Toy Insider Parent and Contributing Editor Charlene DeLoach joined Great Day Connecticut to talk about the best toys to recreate the summer camp experience right in your own backyard. 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 spring and summer seasons, check out our complete Toy Insider Spring and Summer Gift Guide.
BALANCE & BUILD SET
Create a custom balance course and encourage movement and creativity with this set, which includes eight connecting beam sections and five sensory step-stones.
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STEM EXPLORERS SUNCATCHERS
Kids can design window-ready art pieces as they solve STEM challenges and snap translucent pixels into place. This set includes a guide with more than 30 coding and math challenges that build STEM skills, along with 400 color cubes and three reusable frames.
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Available: Fall 2024
CRAFT-TASTIC NATURE SCAVENGER HUNT JOURNAL
Experience the magic of nature with Scavenger Hunt Journal! Kids can go outside and collect natural ingredients, then add them to their journal using stickers. The journal has 32 pages full of nature-inspired fun to get kids out exploring nature. Kids can look around nature for the materials to fill their journals, and learn a…
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CRAYOLA COLOR & ERASE STICKER ACTIVITY PADS
These travel-ready activity pads feature 24 reusable coloring pages, four washable markers, and more than 100 reusable stickers. Choose from PAW Patrol- and Trolls-themed books.
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LASER X ULTRA MICRO DOUBLE B2 BLASTERS
Bring Laser Tag fun to your home with the Micro Double B2 Blasters. Two players can face off to see who can win in this colorful game of tag. Kids can play indoors and outdoors during the day and night. The blasters feature over 10 team color combinations and a 200-feet gameplay range. Kids can…
