Toy Insider Senior Editor Maddie Michalik joined News 12 in New York to show off some social and emotional learning toys that can help kids prepare to head back to school. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below. To learn more about the season’s best new toys, be sure to check out Toy Insider’s Spring and Summer Toy Guide.  

B-KIND DOLLS

This eco-friendly doll line is made from recycled materials and promotes positive messages of kindness. There are five 12-inch dolls for kids to collect, and each character comes with a DIY activity that reflects her individual personality and passion. This eco-friendly doll line is made from recycled materials and promotes positive messages of kindness. There…

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  • MSRP:
  • $29.97
  • Age:
  • 6+

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DIMPL DIGITS

Kids can touch, squish, pop, and learn with this double-sided sensory toy. The squishy, silicone bubbles feature the numerals 1 through 10, numbers written in English and Spanish, and dots to feel and count. Kids can touch, squish, pop, and learn with this double-sided sensory toy. The squishy, silicone bubbles feature the numerals 1 through…

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  • MSRP:
  • $19.95
  • Age:
  • 2+

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JUST MY STYLE MOODJOY HAPPI BIRDI HAPPINESS BEAUTY SET

Kids can let their inner and outer beauty shine. Lift spirits with a body mist formulated with natural scents that impact moods — like enlivening bergamot as well as soothing jasmine and rose. Get a glow on with a skin-loving sheet mask that features a cheer-me-up print to make kids smile — and celebrate what…

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  • MSRP:
  • $16.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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EXIT: THE GAME, THE SACRED TEMPLE

Families can bring the excitement, intensity, and team spirit of an escape room to their living room! Each game starts out with teams locked in an imaginary room. Players must solve a series of riddles and puzzles in order to unlock doors and objects containing new riddles. Each correct solution brings the team closer to…

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  • MSRP:
  • $14.95-24.95
  • Age:
  • 8+

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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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