10 Best Educational Toys (Review) In 2021

ThinkFun Gravity Maze Marble Run Brain Game is a fun way for your children to develop critical thinking skills in a new way. This educational game is a logic game, marble run, and STEM toy combined into one fun game. It helps your child develop spatial reasoning and planning skills as well as improve on their engineering and building skills.

The game comes with 60 challenges of various difficulties, a game grid, nine towers, one target piece, and three marbles. The instructions are clear and easy to follow. The point of the game is to get the marble from point A to point B by following the directions on each card to build a maze. This education toy won the Specialty Category Toy of the Year Award in 2017 and is a great supplement for homeschool curriculum.

Jasonwell Aqua Magic Doodle Mat is exactly what any artistic toddler needs. The mat is 40 inches by 32 inches and is the perfect place for young children to practice writing their alphabet and numbers, improving their drawing, painting, and doodling, and having an outlet for their creativity and imagination. It comes with one doodle mat, five magic pens, one design booklet, six stamps, six drawing templates, six drawing molds, and one storage box to put everything in.

The doodle mat also comes with four suction cups so it won’t move when you put it on a window, wall, or floor. To get your child started, all you need to do is to fill the magic pens with clean water and let your child start drawing. The magic pens are safe and easy to clean and store. They are non-toxic and non-polluting, and there’s no messy paint to clean up.

ThinkFun Zingo Sight Words is a fun educational game that makes a game out of  recognizing sight words in order to help early readers learn the basics of how to read and is played similar to bingo. The game includes different game boards that have different words on a 9×9 grid. A person calls out the sight word, and the child has to match the chosen word on their board. You can either choose to play until the entire board is filled out like black out or you can have them fill in a line or row.

This game was developed by educators as a way to introduce sight words and help with reading skills. It’s a fun way to teach reading, vocabulary, and matching. The instructions are clear and easy to read. You and your child can start playing the game right away. If your children are in preschool to second grade this game will help them learn how to read and recognize words in a fun, easy way.

CIRO Solar Robot Kit is a building kit that has 12 different robot types. This building kit teaches children how different types of gears, plates, tires, and shafts all work together to build one object. Building the robots is a good group activity for parents and children to work together.

This kit also teaches children about environmentally friendly solar energy. When the robot is completely built, it uses solar energy to move, crawl, and roll. There are absolutely no batteries needed! All you need is the free energy from the sun. The kit comes with step-by-step instruction manuals on how to build each of the 12 robots. The instructions are clear and easy to follow.

Osmo Genius Starter Kit for iPad combines technology with hands-on games. The starter kit comes with many types — everything from tangram puzzles to spelling and vocabulary tests. Because of this wide variety of games, this kit teaches children many different skills and subjects. Within each subject, you can set a varying level of difficulty and get real time feedback from the game.

An iPad is required but not included with the game. The kit does include the Osmo base and reflector for an iPad, tangram pieces, number tiles, word tiles, stackable storage for each game, and the five game apps (numbers, tangram, words, newton, and masterpiece).

This kit is a fun way for children to understand and appreciate science — especially geology. 4M 5557 Crystal Growing Science Experimental Kit contains everything you need to create and grow seven different crystals. The instructions included with the kit are clear, concise, and easy to understand.

Once you’ve followed the instructions, you have to sit back and wait for Mother Nature to run its course. Once the crystals are all grown, you can display them in a special case that is included in the kit. The crystals are beautiful and unique. Overall, this is a fun, educational kit for budding scientists.

Nothing is more beautiful than hearing your child’s creativity expressed through music. The Ehome Toddler Musical Instrument Set is a fun way to teach children to love music. The set comes with 22 different instruments, and most of the instruments are shaking, tapping, beating, or blowing instruments.

The colorful instruments are made from non-toxic material that is safe for children, and they are easy to clean between use. These instruments are a fun way to get children up and dancing and to build a love and appreciation of music.

This hedgehog toy teaches children fine motor skills, color recognition, sorting, and counting. The toy is about six inches in diameter with colorful peg-shaped pieces that fit into the holes on the back. These pieces come in different colors and lengths.

To play with the hedgehog, a child can pull out one or more of the colorful spikes and practice fine motor skills by replacing the hedgehog’s quills back in the holes. Learning Resources Spike The Fine Motor Hedgehog also comes with an activity guide that can give you different ideas for play. Once your child is done playing with it, you can easily pack it away as the pegs can be conveniently stored inside the toy until your child wants to play with it again.

The Light-up Terrarium Kit for Kids with LED Light on Lid is a cool way for kids to see how things grow in a simulated ecosystem. This miniature garden kit is a fun way to instill the love of science and gardening at a young age. Your child can use their creativity to decorate the terrarium while learning about the science behind gardening.

The kit includes a terrarium jar with an LED light lid, vermiculite soil, blue sand, river rocks, wheatgrass and chia seeds, small bunny and mushroom, removable stickers, spray bottle, and wooden stick to help plant the seeds. This terrarium kit will also teach your child patience as they wait for their plants to grow. The unique thing about this terrarium kit is the LED light lid which transforms the terrarium into a thing of glowing magic at night.

This building kit is fun and educational. 163 Piece STEM Building Blocks Learning Set was designed to help children develop and improve hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, logical thinking, and problem-solving skills. It was specifically designed to incorporate STEM subjects and skills, creativity, and imagination.

The kit comes with 163 building pieces that includes blocks, wrenches, movable wheels, plates, nuts, and bolts. There are more pieces in this set than similar sets on the market —  enough pieces that up to six children can play at once! The building kit also comes with 42 designs that your child can build by themselves or with their friends. This building kit helps children develop cognitive functions and creativity while also developing social skills as they play and work together to build their design.