Award Winning Toys

Shopping for toys  is easier if you simply focus on those that have won awards. Not only is it a safe way to shop, but it is also smart since a series of kids, teachers, and parents have spent hours playing with and testing out toys and games so that you don't have to. The stringent criteria that toys must pass to qualify as a nationally recognized award winning toy give the consumer confidence in what is being purchased. These toys are guaranteed to be fun, safe, educational, and appropriate for a child's age and developmental stage. For full listings of awards, please visit the Web sites listed in the External Links section.

Quick Picks by Age

	Little Tikes Playhouse	Amazing Amanda	Blobbies	Roboraptor
Infants (0-12 months) Infantino Bucket Buddies  Lamaze Lights and Sounds Barnyard Crawl Toy  Tutti Frutti Activity Dog	Toddlers (1-2 years) Discovery Toys 123 Box  Corolle Dolls Doucette  Baby Wordsworth	Preschoolers (3-5 years) ALEX Hopscotch  Radio Flyer Twist Trike  Aquadoodle Go and Doodle	Elementary (6-8 years) Crayola Glitter Bugs  Gnip Gnop  Coleco 2-Player LCD-Game Assortment	Junior High (9-13 years) Binary Player Robot  Evolution Board Game  Da Vinci's Challenge

Quick Picks by Toy Type

Make Your Own Scrapbooks	VSmile Pocket Learning System	Oregon Scientific Smart Globe	Are We There Yet Mother Goose	Wild Hunters Lego Set
Creative Amazing Lacing  Etch a Sketch Wired  Rub a Dub Paint in the Tub	High-Tech Kidspiration 2.1  20Q Challenge  My Little Genius Child Keyboard and Mouse	Educational Jumpstart Reading with Karaoke  See It and Sign It  Mind Blowing Science	Audio/Video Baby Wordsworth  My Daddy Is Scratchy  Braincandy: My Five Senses  Baby Chatterbox	Active Quadrilla Basic Set  Fantanimals  Superstructs BIG Builder

Dr. Toy

Below are the top ten, best-rated toys overall, not including those toys that Dr. Toy gave awards to in other categories. Note that these are the 2005 winners.

Bright Starts Around We Go! Activity Station	Detachable Recreational Vehicle (DRV) ATV & Truck	Rescue Pets	Pirate Ship Park	Mega Rigs Dino Adventure

Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	Blobbies: Here Come the Blobbies	My Take-Along Doll House	Toy Creator Real Toy Maker	Roboraptor

iParenting

iParenting selects award winning products in many fields, including baby care, bedding, books, feeding, gifts, software, and video games. Please click here to visit their 2006 Outstanding Products Call.

Handheld Deal or No Deal	Dinosaurs Extinct?	Dragonology: The Game	FLY Pentop Computer

Gears! Gears! Gears! Floppy Jalopy	Jump Start Power Prep	Marshall Brodien's Magic Wand Set	Mind's i Junior	My Tissue Art

Pixel Chix	Princess Lily Rose Mermaid Doll	Scene It? Nickelodeon Game	Radio Flyer Voyager Canopy Wagon	Write & Learn Letter Pad

National Parenting

The following are selected from their list of Fall 2006 Seal of Approval winners in the Toys, Puzzles, and More category. They also have a Seal of Approval list for games  and video games.  When you go to the Web page you can see full reviews for each and every one of the National Parenting Seal of Approval winners.

Magnetix Special Parts	Glen Terrier Puppet	Tyco R/C Airblade	SpongeBob & Plankton's Adventure	Mythical Creatures by LEGO

Radio Flyer Scoot About	Gazillion Bubble Machine	Leapster TV Learning System	Paper Fashions	Cranium Super Fort

Oppenheim

The products shown below are Platinum Award Winners 2006.

Rocking Wobble Whale	Learn-Around Playground	9 x 12 Jump n Slide	Angel Fish Rocker	Giant Super Magnet & Magnifier

Aquadoodle	Make-Your-Own Cards I & II	Calico Critters Townhome	American Girl & American Girl of Today	Robosapien

Parent's Choice

Here are some of the top award winning toys and games of 2006 in the gold and silver categories only.

Blokus Trigon	Games to Go	Nerdy Wordy	Brer Rabbit Puppet	Over the Hedge

Parenting Magazine

Kid tested and mother-approved, here is a selection of the Toy of the Year award winners for toddlers to eight year-olds.

ChaCha Buggy	Magical Music Cube	Radio Control ATV	Big Top Sounds	Alphabet & Numbers Simple Puzzle Pairs

Super Putt Indoor/Outdoor Mini Golf	I Spy In Common	Barbie Digital Camera	Whoonu	Make N Break

Toy Industry Awards

The top of the toy awards for 2006 from all categories.

Weebles Weebly Wobbly Tree House	Dora's Talking Kitchen	Tyco R/C Shell Shocker	Apples to Apples	Hullabaloo

Air Hogs R/C Dominator	LEGO Star Wars	20Q	Ugly Dolls	FLY Pentop Computer

External Links

Here are direct links to the Web sites for each of the major toy testers who give toy awards.

• Dr. Toy
• iParenting
• National Parenting
• Oppenheim
• Parent's Choice
• Parenting Magazine
• Toy Industry Awards

Also see About.com's best toy of the year awards for 2005 compliments of Toy Industry Awards.