Toy Insider Media Correspondent Deborah Stallings Stumm Arizona’s Daily Mix on KZAT to show off the best toys for all the kids on your holiday shopping list, from toddlers to tweens. 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.


BÉBE FUERTE STACK & COUNT KETTLEBELL

This kettlebell-style stacker is part of a language-inclusive TOMY collection. Babies and toddlers can learn to count or stack or pretend to workout with this kettlebell-inspired toy.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $14.84
  • Age:
  • 6 MOS+

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+

DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID UNDER THE SEA EXPLORING ARIEL

This Ariel doll can speak and sing “Part of Your World” while its tail lights up. It includes a dinglehopper, a seashell, and hair clip charms. Kids can play with the doll in or out of the water.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $44.99
  • Age:
  • 3+

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LITE-BRITE TOUCH

Press the board's color-changing buttons and watch as they light up, then keep pressing to change colors. Create new images using the included instructions or design your own. This version also features games to play.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $29.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

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MGA’S MINIVERSE MAKE IT MINI LIFESTYLE

Make and display mini lifestyle collectibles, ranging from mini aquariums with little fish to a mini cactus with tiny bags of soil. There are more than 100 lifestyle materials, packages, and accessories to collect and create.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $9.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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WWE WREKKIN’ SLAM CRUSHER MONSTER TRUCK

This 12-inch-tall, WWE-inspired monster truck features eight pull-apart pieces and four removable tires so kids can transform its look. The truck bed's corkscrew tornado launcher can send action figures (not included) flying.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $49.99
  • Age:
  • 6+

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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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