Best Toy Awards 2011 – Christmas Gift

Best Toy Awards 2011 would be great ideas for this coming Christmas. The children were asked to play these toys for days and filled out almost 1,000 survey items. So that, If you have kids between age 3 to 14 years old, they gonna love these toys.

Best Toy Awards 2011 have been announced for the best 19 toys. The selections were based on the survey and test results conducted among 115 children, age 3 to 14 years old. Before the test was conducted, experts have first studied and reviewed hundreds of news toys launched in the market in 2011. They finally came up with 85 contenders to be tested by these children.

The children were asked to play these toys for days and filled out almost 1,000 survey items. Other than the result of the surveys, the 85 selected toys must’ve passed the safety testing as well.

These are the toys that won Best Toy Awards 2011, according to the age categories:

1. Age between 2- 5 years old

Home Sweet Home
Shure’s Daisy Girls Dollhouse is tagged at price USD 50, the toy is intended for kids above 3 years old. The package consists of 4 cute wood dolls wearing beautiful wardrobe with magnetic attach. The girls are named after flowers, making them so fun to play with.

Break the Mold
This is an Educational Insights’ Playfoam toy, stimulating children to be creative in making various creatures in different colors. The toy is made of beady dough, especially invented for non-stain and non-peeling off. Children age 3+ will be the target of the toy. You can get a four-pack play foam at price USD 8.

Doctor Do-A-Lot
Battat’s B.Critter Clinic is a great stethoscope toy that you can get for USD 40 a piece. Kids above 2 years old can play this toy. They can act as a veterinarian convalescing a puppy or kitty. This toy is great to stimulate kids’ motor skills as they are stimulated to recognize colorful kennel cubbies together with their door keys.

Take It Outside!
The toy has two versions. The first is The Little Tikes 2-in-1 Garden Cart and Wheelbarrow, priced USD 40 and the second version is known as The Imperial Toy Garden Leaf and Lawn Blower, priced USD 19.99. Both versions are suitable for kids above 2 years old. These two are considered the most favorite toy among the youngest kids. They can pretend to do the gardening with plastic flowers. The toy is so fun to play, especially there is bubbles blasting too.

A Creative Bent
The flexible foam pieces of Little Kids’ Toobers & Zots ($21; ages 3+) can be coiled and strung together to design all sorts of “foamstructions.” Our kid testers tended to make wearable art — elaborate crowns and silly hats — but options are as limitless as a child’s imagination.

Little Kids’ Toobers and Zots is another educative toy where the kids can develop their imaginations to make interesting foam structures. The flexible foam can be strung or coiled as desired. Many of the kids made wearable pieces of art, such as crowns and hats, but the options available will be limitless depending on the kid’s imagination.

Toy of Note
Manhattan Toy Quadrilla Melody Basic Set is a perfect choice for music lover kids. It is not only a music instrument, but the kid is encouraged to build the instrument first before they can play marvelous notes. Tagged at price USD 64, it is a great gift for kids age 4+

2. Ages between 5 to 8 years old

Swoop Dreams
It is a boomerang-like toy called the high-flying Waboba Toys AFO. The toy is flexible and very light in weight that it will not get damaged on a crash landing. It will not cause any injury too if the kid hit by the flying AFO. The more interesting thing is that it illuminates at night time with its colorful LED lights. Tagged at USD 22, the toy is perfect for a 7 years old kid and above.

Easy Room Art
Fantastic fabrications can be made mess-free with Little Kids’ Crunch Art ($16 and up; ages 4+). Just press little bits of cloth into boards using a stylus…and voilà! Our school-age testers found the results worthy of display and praise.

Sketch Artist
Ravensburger’s Xoomy is dedicated for kids who love making customized sketches. The toy is completed with 20 different kind of unique patterns that the kid can project as well as trace along with crayon, pen, markers, pencils and papers.

Crash Course
Suitable for kids above 6 years old, the K’Nex Mario Kart Wii and Luigi is to stimulate the kids to build a course of obstacle. They are then required to set Mario and Luigi’s cars loose so that the two can be bouncing to one another. The toy presents a video game-like experience into its live version. You can get the set at the price of USD 65.

Catch ‘Em If You Can
The winning toy in this category is called Wild Planets’s Denkosekka Battle Set, that you can purchase at the price USD 21. The player can play a yo-yo equipped with a magnetic catcher. The set comes with tokens with various point values. The job of the player is to fling the yo-yo at the desired token. Player with the most points wins the game.

Robo-Kid
The Jakks Pacific B.I.G. Power Hand ($25; ages 6+) fulfills every child’s sci-fi dream of having a bionic body part. It fits like a glove (literally); by moving each finger, the wearer can cause the oversize digits to bend, reach, and grasp.

Fulfilling the sci-fi imagination of the kids, the Jakks Pacific B.I.G Power Hand won the Robo-Kid category in Best Toy Awards 2011. The bionic hand will fit kid’s hand perfectly, making him able to move his hand like a robot. The bionic gloves are tagged at USD 25 per pair.

3. Ages 8 years old and above

The Sky’s The Limit
The Klutz Guide to the Galaxy ($19; ages 8+) lets wannabe astronomers build their own telescope. The constellation and moon maps help pinpoint galactic bodies, and the book details a slew of otherworldly activities to explore.

The Klutz Guide to the Galaxy is dedicated to astronomers’ wannabe kids. With this toy, they can try to build a telescope. The package comes with maps of moon where the player can use to pinpoint the galactic bodies of Aliens activity.

Gross-Out Gear
Scientific Explorer’s Disgusting Special Effect Make-Up Kit is a make-up artist-like toy, where the kid can use daily ingredient to create effect of brushes, artificial blood and other horror movies appearances. Tagged at the price USD 20, the toy is suitable for kid ages 8+.

So, which ones of these Best Toy Awards 2011 that you are interested to buy for your kids? It would be great for Christmas gift