Top Educational Toys

Top Educational Toys! Look how smart you are—or can become. Great curricula and innovative design and play make these top educational and learning toys.

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1. Count ’N Crunch Cookie Monster

   from Hasbro for ages 18 months and up

   What it is: Cookie Monster loves cookies, but he also loves counting cookies. Kids can feed pretend cookies to the Count 'N Crunch Cookie…

   

   

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2. Count & Draw

   from LeapFrog for ages 3 and up

   What it is: With the Count & Draw, kids can play numbers games and practice writing numbers and drawing lines and shapes. In Shapes & Lines…

   

   

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3. MobiGo Touch Learning System

   from VTech for ages 3 and up

   What it is: MobiGo is the latest handheld system that combines games targeted to preschoolers ages 3 and up with learning activities. If you've…

   

   

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4. Leapster Explorer

   from LeapFrog for ages 4 and up

   What it is: LeapFrog's Leapster gets a high-tech upgrade this year with the new Leapster Explorer. Leapster Explorer ($69.99) is more than a…

   

   

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5. My Discovery House

   from LeapFrog for ages 6 months and up

   What it is: My Discovery House is all about exploration and learning for babies. There are five play areas and two learning modes. Opposites…

   

   

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6. Peek-a-Shoe Octopus

   from LeapFrog for ages 9 months and up

   What it is: The Peek-a-Shoe Octopus is an interactive toy that combines classic ball drop play with the game of peek-a-boo. Babies drop one of…

   

   

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7. Tag Solar System Adventure Pack

   from LeapFrog for ages 4 and up

   What it is: The Tag Reading System lets children bring books to life and add new dimensions of engagement and entertainment to reading. The Tag…

   

   

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8. Tag Interactive Maps

   from LeapFrog for ages 4 and up

   What it is: Take off on a coast-to-coast adventure or travel the world as you learn fun facts and play games with the two-sided Tag United States…

   

   

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9. iXL

   from Fisher-Price for ages 3 and up

   What it is: Today's kids have a greater affinity and aptitude for high-tech gadgets than ever before. But it's a long way from playing with a…

   

   

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10. SmartGlobe Star

    from Oregon Scientific, Inc. for ages 5 and up

    What it is: The SmartGlobe Star is an internet-updatable globe, which means that it comes with a USB cable so that kids can connect the globe to…

    

    

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