The Best Toys for 5 Year Olds

Outfoxed

Outfoxed, a cooperative whodunit game is one of the most loved junior boardgames at Cogs The Brain Shop. A perfect game for family game night. Here’s the lowdown…Mrs. Plumpert’s prized pot pie has gone missing and it’s now a chicken chase to crack the case! Move around the board to gather clues and then use the special evidence scanner to rule out suspects. You’ll have to work together quickly because the guilty fox is high-tailing it towards the exit! Will you halt the hungry hooligan before it flies the coop… or will you be Outfoxed?

Super Smile Dentist Kit Play Set

Smile, the dentist will see you now! This Melissa and Doug Super Smile Dentist Kit Play Set features an over-sized set of pretend teeth so young dentists-in-training can give cleanings, treat cavities, and even fit retainers and braces! Mark the pretend teeth with “cavity” stickers, then use the vibrating tool with interchangeable polishing and drill heads, and the toothbrush to clean.

The set includes realistic instruments like a pick, mirror, floss, a dental rinse bottle and cup, 2 gauze pads, 2 tooth polish cups, and an instrument tray to keep organised. A mask, reusable ID tag on a lanyard, and a double-sided reusable activity card round out the dentists office experience. The play set is a fun and engaging way to teach good dental health practices, and to ease kids fears or feelings of stress associated with a visit to the dentist. Spark a childs creativity and imagination and inspire young dentists for years to come.

Stomp Rocket Ultra LED

Light up the sky with the original Stomp Rocket Ultra LED. Run, Jump, STOMP to launch light-up LED rockets up to 150 feet in the air. This super fun toy is 100% kid-powered. No batteries required. Super easy, fast assembly. The set includes 4 Ultra LED Stomp Rockets, Launch Stand, Launch Pad with Air Hose. The foam-tipped rockets with LED lights inside fly up to 45 Meters in the air and the LED rockets are bright enough to use as a flashlight! Fun for solo play or take turns with 2-3 kids. This is the perfect outdoor

Code & Go Robot Mouse Activity Set

The race is on to build hands-on coding skills! Build your maze, and then use the coding cards to create a step-by-step path for Colby, the Programmable Robot Mouse. Program the sequence of steps, and then watch Colby race to find the cheese! This deluxe set includes 30 double-sided coding cards, 10 double-sided activity cards, cheese wedge, and Activity Guide to provide the perfect hands-on introduction to coding concepts. Create your path with 16 maze grids to create a 20′ x 20′ maze board, 22 maze walls, and 3 tunnels for endless possibilities. Colby lights-up, makes sounds, and features 2 speeds along with colorful buttons to match coding cards for easy programming and sequencing.

Learn With Lights Harmonica

This fantastic, first-of-its-kind harmonica will light up and teach you to play five tunes!  Simply connect the harmonica to the Light Up Play Panel, follow the guiding lights (red indicates to blow out and blue to suck in) and you’ll have mastered the five tunes in no time!

Yumology! Sweets Lab

Yum! Learn the sweet science of tasty treats with the hands-on edible experiments of the Yumology! Sweets Lab from Learning Resources. Using common ingredients found around the pantry, kids build their early STEM skills as they mix, chill, and eat their own ice pops, juices, and no-bake treats with this cool candy lab. No heat required! Whether they’re measuring out ingredients, mixing colors together, or freezing treats from liquid to solid, kids gain kitchen science skills from the full-color guide’s seven easy kids’ experiments. Yumology! Sweets Lab’s durable plastic pieces help kids create their super sweets again and again – prepare toppings with the kid-safe Chippy Chopper, fill and freeze the cool Shapesicle ice pop mold, or mix up a lesson in candy chemistry within the lab-style beaker. Each of Yumology! Sweets Lab’s pieces also wash clean for easy storage, so they’ll always be ready the next time a sweet tooth strikes!

The Amazing Flower Kit

The Amazing Flower Kit from The Happy Puzzle Company is a fabulous puzzle craft kit that will keep children entertained for hours. The set contains everything you need to create a beautiful bouquet of 48 colourful flowers. 8 different flowers to make. Everything you need to make the flowers is included – no glue or scissors required – it all just pops apart and goes creatively together.

Kids First Plants Science Kit

Budding botanists will love getting their hands dirty in this unique biological science experiment kit. Learn about plants and seeds by conducting experiments in a specially designed botanical laboratory with greenhouse domes. Assemble the domed greenhouses, complete with thermometers and ventilation. Construct an automatic watering system to keep your plants from getting too thirsty. Grow beans, cress, and Zinnia flowers, and learn how each plant has different needs. Experiment with plant cells and capillary action. Learn how roots work to transport water and nutrients throughout a plant. Conduct experiments that demonstrate how Plants need water, light, and heat to grow. Discover the strength of a bean and how leaves sweat. See why grass grows back after it is cut and how cuttings can grow roots. Germinate fruit and vegetable plants from the seeds in your kitchen. Grow a flower garden. Make tiny plaster bugs to decorate your garden. Collect seeds with your socks, and grow a funny grass head. Make leaf and bark rubbings. Learn how you can force budded branches to bloom in winter. With a 48-page, full-color illustrated guidebook, this kit teaches botany fundamentals with step-by-step instructions for the hands-on experiments as well as growing information for many common plants.

Apple Twist Puzzle Game

Players are challenged to fit the caterpillars on the gameboard – which TWISTS to create different puzzles! And it’s all in the same compact, portable travel case. Apple Twist is perfect for kids and adults ages 5 and up. Even though this puzzle was designed to be a single-player game, you can turn it into a family affair and take turns. People often solve challenges in collaboration, especially in schools. Seeing who can solve challenges the fastest results in some interesting game nights!

Bee Genius Kids Logic Game

The Queen Bee is leading her worker bees in the construction of their new honeycomb and they need help! Roll the six dice to determine the locations of the worker bees. The challenge is then to fit all 11 of the coloured shapes around the bees, with no gaps, to complete the perfect honeycomb! There are 46,656 unique possible combinations in which the dice can fall and all of them have at least one possible solution. Some combinations will be easier to solve, some much harder. Bee Genius is a non-competitive game, devised to help children to develop their thinking skills. Every puzzle solved will help a child to build their skills and grow their self-confidence, as they start to realise that they too can BEE GENIUS!