I am asked all the time for toy suggestions for the holidays, so I created a toy list. Please note, the age suggestions are what I feel is appropriate. The box may say differently. The toy list is also listed year-round on my website at www.speechpathologyues.com. The hyperlinks on this list are to the Amazon Affiliate Program. All commissions from the sales will be donated to Camp Good Grief.
12 Months +
Baby’s First Blocks
Busy Ball Popper Toy (Playskool)
Explore and Grow Busy Gears (Playskool)
First Play Wooden Rocking Farm Animals Pull Train (Melissa & Doug)
Friction Powered Cars
Piggy Bank (Fisher Price)
Musical Instruments
Poppin’ Pals Pop-Up Activity Toy (Playskool)
Pound and Tap Balls
Pound A Ball
Push Animal Cars
See ‘n Say The Farmer Says
Shape Sorters
Stacking Rings
Wooden Kids Baby Activity Cube
18 Months +
Big Dump Truck
Crayons
Echo Mic
Little People Airplane
Little People Bus
Mega Bloks
Melissa & Doug- Latches Board
Musical Instruments
Rhymes Book (VTECH)
Nesting Cups
Peekaboo Learning Farm
Pop beads
Shape Sorters
Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog
Stacking Rings
Fidget Friend (Learning Resources)
Wooden big knob puzzles
Wooden blocks
2 Years +
Baby doll stroller and accessories
Color Wonder
Count & Match Educational Egg Toy
Crayons/Coloring Books
Doll House
Dot Paint Markers
Finger Paints
Piggy Bank (Fisher Price)
Shape Sorter
LeapFrog Shapes and Sharing Picnic Basket
Little People Farm
Little People Garage
Melissa & Doug magnetic fishing puzzle
Melissa & Doug- Latches Board
Mr. Potato Head
Musical Instruments
Play kitchen and food
Playdoh sets
Switchback Racetrack
Wooden blocks
Wooden puzzles
3 Years +
Baby doll and accessories
Animal Fishing
Candy Land
Color Wonder Activity Pads
Dress Up Costumes Occupations
Dress Up Costumes Princesses
Design & Drill Activity Center
Five Little Fish
Interlocking puzzles
Kumon books for cutting skills
Light-Up Activity Board (Crayola)
Magna-Tiles
Magna-Tiles Cars
Magna-Tiles Track
Medium sized Lego
Melissa & Doug-
Beginner Pattern Blocks
Dry Erase/Chalkboard/Easel
Alphabet & Number Puzzles
Magnetic Dress Up Set
Memory Card Games
Play kitchen and food
Playdoh Sets
Tea Set
Stringing Beads
Modeling Clay
Zingo
4 Years +
Balloon Lagoon (Cranium- Ebay)
BOB books
Boggle Jr.
Bristle Blocks
Cariboo (Cranium – Ebay)
Cariboo Island (Cranium – Ebay)
Card Games (Crazy 8s, Go Fish)
Chutes and Ladders
Don’t Wake Daddy
Eye Found It!
GeoSafari Jr. Talking Microscope
Guess Who? Jr.
Hi Ho Cheerio
Hullabaloo
Interlocking puzzles
Kids on Stage
LeapFrog Kids Learning Tablet
LeapFrog Kids Scribble and Write
Learning Resources Switcheroo Coding Crew
L’il Engineers Engineering Blocks (ETI Toys)
Lincoln Logs
Mighty Minds
Monkey Bingo
Monkey Match
Picnic Spinner Game
Playdoh Sets
Playmobil Sets
Pop the Pig
Rush Hour Jr.
Slapzi
What's in Ned's Head?
Zoob
5 Years +
Apples to Apples Jr.
Blokus
BOB books
Boggle Jr.
Blurt!
Checkers
Clue Jr.
Connect 4
Disney Mad Tea Party Game
Guess Who?
I Spy Eagle Eye
Interlocking Puzzles
Lego
Let’s Go Fishin’ XL
Life Jr.
Monopoly Jr.
Outfoxed! Board Game
Perfection
Playdoh Sets
Playmobil Sets
Rainbow Loom
Rush Hour Jr.
Shopping Spree (Educa – Ebay)
Slapzi
My First Sudoku
The Floor is Lava
What's the Rhyme?
Sorting Houses (Lakeshore)
Zingo! Word Builder
6 Years +
Boggle Jr.
Checkers
Chess
Clue Jr.
Connect 4
Genius Starter Kit
Go Go Gelato!
Hangman
Headbanz
Jenga
Lego Sets
Link Builder Set
Pictureka
Qwirkle
Rainbow Sandland
Rat-a-tat Cat
Rush Hour Jr.
Scrabble Jr.
Sorry!
Sprinkler Art Shaker (Crayola)
Trouble
Twister
Uno
Zingo! Word Builder
7 Years +
Apples to Apples Junior
Artie 3000 The Coding Robot
Battleship
Bop it!
Cadoo
Checkers
Chess
BrainBolt Genius
Game of Life
Hangman
Headbanz
Jenga
Kanoodle Gravity
Labyrinth
Monopoly
Outburst Jr.
Perler Beads
POP for Blends
POP for Word Families
Rat Moles in Space
Robot Building Kit
Rush Hour
Sorry!
Taboo Jr.
Ultimate Light Board Drawing Tablet
Uno
8 Years +
Big Boggle
Blank Slate
Cat Crimes
Checkers
Chess
Chocolate Fix
Clue
Snap Circuits
Family Feud for Kids
Flipside Handheld Electronic Game
GraviTrax Pro Vertical Expansion Set
Gravity Maze
Last Letter
Mayhem
Monopoly
Othello
Payday
Pictionary
Gravitrax: The Game Impact
Read My List!
Scrabble
Simon
Taboo Jr.
Tapple
Tenzi Itzi
Scrambled States of America Game
Word A Round Game
Wordplay for Kids
Yahtzee
9 Years and Beyond
A Little Off Topic
Anomia
Backgammon
Bananagrams
Battleship
Checkers
Chess
Clue
Escape Room in a Box
I Should Have Known That!
It’s in The Bag!
Mancala
Monopoly
Othello
Pictionary
Proof!
Rummikub
Scattergories
Snake Oil, It Cures What Ails Ya!
Sorry!
Taboo
Trivial Pursuit Family Edition
Special thanks to my
friends/colleagues for their
suggestions!
Stephanie Bronstein, OTR/L
Nancy Dreyfuss, M.S., CCC-SLP
Lois Kam Heymann, M.A., CCC-SLP
Genna Ricotta, M.A., CCC-SLP
Lauren Silvers, LMSW, M.S. Ed
Rachel Wodin, M.S., CCC-SLP
