Shopping With Friends: 4 toys that make learning feel like play

Limor Suss shared four toys designed to make learning feel like play during a television segment, with ideas for creative projects, building and hands-on social play. The recommendations are presented as possible holiday gifts and combine play with skills such as making, designing and operating simple tools or gadgets.

The featured items are a $130 AI-powered sticker maker that prints children’s spoken ideas for colouring, a $249 kid-safe cardboard cutting tool, a $30 squishy collection and trading set, and a $40 remote-controlled scorpion kit. The scorpion is assembled with a magnetic screwdriver and can be steered across floors and up walls; the sticker maker uses thermal printing on BPA- and BPS-free paper, without ink.