We’ve got something for every kid on your holiday shopping list. Toy Insider’s Chief Toy Officer Laurie Schacht stopped by ABC in Chicago to show off the best holiday toys for kids of all ages. 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.  

PEPPA PIG’S MAGICAL PARADE

Kids can press the wand to make the parade follow them. This set features three interchangeable, moving floats; a moving smokestack; music and sounds; and exclusive Peppa Pig and George figures. Kids can press the wand to make the parade follow them. This set features three interchangeable, moving floats; a moving smokestack; music and sounds;…

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  • MSRP:
  • $39.99
  • Age:
  • 2+

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CRY BABIES – KRISTAL GETS SICK & FEELS BETTER

Kids can check this doll's temperature with a thermometer, give her play medicine, and cool down her fever with a cloth. If she breaks out in spots, kids can give her a shot to watch them disappear. She also cries real tears. Kids can check this doll's temperature with a thermometer, give her play medicine,…

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  • MSRP:
  • $49.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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BALLERINA DREAMER

Your little one can watch the Ballerina Dreamer doll dance just like a real ballerina! Using the magic tiara, the doll can pirouette, spin on both toes, kick forwards and backwards, do the splits and more! Includes 1 doll and 1 pair of ballerina dancing shoes. She plays music as she dances and her tutu…

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  • MSRP:
  • $29.98
  • Age:
  • 3+

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SMART PIXELATOR

Pixelate any design to build 2D and 3D projects. Step by step, kids can create 50 Pixel Bead designs out of the box, or use Bluetooth connectivity to upload any photo and recreate the image with Pixel Beads, pegs, and sequins. Pixelate any design to build 2D and 3D projects. Step by step, kids can…

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  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 7+

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HARRY POTTER INVISIBILITY CLOAK

Budding Wizards and Muggles can appear to disappear. Using the cloak's green screen technology and the free Wow! Stuff app, wearers can recreate the excitement of the invisibility illusion from the Harry Potter films. Budding Wizards and Muggles can appear to disappear. Using the cloak's green screen technology and the free Wow! Stuff app, wearers…

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  • MSRP:
  • $59.99-69.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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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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