Toys that Teach on Chicago’s WGN

Build the Heeler Home with 70 magnetic pieces. Kids can use action tiles to build a moving swing set and more. Includes magnetic Bluey, Bingo, Bandit, and Chilli figures.

Fill the wooden vending machine with nine double-sided play food packages, insert a color-matching play coin or bank card, and receive the selection.

Kids can identify and experience the feelings of Angry, Surprised, Happy, Sad, and Scared as they journey through a typical day at school with Isabella. The 36-page storybook introduces each of the five core feelings and provides thoughtful questions to spark meaningful conversations. Includes five mini plush versions of the Feelings Family characters.

This 48-piece set includes sleek black magnetic quarter circles, arches, intersections, and ramps. Kids can build roads, raceways, skateparks, cities, and more. It is compatible with all Connetix sets.

Initially produced in the 1960s, this brain teaser puzzle has almost 83,000 combinations. Players must figure out how to place the cubes together so that all four sides show four different colors.

This set guides kids through building paper airplanes, installing a motor circuit to launch airplanes and flying saucers, creating art on a spinning wheel, levitating objects over a fan with air pressure, and more.

Kids can build a wearable water blaster and press the trigger to shoot streams of water. The set can turn into five different shapes: Gripper Claw, Shield, Sword, Crossbow, and Boomerang.