The holiday season is well underway and in the interest of not waiting until the last minute to finish my shopping, I've been thinking about gift ideas for the people in my life. I'd like to spend the month of December decorating ginger bread houses, watching Christmas movies cuddled up together by the tree, baking cookies, taking Liam ice skating for the first, visiting Santa, and hopefully playing in the snow (just a few things on our holiday bucket list) rather than doing a bunch of shopping. In preparation for all the sales happening now through the next few days, I thought I would share some fun interactive ideas for kids rather than just toys this year ...
It's no secret that in this day and age, kids love phones ... no matter what age they are at. I don't love letting Liam play games on mine very often but when I came across these two gift ideas I knew they would be perfect when I occasionally do ... the moonlite is a projector you can clip to your phone and it has interchangeable slides you can attach to it that project the pictures from the story on the ceiling while the words are shown through an app on your phone to read to them. A really fun way to read stories before bed and doubles as a "flashlight", Liam's favorite! The second one is the Osmo. I've seen this before but it was always for iPad use only and it wasn't up until recently they made it available for Kindle and iPhone users. It is a stand you slide your device into and you can purchase educational games to go with it. The app it uses talks to you and you interact with it through a reflector in front of the phone. It looks amazing! We got Liam the creative monster game to start with for Christmas!
Who doesn't love walkie talkies, so great for so many ages and this particular pair has really good ratings for distance if they play with a friend or sibling outside.
Liam's favorite thing to do right now is build ... he plays with these magnetic tiles at our library all the time and loves nothing more than Legos and super heroes right now making this set the perfect fit!
Another favorite around here, robots that transform. How fun is this set where it helps them practice the alphabet?!
A microphone for the music loving dancer in your life and a construction playdoh set that comes with the cutest electric drill.
Another favorite not pictured above ... a stomp rocket (and this one glows in the dark)!
Hope a few of these ideas help! XO
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