Toy Insider Mom Laurie Schacht brought some of the best toys and activities to keep kids busy to XETV San Diego. These awesome toys are not only fun, but they can help give parents a little playtime relief!
Qwikflip 2-Sided Glow Easel (Grow’n Up Limited)
- The Crayola Glow Easel is a Qwikflip, two-sided easel with illuminated, glow, and chalkboard surfaces.
- It has 10 LED sequences and three locking easel positions.
- Comes with 2 gel markers, 4-count Crayola assorted color chalk, and an eraser.
- Ages: 4+
- MSRP: $49.99
Amusement Park Engineer (Thames & Kosmos)
- Engineering for pre-schoolers.
- A storybook manual guides children on an educational and fun engineering adventure. Read the story of two kids as their build simple models of the amusement park rides they encounter on their family trip to the fair. Along their journey, the kids build, fix, and enjoy various amusement park rides.
- As kids follow the story, they can build and experiment with models of the 20 structures and machines in the story.
- Large, colorful plastic building pieces make it easy for small hands to put the models together. Kids build a Ferris wheel, carousel, pirate ship pendulum, bumper car, free-fall tower, and log flume ride, and experiment with flat tracks, slopes, humps, bends, and even the varying weights of cars of a roller coaster.
- The 101-piece set helps develop fine motor skills, science and math skills, visual-spatial skills, and reasoning and concept development skills.
- Ages: 3+
- MSRP: $64.99
LEGO Friends Heartlake Hot Air Balloon (LEGO)
- Fly with Andrea and Noah to the perfect picnic getaway with the LEGO Friends Heartlake Hot Air Balloon Set.
- Andrea and Noah can pack up their hot air balloon and soar over Heartlake.
- They must carefully land the hot air balloon once they find their favorite picnic spot beside the waterfall and the tree.
- Andrea can unload the croissant and cherries, while Noah starts a fire so that later on they can cook tasty marshmallows.
- Help Andrea and Noah have the best picnic ever with this 254-piece set.
- Ages: 7 to 12
- MSRP: $29.99
- Engtave cool messages and designs into your crayons and make your mark!
- The Crayola Crayon Carver lets you make art out of your favorite art tools.
- Send colorful, custom-carved crayon notes to friends and family.
- Easy, safe, and fun, this set includes 40 Tracing Tiles and 8 Crayola Crayons.
- Ages: 6+
- MSRP: $29.99
Strand Bands Designer Kit (The Bridge Direct)
- Kids can make, wear, and share their own one-of-a-kind accessories with ease!
- The Strand Bands Designer Kit includes everything fashionistas need to make fashion-inspired accessories with more than 180 feet of peel-apart Strand Bands.
- The included Strand Styler features an open center for easy weaving, slits on the bottom to hold the bands in place, and can be used on a lap or tabletop.
- There are so many styles to create: kids can fringe the ends, change the thickness, and create accessories that reflect their own individual styles.
- The jewelry creations are so easy to take on and off, and are water-proof.
- Kids can visit StrandBands.com for even moredesign inspiration and ideas.
- Three collections to choose from: Purple, Pink and Teal.
- Ages: 8+
- MSRP: $17.99
Lay It or Break It (Fotorama USA)
- A crazy race to save eggs from the frying pan and return them back to the safety of their nest.
- Two players wearing their chicken beaks and playing at the same time must use the chicken-shaped magnets to lift the eggs from the frying pan and carefully take them back to their nest.
- No hands allowed! The player with the most unbroken eggs will be the winner!
- This game will create laughter and fun for kids and adults of all ages!
- Ages: 5+
- MSRP: $19.99
