(Kid Made Modern $40) Open the sturdy gift box and imagine your child's thrill in finding three articulated wooden robots that are ready...

(The Doll Kind $59.00 each) Can a doll teach kindness? Maybe not, but we like the big kind thought that fosters the idea. There are three...

(Hape $99) What an exciting wooden train set with its up and down roadways, bridges, and tall archways. For train lovers, this is the...

(Blue Orange $21.99) Our testers had great fun playing with the colorful cones and gelato balls. The trick is to match the gelato orders...

(Hearthsong $68.98) We’ve told you about open-ended Connectagons before; and now this is the super duper set with 280-pieces of wooden...

(NeatOh! $28.10 each) We really love this new series of magnetic activity playsets that are engaging and meant as a starting point for...

(Hasbro $137.99) R2D2 had us at the first iconic beep. Our tween testers loved that they could program him to move in a certain way....

(WowWee $196) CHiP is a programmable robotic dog that got high ratings from our testers. He's the latest entry from the folks at WowWee....

(Skullduggery $199.95) A big (and pricey) holiday present that our testers really enjoyed. We have always loved how the Max Traxxx cars...

(Wonder Workshop $131) Designed to introduce kids to beginning programming, this playful robot-like toy interacts with an android or iOS...