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Wooden Fire Station Train Set
A 72-piece wooden fire station train set. Our toddler builds a new track every time he plays. Creative, hands-on play for ages 3–5.
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24 toys for 3-Year-Olds
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A 72-piece wooden fire station train set. Our toddler builds a new track every time he plays. Creative, hands-on play for ages 3–5.
A steel construction excavator with easy-grip handles for real digging. Great quality for sandbox play, ages 3–5.
A 16-inch steel wheel loader with a working arm and bucket. Perfect for sand and dirt, and our toddler loves it. Ages 3–5.
A 20-inch steel and plastic dump truck with a working dump bin. Great quality, and built for big outdoor play. Ages 3–5.
PicassoTiles
100 clear magnetic tiles that snap together into anything. Our son builds something new every time. Creative building for ages 2–5.
Stomp Rocket
Stomp the launcher and the glow rockets fly. Running, jumping and taking turns make it great outdoor play for ages 3–5.
Sensory bottles for naming feelings beyond happy and sad. A calm, hands-on way to talk about emotions, ages 3–4.
A car ramp race track with cars, a parking lot and a gas station. Fine motor practice, color recognition and pretend play for ages 2–3.
Thought-Spot
A feelings flipbook and emotions wheel for naming big feelings and what to do about them. Helps kids talk through emotions, ages 3–4.
Airbition
Talking flash cards with 224 words. Our son loves swapping cards and repeating the words, and the clear speaker makes them easy to copy. Ages 2–4.
A Bluetooth karaoke microphone that gave our son, who has a speech delay, a fun reason to use his voice. Humming turned into sounds, then words. Ages 3–5.
100 counting bears with matching cups for sorting by color and counting. Builds fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination for ages 3–4.
A dinosaur sensory bin with play sand. Our toddler plays with it for hours, and it builds hand-eye coordination and imaginative play. Ages 3–4.
Klever Kits
A construction-themed sensory bin with glow-in-the-dark stones. Our toddler played with it for hours. Hands-on sensory and pretend play for ages 3–4.
Learning Resources
Kid-sized tools for scooping and grabbing in sensory bins and sand. Fine motor practice that builds hand-eye coordination, for ages 3–4.
Water-activated light-up cubes for bath time and sensory bins. Our toddler gets excited every time they come out. Sensory and pretend play for ages 3–4.
VTech
The VTech KidiBeats drum set. Drumming along builds hand-eye coordination and gets little ones making music, ages 2–4.
Sun Joe
A 50-pound bag of ultra-fine play sand for sandboxes and sensory tables. Sensory, creative play for ages 3–5.
GRAUICI
A motorized train set with 3D track layouts kids build themselves. STEM learning and pretend play for ages 3–5.
Fat Brain Toys
An air-powered building set kids connect and rearrange. Problem solving, creativity and STEM play for ages 3–5.
WELLFUNTIME
A backyard bounce house with two water slides. Climbing, sliding and splashing make for active summer play, ages 3–5.
Eight wavy beams and five stepping stones that link into a balance course, with musical games. Builds balance and coordination for ages 3–5.
Bbiamsleep
105 rainbow counting bears for sorting, counting and color play. Picking up and sorting them builds fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Ages 3–4.
Bbiamsleep
127 see-through counting bears for sorting, counting and learning colors. Our favorite rainy-day sensory bin filler, and they glow on a light table. Ages 3–4.