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Best Toys for 5 Year Olds

Melissa & Doug School Time Classroom Play Set

Children love roleplaying, whether it be as a police man, super hero or teacher.

The Melissa & Doug School Time Classroom Play set is perfect for class room reenactment- either as a student or teacher! It comes with over 150 accessories, including stickers, blocks, a bell, timer, lesson plan guide, 2 reusale white boards, a storage box and more. With this kit your child can teach and learn!

It is a brilliant gift for children between the ages of 4 and 8, and encourages learning.

Connetix Magnetic Tiles

Let your little one’s imagination run free with Connetix magnetic tiles!

Connetix lets your young children construct 2D and 3D shapes, cars and whatever else they can imagine! The Connetix magnetic tiles encourage cognitive development, imaginative play, hand-eye coordination, critical thinking, fine motor skills, spatial awareness and helps your child to build knowledge around scientific and mathematical concepts, encouraging brain development.

Your child can play with friends and build social skills such as team work or co-operation, or play independently and keep themself entertained.

Osmo Genius Kit

If you have an iPad or fire tablet, this kit is perfect for your child!

Osmo is packed full of educational , fun-filled and award winning games for children. Children interact with actual physical pieces, as well as an ipad/ fire tablet, bringing the child’s game pieces and actions to life. With no Wi-Fi necessary, Osmo is great to use whilst travelling.

Osmo is used in classrooms all over as a learning tool. You can arrange oer 100 puzzle designs and pieces to match on screen shapes, solve creative physics puzzles by drawing lines or moving items in front of the screen, learn to draw, use maths skills and solve math equations by popping number bubbles and learn spelling and vocabulary.

With Osmo, your child will learn visual problem solving skills, puzzles, practice counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, geography, marine biology, science, drawing, listening grills, reading, physics and learn spelling and vocabulary. It also helps to enable brain development, and develop gross motor skills.

Play Doh

Play Doh is a lot of squishy, colourful and non-toxic fun!

Your child can use Play Doh to shape, squish, mix and create anything they can imagine.

Play Doh has plenty of different kits, including a Play Doh Kitchen (where you can see Play-Doh foods “bake” in the electronic magical oven), a burger barbecue set, a cash register set and many more.

Lego

Lego is well-known world wide, having a large franchise of movies, games, and physical products- it was- and still is- a part of many children’s lives.

Lego is a great toy to encourage imaginative play, fine and gross motor skills, creativity and more! Not to mention, it is so much fun.

Lego Duplo blocks are perfect for little builders who want to join in on the building-fun! You can find plenty of kits here: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/themes/duplo

Building blocks are fun for children of any age group, even the parents too.

Stuffed Animals

Stuffed animals come in many shapes and sizes: whether it be a puppy, or an alien from outer space. Stuffed animals teach your children to care, as well as encourage imaginative play.

Your child will cherish the right stuffed animal for many years!

 

Sphero Sprk+ App-Enabled Robot

The Sphero Spark+ App-Enabled Robot is a great way to introduce your child into the world of programming- which could lead to a very promising career one day!

This toy is lots of fun, and a great investment into your child’s STEM education.