Let’s be honest. No matter how old we get, we all have that inner child that needs to come out and play with some toys to help keep us young at heart. As adults, we play in many different ways and in many different forms—from building intricate LEGO sets to going to an escape room or enjoying a monthly game night with one of Hasbro’s classic board games. This holiday season, celebrate your inner child with the children in your life and enter for a chance to win awesome toys for them from WowWee, Kool Karz, Little Buddies, and MIKO.
Why are toys and games important?
Games are how we learn to create social bonds, destress, develop creativity and problem-solving skills, and perhaps most important of all, have fun. We know that play is important for us as adults because we learn these things as children. These days I nurture my inner child by building 3D puzzles and going down slides in playgrounds (when there are no kids around of course), but you can just as easily throw paint at some paper or play a series of harmless pranks on your partner around the house.
Kids’ brains are unique and still forming and so need a lot of stimulation in order to develop neural pathways and thinking patterns that they will use in adulthood. That’s why children cannot just sit still and only do one thing for too long. They need toys to help them catch glowing fairies in a jar or stage a race between Mario and Luigi plushies. This helps develop their imagination, and what is creative thinking in adulthood, if not imagination?
Give your kids the skill of play
All too often we see adults who have forgotten the skill of finding a way to play in their grown up lives. And that’s understandable—responsibilities of life get in the way. But just like taking a vacation or meditating is hugely important and beneficial to our mental health, playing—or to put it another way: doing an activity purely for your own joy and delight, not productivity—is hugely important too.
That’s why we have hobbies! You can make sure your child grows up with the skill of play (and it is a skill because the more you do it, the better you get at it, and the easier it becomes to integrate into your life) by giving them good memories of playing. And if you’re looking for ideas for gifts for the adults in your life this season too, check out our holiday gift guide and give them the gift of play.
With the awesome toys we’re giving away this holiday season, your child could make happy memories of building and racing on unique marble run tracks, talking about their feelings with a robot friend, or loudly yelling Yahtzee! when they roll their dice. The memories of fun play time will be even stronger if you join in with them and engage your own inner child too! Learn more about some of the toys we’re giving away in this contest by checking out our toy reviews on the blog.
How to enter
Entering this contest is easy and you can enter in three different ways.
- Take a look at all the toys we are giving away in the table below and in a comment under this article, tell us which of the toys you would like for yourself.
- Explore our Toys for All Ages page and in a comment below this article, tell us which toy category you’d be interested in shopping from for a child in your life.
- For up to two (2) additional entries, create a public post on a social media channel (one entry per channel!) sharing with your friends and followers that you are entering a Best Buy blog contest for a chance to win a holiday toy package; include the hashtag #BestBuyHolidayToyContest2022, so we can find your post, and include any one of the pictures showing on this article. Then return here and tell us in a comment below on which channel you posted it and the name of your channel (since many people use pseudonyms) so that we can check and verify your entry. You can use any social media channel (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc.), but the post must be public so we can verify it is there.
What you can win
At the end of this contest, we will select 15 winners who will each win one of the following toy prize packages:
This contest runs from November 1st to November 21st
Remember, you can enter this contest a maximum of four times to give yourself the best chance of winning. Share this contest with any parents or grandparents you know so that they can enter too and remind themselves to find ways to play this season. Happy holidays!
Facebook Shirley Anne The link to the Facebook public share is https://www.facebook.com/ShirleyAnne1234/posts/187084190557244
I’d love a Lego set for myself!
Twitter handle @ShirleyOflynn The Twitter link to the public share https://twitter.com/ShirleyOflynn/status/1587992664678481920
I will be shopping in the LEGO and Building Blocks category for the little ones in my family.
I would love to own a Kool Karz Ride-On Bumper Car
I would be interested in shopping from the Power Wheels & Powered Ride On Toys category
I would love the Kool Karz Chevrolet Camaro Electric Ride-On Car!
I would like the LiteHawk TrakHawk RC Tank (285-40020) – White/Green
Board Games, Cards and Puzzles category
I’d give them all to my niece
I’d be interested in shopping for toys in the Board Games, Cards and Puzzles category
Enter by making public posts on Facebook – @HIbby Turnbull
Instagram – Hibby2015
Twitter – Hibby Turnbull @melissa96426976
Lego Adventures with Luigi
Under the games category,
Adventures with Mario Starter Course,
My nephews would be thrilled with the Adventures with Mario Starter Course, so that would be the toy I would choose!
I’ve always been a Lego fan, I’d love a new set to play with my nieces and nephews
I would love to win Prize Pak 13 (Lucky 13) …. my Grandsons would have a riot with that. LEGO is so good for the imagination.
I would be shopping in the age category 5-7. I am shopping for my son and three nieces that fall into this age range. The category would probably be under the Educational and Learning Toys. I love anything interactive that can teach during play.
hibby turnbull on facebook and twitter
hibby2015 on instagram
My son would be thrilled with the Adventures with Mario Starter Course, so that would be the toy I would choose!
Under the games category, id love to get myself the game connect 4 🙂
Id love to shop the ride on toys category for my twin niece and nephew, especially a Kool Karz NHL Zamboni Ride-On Toy Car! How cool is that?
I would love to own a Kool Karz Ride-On Bumper Car!
I posted on both public Facebook & Instagram posts about the contest with accounts under the name Shepherd Campbell Winfield.
Opps my Instagram name is sheppyspg not shepherd campbell Winfield as noted above, thanks!
I’ve never played the board game Hasbro The Game of Life, that’d be fun
Kool Karz Ride-On Bumper Car sounds like a lot of fun!
14 plus category
LEGO Technic: Ford Mustang Shelby
Lego all terrain vehicle – so cool!!
I’ll be shopping in the Rec Room Games category for the child in my life!
The Age 8-13 category is one I’d like to shop from–especially the educational and learning toys.
Hasbro The Game of Life is something I would like to win!
I would love to win the LEGO Super Mario: Adventures with Luigi Starter Course for myself!
I’d like the Celestron Travel Scope 70 DX 22035 70 x 400mm Refractor Telescope for my hubbie
I am a big fan of puzzles, I would love to have a jigsaw puzzle of 1000 pieces.
I’d like to win the LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle – 764 Pieces
The category would be shopping for would be 0 to 24 Months
I would shop the Educational and Learning Toys section in the 0-24 months category for my son!
I think I would like the LiteHawk TrakHawk RC Tank
I would LOVE to win Prize # 12 for my son!
I would love to shop the category with Drones for my son – would be so cool to take pics with one from high above!! Then he could get pics of his favourite birds at our cottage, the Great Blue Heron.
Got2Glow Fairies Jar – Blue,
For me an electric scooter for my 12 year old son the Lego technic Ford Mustang. I hope to donate a few of the prizes to the clinic I work at: I work with children with Autism.
Great prize packs!! I would love to win a Lego Technic ATV for my son!! He would love building this!
I love building lego sets
I would like lego
I would shop the baby and kids toys section for my wee ones.
I would like the LiteHawk TrakHawk RC Tank!
8-13 Section would by for me – some Lego or board games would be great
I’m shopping or 8-13 and 14+
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