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Best Valentine’s Day Gifts for Kids

January 27, 2023

Here are some sweet Valentine’s Day gift ideas for the children in your life, whether they are babies learning how to explore their world or curious kids using their imaginations. Let this Valentine’s Day Gift Guide help you answer the question: “What special gift should I get my kids for Valentine’s day?”

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First up, Melissa & Doug offers a new toyline (available now!) that would make a perfect Valentine’s Day gift for any little one ages 3 and older: Introducing Sticker Wow!, a whole new way to play with stickers! It’s a revolution in sticker play as kids stamp, stamp, stamp their way through all kinds of creative learning adventures.

Sticker Wow! features an innovative design, with character-themed Sticker Stampers that can hold up to 300 stickers, and activity pads for mess-free fun anywhere. Playing with Sticker Wow! provides kids with creative, skill-buiding opportunities, such as counting, matching, fine motor skills, creative expression, and more. One last ticker upgrade: Sticker Wow! Sticker Stampers can be refilled (refill packs sold separately), so the sticker fun never runs out.

There are four fun, engaging character-themed Sticker Stampers for kids to choose from and collect: Cupcake the Unicorn, Olive the Dinosaur, Cocoa the Dog, and Pumpkin the Tiger!

Give your little sweetie the Valentine’s Day gift of Sticker Wow!, and see what kind of impression it makes on a child's holiday!

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Valentine's Day Gifts for Baby

Gift the new addition in your life the Ocean Tummy Time Triangle Baby Toy for Valentine’s Day! This ocean-themed baby toy features three engaging and multi-sensory double-sided fold-out cloth panels that lie flat or connect to stand up in a pyramid for baby’s tummy play to help boost developmental skills! A beautifully designed skill-booster, the developmentally appropriate features include a crab with peek-a-boo mirror and squeaking claw, multi-textured tabs and ribbons on a jellyfish, and an attached tuck-away fish that stores in a pocket. This baby toy encourages gross motor development, visual and tactile stimulation, and interaction with caregivers.

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Is there a little one you love “berry” much? Our Peek-a-Boo Berry Take-Along Toy for babies and toddlers Includes three strawberry multi-textured slices with crinkling leaves, a peek-a-boo mirror, satiny ribbons, and a food-safe teething ring! Multi-textured pieces help kids develop fine motor and sensory skills. Bring the fun wherever baby goes—easily clip the three-piece, multi-textured toy onto a stroller, car seat, diaper bag, or high chair to keep it close at hand.

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Add a fresh twist to playtime with touchable, tactile farmer’s market play food favorites that delight the senses! Fill the mesh Market Basket Fill & Spill mini-grocery tote with a squeaking carrot, chiming milk bottle, rattling tomato, and crinkling lettuce, all featuring sweet, friendly faces. Pull out the easy-to-grasp pieces and refill the tote again and again! The Market Basket Fill & Spill is an engaging way to help infants 6 months and older develop important sensory, fine motor, and color recognition skills. 

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Valentine's Day Gift for a 1-Year-Old

Wheel back our K's Kids Pull-Back Vehicles to get new skills speeding ahead! The “rev up” mechanism inside each of these four cars and trucks makes it easy for babies and toddlers to get big acceleration with just a little input: Pull back one of the soft vehicles--then release to see it zoom off across the floor! The action of grasping and pulling back is great for fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination; the activity of “driving” and collecting (pull, release, crawl) benefits large muscle groups and coordination, too.

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Valentine's Day Gift for a 2-Year-Old

Planning a well-balanced meal is child's play with this Food Groups - Wooden Play Food set. Items from the five food groups--including watermelon, milk, cheese, fish, eggs, and much more--are crafted of solid wood and come with four wooden baskets for sorting and storage. 

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Valentine's Day Gift for a 3-Year-Old

Slice and "bake" a dozen wooden cookies for a sweet playtime treat! This colorful wooden slice-and-bake pretend play cooking set includes 12 wooden, sliceable cookies and 12 toppings, wooden knife, spatula, cookie sheet and a kitchen mitt for safe, deliciously imaginative play! The cookies store in a durable dough tube. 

Melissa & Doug Best Valentine’s Day Gifts for Kids of All Ages

Valentine’s Day Gift for a 4-Year-Old

Kids will love putting their own stamp on creativity with the Deluxe Wooden Stamp Set - ABCs 123s! Use the four-color stamp pad and 71 sturdy wooden-handled rubber stamps to complete a fun-filled 25-page activity book to practice reading, writing, and early math skills. Create cards, personalize art projects, notebooks, and more with upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuation stamps. All the supplies store neatly in a sturdy wooden tray. The possibilities are endless! 

Melissa & Doug Best Valentine’s Day Gifts for Kids of All Ages

Valentine’s Day Gift for a 5-Year-Old

Here is everything an aspiring firefighter needs in an emergency: a bright red, machine-washable jacket trimmed with reflective material, a fire chief helmet, a “fire extinguisher,” a bullhorn with sound effects, a shiny badge, and a name tag to personalize!

Melissa & Doug Best Valentine’s Day Gifts for Kids of All Ages

Valentine’s Day Gift for a 6-Year-Old

Want to make a super-cozy heart-themed fleece blanket in no time? Just knot it! We've made it fun and so easy—just tuck the extra-wide and extra-long fringe into slits and tie single knots to piece together a uniquely you Heart Fleece Blanket! The fabric pieces are super thick, soft, and fuzzy on both sides for extra snuggling. The 40 12 inch by 12 inch pieces include fringe thats nearly two inches long, making knotting fast and simple. 

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 Don’t miss these other great Melissa & Doug toys for Valentine’s Day:

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Sweet Hearts & Butterfly Friends Bead Set Bundle

  

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Jumbo 50-Page Kids Coloring Pad – Horses, Hearts, Flowers & More

 Melissa & Doug Best Valentine’s Day Gifts for Kids blog post

DYO Heart Wooden Heart Box Craft Kit

 

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Created By Me DYO Heart Box Wooden Craft Kit

 

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Created By Me Heart Magnets Wooden Craft Kit

 

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