Toy Insider Editor-in-Chief Marissa Silva joined Wake Up with Cheddar to show of the best toys to keep kids entertained in the back seat that have zero screen time. 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 season, be sure to check out The Toy Insider’s Spring and Summer Gift Guide.


WOODEN WORK & PLAY DESKTOP ACTIVITY BOARD

This tiny, wooden version of a laptop and desk features a variety of interactive elements that babies and toddlers can use to develop fine motor skills while pretending to work from home like their parents. It has no detachable pieces and features a handle for on-the-go play.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $27.99
  • Age:
  • 1+

CRAYOLA COLOR WONDER

Color Wonder offers a mess free, magic reveal coloring experience that keeps kids busy and engaged by the freedom to be creative, choose their colors, and design their own unique way. The new Color Wonder Foldalopes include Cocomelon and Spidey & His Amazing Friends. Holds everything in one place and features 18 themed coloring pages…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $4.99-7.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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MAGNATAB MINI

Kids can hear the satisfying click of beads as they use the stylus to pull them to the surface, push them back down, and draw again on this fun-shaped sensory toy. It features a backpack clip for on-the-go fidget fun. Kids can choose from avocado, cactus, or lightning bolt.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $8.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

CRY BABIES LITTLE CHANGERS

Each 1.18-inch doll comes in a flower capsule that opens to a personalized world with surprises to uncover and four activations specific to each character. Kids can use water to reveal a hidden flower. There are six characters to collect. This eco-friendly collection is made from plant-based materials.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $9.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

SLEEPY FRIENDS SLEEPY SHEEP NIGHT LIGHT

The Toniebox is an imagination-building, screen-free, educational, digital listening experience speaker that plays stories, songs, and much more. The Sleepy Friends line is designed to foster undogmatic bedtime preparation for preschoolers. The Toniebox comes to life with the Sleepy Friends Sleepy Sheep Night Light, a large light-up Tonie that soothes kids to sleep with calmness,…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $39.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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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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