15 Best Fun and Educational Toys for Girls
This Christmas morning was the most anticipated moment for my kid and nieces. As soon as they got permission to open their presents, they tore the wraps like a hungry pack of wolves. One of my nieces accidentally opened a gift I had bought for my son. And the disappointment in her face was visible. This made me wonder about the biases boys and girls have towards gender-specific toys.
Research findings…
Psychologist Dr. Brenda Todd, a senior lecturer at City, University of London, recently conducted a study to determine the gender biases of children with regards to preferred toys. Her study finds children overwhelmingly chose toys typed to their gender. At the same time, her study also suggests girls prefer gender-neutral toys rather than toys made specifically for boys. The reason we mention this study is to make a case about why toy manufacturers have gender biases when designing their toys.
Stereotypical toys selections??
As parents we often find ourselves wandering around in the aisles of toys specific for girls and boys. And we naturally select toys that we think will be attractive to our children based on their gender. There is a psychological basis for such selection, as Dr. Todd’s study suggests. As parents, we are not being stereotypical in choosing trucks for boys and a pink pony for girls. Turns out we are reacting in the same fashion as our children would react when it comes to selecting appropriate toys for themselves.
Best educational toys for girls..
Dr. Todd’s study also sheds light on the intricacies of playtime psychology, especially for girls. It turns out, in most cases girls are more imaginative and creative during their playtime than boys. This means girls are capable of indulging in gender-specific and gender-neutral toys more intimately than boys. Providing girls with educational toys enhance their creative development with a slight edge over boys. With that in mind we have listed some of the best educational toys that are gender-specific and in some instances gender-neutral, which are equally fun and engaging
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- Educational Toy for Girls – This cute learning toy for girls has horse and fashion show pictures to trace, plus there are more templates online that can be downloaded for free. They’ll love drawing, coloring, shading, and adding fine details to their mini masterpieces!
- All-In-One Art Set – Give kids the confidence to create with the included coloring board and art supplies! They can place any of the 10 tracing sheets on the Light Up Tracing Pad, then use a blank sheet and the graphite pencil to trace the image before adding their own flair. The art kit lets kids choose from over 100 traceable images, which helps guide their creativity without requiring them to draw an individual scene from scratch. The 12 short colored pencils make coloring and embellishing the traced design smooth and easy.
- Glows In The Dark – Drawing in the dark brings a new element to their artistry. The LED drawing tablet illuminates the tracing sheets so kids can be imaginative at night or in daylight. Plus, the glow in the dark fun gives kids the freedom to express themselves in an inventive way at home and on the go!
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- Fun & Educational – LeapFrog Fridge Phoenics Magnetic Letter Set lets girls sing along to fun learning songs and explore the world of a to Z with colorful letter tiles that talk, sing and teach about the alphabet. This cute learning toy for girls also features 26 interactive magnetic alphabet letters and tile reader that stick to magnetic surfaces. Perfect for learning independently or together!
- Skills Developed — This educational toy also teaches the alphabet, phonics, fine motor skills and early vocabulary. Alphabet letters are designed for easy manipulation by little hands, which helps strengthen fine motor and coordination skills.
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- Alphabets & Reading — It’s never too early to teach alphabets to kids and help them develop a love for reading. Comprehensive electronic toy is highly educational and makes learning super fun
- Multiple Activities & Learning Modes — Includes 6 learning activities, 8 learning pages, and 100+ sounds, songs and melodies. Toddlers and young children get a head start with 3 learning modes: letter and word identification, spelling, and quiz mode; makes learning fun!
- Encourage Learning — Nice way to encourage and develop your kid’s desire to learn.
- Travel — Perfect electronic toy for travelling as it keeps the kids engaged and entertained for hours with educational activities.
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- Electronic Devices — Kids love any devices or toys with a screen. Why bother with smartphones, tablets and other electronics when you can actually give them their very own laptop
- Educational — Helps to introduce kids to alphabets, words and computer literacy. Girls can use this educational toy to learn alphabets, spell their name, send and receive fake emails
- Develop Vocab — This cute toy laptop for girls can also help them develop their vocabulary by learning many new words through interactive games and animations.
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- Develop Skills — This pretend play wooden dollhouse helps girls develop color, shape and number recognition skills. Parents can also ask them to open the red door, or knock on a numbered door or let one of the figures into the door with the square number plaque. Determining which key matches which lock encourages problem-solving skills, and the 4 play people inspire infinite storytelling possibilities.
- Sturdy Wooden Construction — The Melissa & Doug Child’s Take-Along Wooden Doorbell Dollhouse is made from sturdy, high-quality wood and assembled with precision manufacturing standards.
- Easy To Transport — This little people house is built with a pair of attached easy-to-carry handles making it a breeze to transport while traveling or visiting relatives.
- Features — This interactive wooden toy includes four doorbells that ring, four play people, four doors that open on durable hinges and with four lock-and-key pairs.
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- Safe & Durable – With protective shockproof silicone shell camera is more durable and safe for kids. This cute interactive toy camera helps kids to take clear images and videos to record their every moment. Thus, it lets parents give more initiative right to the kids to discover more interesting things by themselves.
- Kids Digital Camera – The front rear dual-lens camera supports 8MP ( 3264 x 2448 ) photography and 1080p video. This electronic toy camera has features of any other actual camera.
- Encourages Outdoor Activities – Mini portable size/light-weight /lanyard design, make it easy for kids to carry this cute toy camera anywhere. Kids camera makes your kids to get away from TV, video games.
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- Fun & Educational – Studies show that children’s imaginative abilities are most effectively employed when they’re given freedom within a specific topic or scenario. Realistic roleplay modeled after real-life “grown-up” tasks is essential for developing critical thinking skills. Inspire growing minds with our adorable and adventure-ready My First Purse.
- Perfect for Toddlers & Preschoolers – This cute learning toy set for girls is ideal for broadening mental faculties through creative and active play in young children, ideally toddlers and preschoolers. Includes just enough pieces to be engaging without being overwhelming.
- Encourages Safe Play – All the accessories featured in this interactive toy set are made with toxin free materials and featured rounded edges and non-sharp finishes, encouraging fun and safe play.
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- Educational Fun — As one of the best educational wooden toys for child’s development it 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 — The Melissa & Doug Make-a-Cake Set encourages creative thinking and imaginative play and promotes cognitive and number skills.
- Realistic — This wooden kitchen pretend play appliance has number dials that turn and a mixer bowl that spins when girls turn the hand-crank.
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- Perfect For Girls – Girls love to create gorgeous pieces with this snap jewelry set for parties, rainy days, travel or just having fun at the house. It can be rebuild every time for different styles at any occasion.
- Great Educational Toy – This interactive toy for girls encourages creativity and builds strong fine motor skills while improving hand-eye coordination.
- Hours Of Fun – Girls can DIY any crafts with this fully reusable jewelry kit, make it, wear it, remake it and wear it again. This jewelry fashion kit comes with 630 pieces beads , 53 unique shapes and more than 12 different colors, including 24 rings, 12 bracelets and 3 hairbands.These are much enough for children to create their own jewelry masterpieces, you will be coming up with different combinations, you can use your imagination to make any crafts and you won’t want to stop. Before you know it everyone you loved, including the pet, will have their own customized jewelry!
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- Practical Learning – STEM electronic toy cash register teaches girls about money, number calculation and more
- Role-Play — Kids can play money, credit cards, pretend food basket includes hand Scanner and working cash register. With its actual functionality, your little one will enjoy endless hours of imaginative play.
- Fun Experience — This cute learning toy includes a shopping baskets, play money and some other little thingies to make the playing experience so real, fun and educational at the same time.
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- World Expeditions – Imagine a fun play time for girls where they can explore the world on their own, talk to the app, listen to stories and poems, or play quizzes.
- Imagination & Curiosity – A perfect educational toy 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.
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- Skills Developed — Leapfrog Scoop & Learn Ice Cream Cart helps to build memory and learn sequencing skills. Pushing the cart around builds gross motor skills while listening to upbeat songs and music
- Role-Play — This cute toy ice cream cart lets girls create tasty-looking combinations while introducing the colors and flavors
- Learn Counting — This cute toy for girls also helps them learn numbers by counting till ten along with the ice cream cart by pressing the syrup pump or coin button
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- Friendly Educational Toy – With the help of friendly Mr. Pencil, girls can explore six activities that will introduce writing, drawing and spelling. Step by step, this cute electronic toy for girls will show how to write numbers, shapes, uppercase letters and lowercase letters. After correctly tracing a number, shape or letter, tap the screen to make it come alive!
- Step By Step Fun – Beginning learners can press the buttons to hear letter names and sounds. This interactive fun toy helps kids to practice writing shapes, numbers and uppercase and lowercase letters. Or, have fun and use the stylus to draw anything they want! After correctly tracing a letter, number or shape, tapping the screen makes it come alive with cute animations! Kids can use the stylus on the touch screen as a guide to follow step by step tracing instructions for proper stroke order of letters and numbers.
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- Affordable Pet – Best alternative for parents who are considering getting pet dog for their daughters but aren’t allowed to have a pet in the building.
- Real-like Puppy — This cute toy dog not only has puppy-like movements & sounds but also responds to the sound
- Companionship — It is originally designed to designed to bring comfort, companionship, and fun to elder loved ones. This cute toy dog can have the same effect on the little girls and help them to develop affection for these little creatures.
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- Active Learning — This cute little robot is ready to roll, and get kids moving and learning along with him! With 360 degrees of mobility, this electronic robot encourages preschoolers to get their minds and bodies moving while teaching them how to follow directions.
- Thinking — Perfect educational toy for girls as it encourages kids to think critically about the world around them!
- Interactive — Girls will have a blast showing off their awesome listening skills and rocking moves with this interactive learning robot!
- More Options — With 3 exciting game modes and 6 games to choose from, this fun electronic toy keeps kids thinking (and moving!)
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