing), and social and emotional (turn-taking, role-playing) skills. From there, we confirm the best selections with the real experts � kids! Here are our favorite educational toys for 2020, from babies to toddlers to school-aged kids. And, if you're looking for ideas for toys for specific ages, check out our library of toy reviews.
SHOP HEREBuild a beach ball, palm tree, boat, basket, crab, octopus and more with this 22 piece fun-in-the-sun beach theme set.High-quality, flexible material and strong magnetic connection allows you to create organic 3D shapes.
Zip or stack pieces in addition to bending and connecting them magnetically.Use your imagination to build animals, vehicles, and more with brightly colored pieces.
14 flexible magnetic strips included in red, green, yellow, blue, and brown.8 black & white connector pieces add structure and complete your design with eyes, wheels, and more .
SHOP HEREUNLIKE OTHER MODELS - MORE FUN & CHALLENGING - This Erector Set Will Provide Your Junior Builder Countless Hours Of Fun - Introduce your kids to the world of mechanics, Improve their creativity & endless imagination by challenging them to build their own Car, Airplane, Construction Truck, Motorcycle and more!
We include an exclusive large and comprehensive, step-by-step instructional guide showing how to build different models and improve their building skills!
Put away the video games, phones and tablets. Enhance your kid�s Science,Technology and Math skills by introducing them to the best stem toys for boys and girls.
SHOP HEREMade of high quality plastic and strong magnets
These magnetic numbers makes them easy for small hands to play with, they can stick to the refrigerator
The educational toys magnetic numbers can help kids to practice their calculating skills and build their arithmetic skills. It safe for your child's eyes and helps your child to increase their confidence and inspires their creativity.
Ideal for kids' early alphabet learning toys and refrigerator decoration. Package include: 26 pcs magnetic numbers.
SHOP HEREUsing the principle of Sudoku, the grids impose constraints for placing the 9 wooden tokens. Logical thinking should see you through the 30 challenges.
A game of logic for 1 player lasting about 15 minutes.Contains 30 game cards and 9 animal counters.Using the principle of Sudoku, the grids impose constraints for placing the 9 wooden tokens.
Logical thinking should see you through the 30 challenges. Contents: 9 animal tokens, 30 challenge cards (of increasng levels of difficulty) Object: to fill the grid with the 9 tokens.
SHOP HERETONS OF LITTLE THINGS FOR 1 YEAR OLD TO PLAY WITH: The fact that this activity cube toys for 1 year old girl is 7-in-1 means it has up to 7 activities including peek-a-boo doors, clock with moveable hands, spin wheel with peg, sliding animals, spinning gears, digital animal flip board and wire and bead play.
This activity cube toy will keep them busy with the multiple sides of play as well as the different animal friends.
This wooden activity cube has passed the highest toy safety standards in the United States and Europe.This is a good choice for gift that involve 1 year old girl as they grow up, not just press the button.
SHOP HEREMagnetic blocks are a great way to encourage curious little ones to experiment with building in a way that�s a little different from working with Legos.
Your child is guaranteed to have hours of 3D building fun with the best sets of magnetic blocks you�ll find below DREAM BIG & BUILD BIG - No limitations, scalable to build as big as desired by adding more pieces to create the master piece. PicassoTiles in colossal styles.
LEARNING BY PLAYING - Never too early to start developing kids creativity. Children can acquire strong sense of color, geometrical shapes including 3D forms numbers counts, magnetic polarities & architectural design at early age.
SHOP HERE?Electronic Projector?:Project an image that your child can draw along the picture. This cute educational projector makes game time interesting, which will help and encourage children to learn to draw,paint and paint while playing games.
?Cultivate Creativity?-Children are naturally fond of graffiti, which enables them to develop creativity in all aspects of creation. This toy can make your child show his artistic style.
[Have fun] This cute educational projector will help and encourage children to learn to draw and paint while playing. This is a kind of intellectual toy, which can not only improve the child's practice ability, but also improve the play.
SHOP HEREWooden Easel:This tabletop easel includes dry-erase , dust-free chalk, a magnetic shape blocks,letter, number magnets and a Whiteboard and Chalkboard.Sturdy Wooden Structure:Double-sided desktop easel is made of high-quality wood.
It can be laid flat or stand for easy storage. The sole is stable and will not slip.Multipurpose : This is a great easel for kindergartens, children, teachers and parents.
Very suitable for use in home, classroom and travel.Educational Toys:The wooden easel is great for little ones to learn, practice skills. This will help him develop eye-hand coordination skills and develop children's imagination and creativity.
SHOP HERE?Colorful lines??Magnetic Drawing Board for Toddlersis divided into 4 color areas?green?yellow?red, blue?which helps kids to promote their colour recognitin and makes it more exciting for kids than the regular old black and white boards.
?Smart erase??It's easy to erase with just only one slide. The bar will help clear the drawing area and start the new creation soon.
?New design for kids?:Includes 2 cute stamps for extra fun, stylus is attached to the drawing board with a durable string, no risk of losing it.Handle allows toddlers to carry easily.?No more mess??It's the best way to stop kids from scribbling on the wall, and it's enviromental friendly, saving paper and no ink, keeping your home clean.
SHOP HEREWith the National Geographic Kids Super 3D Puzzle, your child can learn about the animal kingdom and learn how to exercise patience while assembling this puzzle!From the Amazon rainforest to the African savannah, amazing animals are all around us.
The National Geographic Kids Super 3D Puzzle immerses your child into a world of play, creativity through immersing them in the Animal Kingdom. 3D lenticular puzzle.
3 puzzle packs. Super 3D which gives great depth to the image. This puzzle contains 100 puzzle pieces. These pieces are 31*23 cm and 21*9in From the National Geographic Image library.
SHOP HEREPerfect strategy game for the whole family -- less than a minute to learn with fun challenges for all ages!?
? Players take turns placing their 21 pieces on the board: each piece must touch another of the same color, but only at the corners!
Stake your claim and protect your territory by fitting as many of your pieces on the board as possible while strategically blocking your opponents!
The game ends when no more pieces can be placed down, and the player with the lowest number remaining wins!
SHOP HEREPerfect strategy game for the whole family -- less than a minute to learn with fun challenges for all ages!?
? Players take turns placing their 21 pieces on the board: each piece must touch another of the same color, but only at the corners!
Stake your claim and protect your territory by fitting as many of your pieces on the board as possible while strategically blocking your opponents!
The game ends when no more pieces can be placed down, and the player with the lowest number remaining wins!
SHOP HEREThe Stacking, Shaking, Strategy Game
Can you beat the Shake?
Pass out the Tetriminos and make sure each player has the same amount.
Roll the dice and stack the Tetrimino
Be the first player to stack all of your Tetrimino pieces to win ...but watch out for the SHAKE! Any pieces that fall down on your side will have to be played again.
SHOP HEREHats consists of 42 hat cards, in seven different suits/colors, a tea table board for the exchanging of cards, a scoring napkin (which is actually a nice dry erase board), a dry erase marker and a non-edible cookie. It is important to note that the cookie is not edible.
At the start of the game, the deck is shuffled and everyone is dealt nine cards. You then fill the tea table board based on the number of players. With three or four players you fill all six spots, with two players, you only fill the first five.
An important note: With two players, you are going to remove two suits from the game before dealing out the starting hands, otherwise you�ll use all forty two cards.
SHOP HERE4 In 1 Season Traffic Animals Story Puzzles Educational Wooden Toys For Children Funny Bricks.This entertainment puzzle toy for kids can develop kid's children's hand-eye coordination and improve their hands-on ability.
It also a great educational toy for toddlers to practice grasping, recognize colors and develop artistic cognitive.
Offering wonderful DIY handmade experience for children, it is a great learning toys and birthday gift for kids over 4 years old.
SHOP HEREDIY 3D Animal Model Kit - There are 12 sheets of different animals. Pre-cut wooden parts can be pop out of the sheets easily.
When you finished you can get an attractive animal. Easy Assembling - The detailed step-by-step instructions are included with each kit. It will take you about half an hour to assemble an animal following the instructions in the manual, depending on your pace and patience.
SHOP HEREBUILD: Assemble the 3D wooden puzzle.
When you finished you can get an attractive animal. Easy Assembling - The detailed step-by-step instructions are included with each kit. ARTS & CRAFTS : Excellent gift to spark creativity & enhance artistic talent of your children FUN & ENGAGING PUZZLES: Fun activity for parents & children to enjoy together! LEARN VALUABLE SKILLS: Building puzzles helps develop problem solving skills, critical thinking, focus & more! HOURS OF FUN & LEARNING: Great educational toy and STEAM/STEM learning alternative so children learn while having fun!
SHOP HEREBUILD: Assemble the 3D wooden puzzle.
When you finished you can get an attractive animal. Easy Assembling - The detailed step-by-step instructions are included with each kit. ARTS & CRAFTS : Excellent gift to spark creativity & enhance artistic talent of your children FUN & ENGAGING PUZZLES: Fun activity for parents & children to enjoy together! LEARN VALUABLE SKILLS: Building puzzles helps develop problem solving skills, critical thinking, focus & more! HOURS OF FUN & LEARNING: Great educational toy and STEAM/STEM learning alternative so children learn while having fun!
SHOP HEREThis Is Satisfaction Guarantee - Great Gift For Birthday And Holidays For Students And Boys & Girls
Wooden Activity Cube Includes 5 Activity To Play Which Is Baby Blocks Shape Sorter Toy With 4 Color Shapes, Abacus Counting Beads, Sliding Shapes, Spinning Shapes Counting Numbers And A Removable Wire Bead Maze On The Top
SHOP HERE4 different mighty machine puzzles
8 extra play pieces to add to play value Each puzzle has just 4 or 8 pieces Award winning puzzle for children aged 3 and over Each puzzle approximately 19cm x 14cm
SHOP HEREMultifunctional Baby Activity Cube - The design is inspired by school bus, more features than you can imagine.
Cute appearance, a variety of music and sound, flashing lights will attract the attention of children. Excellent Learning and Entertainment Features - Tool exercises, calculation functions, animal and sound recognition, which can develop children's skills while having fun!
SHOP HEREThis toy set introduces a certain amount of realism that your kids will absolutely be fascinated with!
This spelling shape sorting clock set is the ultimate educational toy that teaches fine motor skills, numbers, colours, shapes, counting and basic concepts of time and geometry!
SHOP HEREThis is a DINOSAUR BONE FOSSIL EXCAVATION learning toy for kids
This perfect and realistic dinosaur kit can fully satisfy the exploration of children, every time dig a dinosaur it is a pleasure and excitement. Jurassic history is waiting to be discovered.
SHOP HERELet your kid build and colour their very own cute giraffe and learn about the animal at the same time!
Not only do they get to improve their motor skills by putting the Giraffe together, they also get to work on their artistic skills by coloring it as well as their cognitive skills by identifying the different parts of the giraffe!
SHOP HEREDolphin Toy Material: Wood Package contains:
26 cylinders of various colors and sizes, 1 dice, 1 base in a shape of dolphin. Developmental and exciting game for kids. Can be played by one player, in pair, with parents or friends. Recommended age 3+. You can introduce it to kids when they are as young as 1.5-2 years old (only under parents' supervision because of small parts)
SHOP HEREThe Magnetic Drawing Board displays 4 vivid colors (Red, Yellow, Blue, Green) in 8 color zones, making your child�s drawings colorful
Draw, write and play games on the Magnetic Drawing Board using the stylus to encourage your child�s creativity and help them to learn how to express themselves visually. The Magnetic Drawing Board contributes to developing your child�s imagination and hands-on ability. It cultivates artistic ability of your child and shows the inner capabilities of their mind, helping you to learn more about your child and communicate with them better.
SHOP HEREGive your child an exciting, hands-on introduction to electronics with this kit and let them have fun learning to build circuits with these colorful electronics discovery pieces that easily snap together.
Grow As You Go: Because the projects are arranged in order of complexity, kids can build on their skills as they progress through the manual.Learn all about open circuits, closed circuits, parallel circuits, etc., with no tools required Lots of Fun: Can be used to make interesting circuits, encouraging educational play that teaches your little one about electricity
SHOP HERETeach your preschooler how to count and learn English with the English Logarithmic Wooden Board!
Help children develop hand-eye coordination, colour discrimination, motor skills, and number recognition. Safe to use wooden blocks with smooth rounded edges that have no burrs. Encourages creativity in children and equips them with problem-solving skills. Recommended age: 3 years+. It has small parts thus not recommended for children aged 36 months and below.
SHOP HERESmart Design: for smart kid �s education.
This teaching aids is applied with self-correcting mechanism and you can gradually raise the difficulty by using the following levels. Each piece measures 4.1�X3.5�, perfect for toddler to maneuver.
SHOP HEREInspires your kid's creativity and imagination, exercises hand-eye coordination and color perception ability. Provides endless joyful painting and early learning hours for parents and kids
The magic drawing mat will be perfect for a communicative link between parents and kids to doodle freely and share their happiness together, inspire kid's creativity and imagination for early learning and best choice for kids birthday gift or Christmas gift
SHOP HERESafety test approved. Safe material, all the tangrams blocks are nicely sanded and painted, which feel soft and smooth in hands, thick and beautifully colored, not heavy wood, far superior.
T180PCS pattern blocks, 24 learning advantage cards, 1 storage bag are packaged in exquisite English package. No one falls out of love with the puzzle. Perfect Christmas Gift / Birthday Gift. Want to add this awesome puzzle game to your toy collections?
SHOP HEREEach puzzle piece is cut in a unique shape to provide an extra level of self check and concentration.
puzzles promote hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, problem solving and concentration,Comes in a storage tray made out of recycled material. No box to remain environmentally friendly and provide easy storage
SHOP HEREMagic Block Game Parent-Child Activity Double Speed Game Kids Educational Toys 3D Cube Puzzle Blocks Interactive Race Board Game Gift Family for Kids Adults.
Made of ABS material, safe and environmental protection.Suitable for children aged more than 5 years old. Brain game: This toy aims at developing kids intelligence and practical manual ability Challenging Fun: This is a fast-paced game.The player need to replace the squares in the middle of each game disc with the pattern formed in the color dice that you see at the fastest speed
SHOP HEREEducational Toys DIY Slime Kit Magic Water Funny Waterscape For Kids Science toys Arts & Crafts.
Educational Toys DIY Slime Kit Magic Water Funny Waterscape For Kids Science toys Arts & Crafts, Play with crystal slime, Develop kids craft ability
SHOP HERECreative playtime:start by matching and snapping the mushroom nails to the illustrated pattern cards to complete the picture, then move on to creating own unique designs by only using the peg board! Let your kids have imagination time.
Educational playset:develops your children�s fine motor skills, hand dexterity, color recognition, artistic senses, imagination and early patterning, sequencing ability.
SHOP HERECUTE, FUN, CREATIVE ORIGAMI; For grownups, some of our fondest memories revolve around making origami as kids; Some of that simpler time can be captured by a little paper folding;
Folding origami is also a great way for parents to spend quality time with kids without the need for any high tech gadget; Express yourself in creative and imaginative ways with this fun and rewarding hobby!
SHOP HEREAn exclusively developed, extra-thick cardboard combined with our fine, linen structured paper to create a glare-free puzzle image and give you the best experience possible.
None of the frustrations you find with other puzzle brands.
SHOP HERERescue Squad Giant Shaped Puzzle Set
Rescue Squad Giant Shaped Puzzle Set
SHOP HERECREATIVE CRAFTING? -- Is good arts & crafts kit for kids which will inspire boys' & girls creativity and imagination. This craft for kids is designed to encourage creativity, self-expression and the hand-on ability.
This kids rock craft kit contains waterproof & non toxic acrylic paint which you need, with vibrant & bright colors, your lovely rock art crafts can live outside no matter what the weather�s like?long lasting coloring.
SHOP HEREAs kids grow older, they become more curious about the world around them, often asking, �How does this work?�
Science Experiments for Kids teaches young brains the nuts and bolts of the scientific method using fun, hands-on experiments designed to show kids how to hypothesize, experiment, and then record their findings
SHOP HEREA LOT OF ACTIVITIES IN ONE TOY ----- Well-made learning toy with many different options for play.
CREATIVE EDUCATIONAL TOY ----- As a good teaching tool, wooden peg board bead game can help your kids develop many great skills. Magnetic wooden fishing game can help improve hand and eye coordination, fine motor skills. The clip bead game is good for developing hand grip and learning color sorting. The numbers and counting circles help exercise counting and performing mathematical operations.
SHOP HEREAll the tools kids need to make amazing spiral artwork.
Everything snaps inside the case, which doubles as a work surface! Encourages creativity and self-expression.
SHOP HERELearn by Play. Develop early critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Learn by Play. Develop early critical thinking and problem solving skills. Fosters experimentation and trial & error as well as fine motor and hand-eye coordination. Rationalize and visualize different combinations for early childhood development.
SHOP HEREArtCreativity Wooden Tangram Puzzles for Kids.
EFFECTIVE LEARNING TOOLS: Looking for math manipulatives for kids to make that lesson stick? Homeschool supplies, Montessori materials, or kindergarten & preschool learning games for boys and girls ages 3 and up? These tangrams make learning a fun affair.
SHOP HERETool Kit for Kids Gift of All Ages
Includes screws, bits, bolts, screwdriver, hammer, saw, pliers, and an air powered cordless drill. This ideal pretend play toolset is portable for little toddler boys who love to imitate their dads. These tool kits are durable and long lasting and is great for kids pretending to play as a mechanic.
SHOP HEREWooden Pull Toy, Infant Cartoon Animal Wooden Pull Car Toy Math Learning Children Early Educational Toys(Puppy Tow cart)
Develop Kids Skills?Wooden pull toy can encourages kids to active play? promotes dexterity, hand eye coordination,shape recognition and manipulation.The shell has blocks for your kid to learning four rules of arithmetic, etc.
SHOP HEREWooden Activity Toys for 3 Year olds
[GREAT EDUCATIONAL TOY] - Teaches numbers & concepts of time. The chunky pieces stimulate mental ability & fine motor skills.
SHOP HEREWooden storybook
story and activities on every page easy instructions using break away closures
SHOP HEREWord Speed Dice Game for All
Fun filled dice and card game for kids Race to spell words combining the consonant cards in your hand with the vowel dice in the Dice Slide The first to shout out their word wins the hand! Designed for 2-4 players and features the English alphabet only Package Includes: 6 Dice, 53 Cards, Instruction Sheet, Dice Slide
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