Toys For 6 Year Olds
At age 6, children display a thirst for knowledge and a strong desire for intellectual independence. It is also the age where kids learn about fairness and cooperation.
With this in mind when shopping for the best toys and gifts for 6-year-olds, any game or toy that fosters problem solving skills, social development and healthy competition is sure to be a hit.
Fun Educational toys are an ideal way to support ongoing learning. At 6 years old, they’re at the ideal age to introduce more complex toys such as coding and programming robot toys, early science learning, hands-on experiments, fun outdoor play and discovery, construction and more. It’s important to remember the main thing your child needs from playing with you is to have fun. It’s important not to turn play into ‘lessons’. Try and provide an interesting environment and enough time to play, and follow your child’s lead.
Pop It Pro
Pop It! goes electric! Brand new for 2023, the addictive bubble popping classic meets fast fun electronic gaming!
Pop all the lit bubbles as soon as they appear, and then press the big button on the back to reset the bubbles before time runs out! Keep popping the bubbles fast to level up. Keep up with Pop It! Pro to see how many levels you can complete!.
Pop It! Pro is bubble popping sensory fun for all ages, with 3 modes of gameplay - including a clever multiplayer mode and a solo player blitz mode! This sensory game will keep kids occupied for hours. With no pieces or parts, the self-contained durable design is perfect for travel. Now play the addictive, bubble popping sensory game like never before! Oh how fun it is to P-O-P this Christmas!
Buy Pop It Pro NowQwirkle
Qwirkle is as simple as matching colors and shapes, but this game also requires tactical maneuvers and well-planned strategy. Earn points by building rows and columns of blocks that share a common shape or color. Look for opportunities to score big by placing a tile that touches multiple pieces with matching attributes. The player with the most points wins!
Buy Qwirkle NowCrazy Forts Glow in the Dark
Just add bedsheets for endless fun! Crazy Fort is powered by a child's imagination. A single Crazy Fort Kit contains 25 geometrically precise balls and 44 sticks that connect to create a multitude of possible play structures. Simply throw a bed sheet over top and watch their creativity flourish.
Make Your Own Crazy Fort!
Create a Cave one day, an Igloo, Pirate Ship or Castle the next put the pieces together in different configurations, that glows in the dark. Toys that promote collaborative play between boys and girls are few and far between. The more they have, the better it gets as multiple kit structures are even more impressive.
Buy Crazy Forts Glow In The Dark NowRobot Face Race
Robot Face Race is the frantically fun feature-finding game. A crazy inventor has built dozens of robot bodies and he needs your help finding the perfect heads. Shake the Robot Randomizer to reveal a robot’s features and then scan the robot heads on the board until you find the match. Find it first and collect a robot scoring token – first player with five tokens wins!
Buy Robot Face Race NowConnetix Magnetic Tiles 102 Piece Creative Set
Sparking hours of limitless creativity, fun and unstructured play, our 100 piece Creative Pack will bring imaginations to life.
Providing endless possibilities for creativity and learning through PLAY, our Creative Pack features a variety of shapes in different colours, including fences and door frames. It is a great starter option for family play and building BIGGER Connetix creations!
Whether playing independently or with friends and family, the Creative Pack encourages STEAM learning, fine and gross motor skills as children create bigger castles and rockets, tall walls, ball runs and coin drops, bridges and towers, as well as exploring patterns and shapes, creating colour sorting boxes, plus so much more. Our Creative Pack will also support the development of perseverance and resilience as children design larger scale builds, testing the limits of their imagination.
Expand your collection and complement your 100 Piece Creative Pack with our 62 Piece Starter Pack and 40 Piece Expansion Pack to collect every shape in every colour – or take your magnetic tile play fun to the next level with our unique Ball Run Expansion Pack!
Featuring large and small squares, plus three types of triangles in six vibrant rainbow colours, this pack is the perfect introduction to Connetix play or as an addition to growing magnetic tile collections.
Designed to foster imagination and encourage children to explore STEAM learning through PLAY, this pack will inspire children to create 2D and 3D designs such as houses, castles, farms, zoos, car parks, rockets, towers, puzzles, sorting boxes and coin drops, plus so much more! Watch as they explore concepts of magnetism, design, shape, patterns, engineering, mathematics and colours while developing fine motor and problem-solving skills.
Recommended Age: 3+ (contains magnets and small parts).
Buy Connetix 102 Piece Creative SetQuadrilla Castle Escape Marble Run
There’s lots of exciting fun to be had with this award winning, wooden, marble run construction set. Start by building one of the layouts pictured on the box. Watch your marbles navigate the spiral twist, blocks and transparent stairways and ring the bells as they race down to the catcher. Now use your imagination to build your own fantastic marble runs!
Buy Quadrilla Castle Escape MarblRun NowStomp Rocket Ultra
The Stomp Rocket Ultra launches rockets up to 200 feet in the air. This super fun toy is 100% kid-powered. No batteries required. Super easy, fast assembly. The set includes 4 Ultra Stomp Rockets, Launch Stand, Launch Pad with Air Hose. The foam-tipped rockets fly up to 200 feet in the air! Fun for solo play or take turns with 2-3 kids.
This is the perfect outdoor gift for a 5 year old and up!
Buy Stomp Rocket Ultra NowMad Mattr Tool Box
“Mad Mattr never dries out, no matter how long it is left out; so, it can be used over and over again, providing endless, fun-filled hours of stretchy, open-ended play.
Not only is Mad Mattr perfect for relaxing and calming, but it's also great for strengthening fingers, hands, wrists, and more.
With 20 tools and two 5oz packs of Mad Mattr included in the portable tool box, there are endless ways to maximize your construction play.
Buy Mad Mattr Tool BoxLearn With Lights Ukulele
Begin your musical journey and learn to play your favourite tunes on this brilliant ukulele which features flashing lights that teach you how to play! Includes an instruction sticker and booklet and a handle to make it easy to carry around with you!
The strings light up on the electric ukulele when they are to be played! Including a string ticker and an accompanying booklet. Either play six melodies after lights or switch to the band mode, in order to increase the speed and switch the accompanying instruments to it. The ukulele with realistic sound can be transported easily thanks to the practical grip. It has real strings, which can actually be tuned and includes a spare string.
Buy Learn With Lights Ukulele NowWho Did It? Card Game With Poo Bag
“My Parrot did not poop in the middle of the living room, but I think a rabbit did it”. as the proud owner of a cute little rabbit, you must quickly clear its name and place the blame on another person’s pet. You must trust your memory and use your quick reflexes or else you might blame a pet already proven innocent and be left to clear up the mess. Defend the innocence of your 6 pets by getting rid of all your cards. Quickly find the right card as they are accused, lay it down first, and then pass the blame to another animal. To avoid being the owner of the Guilty pet, make sure to act fast and remember which animals were already proven innocent.
Buy Who Did It? NowCobra Paw
Spot the right tile as determined by the dice and race to grab it using only one finger in this instantly teachable, quick-playing dexterity game that brings out the fun of competition for all ages.
Buy Cobra Paw NowMagformers Carnival Plus Set
The 48-piece Carnival Plus Set was launched in 2021 by Magformers as an upgrade to one of its best- selling sets. This new set contains improved fairground ride accessories and new figures. There’s a sturdy crosshatch base which the characters can be attached to, and clip-on ride leg supports can also be added which make building fairground rides super fun and easy.
Hexagon clip-on panels spin vertically and horizontally and there are two cute detachable characters with swappable helmet toppers (previous set characters were fixed in). An instructional booklet and guide shows how to make 13 different fairground rides. Magformers magnetic shapes always securely attach. Pieces are made from a specially-toughened ABS plastic and small neodymium magnets are safely sealed in the edges of each piece. Because these rotate due to the Magformers Rotating Magnets System (RMS), they always connect and never repel when two pieces are brought together.
Buy Magformers Carnival Plus Set NowRhino Hero Card Stacking Game
Price: €19.95
Yess! Rhino Hero is out and about again. The super hero from the animal world fearlessly scales the highest houses looking for burglars and rogues. He is as strong as a lion and as smart as a fox but also as heavy as a rhinoceros. So even the most robust multi-story buildings may start to wobble. Can you help Rhino Hero accomplish his wobbly mission and build a skyscraper as tall and solid as possible?
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