It’s finally here! Purposeful Toy’s Christmas Kids Gift Guide for 2024! We’ve spent some time on this list and we think it’s the perfect Christmas gifts for kids this holiday season. This gift guide is full of open ended and developmental toy picks for your kids that will last through out the years! We’ve divided up the list into categories with several sublists and matching numbers and letters to find the perfect toys for your littles this Christmas season!

This gift guide includes toys for infant/toddlers, your builders, your car lovers and the perfect toys for active kids as well as links to other toys below!

Christmas gift guide for infants/toddlers

Soft Toys

1. Lovevery play gym This cute and clean play gym has 5 developmental zones that interactively teach as your baby moves from laying down to sitting and even into crawling! Lovevery does a great job at including a play guide too for parents that give stage-based tips. Perfect toy for under the Christmas tree!
2. Baby Tissue Box The perfect baby toy: a fabric “tissue” box full of scarves for babies to explore their senses while fine tuning their motor skills. This set includes different textured tissues and scarves and is best for babies 6-12 months! This is a constant on our kids gift guide and for a good reason!
3. Sarah Silks These playsilks are a great way to get your little one imagining the world around them through play! The beautiful fabric colors provide a chance for open-ended play and are great at growing with your child. These are a great toy to open on Christmas morning!
4. Plush Birthday Party Set Birthdays are such an exciting concept to learn and Target delivers with this adorable Birthday Cake complete with candles. From use as an actual birthday decoration to just using as pretend play, this stuffed cake is perfect for cuddling too!
5. Slumberkins Plush Slumberkins not only have the perfect line of adorable stuffed animals but each stuffy represents an emotion. Our kids gift guide is not complete without a slumberkins! When paired with the matching story, the goal is to provide more support for your child’s emotional well-being!
6. Toddler Fishing Set Your toddler’s gone fishing with this adorable set complete with a fishing pole, 15 fish to catch and sorting color bins. It also comes with an ocean mat for easy storage when play is done.
7. Mini Bounce House The Mini Arch is every parent’s dream for an aesthetically pleasing bounce house of this beautiful off white color. It inflates in under 3 minutes and will stay inflated for endless hours of play!

Sensory Toys

1. Pop Fidget Spinning Ball Watch as your child explores the ways of a fidget ball to strengthen their dexterity and hand eye coordination! Pop and poke bubbles help to exercise fine motor skills and the built in ball with the spinning relieves anxiety.
2. Toddler Water Table The key to any boring afternoon is this colorful water table! Your child can expand their senses by splashing, pouring and exploring with 13 toys included as well!
3. Drip Drop Stacking Cups These colorful stacking cups are perfect for stacking and nesting and even bathtub play! Lovevery does it again with stage based learning and development! Recommended for babies 10 months and up.
4. Silicone Cupcake Drip Cups These mix and match set of four cupcakes come in fun colors and is perfect for color recognition. Our kids gift guide isn’t complete without this one! Your littles can practice matching the colors or get creative and cook up their own combinations.
5. Inspire My Play Sensory Tray The perfect solution to a self-contained play space, this tray is perfect for all sorts of sensory play. It comes with a lid as well so it can be kept contained until played with another day.
6. Silicone Cars This set is the perfect bath toy for hand gripping and vehicle play. The vehicles also have the ability to come apart to dry keeping them mold-free.

Numbers and Shapes Toys

1. Shape Cupcakes My kids love these small, fit in their hands cupcakes that have coordinating shapes on the bottom to help pick up both colors and the many list of shapes. These cupcakes are a constant for our kid’s gift guide!
2. Counting Birthday Cupcakes This colorful two-piece cupcake set is perfect for toddlers to build coordination, hand strength and other fine motor skills. The cupcakes come with pop-in number candles which will continue to aid in learning colors and numbers.
3. Wooden Ice Cream Counter Melissa and Doug have created the ultimate ice cream counter complete with a variety of flavors and toppings, utensils and pretend play dollar bills. Your children will love playing ‘ice cream shop’ while the ice cream scoop can lift up the scoops and stack them on a cone or in a cup!

Play Kits

1. Lovevery Helper Play Kit Have a little one that loves to help around the house? The key features of this play kit include practicing fine motor precision and problem-solving skills. The age guided kit includes toys to encourage independence with puzzles, a dish washing kit and more!
2. Lovevery Play Kit with Animals If your child is an animal lover, this play kit is the perfect toy for them! Some of the activities include animal matching and various puzzles and tweezer sets for cute two year olds! A number one for our kids gift guide!
3. Lovevery Realistic Play Kit The realist baby will love to play with these ‘adult like’ toys including play keys, a flashlight, a play cup and pitcher. These delightful toys also come in the most pleasing to the eye colors!

Toddler Must-Haves

1. Spin-Again Rainbow Stacker This is the perfect basic stacker for all infants and toddlers. Your child will not only be able to work on their color recognition, but compare and contrast sizes and order sequence as well!
2. Baby Balance Bike It’s always amazing how quickly a child that starts on a balance bike can then turn around and transition to a two wheel bike! This wooden one from Sereed also comes in a variety of beautiful colors.
3. Tonies Audio Box We love our Tonies box and it’s the perfect opportunity for your child to get excited about reading by using different characters!

Christmas gift ideas for kids who like to Build

Wooden Toys

1. Chunky Gem Blocks These building blocks are perfect for imaginative play. Constructed from soft beech wood, they each contain a colorful gem in the middle which adds color to every design!
2. Unit Block Marble Run Creativity can run wild with these rubber wood blocks that can be arranged to create the perfect marble run. This guy is a regular for our kids gift guide. This kit also comes with inspiration cards to help you get started.
3. Flower Blocks This meadow of Flower Trees are the perfect addition to building play. Their bright colors on soft wood enhance learning too! Kids love taking apart and putting together the flower heads on the stems.

Magnetic Building Toys

1. Large Magnetic Building Panels These awesome panels work just like magna tiles, but bigger! Kids can use their own creativity and build large shapes or structures however they like! They are also covered in durable ‘eco-felt’ making it extra soft.
2. Magnetic Tiles Space Set Three, two, one blastoff! Your little space explorer will be able to build whatever they like alongside this magna tiles space rocket. Once finished, the tiles store neatly on top of the rocket as well! 
3. Castle Magnetic Blocks Your prince or princess can build the perfect castle with these easy to connect magnetic plates. They even come with a magnetic princess and knight for continued play!
4. Magnetic Dinosaurs Your dinosaur lover will have a blast building and playing with their favorite dinosaurs! This first figure-only set is perfect for little hands learning to construct and build.
5. Blockaroo These foam magnetic builders come together like magic. With bright colors and soft edges, your kids will love creating anything they can imagine. They are safe for bath play too!

STEM Building Toys

1. Fat Brain Toys Air Toob Science and play combine in this fun toy! The balls are moved through each tube with air and your kids can decide the direction it goes!
2. Straw Constructor STEM Toys Your child can build anything they like with these straws! They’re simple to put together and have lots of piece for endless fun.
3. Lego Marble Run This toy combines the building of a marble run but makes it easier with bigger blocks! One of the best parts of our kids gift guide. Kids will love constructing their own direction of where the marble goes!
4. 2 in 1 Construction Play Table with Storage Drawers This 2 in 1 play table is perfect for any kid’s creations with quick access to blocks or artwork that can be stored underneath. This is the perfect solution for a toy room that can be easily taken over by left out toys!

Christmas gifts for car lovers

Cars for Toddlers

1. Giggle Scape Speedy Go Vehicles This set of three construction vehicles get your little builder excited for playtime! Each car can roll around and move interactive parts to construct anything your child’s imagination and creativity can build!
2. Vroom and Zoom Interactive Dashboard Kids of all ages will love ‘driving’ this car and playing with all the bells and whistle on the dashboard. Change the radio, turn on the air and fill up on gas with this interactive toy!
3. Nesting sorting garages with cars Match these cars with each garage by using similar colors and numbers! Even more fun is the ability to nest or stack the sorting garages for open ended play!
4. Wooden Traffic Signs Driving skills start early with all this adorable wooden traffic signs! Use them along or set up on the ground to maneuver cars in between. This is one great way to begin driving lessons at a young age!
5. Construction Toy Cars These little guys are perfect for indoor construction or real outdoor digging and no batteries needed! This very simple set of construction cars are a fun addition to any Christmas list!

Cars with Tracks

1. STEM Race Track This is not the toy to sleep on! It’s the perfect toy for everyone from toddlers up to middle school age! It’s an interactive system of levers that guides cars through a track – a toy and thinking puzzle in one! Once kids pick up how it works, it’s an all time favorite!
2. Puzzle Racer Kids Car Track Here’s an adorable puzzle that once its completed, turns into a car track! We love this because it combines thinking skills and play! Comes complete with a car and airplane with little traffic signs too.
3. Blue Track The perfect race track without the awkward storing! This blue race track rolls right back up for the best ability to hide away with the other cars. It’s durable and ready to show up for every car race! We’ve seen this one regularly pop up on other kids gift guides.
4. Transport Truck Race Track Finally there is a way to have something that can store all your child’s cars but also double as a fun car itself AND a race track! This cute truck does all three with a track that folds out to 5 feet in length!
5. MAGNA-TILES Downhill Duo Magna-tiles turn into a great platform for cars to drive on in this downhill duo! The cars it comes with are chunkier too for little hands to hold.
6. Super Mario Adventure Game with Action Figures This Mario adventure game is a great indoor activity that develops skill and dexterity along with concentration! Your child can guide a ball through a maze and use bottoms to maneuver! Or set a timer and see who can move the ball faster with a friend!

Remote Control Cars

1. Remote Control Transforming Rhinomite A car that looks like a dinosaur? Sign us up! This little guy is also durable, holds up great, and is a hoot to drive (perfect for youngsters too)!
2. Pixie Cruiser Doodle Doodle on this customizable remote control car! This adorable RC cruiser comes with accessories, markers and stickers for endless design possibilities! Once she’s all designed, she can take off with full directional control and precision steering!
3. Remote Control Mario Car Everyone’s favorite video game character comes to live with this remote control car!
4. Flip Rotating Car This awesome car not only drives with the basic skills any RC has, it can also tumble in place and continue to drive on double sided. It also passes obstacles easily and can reverse in fast motion! 

Color Cars

1. Color Changing Cars No matter how many times you roll that car into hot water, it’s still exciting to see it change colors! Also bring that car back to the original color but placing it in the cold water! And repeat! This is one of our regulars for our kids gift guide.
2. Paint your own wooden car + Peg Dolls Cars plus creativity come together for your kiddo to paint their own wooden car! Six individual peg dolls are included and they would also love to be painted!

Active Toys for Kids

Inside Toys

1. Sensory Swing This swing is the perfect thing for kids to calm down in, relax, read a book, unwind, etc. It’s a great little space for growing up in!
2. Indoor Rock Wall Panel Do you have a kiddo that loves to climb on all and any furniture in the house? This indoor rock wall comes in sections that are easy to install and can hold the weight of your kids endlessly climbing on them!
3. Wooble Disk This wobble disk is so fun! Whether your child wants to sit inside and spin or turn it over to balance on. It could also be used as a fun sensory bin for extended play.
4. Sensory Spinning Chair Does your child always need to be moving? This spinning chair is the perfect active toy to help your child get that proprioceptive input that they need.
5. Sensory Sox Have you heard of sensory sox? Sensory sox help children relax, gain spacial awareness, while increasing creativity.
6. Red Light Green Light Game This is a perfect classic game reimagined and will keep your kids busy during those long winter months.
7. Large Dart Board We always love a fun target board and your kids will love this sticky balls while increasing their hand eye coordination.
8. Tactile Sensory Shapes We love these silicone sensory shapes. We are always pulling them out for dance parties, play groups, and for creating a fun path down the hallway.
9. Hexagon Liquid Sensory Tiles Liquid shapes are always a big hit at our house. The girls love pretending that the different colors are various landscapes such as water, grass, and lava.
10. Mini Bounce House This mini bounce houe is so cute and would make such a fun addition to any playroom or living room.

Outside Toys

1. Roller Skates We got these roller skates two Christmas’s ago and the girls are constantly skating around in them. Even though I added these two the outside toys section, my girls are always rolling around in the kitchen.
2. Teeter Seesaw When something has been around this long you know it’s good. A teeter seesaw is always a fun addition.
3. Ninja Warrior Obstacle Course for Kids How cool is this set? It has everything in one! The perfect kit to play and explore.
4. Ninja Twister Swing Spins This spinning toy is a fun attachment to your playground, tree, or indoor climbing toys.
5. Toss and Catch Ball Game I remember winning one of these sets in elementary school and they were my favorite balls to pay pass.
6. 2-5 Year Old Balance Bike It’s always amazing to me how quickly my girls can cruise around on their balance bikes.
7. Glow in the Dark Soccer Ball This ball is on our list this Christmas. My girls are always wanting to head to the park after dinner and with the sun going down earlier, this soccer ball is the perfect way for us. to play even after dark.
8. Inflatable Bounce House with Ball Pit We just got this bounce house and I’m so glad we did! Act fast while it’s over 60% off!

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