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I have wrangled the best gifts and toys for this holiday season. Here are a few of the toys that made the list.

There’s something special about watching children open presents with excitement on Christmas morning. Whether you need presents for babies or are shopping for teens, indoor or outdoor gifts, there’s something out there for every little one on your nice list.

Blackbeard’s Treasure Hunt

This is a race to unlock Blackbeard’s treasure in this action-packed color-matching family game. Flip over your card to reveal your dice then race to collect them with your key. The first player to collect their dice in the correct order and unlock the treasure chest is met with the ultimate “wow” moment. You have found the gold coins pouring out of the treasure chest. The winner of each round keeps one gold coin. The first player to earn three gold coins is the winner.

Holiday Popper

These were tons of fun to play with the two new festive Holiday Poppers. The new traditional Nutcracker Popper and whimsical Gingerbread Man Popper join the classic Poppers line for hours of fun.

The Nutcracker and Gingerbread Man Poppers each come with six green and red foam balls. Softly press their bellies to shoot the balls up to 20 feet. You will be surprised at how far these will go.

Giga Bots Energy Cores

This action figure is a big hit. The Gigabots Energy Cores. Children will be able to build, transform, and battle with these action figures.

A new line of six intergalactic action figures transforms directly from their energy core capsules into a 13″ fully articulated action figure.

Each hyper-stylized 4.6″ capsule not only contains all 33 interlocking parts needed to fully assemble your Gigabot but also becomes part of the build.

I like the fact there is a minimal plastic package with these toys.  The outer packaging is mainly cardboard with plastic covering the energy core.

Doodle Jamz

Have to heard of DoodleJamz? They are the new sensory and mess-free drawing pads from Character Toys! Fantastic for creative kids and SEND kids. Adults will get hooked too, trust me! There are two types of boards to get- the Jellyboards and Jellypics.

The DoodleJamz Jellypics board is a board with beads in them. There are a few different options when it comes to the color of these beads, but they tend to have three different collors that can be seen in the board. These beads are stuck within the plastic on the outside and inside of the board, meaning that this board isn’t messy and you don’t need to re-fill it or anything. Instead, you can use the attached drawing tool to draw, move around the beads, pile them up, and more. You can also use your fingers if you prefer! The DoodleJamz Jellypics comes with a face board inside of it, which has a different face on each side. You can also print off other faces or pictures that you upload to have as background for your own creation.

Now you can light up your DoodleJamz with this LED display. Enjoy all your favorite play patterns of DoodleJamz like drawing, blending, and separating colors, now with light bursting through the frames.

This may go without saying, but a gift that centers on just plain fun is almost always going to be a hit. Kids of all ages tend to gravitate to toys that are silly, kooky, cool, and popular, and make them laugh. Items that move, sparkle, light up, make noises, are unusual, or otherwise wow are big winners, too. Additionally, you can’t go wrong if you buy a toy that relates to the child’s specific interests and what they think is the most fun.