It’s not too late to find some great holiday toys! Toy Insider Editor-in-Chief Ali Mierzejewski stopped by Good Day PA in Harrisburg to show off some amazing holiday gifts for last-minute shoppers. 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.


ANIMAL PUPPETS (FOLKMANIS)

  • This extraordinary flight of fancy is a perfect and fun gift for that hard-to-buy-for person in your life.
  • Folkmanis makes the impossible, possible!
  • The large, full-body Flying Pig puppet features soft pink plush, feathery wings and a charming face with wide-open eyes and long lashes. Create puppetry magic with movement in the mouth, all four trotters (legs,) wings, and ears!
  • The Reindeer puppet features a movable mouth, this puppet is a perfect partner to share and tell Christmas stories. It can also double as holiday décor.
  • The Sitting Terrier puppet has soulful eyes and a playful personality that comes to life when kids animate the mouth and wag the tail.
  • Ages: 3+
  • MSRP: $31.99-69.99
  • Available: folkmanis.com

SNOT IT (KD GROUP)

  • Snot It is the gross game of boogey fun! To start, each player puts on a pair of snot glasses with icky sticky snot dripping from them
  • When it’s your turn, spin the spinner to find out which color boogers you need to try to pick up from the booger bowl
  • Wind up the booger bowl and let it spin—then try to pick up the right boogers using only your sticky snot! You only get to keep your boogers if you pick up exactly what you spun.
  • Beware the purple boogers! If someone accidentally picks one up, everyone has to yell “SNOT IT!” as quick as they can. The first player to yell keeps the purple booger, while the last player must return one of their boogers to the bowl
  • The first player to collect 10 boogers wins!
  • Ages: 6+
  • MSRP: $19.99
  • Available: Amazon

ADVENTURE TREE HOUSE (SCHLEICH)

  • Pulley can be used to pull tray up to tree house
  • A hedgehog lives in a hollow in the tree trunk
  • Includes a slide, tire swing, and ladder
  • Children figurines have moveable arms and legs
  • Ages: 5+
  • MSRP: $79.99
  • Available: Amazon

MY FAIRY GARDEN UNICORN PARADISE (PLAYMONSTER)

  • My Fairy Garden is the first of its kind: A toy that’s also a real, live garden! Children love kits that allow them to grow plants at home because it gives them a connection to nature and a sense of satisfaction at having nurtured a living thing.
  • My Fairy Garden takes it to a new, exciting level by allowing children to interact with it as part of an entertaining play set!
  • One of the new sets features an on-trend and in-demand theme: Unicorns and rainbows! Unicorn Paradise boasts a garden on and around an eye-catching cave where the glittery unicorn, Celeste, can rest and hang out with her fairy friend Dahlia and Dahlia’s pet turtle Pebbles! Like the rest of the My Fairy Garden line, this set includes soil and seeds to grow real plants and flowers!
  • Ages: 4+
  • MSRP: $25.99
  • Available: Target, Amazon, Barnes & Noble

SKY TRACK ADVENTURE SET (MAGFORMERS)

  • Enjoy racing adventures with the Magformers Sky Track 44-piece play set.
  • Equipped with a sky shuttle and multiple track accessories, kids can create loops, peaks and valleys, and twists and turns for endless flight fun.
  • Watch as your shuttle does a 360-degree spin and climbs the lift elevator.
  • When your track is completed, the Sky Shuttle will go off-road in its sky car.
  • Ages:  3+
  • MSRP: $99.99
  • Available: Amazon, specialty

 

SHIMMER ‘N SPARKLE SPA CREATIONS ULTIMATE BATH BOMB MAKER (CRA-Z-ART)

  • The Shimmer ‘n Sparkle Spa Creations Ultimate Bath Bomb Maker!
  • Color it, scent it, shape it! Mix, mold and create amazing shimmering bath bombs right at home!
  • Add in fun toy surprise!
  • Makes 20 super-cute bath fizzies!
  • Ages: 8+
  • MSRP: $19.99
  • Available: Amazon, Target, Walmart

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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