Toy Insider Senior Editor Maddie Michalik joined News 12 in Brooklyn to show off some of the best new toys to prepare young kids for preschool. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below.

FISHER-PRICE LINKIMALS COUNTING KOALA

Babies learn numbers, counting, and shapes through the Koala's lights, songs, and phrases. Climb the palm tree to discover that it grows squares, triangles, and circles. When Counting Koala meets up with other Linkimals friends they all light-up, talk, sing, and play together! Hands-on play, including a bat-at roller ball, shape spinner, and push buttons…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $24.99
  • Age:
  • 9 MOS+

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LICENSED CHILDREN’S SINGLE-USE FACE MASKS

Encourage kids to wear a face mask with fun designs inspired by some of their favorite characters. Each mask features a contouring nose strip and three layers of protection including a protective fabric layer, filter layer, and a soft inner layer. To wear the face mask, place the side with the nose piece upward. Hang…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $14.99
  • Age:
  • 2+

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BLOCKAROO WINDMILL

Blockaroos were developed by teachers and are the easiest construction toy for preschoolers ever developed! Blockaroo Blocks are a new way to build. These soft foam magnetic blocks click together like magic, rotate 360-degrees, and always attract to each other, creating a multi-sensory experience. They also float which means that this unique construction toy doubles…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $49.99; $69.99 CAN
  • Age:
  • 18 MOS.+

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SPEAK & LEARN PUPPY

This puppy features head movements, paw buttons, songs, and real-time responses to help teach babies about animals, food, feelings, letters, and numbers. It features three levels of play to grow with babies: babble, talk, and music.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $29.99
  • Age:
  • 1+

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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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