Toy Insider’s Chief Toy Officer Laurie Schacht joined Tampa’s Great Day Live to show off the best educational toys to keep kids minds sharp. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below.


VTECH SMELLEPHANT

Get super senses ready to explore with the Smellephant! With her magical trunk and five fruit play pieces, this elephant teaches kids about using their five senses with engaging activities and interactive play. Place a play piece on the Smellephant's magical trunk, and she will identify the fruit. See her silly ears flap forward to…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $29.99; $39.99 CAD
  • Age:
  • 18 MOS+

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NUMBERBLOCKS MEMORY MATCH GAME

Have fun indoors during the winter and bring math learning to life with the Numberblocks Memory Match Game! Help Numberblocks One and Ten and their number friends find their perfect matches. Kids will learn matching, counting, and number recognition on their own, with friends, or with their parents. A great way for little ones to…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $9.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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CLEAN SWEEP LEARNING CADDY

This set includes an interactive bucket and pretend cleaning tools, including a spinning mop and a soap pump complete with squirting sound effects. Kids can follow verbal directions to dance and play games.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $29.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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GEOSAFARI JR. TALKING SPACE EXPLORER

Kids can explore the cosmos and spark curiosity about space with this talking space explorer. View more than 120 images and 13 videos (including ones from NASA) along with 200 space facts and quiz questions voiced by space expert and star of Netflix’s Emily’s Wonder Lab Emily Calandrelli.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $99.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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3DOODLER START+ MAKER BUNDLE

This 3D printing pen engages kids’ imagination with the press of a button! Kids can make 3D figures with this bundle which includes more than 20 design projects, a kid-friendly printing pen, and colorful filaments.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

SLAM WORDS

In this game, players shake the cup and slam it shut to reveal three letters, then quickly find a word that uses the three letters. Pass the cup to the next player who has to find a new word or they are out.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $14.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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CREATTO LIGHT-UP 3D PUZZLES

These Creatto Puzzles come in Flashy Fish & Silly Swimmers and Twilight Rocking Horse & The Giddyup Gang. Flashy Fish & Silly Swimmers comes with 43 Creatto pieces and a string of 20 LED lights. Kids can build a cute cartoony fish, a crab, a stingray, and a turtle. Twilight Rocking Horse & The Giddyup…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $21.95; $31.00 CAD
  • Age:
  • 8+

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CRAFT-TASTIC STRING ART UNICORN

Kids can now make and display the legendary unicorn! Create some magic with these unique unicorn and heart string art canvases. Use included patterns or create own designs. Just push pins into the foam canvases and string away, no hammer or nails needed.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $19.99
  • Age:
  • 10+

Buy Now

The Toy Insider participates in affiliate programs that may generate revenue for the site when a purchase is made through the links below.


VTECH SMELLEPHANT

Get super senses ready to explore with the Smellephant! With her magical trunk and five fruit play pieces, this elephant teaches kids about using their five senses with engaging activities and interactive play. Place a play piece on the Smellephant's magical trunk, and she will identify the fruit. See her silly ears flap forward to…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $29.99; $39.99 CAD
  • Age:
  • 18 MOS+

Buy Now

The Toy Insider participates in affiliate programs that may generate revenue for the site when a purchase is made through the links below.

NUMBERBLOCKS MEMORY MATCH GAME

Have fun indoors during the winter and bring math learning to life with the Numberblocks Memory Match Game! Help Numberblocks One and Ten and their number friends find their perfect matches. Kids will learn matching, counting, and number recognition on their own, with friends, or with their parents. A great way for little ones to…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $9.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

Buy Now

The Toy Insider participates in affiliate programs that may generate revenue for the site when a purchase is made through the links below.

CLEAN SWEEP LEARNING CADDY

This set includes an interactive bucket and pretend cleaning tools, including a spinning mop and a soap pump complete with squirting sound effects. Kids can follow verbal directions to dance and play games.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $29.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

Buy Now

The Toy Insider participates in affiliate programs that may generate revenue for the site when a purchase is made through the links below.

GEOSAFARI JR. TALKING SPACE EXPLORER

Kids can explore the cosmos and spark curiosity about space with this talking space explorer. View more than 120 images and 13 videos (including ones from NASA) along with 200 space facts and quiz questions voiced by space expert and star of Netflix’s Emily’s Wonder Lab Emily Calandrelli.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $99.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

Buy Now

The Toy Insider participates in affiliate programs that may generate revenue for the site when a purchase is made through the links below.

3DOODLER START+ MAKER BUNDLE

This 3D printing pen engages kids’ imagination with the press of a button! Kids can make 3D figures with this bundle which includes more than 20 design projects, a kid-friendly printing pen, and colorful filaments.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

SLAM WORDS

In this game, players shake the cup and slam it shut to reveal three letters, then quickly find a word that uses the three letters. Pass the cup to the next player who has to find a new word or they are out.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $14.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

Buy Now

The Toy Insider participates in affiliate programs that may generate revenue for the site when a purchase is made through the links below.

CREATTO LIGHT-UP 3D PUZZLES

These Creatto Puzzles come in Flashy Fish & Silly Swimmers and Twilight Rocking Horse & The Giddyup Gang. Flashy Fish & Silly Swimmers comes with 43 Creatto pieces and a string of 20 LED lights. Kids can build a cute cartoony fish, a crab, a stingray, and a turtle. Twilight Rocking Horse & The Giddyup…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $21.95; $31.00 CAD
  • Age:
  • 8+

Buy Now

The Toy Insider participates in affiliate programs that may generate revenue for the site when a purchase is made through the links below.

CRAFT-TASTIC STRING ART UNICORN

Kids can now make and display the legendary unicorn! Create some magic with these unique unicorn and heart string art canvases. Use included patterns or create own designs. Just push pins into the foam canvases and string away, no hammer or nails needed.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $19.99
  • Age:
  • 10+

Buy Now

The Toy Insider participates in affiliate programs that may generate revenue for the site when a purchase is made through the links below.

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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