The Best Educational Gifts For Kids

Arriving just in time for the holidays, Sunny the Snail Mail comes straight to kids' mail boxes with a fun letter filled with adventurous stories and educational facts about animals and geography.

And wait.. Sunny Delivers Mail to your kids EVERY WEEK! No more waiting a whole month for your subscription! 

This hardworking mail snail delivers personalized letters to kids around the world each week.

It’s a unique gift for the holiday season that makes reading fun and fosters imagination year-round!

This subscription gift can be shared with the whole family and creates a reading experience meant to engage young minds and foster imagination. Plus, kids feel so important getting their own mail.

The Teach My company designs award-winning, fun, and engaging learning kits for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners. These kits present an opportunity to give your child a head start in life, in just 20 minutes a day!

The products inside each specific kit aim to teach basic skills; geared for the level of each individual kit.

From the ABCs, colors, and counting to reading, printing, and math; your mini scholar can master skills that will benefit them for their entire lifetime!

The best part is that each kit is super affordable too!

For slime lovers, this kit offers something new that’s just as ooey and gooey! Pour neon gel that forms biopolymer blobs from the chemical reaction between sodium alginate and calcium chloride. Ten activities explore life cycles, adaptation, and traits that real animals use in the wild from tardigrades to axolotl.

Create your very own blobby friends, complete with eyeballs, tentacles, mustaches, and other body parts. Keep your creatures safe in aquatic test tube terrariums.

Build an awesome, nine-inch-diameter, rolling robotic sphere and six other robot models!

Robotics is a vast and thrilling interdisciplinary field involving physics, engineering, and computer science. This kit gives kids a simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics that lets them build seven motorized machines controlled by programs and a sound sensor.

With this set, kids will construct the Super Sphere robot, which has two motors and a sound sensor mounted inside a hollow, spherical shell made of 32 interlocking pieces. Drive your robot using the remote-control interface in the Super Sphere app, available for tablets and smartphones, or write programs using the easy, visual programming language in the app. The onboard sound sensor lets you program your robots to perform specific sequences of commands in response to the number of claps (or other loud sounds) that it detects.

Learn about the inner mechanics and the fascinating physics principles that enable the Super Sphere to drive forward, backward, and turn left and right. Then, build a robot with two jumbo-sized wheels made from the same pieces as the Super Sphere’s outer shell. Assemble the Bigfoot Bot and experiment with a robot that crawls around on two humongous feet.

After learning how the technology works, you can build and program your own robots using the kit’s 182 building pieces. A full-color, 60-page, step-by-step illustrated manual helps you assemble all of the models and includes information about robotics in the real world.

In addition to the robotics experiments, you can conduct hands-on experiments in three-dimensional geometry using the triangular and pentagonal shell pieces.

The free app connects to the robot models via a wireless Bluetooth connection. In the programming mode of the app, the visual programming language allows you to command the robots’ motors to move for different lengths of time, at different power levels, and in different directions.

This is a STEM gift that will provide your child with hours and hours of great educational fun!

Spark their imaginations during pretend play with this bestselling, well-priced cash register, which comes with credit cards, an attached card reader, and wooden cash.

They’ll love playing grocery store, bakery and more, pushing in number keys, opening the cash drawer and tearing off paper receipts. Sized just right for small hands, this all-wood set is highly durable and requires absolutely no batteries (no blinking lights, no noise!). And ringing up purchases and making change will help build on fundamental math skills too.

Classic games never go out of style and Mexican Train Dominoes is one of them!

Mexican Train is a game played with dominoes. The object of the game is for a player to play all the tiles from his or her hand onto one or more chains, or trains, emanating from a central hub or "station". The game's most popular name comes from a special optional train that belongs to all players.

91 color-dot Double 12 dominoes packed in a tin plus trains and hub to play Mexican Train. Bonus Chickenfoot game rules included! Contents: 91 Color-Dot Double 12 Dominoes, 9 Train Markers, 1 Train Station “Hub” and Instructions. For 2-8 players. Ages 8 and up.

The Explorer Starter Kit features everything you need to play nine classic Osmo games!

It's their most complete STEAM learning kit yet as it features all of the interactive kids games from Genius Starter Kit, Monster, and Coding Family.

You'll enjoy games pieces, art supplies, and stackable storage; all included — Just add your tablet!

My son loves to build and I wanted to find something more challenging for him this holiday season, now that he is getting older. The Snap Circuits My Home Electronics Building Kit is the perfect educational gift to challenge your builder while having a lot of fun too!

With this set from Snap Circuits, kids can build 53 exciting STEM projects that are based on electric circuits you would find in most homes. Children will learn how power gets to your home, how power travels inside your walls, what happens when you turn on a light, what happens when the power goes out, what are fuses, circuits breakers, and more! These are things I wish I would have learned as a kid!

Your child will use the color and number-coded building blocks with snaps to build and understand electrical circuits, home security, overhead lights, dependent and independent lights, and even an infrared-controlled lighting system.

No glue or tools required, just 3 AA batteries (not included).

This toy has won numerous awards and is sure to be a big hit with your child this holiday season!

This super-cool puzzle is sure to delight as it shows a display of big-wheeled vehicles at a farming show.

The star, of course, is the amazing John Deere tractor, with it's giant-sized wheels and powerful engine. Just imagine driving this beauty across fields and hills!

Putting together puzzles is a relaxing activity to spark interesting conversations and a great way for children to share time with parents, grandparents, siblings, and friends.

This 100 piece kids puzzles with XXL large pieces are crafted with premium quality and measure 49 x 36cm when complete.

Geomag has re-invented the classic cube building block and made it magical! These cubes can be attached together from every side, making the construction capabilities surprising and easy to create. They can even remain suspended!

The Try Me line not only offers you the opportunity to actually try out the magnetism in Magicube, but invites you into the world of construction with Geomag magnetic cubes.

These new cubes are made with 100% recycled plastic, ensuring the construction toy world is even more respectful of our planet. Each set includes 64 pieces.

Travel the world and see everything in it with the interactive Magic Adventures Globe. Tap on the globe with the stylus to learn about new places, cultures, languages, geography, animals, habitats, and more through high-quality BBC videos and animations on the integrated video screen!

Kids will be fully immersed in learning, providing a better understanding of the world through the included content of over five hours of videos and three interactive games to explore. What a fun way to learn about our world!

Train your Brain cards were developed to reinforce a variety of math concepts at each age level. Train your Brain questions encourage mental fluency and reasoning in four areas: Counting, Money, Time and "Grab Bag" (a mix of concepts that include geometry and measurement as well as concepts that require number sense).

Each card has six questions which are read aloud for a child to solve and answer without the use of pencil and paper (answers are provided on the card). Each card increases with difficulty until the last (11th) card. Parents/caregivers can (and should) repeat cards to reinforce mental fluency. To increase difficulty, the length of time given to answer each question can be shortened.

Currently, there are 3 different levels of Train Your Brain cards available, beginning with the Blue cards for ages 5 and up.

Your children will love these hardcover nonfiction books packed with fascinating facts! These comprehensive yet accessible explorations of water, outer space, and the animal kingdom will help young readers understand many aspects of the natural world.

The engaging format of each book includes gatefolds and booklets with additional facts and hands-on activity ideas. An unforgettable gift that will engage budding scientists for hours on end!

A glow-in-the-dark, interactive guide to the Solar System, carefully crafted to make complex STEM concepts like astronomy, physics, and chemistry understandable for children aged 8-12. Barefoot Books Solar System joins the celebrated Barefoot Books World Atlas as another standout nonfiction title on Barefoot’s list to explore the world and universe.

Immerse yourself in fascinating facts about water! This comprehensive yet accessible exploration of water will help young readers understand many aspects of one of our planet's most precious resources – and how they can protect it. A friendly water droplet character guides children through topics ranging from melting and freezing to the ways in which water literally shapes the Earth. Tales by storytellers from around the world are sprinkled through the book, highlighting the variety of ways in which global cultures value water. The engaging format includes gatefolds and booklets with hands-on activity ideas for learning about and protecting water.

In this beautifully illustrated guide, discover fascinating and unusual information about animals from all around the world. A delightfully quirky system of organization introduces the reader to the superlatives of the animal kingdom, from "top predators" to "expert architects." A must-have encyclopedia for any animal enthusiast!

MEandMine is a new play experience that helps children learn about themselves through fun, mind-blowing and inspiring hands-on adventure. MEandMine helps kids discover all the marvelous ways their bodies and emotions work to help them grow. This helps them face the wild road of life ahead with excitement, confidence, creativity, and resilience.

The Journey Down the Belly box teaches children about the enzymes in our body, allowing them to join in the crazy, fun digestion journey while finding out what happens to the food we eat!

With this kit, you'll read a 28-page full-color storybook to learn how our digestive system works, build 3 STEAM projects to know what happens to the food we eat, and play the My Plate Matching Game to shape healthy habits.

I love to give each of my children a new, special, and unique book at Christmas.

In her hugely successful books Creatures of the Deep and What's in the Egg, as well as her enormously popular series of greeting cards for the Museum of Modern Art, Maike Biederstaedt has established herself as one of the preeminent paper artists working today.

Now Biederstaedt takes book engineering to new heights as she immerses readers in five electrifying weather scenarios. As each spread unfolds, a meticulously designed landscape emerges--a freighter balances like a nutshell between high waves in the sea; a tornado takes terrifying aim at a truck trying to outrun it; a rain-spewing storm cloud towers like a skyscraper over a farmhouse. Nature's delicate beauty emerges in the intricate shapes of a snowflake and in the luminous arc of a rainbow.

Each page features an informative description of its weather event and the book closes with commentary on the effects of climate change. A wondrous introduction to weather for budding climatologists, this is also an artistic tour de force that collectors will treasure.

I've seen this book in person and the pop-ups are exquisite. It does not disappoint!

Explore STEM concepts while building a motorized Swing Ride! Using the materials included in this set, middle-school aged children will be engaged and energized as they further their knowledge and understanding of the science, technology, engineering and math concepts associated with a real-life amusement park ride.

The set includes over 470 parts plus a battery-powered motor for a single child or team of 2-3 children to build a working Swing Ride, plus 2 additional models: a Ferris Wheel and a Boom Ride (each model can be built one at a time). Once built, a downloadable booklet guides students through 3 hands-on, inquiry-based experiments on each of the models. The Experiment Guide is aligned to national STEM standards and is appropriate for grade levels 5-9.

Requires 2 'AA' batteries, not included.

GraviTrax is the STEM toy that everyone loves!

Your kids can create their own action-packed marble run obstacle course with this interactive GraviTrax Speed Set construction toy!

This 185-piece STEM toy provides a screen-free activity that encourages problem-solving, creativity, and experimentation for kids ages 8 and up. The GraviTrax Speed Set includes height tiles, turns, tunnels, tracks, and 4 different accessories for endless building activities.

Your children can use the included instructions for 10 different track layouts so you can start building and playing within minutes. Design, build and race the marbles through your own obstacle course tracks and use gravity, magnetism, and kinetics to propel them to the finish.

With over 6 million sold worldwide, GraviTrax makes an awesome Christmas present for budding engineers or kids who love to build.

The Yoto Player is a carefully connected screen-free speaker, specifically created for children. It's controlled with physical cards and plays only the audio content you want them to listen to!

No camera. No microphone. No Ads.

Welcome to an interactive world of imagination and creativity; welcome to Yoto.

Yoto consists of a library of curated audio content, which children can access using the Yoto player. Yoto is designed by families, for families, using Montessori principles to empower children through play.

The Yoto Player uses physical cards that children ages 2+ can slot into the Yoto player and unlock a world of curated and child-safe music, stories and interactive learning games.

Each Yoto card unlocks different content, so children can control what they listen to by choosing which card to play with. Parents can also get creative and use blank cards to link their own content – music, podcasts, or personal recordings – for an even more magical experience. 

If you've got a princess fan, make sure to stock up with these 5 Minute Princess Stories to play on your Yoto Player!

Yoto Says: Follow the royal adventures of Moana, Belle, Rapunzel and Mulan in four dazzling short stories.

Each of the stories in this collection is the perfect length for jam-packed days. This treasury stars a host of Disney princesses, from Belle to Moana. The princesses’ latest adventures are the royal choice before bedtime, story time, or anytime!

Track Listing:

1. A Path to the Sea
2. Belle’s Flight
3. The Beauty of Mistakes
4. The Dragon Boat Race

Geared for ages 0-5, this story pack runs about 23 minutes.

Yoto says: Discover the wonder of the Magic Tree House with Jack and Annie in this collection of eight audiobooks from of the best-selling series! Made especially for your Yoto Player, get ready for adventure!

Meet Jack and Annie!

Jack and his younger sister, Annie, are just regular kids. But when they discover a tree house in the woods, something magical happens. In books 1-4, Jack and Annie are whisked back in time to the Age of Dinosaurs, a medieval castle, ancient pyramids, and treasure-seeking pirates. In books 5-8, Jack and Annie's friend, Morgan le Fay, is in trouble! They must find four "M" things to free her from a spell. Their adventures take them to meet a ninja master in ancient Japan, flee a crocodile on the Amazon River, discover the cave people of the Ice Age, and blast off to the moon in the future. It's a difficult and dangerous mission, but Jack and Annie will do anything to save a friend!

This collection includes books 1-8 of the New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series:

• Dinosaurs Before Dark
• The Knight at Dawn
• Mummies in the Morning
• Pirates Past Noon
• Night of the Ninjas
• Afternoon on the Amazon
• Sunset of the Sabertooth
• Midnight on the Moon

Geared for ages 5-12+, this story pack runs for over 5 1/2 hours.

Yoto says: Six fantastic audiobooks from the UK’s bestselling picture book author! Kids will LOVE it!

Story time has never been better or easier than with the Yoto Player and it's accessories!

Take a stroll through the deep dark wood with The Gruffalo, help a little monkey find his mum in Monkey Puzzle or jump on a crowded broom with a witch and her cat and MORE!

These wonderful stories will delight and enchant young listeners over and over again.

This engaging story time pack includes:

The Gruffalo
Room on the Broom
The Snail and the Whale
Charlie Cook's Favourite Book
Monkey Puzzle
The Smartest Giant in Town

This story pack is geared for ages 0-8.

Check out the affordable new KIBO Home Edition which introduces young children to coding and robotics.

This fun STEAM kit is inspiring parents, children, and siblings to engage and collaborate. With KIBO, children ages 4–7 create, design, decorate, and bring their own robot to life.

Kids build onto KIBO with familiar arts and crafts materials, engaging in imaginative play and storytelling that motivates and guides their learning. They can tell stories, choreograph dances, create a robotic vehicle to explore a cardboard town, create an animal habitat, and more.

It's screen free fun at its best!

The physical and digital worlds collide in one exciting adventure with MindLabs: Energy and Circuits.

This kit offers a magical new way to teach children circuitry, an essential element of STEM. MindLabs uniquely pairs digital and physical worlds, by combining an app, tabletop playing cards, and the excitement of augmented reality, for an affordable price.

With MindLabs, kids not only can create circuits in 3D, but can also share the playing experience with friends – either in person or remotely.

• Designed for self-directed learning, in homes and schools

• Aligned with STEM standards

• Includes FREE app and circuit cards

• For ages 8+• For 1 to 4 players

With so many kids schooling at home this year, have you been on the hunt for educational, online classes? If so, Young Art is a children's art studio who offers live virtual art lessons, 7 days a week! This makes it easy to find classes that will fit your schedule.

The Unlimited Pass allows your family access to unlimited virtual classes for a month for just $30. That comes to just $1 a day!

Young Art's instructors will lead LIVE virtual classes 7 days per week, including after school and on weekends. Students will experience a variety of skill-building lessons using multiple modalities!

Young Art is on a mission to serve students, families, and the community by providing meaningful learning experiences through the virtual classroom. Their team is committed to inspiring the next generation of young inventors, artists, designers, and entrepreneurs to be bold innovators by providing creative and enriching experiences through hands-on learning.

Now Introducing...the Tanoshi Scholar computer for kids between the ages of 6-12. The Tanoshi Scholar is a real computer and not a toy!

The Scholar includes all of the features of the Tanoshi 2-in-1 PLUS:

✅  Greater durability

✅  Splash proof

✅  Dust proof

✅ Webcam privacy filter

✅  Runs on Android 10

✅  Compatible with Zoom

✅  Blue light filter

✅ Additional pre-loaded apps by award-winning educators

✅  Available in blue or purple

This awesome computer runs Android 10 and can run millions of apps available in the Play Store. Google apps and kids coding apps come pre-installed, as well as Google Family Link for parental controls. 

This Bio-Organic STEAM kit called Just Add Egg will inspire the artists and scientists in your life!

Get ready to make your own dinosaur egg, experiment with disappearing eggs, and experiment with getting an egg in and out of a bottle.

This fun kit leads you through more than 10 science experiments and art activities, with most ingredients needed, included inside.

The Atomic Force Board Game works to teach children fundamental chemistry concepts.

Each player gets an avatar and rolls dice on a mission to cross the board from start to finish. Along the way, collect Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons and solve different challenges to build simple elements and compounds.

Because atomic chemistry describes the building blocks of existence, it’s an important subject to introduce early on!

Get ready to take your child on a a mathematical safari adventure! Theses Inchimals are incredibly effective math blocks that teach measurement, number concepts, addition, subtraction, and pre-algebra! It's ideal, educational fun for all ages of children.

Beautifully crafted and thoughtfully designed, Inchimals features 12 wooden animal blocks measuring 1 inch (the tiny ladybug) to 12 inches (the towering giraffe). With exact inch segments, written numerals, representative dots, and cute animals to boot - this learning toy is a sure winner all around!

Get ready to give a unique gift that starts the learning young as Codi, the Storytelling Robot is geared for ages 12 months and up!

Codi is a storyteller - it tells 130 classic stories that stimulate the imagination without a screen (voiced by engaging voice actors!).

Codi is a DJ - it plays 100 classic songs to get your child moving.

Codi builds good routines - it makes tooth brushing or clean up time a breeze with content you can only find on Codi!

• Control what you want or do not want your child to listen to
• See what your child has been playing
• Set volume controls
• Set guided routines when it's time to clean up, brush their teeth
• And you can send voice messages back and forth no matter how far you are - a parent favorite! 

Although Wi-Fi is required for all of Codi's functionality, Codi can play all saved songs and stories offline.

In a very strange time in our world, a couple of things remain as constants - coffee and games.

So enjoy both with JABUKA, the rotating letter word game with a coffee theme. JABUKA is like no other word game, it’s so much more! Most word games require you to use your bean, but the way to win JABUKA is to use the most beans in a spontaneous, fast-paced, and creative way.

The innovative twist to JABUKA is that the coffee bean-shaped pieces with yellow characters can be twisted and turned to form different letters, magically transforming J's into r's, M's into E’s and many more!

Use these alphabet chameleons to form new words or to hijack and transform existing words made by another player or team. Whoever has the most beans from making and taking words, wins the game.

There's nothing quite like the feeling children get when they see their own name carved out of high quality wood, painted with stunning colors, and displayed for all to see. That's why a Personalized Name Puzzle from Fat Brain Toys is a great gift idea!

With their new and improved Name Puzzle, Fat Brain Toys has updated the color palette to a fresh, modern collection that both girls and boys will love. Plus, all the puzzles are now made in-house - which means every puzzle ships FAST!

Encourage logic abilities, fine motor skills, letter recognition, name spelling, and early self esteem with a personalized name puzzle for a child you can’t resist. It’s a personal gift that will be kept and valued for years to come!

Give the gift of reading and exploring into worlds unknown through an Owl Crate Jr. Subscription! Geared for boys and girls ages 8-12; subscriptions are available in monthly, 3-month, and 6-month options.

Inside each box, you'll find:

• A brand new middle grade hardcover novel plus an exclusive letter and signed bookplate from the author!
• Fun and unique items based on the theme of the month!
• Second book, activity, or game in every box!
• Collectible monthly sticker and magazine

Miranda's daughter has gotten the Owl Crate Jr. Subscription in the past and absolutely LOVED it! Truly a great way to encourage reading and branch out to books you haven't read yet.

The Original Magnatab was designed with the Montessori learning style in mind, creating a sensory-based creative play experience.

Kids can use the magnetic stylus to pull the beads up to the surface and draw pictures, letters, numbers, and shapes. In doing this, they feel the pull of the magnets, hear their clicking sound, and see what they are drawing. They love seeing their picture appear right before their eyes!

The beads are magically “erased” when pushed down by the tip of a finger or the swipe of the side of the stylus.

The tablet features easy storage for the magnetic stylus, which clicks securely into place.

This is a great tool for use at home or in the classroom!

Check out this fun memory game that the entire family can enjoy!

In Brainwaves: The Wise Whale; After trying to memorize which creatures are on which cards, players lay their nine cards face down.

During your turn, reveal a new card from the deck. Then, you must reveal a card that matches either the creature or the color on this new card.

If you are able to do it, claim this card, and then lay out a new card face down in its place. Whoever collects the most cards wins!

Kiwico is a subscription box company that offers age-appropriate, stem-based learning crates send directly to your doorstep. The Kiwi Crate is perfect for kids ages 5-8 years old.

The Kiwi Crate was created to celebrate kids' natural creativity and curiosity while helping parents who want to bring enriching experiences to their children. Chose to send one box, or sign up for a full year subscription. Give a gift that lasts all year long with Kiwico.

The Kiwi Crate is perfect for young elementary students. These crates are designed to utilize your child's natural creativity and curiosity. Sample crates have including things like building and then playing with a working arcade claw or building and flying a kite. These crates have everything your child needs to make and then use the STEM-based experiment.

Geared for ages 7 and up, check out Recycle Rally for a game with a purpose!

Players can drive recycling trucks around town and maximize their scores by collecting higher-value materials. But sort carefully! If too many recyclables are left behind, useful stuff is incinerated and the whole town could be in trouble.

This game is a fun way to get your family talking about what happens to your trash as well as why some materials (like plastic) are less valuable on the recycling market than others (like metal or paper).

Future scientists and artists agree that this "Just Add Baking Soda Kit" from Griddly Games is explosive!

This fun STEAM based kit is the perfect mix of science and art for all creative kids.

Inside, you'll find more than 20 science and arts activities including Bath Bombs, Ornaments, Baking Soda Volcano, and so much more!

It's a transformative kit that helps kids discover chemical reactions, states of matter, and alkaline. Geared for ages 8+, it's the perfect way to spend a day learning!

The Jambo Book Club sends members 2-3 age-appropriate books each month that will feature children of color as the stars of their own stories.

Jambo Books show children of color in situations where children’s literature rarely places them – making friends, raising pets, loving grandparents, and fighting dragons. These books arrive with a personalized letter in JambArt boxes beautifully decorated with art that celebrates the joy of childhood.

They offer six different book subscriptions for kids ages 0-13 so you can choose the monthly book selections that are just right for your budding reader. So give the gift of reading this year!