Top 30 Gifts for Kids'
1Never Bored Bandana Board Game | Activity Game Bandana — FOUR RABBIT
Wirecutter's mom gift guide picks Four Rabbit's organic cotton bandana that doubles as a board game, with dice and tokens in a pouch.
$42Four Rabbit
3A big-ticket Christmas present that a Yahoo/AOL parent tester picked as the best bike for teaching a child to ride quickly.
$249.00Guardian Bikes
5A 45-minute screen-free audio figure of songs from Ms. Rachel that sits on a Toniebox, which a parent tester at Yahoo/AOL named her best new toy of 2025.
$19.99Tonies
7SCRIB3D Advanced 3D Printing Pen
In The Toy Insider's 2026 STEM 10; a 3D pen with an LCD display and filament included, great for creative kids who like making things.
$59.99SCRIB3D
9A funny counting book from Mo Willems that makes a cheap, much-loved stocking gift for small readers; picked by Good Housekeeping for toddlers.
$9.31Bookshop.org
2Uncommon Goods | Tween DIY Shoe & Bag Charm Making Kit | DIY bag charms
CNN Underscored's screen-free pick for teen girls; a craft kit for making charms for shoes and bags.
$40Uncommon Goods
4A 233-piece build-it-yourself V8 engine car with a working four-speed gearbox for ages 10+, featured in The Toy Insider 2026 STEM 10 picks.
$39.95Thames & Kosmos
6A fold-out modular wooden dollhouse with a posable figure and dog for ages 2+, listed in The Toy Insider 2026 Holiday Gift Guide Hot 20.
$39.99Puffer Bellies Toys
8Kids Wobble Board | Wooden Balance Board Made in USA | Bunny Hopkins
A wooden, USA-made balance board for active play that Good Housekeeping picked for toddlers; a gift that gets kids moving indoors.
$49.00Bunny Hopkins
10Balancing & Stacking Tree 10440 | DUPLO® | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US
A Good Housekeeping Toy Award winner: toddlers stack and balance the pieces while building fine motor skills, and it fits easily in a stocking.
$13.99LEGO
Open-ended beats single-purpose
A toy that does one specific thing gets used once. Building sets, creative kits, anything that can be played with a dozen different ways tends to actually last, because a kid's imagination does the rest of the work long after the novelty of unwrapping it wears off.
Ask what they're actually into right now, not what they liked last year
Kids' interests move fast, and “what did they like at Christmas” is often already out of date by their birthday. If a few of you are going in together on something bigger - a proper bike, a big set - a HintDrop group pot means everyone can contribute toward the one thing they actually want this month, not last month's version of them.
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