Toy Ideas

Find age-appropriate toy suggestions, gift ideas for different developmental stages, and inspiration for play that encourages learning and creativity.

Best Selling Toys from the 70s

How well do you remember your childhood? If you grew up in the seventies, it was a halcyon era for kids, when we could still play out in the street without b...

Best Selling Toys from the 80s

The eighties ushered in a new era of hi tech toys – everything had to be battery operated and preferably look like some form of computer. The ‘silicon ch...

Making Your Own Toys

If the number of toy safety recalls is starting to worry you, and the pennies are also getting scarce, it can seem as if the options for children’s toys ar...

The Best Educational Toys

There is a huge selection of educational toys to choose from in every toy shop and web store, and it can be hard to decide what sort of toy will suit your ch...

Toy Ideas for Active Kids

With a constant media spotlight on childhood obesity, which is often blamed on the fact that most kids these days have all the toys they need to keep them in...

Toy Ideas for Clever Children

As your child gets older, the kind of toys he or she will want to play with tend to change, and become more challenging. It can sometimes be difficult to bal...

Toy Ideas for Creative Kids

If you’re blessed with a creative child, it’s a skill that you’ll probably want to nurture – after all, your little darling could turn into a musical...

Toys for the Whole Family to Play

There seems to be less and less time every day to spend doing the things we like with the people we love, so when you get an opportunity to spend some qualit...

Toys that Have Stood the Test of Time

There’s a very good reason why some classic children’s toys have stood the test of time and seen other more faddy children’s toys fall by the wayside....