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The BEST Toys That Are Worth Buying

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Ready to see a giant list of the BEST toys that are worth buying for your kids?

We never know the changes one year might bring. This time last year, I shared this “Timeless Toys You’ll Want to Keep Forever” list. I began that post by talking about how my four sons were all grown up and I was looking ahead to the empty nest years and eventual grandchildren.

Then God reminded me in a very big way that our plans are not always hardly ever His plans. God brought us a 4-year old foster son in April 2018, as well as several babies to care for here and there. This Christmas, our house is filled with a bit more wonder and awe as we are all enjoying the season with our newest little bonus boy. Wow, wow, wow. What a God we serve!

True to the original post shared, there are some toys that are of the highest quality and that are worth buying and saving forever. We proved that this year as we pulled out the few golden toys we’ve saved for 20 years so that our new kiddo could enjoy them. It’s been such a joy to see him play with toys the older four brothers played with for so long!

The BEST Toys That Are Worth Buying and Saving

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Building Toys

  • DUPLO
  • LEGO
  • Knex
  • Lincoln Logs
  • Tinker Toys
  • Wooden Building Blocks

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Cars and Trucks and Toys that Go

  • Green Toys (I think these are fabulous!)
  • Hot Wheels
  • Wooden Train Set

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Puzzles of Good Quality

  • Wooden Puzzles with Peg Handles
  • Melissa and Doug Wooden Puzzles
  • Melissa and Doug large floor puzzles

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Board Games

Click over to look at our great big list of family Board Games! But for younger kids, we recommend:

  • Hi-Ho Cherry-O
  • Candy Land
  • Memory Game
  • Connect Four
  • Uno Attack
  • Spot It!
  • Life
  • Blink
  • Headbandz
  • Sequence
  • Clue
  • Apples to Apple Junior
  • Boggle
  • Monopoly
  • Sorry
  • Yahtzee
  • Farkle
  • Pass the Pigs
  • Huskerdu (great for younger kids – still fun for adults)
  • Skipbo

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Dolls and Accessories

  • Lottie Dolls and Accessories
  • Melissa and Doug Dolls and Accessories

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Toy Sorters and Stacking Cups

  • Green Toy Versions
  • Fischer Price Stacking Cups (I remember my babies playing with these over and over!)
  • Melissa and Doug Wooden Sorting Toy
  • Playgro Rock and Stack Toy

Tools

Tools

  • Melissa and Doug Wooden Pounding Bench
  • Learning Resources New Sprouts Fix It Tool Set (the cutest!!)
  • Fischer Price Drillin Action Tool Set
  • Little Tikes Tough Workshop

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Toy Cash Register

  • Boley Kids Toy Cash Register
  • Fischer Price Cash Register (a classic!)
  • Learning Resources Cash Register

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Fischer Price Little People

Check out the huge variety of toys and play sets!

Little People Toys and Play Sets

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Play Kitchen with Toy Food and Dishes

  • Melissa and Doug Wooden Play Kitchen
  • Melissa and Doug Wooden Food Pieces
  • Melissa and Doug Kitchen Accessories (Pots, Pans, Dishes)
  • Green Toys Cooking and Dining Set
  • Green Toys Tea Set
  • Green Toys Pizza Parlor
  • Learning Resources Dinner Food Basket

What are some of your family’s favorite toys that you plan to hold onto forever?

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Want to get a toy for free?!

TopCashBack is currently offering new members $15 off a $15 or more toy purchase. This means you can get a toy for free!

Note: I’ve been a TopCashBack member for years and trust their offers. :)

Here’s how it works:

1. Click here for the special Walmart offer and sign up for a new Top Cash Back account. (Be sure to confirm your account via email.)

2. Look around and make a toy purchase valued at $15 or higher. Choose in-store pickup to avoid shipping costs.

4. Within 21 days, your Top Cash Back account will receive a $15 credit. This pays you back for your purchase!

5. After you receive the $15 payment in your Top Cash Back account, you can choose to transfer it to your bank account or request a Paypal payment.

Isn’t that cool? It’s really easy to take advantage of this offer. Simply open an account, confirm, shop, pick up your free toy at your local Walmart, then watch for the money to be reimbursed to your account!

This offer is for new TopCashBack members only, but they do allow you to open an account for multiple family members.

This offer expires November 2, 2022.

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Dozens of LEGO Sets for Less than $10

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How about a list of LEGO sets that all cost less than $10? This comes at a perfect timing with Christmas right around the corner!

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This year I made two mistakes: 1) I asked Malachi if he still thought he’d want to put LEGOS on his Christmas list and 2) I mentioned that it didn’t seem as if he played with LEGOS as much anymore. I got quickly put in my place seeing as 1) of course he still wants LEGOS on his Christmas list and 2) he doesn’t play with LEGOS; he builds with them.

My bad.

My youngest LEGO lover is turning 13 this month, but “old age” has not stopped him from loving the bricks. He still has a room dedicated to LEGO and still spends hours working with them. I truly won’t be surprised if he somehow makes a career out of LEGO some day, somehow.

For all who have LEGO lovers in your life, you will enjoy looking through all of these great sets that cost less than $10. Many are less than $5!

Grab them for stocking stuffers. Grab them for party gifts. Grab them for gift exchanges. Grab them for incentives or rewards.

Dozens of LEGO Sets for Less than $10

First, check out these two pages that feature 43 Lego sets that are less than $10. Look around and see which are best for the kids on your Christmas list!

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And now for a little more of a specific break down of sets. Keep in mind that not only are all of these sets less than $10, many of them are only $5 or $6!

Classic Creativity Boxes

I love these colored Classic Creativity Boxes! You can buy them as a set of four then divide them among four recipients. Or you can buy them individually if you prefer. For easy access:

  • Red Creativity Box
  • Green Creativity Box
  • Blue Creativity Box
  • Yellow Creativity Box

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Have little bitties? Check out these My First sets!

  • LEGO DUPLO My First Bus (this one is just $3.99!)
  • LEGO DUPLO My First Bird
  • LEGO DUPLO My First Cakes
  • LEGO DUPLO My First Plane

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These Creator sets are fun because kids can make 3 different items out of the one set!

(These range between $5-$6)

  • LEGO Red Racer
  • LEGO Creator Blue Express Train 3-in-1
  • LEGO Creator Super Soarer

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The LEGO City sets are probably my favorite because I overall, my kids have used them more than other specific themed sets. 

  • LEGO City police ATV
  • LEGO City Fire Starter Set
  • LEGO City Stunt Truck

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LEGO Star Wars is always a hit!

  • LEGO Star Wars Tie Fighter
  • LEGO Star Wars Kylo Ren Command Shuttle
  • LEGO Star Wars Y-Wing

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Don’t forget LEGO Friends…

  • LEGO Friends Puppy Pampering
  • LEGO Friends Puppy Playground
  • LEGO Friends Puppy Treats and Tricks
  • LEGO Friends Foal’s Washing Station
  • LEGO Friends Puppy Parade (marked down from $14.99!)

Merry LEGO Christmas!

Dozens of LEGO Sets for Less than Ten

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Gratituesday: Lego Room Make-Over

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Yay, yay, yay, and yay some more! Our Lego Room is finalllllly clean!

You know how you have those places in your house that you walk by and immediately upon looking at it, your shoulders droop, you suddenly feel tired, and you just have to walk away? (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I am so happy for you. I hope to be like you some day.) 

Our Lego Room is such a place as this. It is constantly a mess. We clean it, and within days it is a mess once again. Legos all over the floor. Legos beginning to string out into the hallway. Legos, Legos everywhere.

First, how is it, you might ask, that we happen to have such a room in our house that is dedicated only to Legos? It is a blessing and a kid’s dream come true, that’s for sure. Well, the simple answer is that we have a Lego Room because all four of our boys sleep in one big bedroom. We used to have them divided into two bedrooms, but they’d always end up sleeping in the same room anyway (and fighting each night over which room and which bed and whose turn and bleh). So, enough was enough, and all the beds got put into one room which  became “the boys room”. Then the other room became a Lego Room. 

Side note, because apparently I’ve decided to jump around in this post:  It is awesome to have all of our boys in the same room. Sure, sometimes (like once a year at the most) one of them mentions something about having their own room, and truly, we’d figure it out if they really wanted it that badly. But having them all together means that they are making awesome memories together. At night, we hear them reading together, making up stories together, singing together (serious or goofy), and laughing together. It’s incredible and wonderful, and Matt and I love listening to it. 

Anyway, back to the dreaded Lego Room. It was constantly a disaster, and nothing I’d tried in the past to make it better had ever worked. Finally, last week, the boys and I talked about how we could work together to solve the problem (so that Mom could learn to like Legos again). After way too many suggestions (seriously), we finally decided that the best idea would be to purchase some drawers so that they could separate and store the Legos by color. 

We spent hours and hours the next few days, sorting colors, sorting Lego people, sorting, sorting, forgetting that we were sorting and starting to play, being reminded that we were sorting, and sorting some more. Then we re-arranged, swept, dusted, set up some ground rules, and we were finished!

Isn’t it lovely!? Now, instead of feeling discouraged when I walk by, I get excited. It looks like a great place to create and play! I’ve made the kids promise NEVER to dump out a container of Legos again for the rest of their lives!! And if they are working on a project and have Legos on the floor, when it’s time to do something else, they are to put their project into a plastic container until later. 

Will this new system work? Oh I hope so. I think so. It better. ;)

I’m thankful to have this project behind me, and thankful that together, we figured out a system for Lego Room survival. :)

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