From a kid-safe saw (yes, really) to a screen-free telephone “club,” these are the picks blowing up our mom group chats. It happens like clockwork every fall: Our mom group chats turn into one long stream of links. Our editors pooled our mom group chats to parse through all the convos and conjecture about what our kids want this year, and we came up with a list of kids’ gifts real moms are actually buying (or have already procured and stuffed in a secret hiding place).
There’s the landline for kids that you’ve surely been seeing all over your social media feeds, a play saw that won’t cut little fingers, a balance board that’s sneaky good for everyone in the house, and much more. There’s guaranteed to be something for every kind of kid on this list. Keep scrolling for the gifts every mom we know is talking about.
For the baby or toddler on your holiday list, a Lovevery Play Kit is genuinely one of the most thoughtful gifts you can give. Each kit is developmentally designed by experts for a specific age and stage, so every single toy inside has a real purpose and actually supports what that child’s brain is working on right now. The Free Spirit Kit is designed for older toddlers exploring independence, creativity, and imaginative play, and it comes with everything from open-ended building materials to pretend play pieces that grow with them well beyond the holiday season. — Katie Garrity, Senior Editor, News & Social The Sticki Rolls capsule series has absolutely taken over my daughter’s friend group, so she will lose her mind when she sees Series 3 under the tree.
Each roll is a peel-and-stick experience that reveals collectible band stickers inside, and the trading, collecting, and comparing with friends has become a whole social event in itself. They are the kind of small, inexpensive gift that delivers an enormous reaction, which is the ideal holiday gift math. It’s the perfect stocking stuffer or add-on for any kid who is deep in the sticker and collectible era right now! — Katie Garrity This is the holiday gift that every parent who is trying to delay handing their kid a smartphone needs to know about.
The Tin Can is a Wi-Fi landline designed specifically for kids, with no screen, no apps, no social media, no browser, and no strangers getting through. You control the approved contact list from the app, kids can call friends and family with real voice calls, and there is even a free Can-to-Can plan so two Tin Can kids can call each other for free with no subscription required. My daughter loves it and I love that she gets the independence of being able to call her people without me handing over the entire internet to do it. — Katie Garrity This is such an ideal holiday toy for me!
It's physical but can be done inside, it's not made of plastic, it doesn't have noise or lights, and... I can use it too after the kids go to bed. Also you don't have to wrap it.
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