Toy Insider Editor-in-Chief Marissa Silva joined Fox 40 in Sacramento to show off the best holiday gift ideas for the youngest kids on your holiday shopping list. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below, and for the complete rundown of the best toys of the holiday season, be sure to check our complete Toy Insider Holiday Gift Guide.  

MELISSA & DOUG BLUE’S CLUES & YOU! WOODEN TAKE-ALONG HOUSE

Take early-learning play on the go with Blue's sturdy wooden shape-sorter house with a built-in handle and roof that opens for easy access! Flip the bungee-hinged windows and door, discover two Blue's Clues & You! scenes on a double-sided flip puzzle, spin three built-in gears, and sort five colorful shaped blocks through holes in the…

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  • MSRP:
  • $53.99; $72.29 CAD
  • Age:
  • 18 MOS.+

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COUNT-ALONG BASKET AND SCANNER

This interactive set includes play food, shopping lists, and an interactive scanner that recognizes the food pieces. Kids can enjoy three play modes with different activities that span numbers, colors, shapes, and more. This interactive set includes play food, shopping lists, and an interactive scanner that recognizes the food pieces. Kids can enjoy three play…

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  • MSRP:
  • $34.99; $46.99 CAD
  • Age:
  • 2+

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DJ MIX AND SPIN STUDIO

Little ones will spin their first tunes with this portable DJ studio. They can make their own music with the four instruments and 18 sound effects on the keyboard, or start with one of five background tunes and use the tempo slider to change the speed. Little ones will spin their first tunes with this…

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  • MSRP:
  • $39.99
  • Age:
  • 1+

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COCOMELON SING-ALONG BOOMBOX

Kids can sing along to built-in songs with a real, working microphone, and activate fun speech and sound effects. The face and buttons on the boombox light up as kids play. Plays “Wheels on the Bus” and other CoComelon songs. Kids can sing along to built-in songs with a real, working microphone, and activate fun…

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  • MSRP:
  • $29.99
  • Age:
  • 18 MOS+

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About the author

Bill Reese

Bill Reese

Bill Reese is Business Operations Manager at Adventure Media & Events, where he's worked since 2014. A former editor at Playbill and graduate of SUNY–Purchase, he spends most weekends rooting for the New York Red Bulls pro soccer team and making subway systems out of Brio trains with his little boy Jonah.

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