Gift Guideall
From toys that stand the test of time to board games that are anything but boring, we found the best products for each grade that will build your child's brain as well as being chock full of fun. Our list of loot is kid-tested, teacher approved, and full of options for any family, so get wrappin'!
iTunes Gift Card
When most people hear iTunes, they think music. But there's a ton available beyond the beat--from political podcasts to college lectures, NASA videos to The New Yorker.
Billy Jonas: Happy Accidents
This funky folk music manages to work in a wide range of positive messages, from the importance of brushing your teeth to the value of mistakes, and inspires children to find joy in music, wherever it's found!
Knit-it Mice Kit
These three rodents won't keep you up at night and they won't nibble through your cupboards. What they will do is help teach your newbie knitter the basics.
The Lion and the Mouse
This gorgeous adaptation of Aesop's famous fable has no words. Kids play storyteller, as they narrate Pinkney's beautiful illustrations of this tale, in which a little mouse helps free the king of the jungle in his hour of need.
Pick-Up Words
A fun way for kinders to practice and memorize the high-frequency words that are often a stumbling block for beginning readers, and work their fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination in the process.
Mastermind
The two-player game of logic and deduction nails mathematical reasoning, but yet remains so simple that kids want to come back to it again and again.
Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
Fans of the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh books will be delighted at this new addition, which takes readers back to the Hundred Acre Wood for the further adventures of Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore and the rest of the old gang.
Paint Porcelain Party
Choose from a mug, a jewelry box, a picture frame, a heart shaped tea cup and saucer, or a vase.
Crazy Hair
A mad romp from the team behind Coraline, this kid-pleaser is wildly imaginative, with just a bit of spookiness thrown in.
FirstScope Telescope
This scope gives many that cost thrice the price a run for their money.
The Silver Blade
With a plot that reads like a magical mix of Star Wars, Dante's Inferno and Romeo and Juliet, this French Revolution fantasy is practically impossible to put down and a must-read for children of today.
Farkle
Once in a while someone comes up with a game that is so profoundly simple that it requires only a few low-tech pieces, and yet is so fun that kids return to it time after time.
The Chosen One
A riveting book with mature themes, this tightly spun novel explores what it means to be thirteen in a very different world.
Trifold Easel
With a double sided paper easel that makes playdates a breeze, and a handy color wheel to introduce color mixing, this art kit has got it all.
