Toy Insider Senior Editor/Toy Book Editor-in-Chief James Zahn joined Afternoon Live on KATU in Portland to show off the best toys for kids to enjoy on a trip to the beach. 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.


BLUEY BEACH CABIN

Kids can enjoy a seaside getaway in this cozy furnished cabin with a kitchen, living room, and bathroom. A swivel-out private beach invites Bluey and her friend to hang ten! Accessories include a surfboard, ladder, sandcastle, and pool floaty, plus a sticker sheet to customize the cabin!

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $34.99; $54.99 CAD
  • Age:
  • 3+

X-SHOT WATER FAST-FILL SKINS PUMP ACTION WATER BLASTER

This water blaster refills in a second, allowing kids to get back to the water-blasting action long before their opponents. Kids can simply open the blaster, dunk it underwater, let it fill, and close it back up, then pump to shoot water up to 30 feet.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $12.99; $21.99 CAD
  • Age:
  • 5+

SWIMWAYS FLOATING FIGURES

Kids never have to worry about losing their water toys at the bottom of the pool again with the SwimWays Floating Figures. These 5-8-inch figures float on their own and will always stay upright, so kids don’t have to chase after them. Choose from Ariel, Batman, Joker, Gabby or Mercat from Gabby’s Dollhouse, or PAW…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $9.99 EACH
  • Age:
  • 5+

KAN JAM ILLUMINATE

Kan Jam is a popular competitive team game similar to cornhole, washer toss, and horseshoes. Featuring an LED Flying Disc and Multi-Color Light-Up Goals for illuminated night time play. Players must take turns throwing and deflecting the flying disc across the yard, beach, or park at the goal to win.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 12+

HYDRO-FORCE WAVECREST YOUTH INFLATABLE STAND-UP PADDLEBOARD SET

Get the kids out for a water adventure with the Hydro-Force Wavecrest Youth Stand-Up Paddleboard Set. This board is categorized as an all-around board, meaning it is the perfect shape for safe rides on flat water and small waves. This SUP is constructed with drop stitch material, thousands of fibers that connect the top and…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $249.00
  • Age:
  • 7+

About the author

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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