Today’s toys are more interactive than you can imagine: They talk, walk, hatch, and even tell you completely original stories driven by artificial intelligence. These interactive toys bring a little magic to the playroom! From pet monkeys to fantastical fairies, kids will love these new besties.

Check out some of our favorite interactive toys below, and for more toys you and your kids will love, see our full Holiday Gift Guide!


HATCHIMALS ALIVE MYSTERY HATCH

Kids can love, cuddle, tap, lift, and rock the egg to encourage their pet to hatch. When it glows rainbow and mist appears, the Pufficorn will hatch while singing “Hatchy Birthday.”

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 5+

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Battery Requirements

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  • Type:
  • AA
  • Quantity:
  • 4

BABY PAWS LOVE & CARE LABRADOODLE

Kids can interact with this puppy with fluffy, curly fur. It makes more than 15 sounds and reactions and includes three accessories: a pacifier, a feeding bottle, and a swaddle bag.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $29.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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Battery Requirements

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  • Type:
  • AAA
  • Quantity:
  • 3

FURREAL PEANUT THE PLAYFUL MONKEY INTERACTIVE TOY

This interactive plush monkey has more than 100 different reactions. Peanut does flips, walks, and loves being rocked to sleep.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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Battery Requirements

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  • Type:
  • AA
  • Quantity:
  • 6

HOLOBRITE PIXIE LANTERN

Kids can interact digitally with pixie hologram Wren, then watch her emerge in doll form. After, they can continue to play with hologram Wren when she’s returned to the lantern.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $79.99
  • Age:
  • 5+

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Battery Requirements

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  • Type:
  • AA
  • Quantity:
  • 4

MAGIC MIXIES PIXIE SUPREMES MAGIC MIRROR

Mix a magic potion to free the trapped digital pixie and a doll will break through the top with a confetti pop. Features more than 50 sounds and reactions. Kids can repeat the reveal again and again. 5+

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 5+

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Battery Requirements

Energizer is the official battery partner of The Toy Insider.
  • Type:
  • AA
  • Quantity:
  • 3

PLAI: POE THE AI STORY BEAR

Kids can design their own bedtime stories with this cuddly-looking bear. This teddy safely uses artificial intelligence platforms to create unique stories from ideas that kids or caregivers input into a companion app.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $49.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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Battery Requirements

Energizer is the official battery partner of The Toy Insider.
  • Type:
  • AA
  • Quantity:
  • 4

FINGERLINGS INTERACTIVE BABY AXOLOTL WITH INFLATABLE POOL

This interactive baby axolotl lights up and swims in the water. Inflate the included pool, fill it with water, and watch it go.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $19.99
  • Age:
  • 5+

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Battery Requirements

Energizer is the official battery partner of The Toy Insider.
  • Type:
  • LR44
  • Quantity:
  • 4

REAL FX DISNEY STITCH

With blinking eyes, a moving mouth, and sensors on his head and face, this Stitch responds to kids’ touch. It has more than 100 action and sound combinations.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $79.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

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RAINBOCORNS EGGZANIA FAIRY MANIA

Each egg comes with more than 50 fairy-themed surprises, including wearable wings, headbands, collectible figures, and more. There are three to collect.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $49.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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FURBY GALAXY EDITION

There’s always something out of this world to discover with more than 600 phrases, jokes, and songs. Furby responds to voice commands and touch.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

Buy Now

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Battery Requirements

Energizer is the official battery partner of The Toy Insider.
  • Type:
  • AA
  • Quantity:
  • 4

For more top toy picks for kids of all ages, check out The Toy Insider’s annual Holiday Gift Guide, and find the perfect gift using our Perfect Present Wizard!

About the author

Marissa Silva

Marissa Silva

Marissa Silva is editor-in-chief of the Pop Insider and the Toy Insider, the leading consumer holiday gift guide and toy review and news website. As a professional toy reviewer and an industry expert, she consistently reports on toy, entertainment, and pop culture trends and hot products. In addition to digital content management, Marissa contributes feature-length articles to the Pop Insider and leading toy industry trade magazine The Toy Book, providing retailers, manufacturers, and licensors with information on the latest in toy news. Marissa has been featured on the TODAY Show, Good Morning America, Fox and Friends, ABC World News Now, MSNBC, CBS, NY1, WPIX, and more. A board game fanatic and professional toy reviewer, she spends most of her free time shopping for superhero T-shirts, crushing at Mario Kart, and anxiously awaiting her Hogwarts acceptance letter. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @thattoygirl.

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