Toy Insider Senior Editor Nadia Velit joined FOX 61 in Hartford to show off the top toys for shoppers on a budget this holiday season. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below, and for the complete rundown of the best gifts of the holiday season, check out our complete Toy Insider Holiday Gift Guide.


COMPOUND KINGS BUTTER CLOUDZ TUBS

These tubs are filled with stretchy, non-drying, soft, non-sticky DIY slime that reduces screen time and boosts little ones’ imagination! These tubs come in multiple flavors and themes and are great stress busters for anxious children. The slime is a moldable soft compound to create endless shapes.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $9.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

THE YELLOWSTONE PARTY GAME

In this game of hidden motives, players are either loyal or disloyal, and nobody knows who to trust. It’s game over when someone reaches the train station.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $19.99

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POKÉMON DREAMS PLUSH

This Pokémon plush collection is inspired by the new app Pokémon Sleep. Trainers can enjoy a restful night's sleep with their favorite pocket monster, while discovering Pokémon with rare sleep styles in-game.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $29.99
  • Age:
  • 4+

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CRY BABIES NEWBORN

This newborn doll cries real tears and will calm down when kids give it a pacifier. Available in two styles, each comes with a bracelet that kids can wear so that the doll will recognize and interact with them.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $34.99
  • Age:
  • 18 MOS+

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Bill Reese

Bill Reese

Bill Reese is Business Operations Manager at Adventure Media & Events, where he's worked since 2014. A former editor at Playbill and graduate of SUNY–Purchase, he spends most weekends rooting for the New York Red Bulls pro soccer team and making subway systems out of Brio trains with his little boy Jonah.

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