Holiday Day Gift Guide 2021

Need Some Great Gifts Ideas For Kids? Use Our Hol­i­day Gift Guide!

QMG Phys­i­cal Ther­a­pist Sam Wil­son and QMG Speech Ther­a­pist Anne Zinn with our Pedi­atric Ther­a­py depart­ment put togeth­er their top gift ideas for chil­dren, with a major focus on pro­mot­ing fine and gross motor devel­op­ment as well as speech devel­op­ment, all while hav­ing fun!

Music

• Drum set
• Musi­cal Instru­ment Set
• Kids Piano
• Ukulele

Get Cre­ative

Get busy cre­at­ing art with dif­fer­ent medi­ums: paint, chalk, crayons, and putty!

• Stand­ing Easel
• Art Sup­plies
• Dot Mark­ers
• Play-Doh
• Melis­sa and Doug tri­an­gle-shaped crayons
• Stack­ing cups/​buckets

Fine Motor Fun

• Ele­menosqueeze Blocks
• Mega Blocks
• Kinet­ic Sand
• Magna-tiles
• Fid­get Cube
• Pop-It
• Learn­ing Resources hedgehog
• Melis­sa and Doug wood­en sound puzzles
• Stack­ing Spin­ner Rings
• Fis­ch­er Price pig­gy bank
• Play-Doh

Play Ball

• Pro Ball Sports Set: Bas­ket­ball, Soc­cer, and Football
• Lit­tle Tikes Bas­ket­ball Hoop
• Kidoozie Bowl­ing Set
• Ball Pop­pers

Edu­ca­tion with a Spin

• Learn­ing Resources Fruit and Veg­etable Col­or Sorting
• Learn­ing Resources Count­ing Cookies
• Color/​Number Bug Catcher
• Learn­ing Resources Sort­ing Crayons
• Robot Alpha­bet Letters
• Likee Alpha­bet Set
• Learn­ing Resources Let­ter Construction
• Gamenote Dou­ble-Sided Mag­net­ic Let­ter Board
• Imag­i­na­tion Magnets
• Geo­mak­ers

Help Out Around the House

• Melis­sa & Doug: Dust, Sweep, Mop!
• Toy Dyson Vacuum
• Lit­tle Tikes Gas and Go Lawn Mower
• Gar­den­ing Set
• Kid­Kraft Play Kitchen

Active Play/​Gross Motor

• Plas­maCar
• Radio Fly­er Tricycle
• Bal­ance bike
• Scoot­er
• Indoor play­sets
• Out­door playsets

Secret Hide­away

• Melis­sa & Doug Deluxe Jum­bo Bricks
• 3 in 1 Tent, Tun­nel and Playhouse
• Con­struct a Fort
• Yogi­bo Bean Bag Chairs

Use Your Imagination

• Cos­tumes
• Build your own town! So many great sets with train tracks, ani­mals, and struc­tures to allow chil­dren to use their imag­i­na­tion and cre­ate new worlds each time they play!
• Gear Con­struc­tion Sets
• Dinosaurs or ani­mal figurines
• Lit­tle Peo­ple Barn
• Lit­tle Peo­ple House
• Pota­to Head
• Pop the Pig
• Legos
• Crit­ter Clinic

Books

• All Bet­ter Books by Usborne
• Poke A Dot books by Melis­sa and Doug
• There was an Old Lady who Swal­lowed a …books by Lucille Colandro

Sen­so­ry Play

• Swings (indoor or outdoor)
• Mini tram­po­line
• Tun­nel
• Wob­ble cushion
• Squigz suc­tion cups
• Squigz spin­ners
• Floam
• Kinet­ic Sand
• Water Beads
• Ride-on Boun­cy Donkey
• Ther­a­py Ball

Web­sites

Need more ideas? Check out these help­ful websites.

lakeshore​learn​ing​.com
mind​ware​.ori​en​tal​trad​ing​.com
ark​ther​a​peu​tic​.com
fat​brain​toys​.com
melis​saand​doug​.com
kiwico​.com
learn​ingre​sources​.com