Toy Insider Editor-in-Chief Ali Mierzejewski joined Fox 61 in Connecticut to show off the best educational toys for kids ahead of the new school year. 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.


LEAPSTART LEARNING SUCCESS BUNDLE

Explore exciting new ways for kids to learn with the LeapStart Learning Success Bundle interactive system. This system with a sleek, new design grows with kids and gets them excited about learning with interactive touch-and-talk pages. Activities that include games, puzzles, and creative challenges enhance learning to help kids build math, reading, problem-solving skills, and…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $47.99; $59.99 CAD
  • Age:
  • 2+

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JUNIOR EXPLORER ADVENTURE KIT

Ready for an adventure? Go on a scavenger hunt, play a flashlight game, seek & find bugs, and more with the Junior Explorer Adventure Kit! With so much to find and learn, this exploring kit has all the adventure tools that kids will need to start exploring the great outdoors.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $12.99
  • Age:
  • 5+

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TRAINBOTS: 2-IN-1 STEAM MAKER KIT

Kids can put on their engineer’s cap and build their own steampunk-style train robot with amazing steam effects. They can build the TrainBot in two different configurations: a rolling train and a walking robot. Turn it on and watch it go, with cool water vapor “steam” billowing from its chimney, lit up in a fiery…

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $39.95; $60 CAD
  • Age:
  • 8+

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MONOPOLY SCRABBLE

This game combines elements of the Monopoly game with the crossword-building play of Scrabble. In place of rolling dice to move around the board, players build words and move ahead by their score. Features custom Community Chest and Chance cards.

Product Facts

  • MSRP:
  • $34.95
  • Age:
  • 8+

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About the author

Bill Reese

Bill Reese

Bill Reese is Director of Operations 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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