Toy Insider Editor-in-Chief Ali Mierzejewski joined Good Day Philadelphia to talk about great toys that can replace candy in their kids’ Easter baskets this year. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below.


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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REAL LITTLES MICRO CRAFTS

Inside these colorful, plastic caboodles, kids will find the materials for one of six DIY crafts. Each craft kit creates a micro version of a popular crafting item, such as a lightbox, bath bombs, or a terrarium. Kids can also use the stackable caboodles for storage.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $9.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

DISNEY DOORABLES SQUISH’ALOTS SERIES 1

Kids can collect 50 different miniature Disney Doorables Squish’Alots collectible figures in Series 1. Each capsule includes 4-6 blind-bagged figures. Kids can open the front door to find the first blind bag, then twist the roof of the tower-shaped capsule to find additional 1-inch figures inspired by Disney and Pixar films.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $9.99
  • Age:
  • 5+

CRA-Z-SLIMY MINI MANIA

Each pack of Scented Mini Mania Slimy Foods contains two surprises. This set includes 10 miniature products filled with scented slimy. Kids will discover each food-themed slimy, including honey, gel-lo, spring water, soda, cheese crackers, sweet pickles, peanut butter, slushy, ice cream, and cake mix. The containers keep the slimy soft and stretchy.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $12.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

INSERT CARD HERE

In this card game, kids can insert a card between two other cards — one that’s lower in value and one that’s higher. Things move fast as the players quickly change the high and low cards and introduce wild and reverse cards into the gameplay. The first player to play all their cards wins the…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $12.95
  • Age:
  • 8+

KANOODLE PYRAMID

This multiplayer, collaborative, brain-teaser game features a tabletop board and geometric pieces that fit together to solve 200 2D and 3D puzzles. Kids can enhance their strategic, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills as they play.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $14.99
  • Age:
  • 7+

Buy Now

The Toy Insider participates in affiliate programs that may generate revenue for the site when a purchase is made through the links below.

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+

Buy Now

The Toy Insider participates in affiliate programs that may generate revenue for the site when a purchase is made through the links below.

REAL LITTLES MICRO CRAFTS

Inside these colorful, plastic caboodles, kids will find the materials for one of six DIY crafts. Each craft kit creates a micro version of a popular crafting item, such as a lightbox, bath bombs, or a terrarium. Kids can also use the stackable caboodles for storage.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $9.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

CRA-Z-SLIMY MINI MANIA

Each pack of Scented Mini Mania Slimy Foods contains two surprises. This set includes 10 miniature products filled with scented slimy. Kids will discover each food-themed slimy, including honey, gel-lo, spring water, soda, cheese crackers, sweet pickles, peanut butter, slushy, ice cream, and cake mix. The containers keep the slimy soft and stretchy.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $12.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

INSERT CARD HERE

In this card game, kids can insert a card between two other cards — one that’s lower in value and one that’s higher. Things move fast as the players quickly change the high and low cards and introduce wild and reverse cards into the gameplay. The first player to play all their cards wins the…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $12.95
  • Age:
  • 8+

KANOODLE PYRAMID

This multiplayer, collaborative, brain-teaser game features a tabletop board and geometric pieces that fit together to solve 200 2D and 3D puzzles. Kids can enhance their strategic, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills as they play.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $14.99
  • Age:
  • 7+

Buy Now

The Toy Insider participates in affiliate programs that may generate revenue for the site when a purchase is made through the links below.

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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