Cape Town - The festive season can often be a stressful time, especially when needing to find gifts for the children.
In an attempt to help you plan ahead, and find the perfect gift for the kids in your life, here is a list of toy for the children in your life:
Barbie Color Surprise Doll (African American & Caucasian)
The Barbie® Color Surprise™ Doll, which is available with both African-American and Caucasian features, invites little ones aged 3+ to instantly transform Barbie®’s hair from pretty pastel shades to bolder, brighter hues. With the application of warm water, pink, teal and purple streaks will appear. The Barbie® Color Surprise™ Doll comes with 4 hair stencils and a stencil tool for custom designs, as well as 5 hair accessories for styling fun. The Barbie® Color Surprise™ Doll is dressed in a dark blue dress with a colourful print, and wears a silvery necklace and chic platform shoes.
Starting Price: R 489.99
Hot Wheels® Track Builder Epic Challenge Race Crate
The Hot Wheels® Track Builder Epic Challenge Race Crate contains everything needed for creativity, building, imaginative play, and problem solving via epic Hot Wheels® action. Perfect for fans aged 3+, it includes 3 super-cool stunts – the Gravity Drop, Mega Jump and Drag Race – in one set.
Parents can help young racers to assemble and re-configure the stunts, and the crate is easily broken down, packed up, and transported. The Hot Wheels® Track Builder Epic Challenge Race Crate includes 2 Hot Wheels® cars.
Starting Price: R 789.99
Hot Wheels® Shark Beach Battle
Hot Wheels® City is under threat! In the Hot Wheels® Shark Beach Battle, players aged 3+ must launch their car to drift through a wave while avoiding the chomping teeth of the giant shark. This fun, skills-based challenge also invites players to try to rescue captured cars by taking aim and slamming into the shark. When the wave crashes back, cars are freed.
The set includes a launcher and 1 Hot Wheels® vehicle and is compatible with the orange track.
Starting Price: R 549.99
Hot Wheels® Balance Breakout
Ideal for kids aged 6+, the Hot Wheels® Balance Breakout is a weight-based, game-style track set that challenges kids to be first to launch their cars into their bucket and spill their friend's cars for the win. This skills-based set provides thrilling game play and healthy competition, with moving buckets adding unexpectedness to the action and ending in an exciting pay-off moment.
Hot Wheels® Balance Breakout has two modes, Battle mode (for challenging an opponent) and Single Player mode (for beating a personal best time), with easy re-set to play again. The set includes 3 Hot Wheels® vehicles.
Starting Price: R 569.99
Fisher-Price® Beatbo Train
All aboard the Fisher-Price® Beatbo Train with BeatBo, BeatBelle and BeatBowWow figures! Ideal for babies aged 6 months-plus, this adorable motorised train encourages crawl-along fun to the sounds of more than 50 songs, tunes and phrases! Its Smart Stages™ technology means that learning content changes as baby grows, providing lots of opportunity to develop gross motor, sensory and academic skills.
Baby can press the smokestack to activate motorised action, lights and sounds; use the tri-colour LED; place any figure in the conductor’s seat to hear opposites; and play with the shape spinner, ABC roller and clacker beads.
Starting Price: R 719.99
Fisher-Price® BeatBo Learning Robot
The Fisher-Price® BeatBo Learning Robot is an entertaining companion for little ones aged 9 months to 36 months. BeatBo’s 3 modes (Dance ‘n Move, Learning & Games, and Custom Sing-Along) enable him to grow alongside baby.
Activate BeatBo by pressing his multi-colour LED grid tummy or any of the 3 buttons on his feet – a great introduction to cause and effect! The Fisher-Price® BeatBo Learning Robot uses music, songs, phrases, lights and bright colours to strengthen baby’s gross and fine motor skills; stimulate the senses; and introduce baby to ABCs, colours, counting and more.
Starting Price: R 899.99
Fisher-Price® Laugh 'n' Learn Microphone
An exciting new toy for theatrical toddlers aged 18 to 36 months, the Fisher-Price® Laugh 'n' Learn Microphone can play back a live sing-along – complete with music and voice effects! Perfect for a grown-up or toddler play-date, there are 2 different modes (voice-record and pre-recorded) to get toddlers rocking.
There are also catchy songs to teach little ones about counting, colours, ABCs, opposites and body parts; bright tri-colour LED lights to grab attention; and lots of opportunities for sensational role play.
Starting Price: R 199.99
Fisher-Price® Laugh 'n' Learn Puppy’s Remote
Bright, vibrant and easy to handle, the Fisher-Price® Laugh 'n' Learn Puppy’s Remote is perfectly sized for little ones aged 6 to 36 months, but it looks just like mom and dad’s grown-up remote control! Puppy’s Remote has light-up Puppy and Sis screens that illuminate as baby presses buttons.
It uses 35+ words, songs and phrases to stimulate imagination and creativity, while introducing baby to numbers, colours, opposites and more. Baby can even use Puppy’s Remote to ‘channel-surf’ or turn up the volume!
Starting Price: R 239.99
Fisher-Price® Laugh 'n' Learn Puppy’s Piano
With vivid colours, including iconic black and white keys – 5 of which light up for musical fun – the Fisher-Price® Laugh 'n' Learn Puppy’s Piano has 2 modes of play: Music and Learning.
Ideal for ages 6 to 36 months, this handy on-the-go toy enables baby to play his or her own original tune; listen to 9 pre-recorded songs; enjoy 25+ sing-along songs, tunes and phrases; build fine motor skills by turning the ‘pages’ of the interactive flipbook; and engage with key early learning areas including colours, numbers and shapes.
Starting Price: R 349.99
Fisher-Price® Laugh 'n' Learn First Words Puppy and Sis
Plush and cuddly, the Fisher-Price® Laugh 'n' Learn First Words Puppy and Sis toys have an adorable, updated look – combining great new content with fresh words, songs, and even a multi-colour light-up heart. Ideal for ages 6 to 36 months, Puppy and Sis feature 75+ songs, sounds, tunes and phrases, including 20 old favourites; 5 switches (ear, heart, foot, two hands); and Smart Stages™ technology, which means that learning content changes as baby grows.
Puppy and Sis offer a fun way to begin to teach first words, colours and shapes, numbers and the ABC, to be enjoyed over several years.
Starting Price: R 519.99
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