Toy Insider Senior Editor Madeleine Buckley joined Good Morning Arizona to show off STEM toys that are so much fun, kids won’t realize that they’re learning. 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.


STORYTIME WITH SUNNY

Meet a bright, entertaining friend with Storytime With Sunny! Sunny’s expressive personality engages kiddos as she tells stories with surprising plot twists to keep them hanging on her every word. Sunny invites participation in 300+ activities with four disks and more than five hours of fairy tales, classic songs, guessing games, a poem creator, silly…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

PRETENDABLES SCHOOL DESK SET

On the outside of the portable school desk are a magnetic blackboard, two built-in utensil cups, and a stand for the learning cards. Kids will open it up and find a magnetic whiteboard, two lidded storage spaces, plus plenty of supplies including chalk, magnetic letters and numbers, magnetic tangram shapes, sight word cards, math cards,…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $39.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

STEM EXPLORERS PIXEL ART CHALLENGE

Kids can solve STEM-filled art challenges one pixel at a time! This toy’s 40+ screen-free art challenges help kids build cool 2-D and 3-D artwork by solving math and coding problems. Whether following coordinates to make a ladybug or coding up a smiling watermelon, kids build essential STEM skills with every pixel art creation they…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $16.99
  • Age:
  • 5+

SNAP FM RADIO

With this entry-level Snap Circuits kit, kids can participate in four hands-on projects to build a working FM radio. The project will teach kids about the science of radio waves, amplifiers, circuits, and electricity.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $19.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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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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