Gifts

Four adorable hand puppets make up this family-friendly collection—a perfect play set to help children and caregivers to role-play together! Four simple glove puppets in an animal theme make it easy and so much fun to act out scenes, practice new vocabulary, and spend quality time playing together. Great for motor skills and self-confidence, too! Made with brightly patterned, washable fabrics and built to last, these soft and sweet hand puppets are sure to be go-to toys for years to come.

This four-piece hand-puppet set makes it easy for kids and caregivers to role-play together! Four simple glove puppets in a coordinated theme can act out a scene together, or be used separately for simple puppet play. Either way, they are great for developing motor skills, hand-eye coordination, communication skills, self-confidence, parent-child bonding, and so much more! Made with brightly patterned, washable fabrics and built to last, these soft and sweet hand puppets are sure to be go-to toys for years to come. Farm Friends Hand Puppets includes a sheep, cow, pig, and horse.

What does the cow say? Kids can hear the cow say "moo" and other farm animal sounds with this hand-crafted wooden peg puzzle. Each happy farm animal "sounds off" in its own voice when the animal puzzle piece is placed correctly in the puzzle board. The puzzle is made out of high-quality durable wood, and depicts eight farm animals that kids can recognize. It features pictures and sounds of a pig, cow, dog, cat, sheep, rooster, horse, and duck. The light-activated sound puzzle also has a full-color, matching picture under each piece. Playing with the puzzle is fun and engaging for kids while they learn different animals and their sounds. It also helps little ones practice eye-hand coordination, sight and sound recognition, memory skills, and fine-motor skills. The Farm Sound Puzzle makes an exceptional gift for boys and girls ages two and older for hands-on, screen-free play. (AAA batteries not included).

This Classic Toy is a perfect first manipulative for kids! The Beginner Pattern Blocks set includes five two-sided wooden boards with 10 recessed design templates, and 30 bright and bold geometric shapes. Each template depicts a whimsical, colorful scene, and the geometric pieces are sized right for little hands to place them in their matching spaces. Kids can feel a sense of accomplishment as they complete the wooden puzzle or create their own designs and matching activities. All of the pieces come in a sturdy wooden box making clean up and storage a breeze. The Pattern Block toy provides kids with opportunities to practice color and shape recognition, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and creative expression. Designed to engage playful preschoolers and young children, and constructed with care to withstand their harshest treatment, this block set is made of durable, child-safe materials and is safety-tested to our most rigorous standards. It makes a wonderful gift for preschoolers and kids ages two and older for hands-on, screen-free play.

Children can create their own scene with the Clubhouse gang! This set of 20 wooden character magnets promotes fine motor skills, matching and sorting, storytelling, and lots of meeska mooska fun.

Everyone is attracted to these magnetic animals! Twenty favorite wild and domesticated animals are rendered in vibrant color on these wooden magnets that are easy for small hands to position and reposition. Arrange and re-arrange the colorful magnets to make scenes, play games, and tell stories! Great for developing fine motor, sorting, grouping, and storytelling skills. Pieces store in a wooden crate with a handy snap-in plastic lid, perfect for both home and travel! This product is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits, and that forests are protected for future generations. Please note that FSC certification applies to new inventory only (FSC C156584)

This bright green Froggy-face ball will encourage happy times in your backyard or on the playground! Made of durable rubber, this ball is ideal for early catching and kicking games.

Eight familiar shapes are featured in this extra-thick wooden puzzle with easy-grasp, chunky pieces. Each piece has a matching picture underneath and the shape name is printed on the puzzle board. Encourages hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and visual perception skills. This product is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits, and that forests are protected for future generations. Please note that FSC certification applies to new inventory only (FSC C156584)

This extra thick wooden puzzle includes seven easy-grasp, chunky dinosaur pieces with a full-color, matching picture underneath. The dino pieces stand upright for pretend play. Encourages eye-hand, fine motor and creative expression skills. This product is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits, and that forests are protected for future generations. Please note that FSC certification applies to new inventory only (FSC C156584).

Sing along with favorite childhood characters like Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill with this unique wooden peg song puzzle! Match the six illustrated wooden puzzle pieces to the pictures in the beautifully carved wooden puzzle board to hear six different nursery rhymes (Humpty Dumpty, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Hey Diddle Diddle, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Jack and Jill). Plastic pegs make it easy for small hands to grasp and manipulate the pieces. Lyrics are included on the puzzle so kids can sing along as they complete the puzzle! TIP: Puzzle has light-activated sensors; for best results, expose the sensor by removing a piece in a brightly lit room, then make the sound play by replacing the piece in the board; 2 AAA batteries required, not included

Building new skills is just part of the fun when little ones match and sort these colorful wooden pieces. The Geometric Stacker toy for toddlers includes rings, octagons, and rectangles that can be slotted onto the three rods attached to the wooden base. Kids can stack the shapes on the rings according to size, or explore other ways to play such as sorting by color or creating patterns. The 21 wooden pieces are sized for little hands, and they're made from high-quality, child-safe materials. This early-childhood learning toy provides endless possibilities for creative expression while building shape, color, and size differentiation skills. The first-concepts set is a manipulatives all-star and makes a great gift for children ages two and older for hands-on, screen-free play. Today, Melissa & Doug is proudly partnering with the American Academy of Pediatrics to foster early brain development and help children build important life skills through play.

It's scary how much fun you'll have with these fuzzy monster pals! The beastly bowling set adds color, texture, and a whole lot of eyes to a familiar game. Six wacky plush pins with goofy expressions have weighted bottoms for extra stability, touchable textures, and detailed stitching. Set up the pins in different formations, then use Klonk, the silly stuffed ball, to knock them down! The set stores in a handy mesh bag to take the bowling fun wherever kids go.

Send your child's imagination on a colorful journey with this classic wooden stacking train. Designed to help little ones practice fine motor and cognitive skills, this classic favorite will have kids on a roll! Sturdy, pegged cars are the base for 15 colorful pieces that can be configured over and over again. When assembled, the train is over 17 inches long--children can also separate the cars to change things up or share the fun. It's no wonder little ones and their parents choo-choo-choose this toy year after year!

There's room for lots of art and imagination with this large (17 x 20 in) easel pad for boys and girls of all ages. It's great for use on an easel, tabletop or the floor. Premium white bond paper is ideal for pencils, crayons, markers, chalk, watercolor or poster paints. Melissa & Doug products provide a launch pad to ignite imagination and a sense of wonder in all children so they can discover themselves, their passions, and their purpose. This product is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits, and that forests are protected for future generations. Please note that FSC certification applies to new inventory only (FSC C156584).

Lift one of the eight peg puzzle pieces to see and hear what’s happening in each room of this busy house! This unique sound puzzle lets kids two and older discover an alarm clock waking up a child in the bedroom, the car engine roaring to life in the garage, breakfast sizzling on the stove in the kitchen, and much more. Replace the piece to immediately stop the sound and move to the next room! Kids two and older will love exploring the house and discovering new, full-color pictures under each piece, and learning what is making the realistic sounds. The interactive, sturdy wooden puzzle helps develop fine motor skills and auditory processing skills, and encourages problem solving and narrative thinking. Two AAA batteries required, not included; sounds are light-activated - for best results, use in bright, direct light.