7-year-oldstoysdefinitelydevelopmental markersclose friendshipssportspainting and drawingwhat interests themtoy“The most important feature of a toy is that it be open-ended and provide opportunities for exploration,” says Keith Sawyer, a Morgan...
7-year-oldstoysdefinitelydevelopmental markersclose friendshipssportspainting and drawingwhat interests themtoy“The most important feature of a toy is that it be open-ended and provide opportunities for exploration,” says Keith Sawyer, a Morgan Distinguished Professor of Educational Innovations at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill school of education, who has spent his career studying creativity and learning. “It should be something where there isn’t one linear path, where every child does the same thing and there’s the same solution in the end. Kids should be able to play with a toy in a way that the creator of the toy never intended. And they should be able to do so without their parents showing them how.” These gifts for 7-year-olds introduce new concepts and skills while encouraging creativity and imagination.
The Best Gifts for 7-Year-Olds
Science Magic Kit by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Kids can make snow appear, or create square bubbles, with this engrossing and detailed science-based magic kit. In all, there are 20 science experiments teaching magicians how to bend metal with water, create a vanishing test tube, or make a coin float. Prepare to be dazzled.
Buy Now $29.99
IlluStory Book Making Kit by Lulu Jr.
At this age, you should be reading to your kids, and they should be reading to you. Take it one step further and let them make their own books with this brilliant kit. This is self-publishing at its best. You get a complete kit for writing, illustrating and publishing a hardcover book, about whatever topic your kid loves. There's even an 'about the author' page.
Buy Now $23.89
Wooden Spaceship Craft Kit by Kid Made Modern
Screen-free play at its finest: Kids get everything they need to build and decorate three spacecrafts. This fantastic kit includes three spaceships, as well as paint and paint brushes
Buy Now $29.99
Master Detective Toolkit by Thames & Kosmos
Hercule Poirot. Nancy Drew. We could go on. This outstanding kit teaches young detectives to gather evidence, and solve crimes, using 26 different experiments. It's a wonderful blend of role play and STEM learning, and includes a magnifying glass, an invisible ink pen, fingerprint powder, crime scene tape, and even plaster powder for casting footprints.
Buy Now $47.09
Smartivity Kaleidoscope STEM Building Toy by Elenco
This absolutely glorious kit includes 60 assorted beads, plus engineered wooden sheets, bands, green, red, yellow and blue walls, and a mirror strip. The rest is up to your child, in this brilliant mashup of STEM and art as your child builds his or her own kaleidoscope.
Buy Now $29.99
Mini Puzzle Blocks for Kids by PLUS PLUS
The very definition of open-ended play is this 600 piece kit. With this specific line, every brick connects to the next brick, so builders either make mosaics, or can work in 3D to being their builds to the next level.
Buy Now $34.99
Flip Bot by GeoSmart
Kids build whatever they want, be it a Mars explorer or a mermaid or a combo of the two, with the magnetic pieces, and use the motor to make it move. This dope 30-piece set includes lights, track wheels, motor and a remote control. In other words, hours of fun.
Buy Now $59.99
Smartphone-Controlled Paper Airplane Kit by POWERUP
A plane kids can control from your phone, but is guaranteed to get kids off their devices! It connects to your phone, and has a range of up to 230 feet. Plus, the heavy-duty carbon fiber body will survive serious turbulence, and the plane has a built-in launch assist and wind stabilizer. In short, it's awesome.
Buy Now $69.99
Klask Game
Want to get kids off their screens? Get this unholy but incredibly fun mashup of foosball and air hockey. It comes fully assembled, and can be played on any flat surface.
Buy Now $59.99
DOTS Secret Box Set by LEGO
A DIY storage box: The book-shaped box has a working lock and includes a storage tray. The 273 piece encourages creativity while also helping second graders learn to problem solve as they figure out what brick goes where.
Buy Now $14.99
Squishy Circuits Standard Kit
Play dough but make it STEM. Dough figures come to life with lights and sounds with this beginner electric circuit kit. Insulating and conductive dough let kids learn about electric circuits with hands-on play.
Buy Now $34.99
Botley The Coding Robot 2.0 by Learning Resources
Botley is a pretty awesome screen-free STEM toy. Kids can program him to do a series of 150 steps, and code it to move in six directions, play music, and put on a light show. He comes with a remote programmer, detachable robot arms, 40 coding cards, six double-sided tiles, 27 obstacle building pieces, and a starter guide with coding challenges.
Buy Now $60.70
Jewelry Jam Craft Kit by Kid Made Modern
Unleash their creativity with this tricked-out jewelry kit, which includes eight thread skeins, 40 felt strips, 692 assortments of beads, 120 jump rings, two needles, and carrying case with handle. They can spend hours creating the bracelets and necklaces of their dreams.
Buy Now $29.99
Chibi Lights Circuit Stickers STEM Starter Kit by Chibitronics
How great is this? A kit that blends crafting with STEM learning. Kids create their own storylines and add peel-and-stick circuits that light up and stick to paper, fabric, or plastic. A dog with a bone that lights up? A mermaid with a light-up tail? Of course. It's a whole new form of self-expression.
Buy Now $35.00
Power Snap Circuits Electricity Science Kit by hand2mind
Kids learn all about electricity by using the snap circuits kit. They can create a close circuit, make Sparky the robot light up, and learn about Morse code through 19 experiments. The kit includes Sparky, four snap wires, one battery holder, one base grid, two lamps, one color LED, a motor, and a glow-in-the-dark fan blade, plus other stuff they need to make things light up.
Buy Now $43.17
Fingerprint Kit by 4M
Your aspiring FBI agent learns how to detect and collect fingerprints with this kit, which contains 10 fingerprint cards, dusting powder, stamp pad, brush, and stickers.
Buy Now $11.99
Q-BA-MAZE Marble Run Building Set by Mindware
The Q-Ba-Maze big box includes 194 cubes consisting of different colors and designs to be used as scaffolding, ramps, and paths to help young builders learn basic physics. You can create marble maze sculptures in any form such as animals, robots, towers, and geometric shapes, which encourages kids to think outside the proverbial box.
Buy Now $209.95
Star Wars AT-AT vs. Tauntaun Microfighters Building Kit by LEGO
Star Wars fans can recreate the Battle of Hoth from the epic classic 'The Empire Strikes Back' with this set, which even includes the Millennium Falcon Microfighter.
Buy Now $19.99
KidiZoom Creator Cam by VTech
Budding filmmakers shoot and edit videos using this HD video camera with a built-in microphone and special effects like time-lapse video and green screen. It comes with on-camera editing software and a tabletop tripod/selfie stick. The memory is expandable using a microSD card.
Buy Now $44.99
Dual LED Student Microscope by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Make science accessible with this immersive microscope. It comes with 10 prepared slides with a range of biological specimens, plus blank slides so kids can create their own. The scope has two sets of optical glass lenses providing 20x and 50x magnification. Kids can see what's in a drop of water, or what a cat hair looks like close up.
Buy Now $69.99
Ooze Labs: Soap & Bath Bomb Lab Science Experiment Kit & Lab Setup by Thames & Kosmos
STEM learning doesn't have to be a chore. Founded by a science museum director and her son, Thames & Kosmos makes educational toys that are super engaging and fun. Young chemists craft soap and bath bombs, testing how look, smell, and work, while exploring the science behind different chemical reactions.
Buy Now $18.39
ClicBot Coding Robot by KEYi Tech
Another great coding toy, this one has 200+ reactions, based on what kids program using the drag and drop coding interface based on Blockly by Google. Kids connect the pieces to build whatever robot shape they can dream, and it can dance, race around, and drive. It has a built-in microphone and camera, plus a touch sensor and a distance sensor. Because the starter kit comes with 12 modules, it's fun without being intimidating.
Buy Now $449.00
Hobby Rock Tumbler Kit by National Geographic
With the rare ’90s toy that aged well, users can turn rocks into gemstones or kill a few hours trying. The kit comes with nine starter rocks, but kids will be encouraged to get outside and collect their own
Buy Now $59.99
iF012 Bluetooth Shower Speaker by iFox
Having trouble getting your 7 year old schooler to shower? Eliminate sudsy battles with this Bluetooth speaker, which is waterproof (obviously) and can be immersed in water up to three feet. Plus, it delivers 10 hours' of battery life, so your kid can blast his or her music of choice for hours (sorry, not sorry).
Buy Now $34.99
Inspire Poster Kit by Craft-tastic
A great quote can uplift, inspire, entertain. Kids get 36 quotes that speak to them, to arrange in an artistic collage. Bonus: It's a nice reading lesson.
Buy Now $19.49
LIGHT Electronics Exploration Kit by Snap Circuits
Kids get 55 color-coded, real circuit components that snap together to create anything from a strobe light, to an LED light that changes colors, to a propellor. And they can connect it to an iPhone or other device and play music as the lights change.
Buy Now $50.52
Make Your Own Mini Erasers Kit by KLUTZ
Sure, you can buy erasers. But where's the fun in that? This kit comes with eight colors of eraser clay, one pencil, a clay shaping tool, and two sheets of paper craft displays. So kids can make sloth-bacon-football erasers. Or anything else they dream up.
Buy Now $11.33
Smart Piano Keyboard by the ONE
If your kid is piano-curious, this is the way to go. It has built-in speakers and 61 keys with LED lights, so kids follow the lights and learn the basics of playing the instrument. The music progresses only when they play the correct piano key, so there's actual incentive to focus and learn. They also get access to instructional videos, games, and tons of sheet music.
Buy Now $219.00
Mega Slime Kit & Putty Lab by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Yes, slime is gross. But it's also pretty damn cool. This kit comes with pre-made magnetic putty, fluffy slime, glow in the dark putty, liquid slime, color-changing putty, snotty slime, bouncing putty, and one packet of slime powder so kids can make their own.
Buy Now $29.99
Pro Acoustic Guitar by Loog
This cool as hell 3-string guitar has an accompanying app, so kids learn to play, for real. Loog's 3-string guitars reduce chords to the basic triad, making the learning process faster and easier.
Buy Now
My First Garden by Gardenuity
Encourage that green thumb with this gardening kit, which includes everything kids need to play, grow, and harvest veggies and herbs. Each customized kit comes with fully rooted starter plants, and the pots are perfectly fine for city dwellers because they're right at home on a balcony or patio.
BUY NOW $98.00
Science Kit Music Maker by hand2mind
A building kit and jam session in one: Kids put together three instruments (a pan flute, an ocean drum, and a box guitar) and then learn to play them.
Buy Now $34.99
Squeakee The Balloon Dog by Moose Toys
Sometimes, a toy is just damn fun. This is that toy, which looks like something Jeff Koons dreamed up. Squeakee farts, begs, and pees. He reacts to voices, and will roll over for a belly rub. Plus, kids can pop him and then use the pump to inflate him back up.
Buy Now $32.99
Shuffleboard Game by PlanToys
A two-sided game that's perfect for cold winter afternoons, this one has shuffleboard on one side and flick-the-disc on the reverse side. It's made from sustainable wood, and is great for group and family play.
BUY NOW $50.00
Tabletop Soccer by PlanToys
Foosball that isn't an eyesore: This is the design-forward table-top version of the classic game. The rules remain the same: Kids twist or move the bars to kick the ball to the opposing goal. It's made of rubberwood.
BUY NOW $100.00
Melody Doll, Book & Accessories by American Girl
Chic and retro, Melody Ellison rocks a 1964 look. She's in a houndstooth A-line dress, patent leather shoes, and of course, sunglasses. She has a soft cotton body, and her movable head and limbs are made of vinyl. She's just all-around cool.
BUY NOW $140.00
Marvel Villainous: Infinite Power Strategy Board Game by Ravensburger
Avengers, assemble! Each player is one of five baddies (Thor, Hela, Ultron, Taskmaster, or Killmonger) and has to face off against the mightiest superheroes on earth: Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow, Black Panther, and Captain America. Best of all, the game scales up as players become more adept at carving out their paths to victory.
Buy Now $29.74
Back to The Future Delorean by PLAYMOBIL
Retro yet deeply cool, this set features the iconic, time-traveling DeLorean, which has working lights and the mandatory flux capacitor. The set includes Marty McFly, Dr. Emmett Brown, Einstein the dog, the skateboard, and plutonium to make that great lil' movie come to life. Again.
Buy Now $44.73
Animal Crossings New Horizons - Nintendo Switch
If like so many kids, yours is into gaming, this one is a winner. Kids build a community from scratch on a deserted island, customize their characters, and bond with other residents.
Buy Now $59.99
Coggy by Fat Brain Toys
This brainpower-boosting toy is sort of like a linear Rubik's Cube. The interconnected 'cogs' rotate 255 degrees, so they can bend and twist into different shapes and patterns. Coggy comes with a book of challenge patterns — from easy to brain-bustingly difficult — which kids try to replicate. Also like a Rubik's Cube, this is a toy they can take with them wherever they go.
Buy Now $14.95
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The Best Gifts for 7-Year-Olds
Science Magic Kit by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Kids can make snow appear, or create square bubbles, with this engrossing and detailed science-based magic kit. In all, there are 20 science experiments teaching magicians how to bend metal with water, create a vanishing test tube, or make a coin float. Prepare to be dazzled.
Buy Now $29.99
IlluStory Book Making Kit by Lulu Jr.
At this age, you should be reading to your kids, and they should be reading to you. Take it one step further and let them make their own books with this brilliant kit. This is self-publishing at its best. You get a complete kit for writing, illustrating and publishing a hardcover book, about whatever topic your kid loves. There's even an 'about the author' page.
Buy Now $23.89
Wooden Spaceship Craft Kit by Kid Made Modern
Screen-free play at its finest: Kids get everything they need to build and decorate three spacecrafts. This fantastic kit includes three spaceships, as well as paint and paint brushes
Buy Now $29.99
Master Detective Toolkit by Thames & Kosmos
Hercule Poirot. Nancy Drew. We could go on. This outstanding kit teaches young detectives to gather evidence, and solve crimes, using 26 different experiments. It's a wonderful blend of role play and STEM learning, and includes a magnifying glass, an invisible ink pen, fingerprint powder, crime scene tape, and even plaster powder for casting footprints.
Buy Now $47.09
Smartivity Kaleidoscope STEM Building Toy by Elenco
This absolutely glorious kit includes 60 assorted beads, plus engineered wooden sheets, bands, green, red, yellow and blue walls, and a mirror strip. The rest is up to your child, in this brilliant mashup of STEM and art as your child builds his or her own kaleidoscope.
Buy Now $29.99
Mini Puzzle Blocks for Kids by PLUS PLUS
The very definition of open-ended play is this 600 piece kit. With this specific line, every brick connects to the next brick, so builders either make mosaics, or can work in 3D to being their builds to the next level.
Buy Now $34.99
Flip Bot by GeoSmart
Kids build whatever they want, be it a Mars explorer or a mermaid or a combo of the two, with the magnetic pieces, and use the motor to make it move. This dope 30-piece set includes lights, track wheels, motor and a remote control. In other words, hours of fun.
Buy Now $59.99
Smartphone-Controlled Paper Airplane Kit by POWERUP
A plane kids can control from your phone, but is guaranteed to get kids off their devices! It connects to your phone, and has a range of up to 230 feet. Plus, the heavy-duty carbon fiber body will survive serious turbulence, and the plane has a built-in launch assist and wind stabilizer. In short, it's awesome.
Buy Now $69.99
Klask Game
Want to get kids off their screens? Get this unholy but incredibly fun mashup of foosball and air hockey. It comes fully assembled, and can be played on any flat surface.
Buy Now $59.99
DOTS Secret Box Set by LEGO
A DIY storage box: The book-shaped box has a working lock and includes a storage tray. The 273 piece encourages creativity while also helping second graders learn to problem solve as they figure out what brick goes where.
Buy Now $14.99
Squishy Circuits Standard Kit
Play dough but make it STEM. Dough figures come to life with lights and sounds with this beginner electric circuit kit. Insulating and conductive dough let kids learn about electric circuits with hands-on play.
Buy Now $34.99
Botley The Coding Robot 2.0 by Learning Resources
Botley is a pretty awesome screen-free STEM toy. Kids can program him to do a series of 150 steps, and code it to move in six directions, play music, and put on a light show. He comes with a remote programmer, detachable robot arms, 40 coding cards, six double-sided tiles, 27 obstacle building pieces, and a starter guide with coding challenges.
Buy Now $60.70
Jewelry Jam Craft Kit by Kid Made Modern
Unleash their creativity with this tricked-out jewelry kit, which includes eight thread skeins, 40 felt strips, 692 assortments of beads, 120 jump rings, two needles, and carrying case with handle. They can spend hours creating the bracelets and necklaces of their dreams.
Buy Now $29.99
Chibi Lights Circuit Stickers STEM Starter Kit by Chibitronics
How great is this? A kit that blends crafting with STEM learning. Kids create their own storylines and add peel-and-stick circuits that light up and stick to paper, fabric, or plastic. A dog with a bone that lights up? A mermaid with a light-up tail? Of course. It's a whole new form of self-expression.
Buy Now $35.00
Power Snap Circuits Electricity Science Kit by hand2mind
Kids learn all about electricity by using the snap circuits kit. They can create a close circuit, make Sparky the robot light up, and learn about Morse code through 19 experiments. The kit includes Sparky, four snap wires, one battery holder, one base grid, two lamps, one color LED, a motor, and a glow-in-the-dark fan blade, plus other stuff they need to make things light up.
Buy Now $43.17
Fingerprint Kit by 4M
Your aspiring FBI agent learns how to detect and collect fingerprints with this kit, which contains 10 fingerprint cards, dusting powder, stamp pad, brush, and stickers.
Buy Now $11.99
Q-BA-MAZE Marble Run Building Set by Mindware
The Q-Ba-Maze big box includes 194 cubes consisting of different colors and designs to be used as scaffolding, ramps, and paths to help young builders learn basic physics. You can create marble maze sculptures in any form such as animals, robots, towers, and geometric shapes, which encourages kids to think outside the proverbial box.
Buy Now $209.95
Star Wars AT-AT vs. Tauntaun Microfighters Building Kit by LEGO
Star Wars fans can recreate the Battle of Hoth from the epic classic 'The Empire Strikes Back' with this set, which even includes the Millennium Falcon Microfighter.
Buy Now $19.99
KidiZoom Creator Cam by VTech
Budding filmmakers shoot and edit videos using this HD video camera with a built-in microphone and special effects like time-lapse video and green screen. It comes with on-camera editing software and a tabletop tripod/selfie stick. The memory is expandable using a microSD card.
Buy Now $44.99
Dual LED Student Microscope by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Make science accessible with this immersive microscope. It comes with 10 prepared slides with a range of biological specimens, plus blank slides so kids can create their own. The scope has two sets of optical glass lenses providing 20x and 50x magnification. Kids can see what's in a drop of water, or what a cat hair looks like close up.
Buy Now $69.99
Ooze Labs: Soap & Bath Bomb Lab Science Experiment Kit & Lab Setup by Thames & Kosmos
STEM learning doesn't have to be a chore. Founded by a science museum director and her son, Thames & Kosmos makes educational toys that are super engaging and fun. Young chemists craft soap and bath bombs, testing how look, smell, and work, while exploring the science behind different chemical reactions.
Buy Now $18.39
ClicBot Coding Robot by KEYi Tech
Another great coding toy, this one has 200+ reactions, based on what kids program using the drag and drop coding interface based on Blockly by Google. Kids connect the pieces to build whatever robot shape they can dream, and it can dance, race around, and drive. It has a built-in microphone and camera, plus a touch sensor and a distance sensor. Because the starter kit comes with 12 modules, it's fun without being intimidating.
Buy Now $449.00
Hobby Rock Tumbler Kit by National Geographic
With the rare ’90s toy that aged well, users can turn rocks into gemstones or kill a few hours trying. The kit comes with nine starter rocks, but kids will be encouraged to get outside and collect their own
Buy Now $59.99
iF012 Bluetooth Shower Speaker by iFox
Having trouble getting your 7 year old schooler to shower? Eliminate sudsy battles with this Bluetooth speaker, which is waterproof (obviously) and can be immersed in water up to three feet. Plus, it delivers 10 hours' of battery life, so your kid can blast his or her music of choice for hours (sorry, not sorry).
Buy Now $34.99
Inspire Poster Kit by Craft-tastic
A great quote can uplift, inspire, entertain. Kids get 36 quotes that speak to them, to arrange in an artistic collage. Bonus: It's a nice reading lesson.
Buy Now $19.49
LIGHT Electronics Exploration Kit by Snap Circuits
Kids get 55 color-coded, real circuit components that snap together to create anything from a strobe light, to an LED light that changes colors, to a propellor. And they can connect it to an iPhone or other device and play music as the lights change.
Buy Now $50.52
Make Your Own Mini Erasers Kit by KLUTZ
Sure, you can buy erasers. But where's the fun in that? This kit comes with eight colors of eraser clay, one pencil, a clay shaping tool, and two sheets of paper craft displays. So kids can make sloth-bacon-football erasers. Or anything else they dream up.
Buy Now $11.33
Smart Piano Keyboard by the ONE
If your kid is piano-curious, this is the way to go. It has built-in speakers and 61 keys with LED lights, so kids follow the lights and learn the basics of playing the instrument. The music progresses only when they play the correct piano key, so there's actual incentive to focus and learn. They also get access to instructional videos, games, and tons of sheet music.
Buy Now $219.00
Mega Slime Kit & Putty Lab by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Yes, slime is gross. But it's also pretty damn cool. This kit comes with pre-made magnetic putty, fluffy slime, glow in the dark putty, liquid slime, color-changing putty, snotty slime, bouncing putty, and one packet of slime powder so kids can make their own.
Buy Now $29.99
Pro Acoustic Guitar by Loog
This cool as hell 3-string guitar has an accompanying app, so kids learn to play, for real. Loog's 3-string guitars reduce chords to the basic triad, making the learning process faster and easier.
Buy Now
My First Garden by Gardenuity
Encourage that green thumb with this gardening kit, which includes everything kids need to play, grow, and harvest veggies and herbs. Each customized kit comes with fully rooted starter plants, and the pots are perfectly fine for city dwellers because they're right at home on a balcony or patio.
BUY NOW $98.00
Science Kit Music Maker by hand2mind
A building kit and jam session in one: Kids put together three instruments (a pan flute, an ocean drum, and a box guitar) and then learn to play them.
Buy Now $34.99
Squeakee The Balloon Dog by Moose Toys
Sometimes, a toy is just damn fun. This is that toy, which looks like something Jeff Koons dreamed up. Squeakee farts, begs, and pees. He reacts to voices, and will roll over for a belly rub. Plus, kids can pop him and then use the pump to inflate him back up.
Buy Now $32.99
Shuffleboard Game by PlanToys
A two-sided game that's perfect for cold winter afternoons, this one has shuffleboard on one side and flick-the-disc on the reverse side. It's made from sustainable wood, and is great for group and family play.
BUY NOW $50.00
Tabletop Soccer by PlanToys
Foosball that isn't an eyesore: This is the design-forward table-top version of the classic game. The rules remain the same: Kids twist or move the bars to kick the ball to the opposing goal. It's made of rubberwood.
BUY NOW $100.00
Melody Doll, Book & Accessories by American Girl
Chic and retro, Melody Ellison rocks a 1964 look. She's in a houndstooth A-line dress, patent leather shoes, and of course, sunglasses. She has a soft cotton body, and her movable head and limbs are made of vinyl. She's just all-around cool.
BUY NOW $140.00
Marvel Villainous: Infinite Power Strategy Board Game by Ravensburger
Avengers, assemble! Each player is one of five baddies (Thor, Hela, Ultron, Taskmaster, or Killmonger) and has to face off against the mightiest superheroes on earth: Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow, Black Panther, and Captain America. Best of all, the game scales up as players become more adept at carving out their paths to victory.
Buy Now $29.74
Back to The Future Delorean by PLAYMOBIL
Retro yet deeply cool, this set features the iconic, time-traveling DeLorean, which has working lights and the mandatory flux capacitor. The set includes Marty McFly, Dr. Emmett Brown, Einstein the dog, the skateboard, and plutonium to make that great lil' movie come to life. Again.
Buy Now $44.73
Animal Crossings New Horizons - Nintendo Switch
If like so many kids, yours is into gaming, this one is a winner. Kids build a community from scratch on a deserted island, customize their characters, and bond with other residents.
Buy Now $59.99
Coggy by Fat Brain Toys
This brainpower-boosting toy is sort of like a linear Rubik's Cube. The interconnected 'cogs' rotate 255 degrees, so they can bend and twist into different shapes and patterns. Coggy comes with a book of challenge patterns — from easy to brain-bustingly difficult — which kids try to replicate. Also like a Rubik's Cube, this is a toy they can take with them wherever they go.
Buy Now $14.95
Every product on Fatherly is independently selected by our editors, writers, and experts. If you click a link on our site and buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Related Articles: Map Says These Are The Best And Worst States For Working From Home F**k Yes. Here's Proof Ewan McGregor Has Regrown the Obi-Wan Beard This Map Shows Plague of Cicadas Set to Devastate U.S. This Year North Carolina Bill Would Ban Gender-Affirming Care For Trans People Under 21
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