Top Rated Christmas Toys 2010

We all have different ideas of what makes for top rated Christmas toys.  You may think of these toys as the most expensive, most faddish and most colorful items on the online catalogue or the toy store shelves but other buyers may not see it that way.  For others, the top Christmas toys are those that provide the greatest educational and entertainment values at the same time.

No matter which of these groups you belong to, you will agree that the following toys are at the top of the list for this Christmas and for many more Christmases to come.  You can choose just one or choose all of them for inclusion in your Christmas list as each one caters to a different age group and educational level.

First is the Bananagrams, which are not exactly easy bananas since a good grasp of vocabulary is required for the players.  If you have answered crossword puzzles, then you will almost immediately grasp the nature of the game, thus, making it one of the top rated Christmas toys for children aged 7 years old and  above since it offers educational and entertainment value.  You and other players (2 to 4) will use the 144 letter tiles with the winner being one who used all their tiles.

Then there is the Melissa & Doug Cutting Food Box, which is suitable for kids aged 5-7 years of age.  Younger children below 3 years old should not be provided with this toy because of possible choking hazards. Anyways, the fun in his toy lies in the way children are taught to work with the ideas of whole, part and fractions, which are essential for math subjects.  The crunching sound when the food is sliced adds to the fun.

For the boys who want to fly in the air, one of the top rated Christmas toys will have to be a remote-controlled helicopter. The New Syma 3 Channel S107 Mini Indoor Co-Axial Metal Body Frame & Built-in Gyroscope helicopter will make a boy’s heart go a-flutter with anticipation.  Your boy – and his daddy, too, for that matter – will love flying the toy helicopter with its full 3 channels of movement, namely, up and down, left and right, as well as forward and backward.

If you have a toddler in the house, your best choice in a Christmas gift will be the LeapFrog Learn & Groove musical table. With 40 melodies and 15 activities in such a cure table, your toddler will have plenty of things to do for his entertainment while you are happy that he will be learning his shapes, numbers and counting from 1 to 10 in two languages – Spanish and English.  Other things to be learned are the concepts of up and down, primary colors and nursery rhymes.

Yet another excellent toy that combines the values of entertainment and education is the Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby’s First Blocks.  As its name implies, your baby can stack, sort and shoot the various shapes into the appropriate holes in the bucket’s cover.

Truly, the above top rated Christmas toys are good value for your money because of their entertainment and educational value for your kids as well as the opportunities presented to spend quality time with them.

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