Good Beginnings Holiday Toy Guide: Preschoolers

December 09, 2016

This is an exciting and varied age range (3-5 yrs) where children further develop their fine, gross motor and visual perceptual skills while developing emerging social and academic skills.  Play becomes more cooperative and independent as well!

  • Visual Perceptual Games and Activities
- Beginner multi-piece puzzles - Castle Logix
- Block Buddies - Spot It
- Racoon Rumpus or Koala Capers - Imagination Magnets
- Janod Magnetibook - Zingo
- Memory - Lucky Ducks Game

                                                       
  • Fine Motor/Visual Motor Toys and Games
- Wikki Stix or Bendaroos - Creative Mosaic Pegboard
- Lite Brite - Sneaky Squirrel
- Honey Bee Tree - Squigz
- Pop Up Pirate - Let’s Go Fishin
- Barrel of Monkeys - Hi Ho Cherry-O

  • Sensory Play
- Play Dough - Mini Trampoline
- Water Beads - Good Night Yoga (book)
- Floam - Sit N Spin
- Massager - Fingerlights

  • Gross Motor
- Balance Bike (Strider, Kazaam, Radio Flyer) - Hippity Hop
-  University Games Heads to Toes - Stomp Rockets
- Melissa and Doug Monster Bowling - Yoga Pretzels
      - Cat in the Hat I Can Do That game - Scooters

  • Educational
- Handwriting Without Tears Manipulatives - Boggle Jr.
- Sequencing Games (What Comes Next) - Colorama
- Melissa and Doug Water Wow Books - Letter or Number Bingo

  • Arts and Crafts
- Handwriting Without Tears Flip It Crayons - Squiggle Writer
- Playdough - Crayola Model Magic
- Maped Koopy Spring Scissors - Scratch and Draw Paper
- Usborne or Kumon Workbooks - Tissue Paper

  • Building/ Motor Planning
- Battat Take Apart Toy Vehicles - Kid Knex
- 1 to 3 step Transformers - Magformers
- Zoob Tubes - Marble Works/Run
- Basic Wooden Blocks - Wedgits

Happy Holidays and Happy Shopping for your preschooler!

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