The Ultimate List of the Best Gifts for Kids of Every Age

This book, a winner of our Good Housekeeping Kids' Book Awards, delighted families because of its unique structure: It unfolds more than three feet, and it also stands up, so babies can look at it during tummy time.

The face of this rattle lights up in different colors, which the brand says is good for eye movement and tracking. Babies can use it as tummy-time stimulation, and as they get older, they can practice grasping it and shaking it.

This is the toy out there for all the kids who, when gifted a new stuffed animal, go straight to playing with its tag. The tag-like "scales" on this fish flip over to reveal a hidden picture underneath, and the scales themselves have different textures to feel.

This gator is angled so that tummy time is more comfortable for a baby who lays down on top of it. It also has wheels so that when they're old enough to start to try to crawl, they can use this to push themselves across the floor with their legs.

This toy duo teaches cause-and-effect: Kids can try stacking the rings and see what happens when they put them in the wrong order or shake the wobbly base too hard.

This first official Ms. Rachel doll is soft and 16 inches tall. Squeeze one hand to hear one of her signature sweet phrases; squeeze the other to listen to one of four songs.

When kids feed balls to this elephant, it pops them out in a puff of air — and then it becomes a game for kids to chase the balls down again and return them. This helps them work on their eye-tracking and gross motor skills.

Kids can load one of seven different brightly colored cars onto the track and watch as they go back and forth down the rainbow ramps — and watching them go is good for eye-tracking.

Good Housekeeping Institute testers were mesmerized by these squishy, stretchy building blocks. Some of them have beads, stars or other materials inside that look and feel cool when you squeeze the blocks.

This counting book unfolds to look like a train, with wheels that really spin! Each train car covers a different number, and Good Housekeeping Institute testers say it's a good one to inspire independent play.

There's no one right way to play with the Bilibo — everything is fair game. Kids can sit in it, spin around in it, flip it over and use it as a helmet, stack or two together or use them as a landscape for other toys. This is a best seller that Good Housekeeping readers just will not stop buying. Ages 2+

This is definitely the toy to break when they're bursting full of energy and need to get it out. They can just sit on this and bounce to their heart's content, strengthening their leg muscles and working on their balance.

Kids get a guided tour of the world around them courtesy of the voice of Bindi Irwin, who navigates young scientists through the 60 full-color images included on the slides. It comes with two modes of play — fact mode and quiz mode — that together offer kids more than 100 scientific tidbits.

Kids can insert the activity disks and listen to stories, songs and other content. Parent testers also appreciated that Sunny can be used as an alarm, a night light or a device that keeps track of bedtime routines. It comes in blue and pink.

These adorable flocked creatures let kids be endlessly creative, since kids can color them in, wash them off and color them all over again. They even have a color-changing trick: The fur starts off white, and turns blue in cold water (or in the freezer). Warm water turns them white again.

Encourage their love of STEM with this magnetic construction set, which comes with a shuttle, a capsule, an astronaut figure and other space-themed pieces in addition to regular building shapes. There are 32 pieces in all.

Kids will be amazed to learn that they can take the remote control and send this car across the floor, up the walls and even onto the ceiling. (And adults will be relieved to learn that it doesn't scuff the paint).

Vehicle-loving kids will appreciate that these can be used with either Hot Wheels cars or Monster Trucks (and it comes with a Monster Truck to add to the collection). First, kids unfold the racetrack ramp, which extends to be more than four feet long. Then, they set two cars at the top of the ramp, and whichever makes it down first triggers a spring that sends the slower car flying!

Drones are usually for bigger kids, but young ones can get in on the fun with this because it's entirely hand-operated and doesn't require mastering a remote. (It does, however, get them to practice their hand-eye coordination.)

With these rods and connectors, kids can make their own tents, igloos, lunar bases, tunnels and anything else they can imagine — just add your own sheets or blankets draped over the top.

Now, instead of going to a salon, kids can get the look at home with this DIY kit, which lets them express themselves and style their hair just the way they want it. In addition to tinsel strands, the set comes with pony beads, hair ties, clips and bobby pins.

Artsy kids love mixing and matching the traceable templates that come with this kit, layering them together to make new scenes that they can outline and color in thanks to LEDs that make them easy to see.

Good Housekeeping Institute testers loved using the pottery wheel and the shaping tools included with this set. It's designed to grow with them, since they can use more guardrails and guides when they're first starting out.

Kids will learn about concepts like engineering, gravity, momentum, magnetism and kinetic and potential energy with this set, which lets them put together their own marble runs. It comes with more than 120 pieces, which includes basic track sections along with "stunt" pieces like a marble cannon, a vortex and a launch pad.

A puzzle box like no other, this toy doesn't keep its cube shape for long. It unfolds into more than 70 different shapes, and kids run through the different configurations as a fidget toy. Then, when they're done, it becomes a brain-bending challenge to get it back into its cube form.

The old summer-camp staple gets a major upgrade with this set, which helps kids make their own friendship bracelets. It comes with a clip at the top to hold the string and pegs at the bottom to keep strands separated, plus there are storage drawers to hold bundles of thread (and it comes pre-loaded with 10 colors).

Kids will get a sense of how real-life limbs and tendons work when they build this joystick-controlled arm, which uses a network of nylon cables (no wires or electronics needed). Good Housekeeping Institute testers said that assembling the 300+ pieces became a family bonding activity.

Young artists can make 3d sculptures by melting the plastic filament with this pen and layering it into new shapes. Good Housekeeping Institute testers liked that users can control the speed of the filament flow.

Tweens and teens are going gaga over this bag — and why wouldn't they? It's just the right size to carry what they need, and it comes in more than a dozen fun colors and patterns.

What's more unique to them than a neon light that shows off their name? It comes in sizes from 10 inches to 55 inches, and you can also pick the color, font, backplate shape, symbol at the end and whether it needs to run on batteries or an AC adapter (or both).

Now teens can keep their game going even if after the sun sets. LEDs illuminate this ball from the inside, so they can stay outside and active longer. LED footballs, volleyballs and soccer balls are also available.

They'll never have an excuse for not texting again when they carry this portable charger around. It's quick, too: iWalk says it's capable of charging an iPhone 15 pro battery from 0% to 50% in 30 minutes.

This mirror is small enough to be folded up and stashed away in a purse or backpack, but offers some powerful magnification when it's open. It also has eight LED lights to make it even easier to see.

When it's time to take notes, this pen is all business, and it can be straightened out for writing. But during downtime, it can be separated into magnetic segments and used like a little construction toy.

Now their memories can live somewhere other than their phones: This camera instantly prints photos on sticky paper that uses thermal ink. It comes in a variety of colors, too.

If cozy is the name of the game, this wearable blanket is sure to be a hit. Amazon reviewers rave about how soft and cuddly it is.