ASTRA Best Toys for Kids

What Are the Best Toys for Kids?

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This Year's Winners Are:

 

Pretend (Fantasy Play)

Falcon Knights' Castle
by Playmobil
For ages 4 to 10 
Activate traps and prepare the knights to guard the Falcon Knights’ Castle from intruders. The castle comes with a drawbridge, breakout wall, drop-down ladder, and a trap door. The set also includes four Falcon Knights, horse, functional cannon, and many other accessories to provide hours of entertainment.

 

Shrinky Dinks Fairy Garden
by Creativity for Kids
For ages 7+ 
Color and bake these Shrinky Dinks from Creativity for Kids and transform a pop-up garden into a fun fairy hide-away. 50 pre-cut Shrinky Dinks come ready to color and shrink. Decorate the playscape with 3-D fairies, flowers, forest friends and sparkling glitter glue accents. Includes Faber-Castell Colored EcoPencils and a sharpener.

 
 

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Pretend (Role Play)
Calico Critter Caravan Family Camper
by International Playthings
For ages 3+ 
Calico Critter families can spend happy vacations together travelling in their very own Caravan Camper from International Playthings! Includes over 35 accessories: round table, plates, cups, utensils, pots, pan, sleeping bags, maps, "board games", iron, soap, towel & much more!

 


 

Healthy Gourmet Salad for Green Eaters
by Hape
For ages 3+ 
Imaginative play gets nourished when children create a tasty salad with these vibrant wood vegetables. This 36-piece set from Hape includes the bowl, the vegetables, and dressing—oil, vinegar, and pepper—plus utensils for tossing up some healthy play.

 
Scientific Play
Big Bag of Science
by Be Amazing
For ages 8+ 
This giant kit by Be Amazing whets the appetites of budding young scientists. With more than 70 hands-on science activities, it guarantees hours and hours of science fun. Make water disappear or flow uphill! Create a soda geyser or grow fake snow! Science is fun with activities using chemistry, physic, magnetism, weather, biology, geology, and flight.


 

Remote Control Machines
by Thames and Kosmos
For ages 8+ 
Use this exciting Thames & Kosmos kit to build your own motorized machines, then control them with a unique six-button infrared remote. Control three different motors simultaneously, moving each of them forward or in reverse, with easy-to-activate touch sensors. Includes 3 motors, remote control unit, battery holder, and building blocks.