Toy Insider Senior Editor Madeleine Buckley joined Your Life Arizona to show off the best new toys to get the littlest ones on your shopping list ready for preschool. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below, and for the complete rundown of the best toys of the spring and summer, be sure to check our complete Toy Insider Spring and Summer Gift Guide


LIL SKILL BUILDER SERIES

Kids can complete at-home learning activities with this Chuckle & Roar Lil Skill Builder Series. There are three versions to choose from: Motor Skills to practice cutting, pasting, and taping; Kindness & Caring to develop emotional intelligence before kindergarten; and Sensory Learning to learn letters and counting. Available June 15.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $14.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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PLUGZY

With this unique sensory toy, little ones can fit the hollow shapes into the slots and the silicone plugs into the hollow shapes, or they can fit the plugs right over the shapes in the base. Each shape has a unique texture design and each plug has a handle to match.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $29.95
  • Age:
  • 10 MOS+

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SENSORY LEAVES MATH ACTIVITY SET

Discover unbeleafable nature with the Sensory Leaves Math Activity Set! This certified 100% post-consumer recycled plastic set includes six different types of tactile leaf counters in six different colors and three different sizes. The bugs on the back of the leaves provide even more ways to count, sort, add, and subtract. Comes with 10 teacher-developed,…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $24.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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COCOMELON LEARNING BOOK

Kids can join JJ and his friends on the farm with this interactive book that has more than 50 learning phrases and three play modes: music, number, and animal sounds. Press the three colorful buttons to select a mode and flip through the pages to see JJ with farm animals.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $21.99
  • Age:
  • 18 MOS+

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About the author

Bill Reese

Bill Reese

Bill Reese is Director of Operations 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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