Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Christmas is right around the corner. Let me make things a little bit easier for you with this list of toy companies that are sure to have something your child will love!
Guidecraft
Guidecraft has everything you need for your little ones! You can buy quality pieces of furniture, toys, storage, shelving, and more! We are big fans of this company. We received one of their desks for Guinn and it has been so useful on our homeschooling journey! Here are some of their toys that I bet your little ones will love:
Early Learning Skill Builders
Introduce shape identification and color recognition to children ages 1 and up using this eco-friendly, rubberwood Geo Puzzle Board. 
Children 3 and up can experiment with color and patterns using this set of 3 oversized Geo Shape Lacing boards and coordinating colorful laces. 
Children 3 and up will love this wooden shape and tile matching game complete with 20 wooden shapes and matching, textured tiles provided in a durable canvas bag.
STEM Toys
Children 3 and up will develop social emotional and STEM-based skills during hands-on play using the IO Blocks STEM Table. Set comes with a sturdy birch table with raised grid tabletop, 2 clear storage bins and 200 IO Block pieces. 
An innovative STEM toy with a beautiful natural color palette, PowerClix Solids Natural are the best magnetic building toy for children 3 and up. Easily integrate them into play using any of the PowerClix sets. 
Teach children 3 and up valuable STEM concepts and the basics of simple machines with the Block Science – Big Tow Truck.
Safari Ltd
This is one of my absolute FAVORITE companies for educational & fun toys. Their toys encourage learning and imaginative play. Their Toobs are our favorite things to purchase from them!
TOOBS
Grab your keys and hit the open road with this expansive and fun Safari Toob. Including a semi-truck, motorcycle, police car, school bus, sports car, delivery truck, pick-up truck, ATV, and a fire truck, this Toob has a vehicle for every type of terrain! 
Take a trip around the world to experience these amazing landmarks, including the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, Arch of Triumph, Statue of Liberty, Temple of Inscriptions, Pyramids of Giza, Empire State Building, Big Ben, and the Parthenon. 
Deep down in the cold, barely explored waters of our oceans lives some really wild creatures! Including a hatchet fish, angler fish, viper fish, glass squid, giant isopod, gulper eel, and a black dragonfish, this Toob takes you far below the ocean’s sunny surface.
Life Cycles
Life begins amid a clutch of floating eggs. Those that survive hatch as tadpoles, and then undergo a rapid change as they lose their gills and grow legs. Life in the water is grand, but these amphibians will soon take to land, becoming adult frogs after 12 to 16 weeks. 
Salmon undergo a long journey during their life, hatching from eggs in freshwater streams, growing up into adult fish, and then swimming out to the ocean to live most of their lives in salt water. When they are old enough to mate, they begin the long journey back to the streams from which they hatched, where they will spawn and, in most case, die. 
Whereas the life cycles of many insects are measured in weeks, the stag beetle takes years to develop. Eggs are laid in rotting wood, where larvae grow for six years before becoming pupae. Development speeds at that point, and in a few weeks, the adult stag beetle emerges.
Hape
Hape has such a wide variety of toys to choose from. We have a couple of their railway toys for the kids’ Christmas this year. They have toys for kids of all ages. Here are some of my favorites:
Help your little ones take their first steps in style with this wonderful musical walker. 
The Ultimate is the largest Quadrilla set. Two spiraling funnels, 12 curved rails, and 10 power-boosting accelerators inspire builders to design the ultimate marble run 
Begin your musical journey and learn to play your favourite tunes on this brilliant ukulele which features flashing lights that teach you how to play!
Smart Lab
Smart Lab has many cool, experimental gifts for older kids. We love their Tiny Kits! Here are a few of my favorite options:
One of a kind tiny gardening kit that features a miniature self-watering greenhouse. Making science fun, Tiny Gardening gets two green thumbs up 
Experiments look gross, smell gross and feels gross for hours of fun
Fun full color 24 page book includes 26 experiments and chemistry fun facts
World’s smallest real ice cream maker
15 suggested tasty treat with foldout recipe poster but endless inspiration
Thinker-Tinker
This company produced Octobo – the loveable, plush Octopus. There are many ways you can learn with Octobo! Spelling games allow the kids to practice phonemic awareness skills with over 80 unique words in Octobo’s fun-filled games with the Great Letter Search Story Kit.
