2018 Holiday Gift Guide

2018 Holiday Gift Guide

Finding kids games for each age group that promotes overall development can be tricky. So as our gift to you, we’ve compiled our favorites here (including our favorite brands) to help you select the perfect gift for the children in your life!

Much of this can be found on Amazon or in Target! Happy Holidays!

Ages 1-2 For this age group I love the brands Fisher Price, Vtech, and Learning Resources.

1. Fisher Price Rattle and Rock Maracas

2. The First Years Stack Up Cups

3. Fisher Price Rock-a-stack and Baby’s First Blocks Bundle

4. Sassy Developmental Bumpy Ball

5. Vtech Drop and Go Dump Truck

6. Learning Resources “Snap and Learn” Alphabet Alligators

7. Medium sized building blocks (I like B.Toys)

8. Squigs (they stick on mirrors and windows!)

9. Bath Toys-like Munchkin Float and Play Bubbles Bath Toy

Ages 2-3 For this age group I love the brand Melissa and Doug and ALEX

1. Melissa and Doug Pounding Bench and Mallet

2. Melissa and Doug Food Groups

3. Melissa and Doug building blocks

4. Melissa and Doug Examine and Treat Pet Vet Play

5. Handy Scoopers (promotes scissor skills!) Great for those early sensory bins (dried pasta, cotton balls, pom poms, etc.)!

6. Jumbo Tweezers (promotes fine motor strength) Great for those early sensory bins!

7. Dot markers

8. LEGO DUPLO blocks

9. ALEX Toys Button Art

10. ALEX Toys Little Hands String a Farm

11. ALEX Toys Little Hands String and Beep

Ages 3-4 For this age group I love Learning Resources and Educational Insights games

1. Learning Resources Froggy Feeding Fun

2. Feed the Woozle

3. Learning Resources Color Bug Catch

4. Avalanche (a game that is a child favorite in my clinic)

5. Fruit Pie Sorter

6. Stack Up

7. Sneaky Snacky Squirrel Game

8. Pop the Pig

9. Magnatiles (always a fan favorite)

10. Bowling sets

11. Jumbo Eye Droppers (great for bath time play and fine motor development!)

12. Play doh sets (great for developing hand strength)

13. LUKAT STEM Toys, Building Blocks with Drill (kids are always motivated by a drill!)

14. Puzzles

15. USA Toys STEM Engineering Building Kids Toys

16. Learning Resources Primary Science Lab Activity Set

17. Learning Resources Mini Muffin Match Up Counting Toy Set

Ages 5-6 For this age group I love Learning Resources and Educational Insights games

1. Learning Resources Mental Blox (great for visual motor and motor planning development)

2. Angry Birds On Thin Ice (great for visual motor development!)

3. Zingo

4. Guess Who

5. Lego sets (great for fine motor manipulation and visual motor development)

6. Play Doh sets (promotes hand strength)

7. Whirligig STEM Toys, building blocks

8. Puzzles

9. D-Fantix Rainbow Puzzle Ball (This is in my fidget box and is a fan favorite by children 5 and up)

10. Educational Insights Design and Drill Activity Set (drills are so motivating and fun for this age group!)

11. Kinetic Sand Sets (a great sensory and fine motor activity!)

12. Perfection! (promotes visual motor skills)

13. Operation (great fine motor control game!)

Ages 7+ For this age group I love ThinkFun Games (fun brain teaser games)

1. ThinkFun “Shape by Shape”

2. Thumbs Up (Fun game for fine motor manipulation development)

3. Quick Cups

4. ThinkFun Distraction (great game for improving overall attention)

5. Spot It (perfect to promote visual scanning and perfect travel size for those car or plane rides)

6. Fast Flip

7. Simon Says (great game for improving overall attention)

8. Bop It (great game for improving overall attention)

9. River Crossing (brain teaser game)

10. Puzzles

11. Lego Sets