Best Christmas Gifts Ideas for Kids and Toddlers
Not too long ago, I was on my commute to work. And I happened to glance over a storefront already displaying holiday decorations. The festive season is around the corner, and the feel is already in the air. And as dad I’m already starting to get stressed thinking about what would be a suitable gift for my boy. He absolutely loved the gift that I got him for last Christmas but now I have the pressure to top that. Holiday season is full of excitement and joy, but I would be dishonest not to mention the hectic emotional ride that comes with it. And most of it set off by the challenges of selecting perfect gifts for the ones we love.
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Best Christmas Gifts Ideas for Toddlers
Selecting best Christmas gifts can be extremely tricky. We can get the most interesting and popular toys but if they don’t play with it even once than it will be completely worthless. We hope that our selection of holiday gifts ideas can bring a smile in your toddlers face and get him super excited on the day of Christmas.
Christmas Gifts For Toddlers - Educational Toys
LeapFrog Learning Friends 100 Words Book (ideal 18 months - 4 years)
- Explore – Leapfrog learning friends lets toddlers touch the words and pictures on each page to explore words, fun facts, music and sounds
- Multilingual – It is perfect gift for little ones to teach them words in English and Spanish.
- Increase Vocabulary – This cool toy teaches toddlers more than 100 age-appropriate words chosen by learning experts in 12 categories.
Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Puppy ( ideal 1 - 3 years )
- Smart Cuddly Friend – The Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Puppy is soft, cuddly, and tons of fun. As your baby explores and plays, this cute little toy will introduce more than 100 first words, body parts, colors and more, making learning super fun and engaging
- Educational – Great Christmas gift for toddlers that will encourage little ones to count along and identify different parts of the body with fun and rewarding phrases.
- Development – Playful songs, sounds and phrases introduce parts of the body, colors, the alphabet, counting, and more, and encourage thinking skills as your baby finds their own ears, tummy and heart.
Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Cookie Shape Surprise ( ideal 1 - 3 years )
- Magical Fun – The Laugh & Learn Cookie Shape Surprise offers lots of ‘sweet’ fun for your baby. The learning toy ‘magically’ knows when your kiddo places a cookie inside and responds with fun sounds and music!
- Number and Shape – As your baby sorts the ‘cookies’ through the corresponding slots in the jar, they’ll hear sounds and phrases to introduce each cookie’s number and shape. For more hands-on fun, press the jar’s light-up nose to hear more silly songs!
- Development – Bright colors, a light-up nose, & music & sounds engages baby’s visual and auditory senses! whereas Grasping & sorting the cookie shapes helps strengthen dexterity & hand-eye coordination.
Leapfrog My Own Leaptop (ideal 2 - 4 years)
- Love Electronic Devices – Kids love any devices or toys with a screen. Why bother with smartphones and tablets when you can give gift toddlers their very own laptop
- Educational – Leapfrog my own Leaptop helps toddlers to learn alphabets, words and computer literacy. Toddlers can use this interactive toy to learn alphabets, spell their name, send and receive fake emails
- Interactive – Perfect Christmas gift for toddlers that will help them develop their vocabulary by learning many new words through interactive games and animations.
VTech Sort and Discover Activity Cube
- Fun Activities – VTech Sort and Discover Activity Cube comes with five sides of fun learning activities
- Number and Colors – Other features of this interactive toy includes two electronic panels that introduce colors, numbers, animals and more. The colorful toy also has 5 piano keys that introduce numbers, colors and music for your little one to explore.
- Skills Development – One of the best Christmas gifts for toddlers that will help them to develop hand-eye coordination with the shape sorter and colorful shape blocks
Christmas Gifts For Toddlers - Wooden Toys
Melissa & Doug Shape Sorting Cube Classic Wooden Toy, Developmental Toy ( ideal 2 - 4 year olds)
- Creative Sorting Toy – Melissa & Doug Shape Sorting Cube Classic Wooden Toy is a beautifully constructed wooden learning toy with 12 bright colored, easy to grip shapes
- Engaging – This ever popular shape and color activity is a great choice for holiday gift as it is sure to keep the children engaged. Each shape is designed to fit through a matching hole on the wooden cube
- Color & Shape Recognition – This colorful learning toy for toddlers and preschoolers promotes color and shape recognition and problem solving skills and makes it a nice holiday gift idea.
TOP BRIGHT Activity Cube Toys Baby Educational Wooden Bead Maze Shape Sorter ( ideal 1 - 4 years )
- Educational Fun — This 7-in-1 educational activity cube toy contains bright and cheerful solid wooden activity cube which have multi-functional design and require no assembly required.
- Simulates Creativity — This cool toy helps them to recognize shapes, colors, animals, clock and more. This learning cube also lets toddlers try all the interesting activities and help them develop their thinking and coordination.
- Grows With the Baby — Perfect Christmas gift for toddlers that helps them to learn different content at different ages and helps them to improve their hand-eye coordination and develop motor skills.
- Educational Fun — Melissa & Doug Wooden Make-a-Cake Mixer Set helps to promote hand-eye coordination, develop thinking skills, stimulate focus and curiosity and more through role play and pretending to bake a cake.
- Skills Development — This engaging toy is great gift for toddlers as it encourages creative thinking and imaginative play and promotes cognitive and number skills.
- Realistic — This educational kitchen pretend play appliance has number dials that turn and a mixer bowl that spins when children turn the hand-crank and is sure to bring a smile in your little one’s face when he opens the present.
Melissa & Doug Noah's Ark Wooden Shape Sorter Educational Toy ( ideal 3 - 5 years )
- Develop Skills — This fun toy helps toddlers to learn about shapes and develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and problem solving skills as they try to fit in corresponding animal shapes depicted on the ark
- Pretend Play — Melissa & Doug Noah’s Ark will be a nice Christmas gift choice as it provides kids with pretend play experience and also gives them an engaging option for screen-free fun
- Features — Camels and kangaroos, monkeys and alligators are among the charming chunky animal pieces to sort into this wooden ark. The two-story ark features flip-open doors, twenty-six animal blocks, plus Noah and his wife!
Christmas Gifts For Toddlers - Electronic Toys
- Letters and Numbers — HOMOFY Baby Educational Toys Airplane lets toddlersplay letters “ABC” or the number “123” while pressing corresponding button making it easy for them to learn the letter and number.
- Pretend Play — Perfect toy to gift on Christmas for toddlers as it helps them establish the connection of voice and graphics
- Features — Combined with the interesting plane sounds, the fun toy features vibrant and colorful lights that your cutie pie will love.
- Skills — Also, while playing, this colorful toy helps to nurture baby’s imagination and cognitive development.
Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Chair (Ideal 1+ years)
- Developmentally Appropriate — This fun learning toy includes variety of developmentally appropriate educational songs, phrases and sounds within three levels of play. The learning content from electronic chair changes as baby grows which makes it a perfect holiday gift.
- Active Play — Toddlers remain active to explore this feature of this learning toy, activating songs & phrases when baby sits & stands.
- No Hassle — No cords, no plugs, no hassle; Another reason that makes it a great Christmas gift idea.
VTech Touch & Teach Educational Word Book ( ideal 2+ years )
- Develop Vocab — What better way to expand your toddlers vocab than with the introduction of ABCs and new words.
- Features — This fun toy book features 12 incredibly detailed and touch sensitive pages that help teach children over 100 words is six categories.
- Skills — The colorful pages of this fun toy for toddlers react to your toddlers touch with sounds, music, and words teaching them fine motor skills along with words, and ABCs.
- Interactive — Touch & Teach Educational Word Book helps parents to make reading an even more interactive experience and that makes it an ideal Christmas gift.
24 Keys Piano Play Mat (ideal 3 years )
- Engaged and Active —Kids love music and this fun piano mat keeps kids engaged and active at the same time.
- Creative — This musical toy can help toddlers become creative and encourages them to compose their own songs as they spend hours stomping on the keys of the mat and can be an awesome gift for Christmas
- Features — This cool toy is perfect musical toy gift for toddlers as it includes eight instrument options, including piano, guitar, saxophone and violin.
- Skills — Piano play mat helps them to develop toddlers’ ability of coordination and improve motor skills for Learning & Education
- Skills — Ultimate Alphabet Educational Train comes with 10 activities including a storybook, clock, gears and 13 double-sided alphabet blocks which help toddlers build fine motor skills
- Songs & Melodies — One of the best educational toys for toddlers that counts the alphabet blocks when they’re dropped down the chute. It also has kids story book that teaches sing-along songs and plays melodies
- Number & Animal Names — The cool toy includes walkie-talkie and number pad which encourage role-play and introduce numbers and animals. Further, parents join can toddlers in the role play making it a great choice for Christmas gift.
Best Christmas Gifts For Toddlers - Books
Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book ( 1 - 4 year old)
This book is a favorite among toddlers ever since it was first publised on 1982! Kids love flipping through the pages to discover the animals the zoo has sent – a monkey, a lion and even an elephant! It is perfect choice of gift for parents whose kids are interested in animals and to amuse your little ones, this book also lets you add animals noises along with each picture 🙂
The reader can make animal sounds to accompany each animal to add to the amusement of the story. It is a great way to teach the animal names and sounds as well! It is short and will keep the attention of a baby or toddler. With bright, bold artwork, a catchy refrain, and a whole host of favorite animals, Dear Zoo is a must for every child’s bookshelf.
This interactive and innovative book for toddlers allows your kids to feel like a magician who can play with red, blue and yellow dots. Kids can tap, rub or press the yellow dots and in the next page, it will respond by turning into two yellow dots and continues.
You can always be your little magician’s assistant during the holidays and spend fun time with your little one. This book fully involves the kids’ imaginations and that makes it an ideal choice for holiday gift. They know that they’re not actually mixing colors of paint, or that pressing on a colorful dot doesn’t make the dots multiply on the next pages. But the books are so much fun that the kids suspend reality for a moment and thoroughly enjoy the experience.
This interactive book is a great Christmas gift for toddlers as it encourages them to interact with the animals and mimic their antics – giraffe can bend their necks and monkeys can wave their hand. Through Carle’s vibrant collages and simple instructions, children will learn the importance of listening, exercising, and taking on a new challenge. Join the giraffes, monkeys, donkeys, seals, and more for a frolicking, fun adventure!
A variety of familiar animals invite young children to copy their antics, and as they play, they will learn such important skills as careful listening, focusing attention, and following instructions. Just as alphabet books introduce the very young child to letters and simple words, From Head to Toe introduces the basic body parts and simple body movements. And in the same way that toddlers progress from understanding simple words to reading and writing sentences and stories, so they will progress from simple body movements to dancing, gymnastics, and other sports and activities, with confidence and pleasure.
Hands Are Not for Hitting ( 1 - 4 year olds)
This is a great book for toddlers for teaching positive affirmations about not hitting. It includes colorful illustrations about all the positive things hands can do. It’s never too soon for children to learn that violence is never okay, hands can do many good things, and everyone is capable of positive, loving actions.
In this bright, inviting, durable board book, simple words and full-color illustrations teach these important concepts in ways even very young children can understand.
Created in response to requests from parents, preschool teachers, and childcare providers, this book belongs everywhere young children are and it also includes tips for parents and caregivers and makes a perfect choice for Christmas gift.
This book for toddlers is ideal size for those little hands and are perfect for building vocabulary and developing speech. It includes 100 words, 100 animals and number colors shapes.
The colors in this book are vivid and grabs the attention of toddlers. Also, the images are not too small, allowing the little ones to recognize and point out the different objects. Perfect holiday gift for toddlers to help them learn new objects and words.
Best Christmas Gifts Ideas for Kids
The smile that we see in our kid’s face when they open the Christmas present to find something they love is priceless. We hope our selection of holiday gifts will just about bring the same happiness to the kids on the magical day.
Christmas Gifts for Kids - Educational Toys
- Fun Game – Magnetic Match Ring is an ideal gift for kids as it helps to develop focus, memory, and matching skills, color and shape recognition, problem-solving skills, social skills while playing.
- Age Specific Skills – This engaging toy helps to develop color and shape recognition ability in 3 year olds and helps to develop competition awareness and social ability in kids aged 4+ years.
- Friends & Family – You can enjoy the game with whole families and friends in this holiday season and spend fun quality time together.
- Logic Game – Gravity Maze is a combination logic game, marble run, and STEM toy for kids and a great choice for holiday gift.
- Multi-level Challenges – This interactive learning toy comes with 60 beginner to expert challenges that become increasingly difficult as kids play through them.
- Skills Development – Playing through the increasingly difficult challenges will help kids to improve logical reasoning, spatial reasoning and planning skills, all through fun gameplay.
- Big Thinkers — Think and Learn Code-a-Pillar Toy inspires little learners to be big thinkers by encouraging kids or preschoolers to arrange (and rearrange) the easy-to-connect segments in endless combinations, sending Code-a-pillar on his path. This features makes it one of the best choices for Christmas gifts.
- Skills — Another feature that makes it an ideal choice for holiday gift is it encourages experimentation while developing important skills like problem solving, planning & sequencing and critical thinking.
- Lifelong Learners — With this interactive educational toy for kids, they can engage in hands-on, open-ended discovery that helps them become lifelong learners
- Parents don’t to Be Science Genius – Adults who are supervising experiments do not need to be science gurus. In addition to step-by-step instructions for each experiment, the detailed activity guide included with this kit provides adults with ‘mind blowing science secrets’ that help to answer questions about what’s happening in each experiment.
- Learn Science Basics – 20 piece educational kit allows your young scientist to explore and learn the basics of science from chemical reactions to the use of science tools and makes it a perfect Christmas gift
- Amazing New Things – Both parents and kids can learn amazing new things about basic and acidic solutions with the Mind-Blowing Science Kit and spend fun quality time together during the holiday season.
- Not Messy – None of the experiments included in this kit are especially messy, each one should be done on a flat surface that can be easily wiped clean in case of spills.
- Early Educational Toys – Learning toy magnetic drawing board provides a fun way to get a head start on learning how to write with writing and drawing activities
- Interesting — Pre-k educational toy for 3 year old and above has animated demonstrations that allow kids to follow along and learn proper stroke order for uppercase and lowercase letters
- Explore Creativity — VTech Write & Learn Creative Center for Kids can be a great choice for gift for Christmas as it lets little artists explore creativity by drawing pictures
- Skills — Kids can practice writing and drawing skills with on-screen instructions and interactive activities
Christmas Gifts for Kids - Electronic Toys
- Learn & Play – Mochoog STEM Electric Mechanical Assembly Toys Kit consolidates Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics into an interconnected learning standard based on real-world applications so that kids can acquire the knowledge while playing.
- Social Skills & Teamwork – One of the best toys to gift for Christmas as assembling this interactive toy is a fun activity that kids can work on alone or together with Parents, Grandparents or friends.
- Motor Skills & Coordination – The cool tech toy also helps kids develop fine motor skills, enhance hand-eye coordination and brain development.
- Creativity & Intelligence – In the procedure of assembling this interactive toy, children will have a taste of joy and achievement by conquering challenges from time to time, which is beneficial for children’s creativity cultivation and intelligence development.
- All Ages – Suitable for all ages – kids, teens and even adults and this makes it ideal choice for holiday gift.
- World Expeditions – Imagine a fun play time for kids where they can explore the world on their own, talk to the app, listen to stories and poems, or play quizzes.
- Imagination & Curiosity – An ideal holiday gift idea for the ever-curious kids that sparks their imagination and curiosity.
- Endless Learning Materials – The learning app includes cultures, monuments, inventions, animals, maps and weather for various countries across the globe – all in 3D, enhanced with voice and music.
- Love for Electronics — Snap Circuits Electronics Exploration Kit helps them to develop a love for electronics which is a must in the modern age of technology
- Electrical Knowledge — Gifting this electronic toy will help kids learn and play by designing electrical circuits using the knowledge gained from building over 100 Circuits
- Engaging & Educational — With this engaging electronic toy, kids also get to learn by building working models of a photo sensor, a flashing light, and an Adjustable-Volume siren .
- Hands-on Experience — This cool electronics toy provides them with hands-on experience building models of working electrical circuits which makes it a perfect Christmas gift for tech savvy kids.
- STEM Skills – Plugo Count triggers auditory, visual, and tactile senses in kids and spurs their comprehension abilities, critical thinking, logical reasoning, and mathematical intelligence – perfect holiday gift for kids who love numbers!
- Educational Games – This learning app, one of the five kits of Shifu Plugo, is an AR-powered educational game. It combines unlimited activities that put kids in different thrilling situations that test their Math abilities and make numbers fun.
- Hands on Play Without Touching Screen – Gifting this cool toy lets kids solve Math questions ranging from simple arithmetic to interesting word problems. It is perfect Christmas gift for kids as it adjusts the difficulty of math problems to the child’s age
- Learn Coding – Avengers Hero Inventor Kit lets them code gauntlet to unleash 10 authentic Avengers sound effects
- Interactive — This amazing tech toy is a perfect choice for innovative Christmas gift as it has everything kids need to build and customize an interactive electronic Super hero gauntlet
- STEAM Learning — Avengers Hero Inventor Kit lets kids unlock hours and hours of STEAM learning with over 18 educational activities to build, play and code.
- Independent Learning — No grown-ups necessary: an easy introduction to coding through block based coding with learning activities to advance through programming fundamentals like loops and logic.
Christmas Gifts for Kids - Wooden Toys
- Educational Fun — The Melissa & Doug Wooden Building Blocks Set includes 100 durable wooden blocks in 4 different colors and 9 shapes. Perfect toy to gift for kids as it provides hours of hands on, screen free play and learning
- Simulates Creativity — The colorful blocks not only provides entertainment, but also introduces early math concepts, and helps kids develop strong motor skills and even resilience as they experiment with building, knocking blocks over, and building again
- Safe and Durable — Even though these colorful building blocks are made of solid wood, they are light in weight, which makes them safe for kids and ideal choice for Christmas gifts.
- Teamwork— Parents can join their kids or they can work with their friends in creating this cool wooden robot and create a fun family event during the holidays. So definitely a perfect option for holiday gift for kids.
- Multiple Fun Activities — This puzzle bot has elastic-band muscles and sturdy wood limbs that can hold dozens poses while remaining impervious to breakage. When at rest, the cute wooden robot folds up into a perfect cube.
- All In One — Areaware cubebot medium learning toy is a puzzle, action figure, robot and transformer – all in one and a great Christmas gift choice for kids!
- Eco Friendly and Durable — This challenging puzzle toy is made of sustainably harvested Cherry wood. Also, its durable hardwood frame, inspired by Japanese Shinto Kumi-ki puzzles, can endure generations of play.
- Solid Workbench — The Melissa & Doug Wooden Project Solid Wood Workbench, a realistic learning toy construction set for kids, includes a functioning vise, tool rack, wooden tools, and hardware, as well as project ideas to spark imaginations.
- Durability and Safety — This interactive workbench for kids is made of high-quality wood to ensure durability and safety and these features make it a perfect toy to gift this Christmas.
- Perfect Size — Keep all little builders busy with this sturdy wooden toy workbench that’s just the right size, right down to the nuts and bolts.
- Features — This engaging toy includes a functioning vise, a tool rack, wooden tools and hardware, a storage shelf and ideas to spark the imagination!
- Relaxation and Creative Skills — DIY handmade music box, can make people divert attention by manual labor, relieve stress and relax themselves. Kids can also use paint and ribbons to dress punk music box, be creative and make it their unique artwork
- Cute Robot Puzzle — This DIY wooden puzzle shows the appearance of a cute robot toy at the end of the assembly. Behind it, there are hidden switches and battery boxes to improve the beauty of the product
- Attention and Concentration — In the process of assembly of this fun music box puzzle, kids must carefully read the instructions and need to be patient to treat each small part because if they miss any step then it will affect the next assembly. Parents can join the kids to solve this fun wooden puzzle and spend great quality time together with the kids during the holidays. Another great Christmas gift idea for kids!
Best Christmas Gifts For Kids - Books
The book thief is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside Munich, who loves reading books. Liesel makes friends with next-door neighbor Rudy and establishes herself as a self-proclaimed book thief. Becoming unlikely friends with the Mayor’s wife Ilsa affords Liesel the opportunity to read the books in the Mayor’s massive library. Along the way, Liesel is witness to the atrocities of war, heartbreaking events, love, loss and other life-changing events.
It revolves around second world war and even though some have labelled the book being very sad, it can be live changing for many kids. One of the best books to gift to your kids that can value of sharing and caring and will help them develop a love for reading.
With The Everything Kids’ Science Experiments Book, all you need to do is gather a few household items and you can recreate dozens of mind-blowing, kid-tested science experiments. High school science teacher Tom Robinson shows you how to expand your scientific horizons from biology, chemistry, physics, technology, and engineering—to outer space.
This book can be one of the best Christmas gifts for kids who are interested in STEM or looking for a cool science fair project. The experiments in this book are extremely easy to follow and most items for the experiments can be found at home. Further parents can join their kids and enjoy the fun experiments together.
While using a simple metaphor of a bucket and a dipper, author Carol McCloud illustrates that when we choose to be kind, we not only fill the buckets of those around us, but also fill our OWN bucket! Conversely,when we choose to say or do mean things, we are dipping into buckets. All day long, we are either filling up or dipping into each other’s buckets by what we say and what we do. When you’re a bucket filler, you make the world a better place to be!
This 32-page picture book is perfect gift for kids, parents, grandparents, teachers and people that want to teach empathy, nurture kindness and create a positive environment in their home, classroom, workplace and community. This heartwarming book for kids encourages positive behavior by using the concept of an invisible bucket to show children how easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation and love by “filling buckets.
Simple step-by-step line illustrations in this book make it easy for children to draw with confidence. Each title contains 101 different images in all manner of shapes, sizes and poses.
It is an easy choice to gift for this Christmas and is perfect for travel, holidays and rainy days, ‘How to Draw 101’ activity books provide creative, mess-free fun for junior artists everywhere! Featuring popular drawing themes such as animals, people, cartoons, dinosaurs and more, this drawing book for kids has a variety of fun-filled titles to capture every imagination! The popular ‘How to Draw 101’ art activity books have sold over 4 million copies worldwide and continue to be best-sellers.
August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER, now a #1 New York Times bestseller and included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.
“Wonder is the best kids’ book of the year,” said Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate.com and author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. In a world where bullying among young people is an epidemic, this is a refreshing new narrative full of heart and hope. A great read and one of the best books to gift to kids not just for the holidays but for any occasion.
The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the “lost boys” of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing and moving way.
This motivational book for kids has good examples of leadership. Gifting this book to kids can open up a whole new world for them.
We would love to hear your Christmas gift ideas for the magical day. Share with us in the comment, what gifts did you get or are planning to get for your kids and toddlers.
