Toy Insider Senior Editor Jackie Cucco joined Good Morning Connecticut in New Haven to show off the best new toys for kids to enjoy at home this holiday season. 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.


ENCANTO MAGICAL CASA MADRIGAL

Kids can create new adventures inspired by Encanto with this authentic playhouse featuring lights, sounds, and music. It stands more than 15 inches tall and includes three floors, seven rooms, a Mirabel doll, and accessories.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $79.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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NOODLE KNOCKOUT FINE MOTOR GAME

Build their fine motor, counting, and sorting skills with this game inspired by slurpable soup. The zero-waste box serves as a gameboard and storage for the spinner, cards, and chopstick-style tongs. Build their fine motor, counting, and sorting skills with this game inspired by slurpable soup. The zero-waste box serves as a gameboard and storage…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $19.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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PAW PATROL RESCUE MISSION WOODEN DASHBOARD

Kids can select which PAW Patrol pups to send on a mission, and hear different sounds and phrases based on their choice. Kids can also rev the engine, turn the wheel, and more on this interactive, wooden dashboard. Kids can select which PAW Patrol pups to send on a mission, and hear different sounds and…

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  • MSRP:
  • $38.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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HIDEAWAY PET TENTS

What do kids get with a Hideaway Pet? Inside every hideaway pent is a matching play tent that pops out and sets up for magical adventures. Explore, nap, play, and even hide stuff away. Pretend and play all day and when playtime is done, simply fold up the tent and store it away for another…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $39.99
  • Age:
  • 2+

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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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