Toy Insider’s Chief Toy Officer Laurie Schacht joined The Weather Channel’s America’s Morning HQ to show off the best toys to keep kids entertained when rainy weather keeps them inside. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below.


VR MASTERCHEF JUNIOR

Step inside the MasterChef kitchen in virtual reality and learn everything from culinary skills, plating techniques, flavor pairing, and even food science from former contestants and winners of the hit FOX TV show. This interactive cooking kit for kids covers 30 recipes and even tackles sauces, dressings, and knife skills as they take on STEM…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

CREATTO LIGHT-UP 3D PUZZLES

These Creatto Puzzles come in Flashy Fish & Silly Swimmers and Twilight Rocking Horse & The Giddyup Gang. Flashy Fish & Silly Swimmers comes with 43 Creatto pieces and a string of 20 LED lights. Kids can build a cute cartoony fish, a crab, a stingray, and a turtle. Twilight Rocking Horse & The Giddyup…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $21.95; $31.00 CAD
  • Age:
  • 8+

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PYXEL A CODER’S BEST FRIEND

Kids can use a tablet to code Pyxel to perform tricks, make sounds, and more. Pyxel and its companion app will help kids learn the basics of two coding languages: Blockly and Python.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $124.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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

HEY CLAY – AIR DRY CLAY

Kids can become professional clay artists! This vibrant clay is soft, lightweight, non-sticky, nontoxic, and stain-free – perfect for young artists taking their first step into the magical world of clay creativity. The fun starts once you download the free app and gain full access using the code included in the box. Kids can choose…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $19.95
  • Age:
  • 3+


VR MASTERCHEF JUNIOR

Step inside the MasterChef kitchen in virtual reality and learn everything from culinary skills, plating techniques, flavor pairing, and even food science from former contestants and winners of the hit FOX TV show. This interactive cooking kit for kids covers 30 recipes and even tackles sauces, dressings, and knife skills as they take on STEM…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $59.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

CREATTO LIGHT-UP 3D PUZZLES

These Creatto Puzzles come in Flashy Fish & Silly Swimmers and Twilight Rocking Horse & The Giddyup Gang. Flashy Fish & Silly Swimmers comes with 43 Creatto pieces and a string of 20 LED lights. Kids can build a cute cartoony fish, a crab, a stingray, and a turtle. Twilight Rocking Horse & The Giddyup…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $21.95; $31.00 CAD
  • Age:
  • 8+

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.

PYXEL A CODER’S BEST FRIEND

Kids can use a tablet to code Pyxel to perform tricks, make sounds, and more. Pyxel and its companion app will help kids learn the basics of two coding languages: Blockly and Python.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $124.99
  • Age:
  • 8+

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.

HEY CLAY – AIR DRY CLAY

Kids can become professional clay artists! This vibrant clay is soft, lightweight, non-sticky, nontoxic, and stain-free – perfect for young artists taking their first step into the magical world of clay creativity. The fun starts once you download the free app and gain full access using the code included in the box. Kids can choose…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $19.95
  • Age:
  • 3+

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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