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!
Holiday 2022 Toy Contest Rules and Regulations
I would like the Camaro ride car
Toys for ages 2-4 (daughter is 3) and loves learning toys
Retro gaming – make the bonus room enticing!
Drones interest the family at present
Kids love Lego
Electric transport category
I am interested in Miko 3 AI Robot, WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog
Tablet – Toy Story 4, LEGO Friends: Andrea’s Family House, Hasbro The Game of Life for mysself
Miko 3 AI Robot, WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog, LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle, LEGO Friends: for myself
Kool Karz Chevrolet Camaro Ride-On Car, Snakebyte PebbleGear Kids Tablet – Frozen, Got2Glow Baby Fairy Finder, LEGO Friends: Andrea’s Family House, Hasbro The Game of Life,
Posted on twitter!
@tim_naerebout
I’d like to shop out of the 14 and up section
I would love to win LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle!
Ages 0-24 months Fisher – Price
Ages 0-24 months Educational toys
Ages 2-4 Lego
Toys for ages 2-4 especially learning /educational ones!
Prix 15 Aimerait le LEGO Technic : véhicule tout-terrain
The toy category that I am interested in shopping from is age 14+.
I like to win LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle.
Twitter @farseer99
Facebook Ryan Rumball
https://twitter.com/janicour/status/1588180145000570880 shared on twitter and Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/janice-cournoyer-b8463838/ Janice Cournoyer
My daughter would love the KidKraft Disney Ariel Undersea Kingdom Dollhouse
I’d like the LiteHawk TrakHawk RC Tank
You can never go wrong with LEGO My choice
Prize 15 Would love the LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle
I entered on Twitter @northXO
The category would be shopping for would be 0 to 24 Months
I think I would like the LiteHawk TrakHawk RC Tank
I’d like the Kool Karz Chevrolet Camaro Electric Ride-On Car – Red
toy category: LEGO and Building Blocks – 5 to 7 Years
I’d like the VTech Marble Rush Ultimate Set for myself.
Prize 15 would have the things that my grandson would love the most
prize 12
Post on Instagram @kellibrost
https://www.instagram.com/p/CkgDJ-qAfn8/?igshid=NDc0ODY0MjQ=
I’d like the Kool Karz Chevrolet Camaro Electric Ride-On Car – Red
prize number 14, to help me shop for my 12 year old boy
8
Anything Mario or lego, with four grandchildren all under 8. Two girls and two boys, dreams would really come to be.
prize 10
prize 10. Thanks for the entry!
I’d like prize 13, Little Buddies Mario Plush, and I’d shop for age 8 – 13 years in category Retro Gaming
LEGO technique ATV
We always loved to put together a box of legos
I’d like to win Hasbro Risk, Hasbro The Game of Life, or Hasbro Battleship for myself!
My grandson would be thrilled to get Prize #13 – thanks for the opportunity!
Toys for 14 years and up
Prize 10
The toy category I am interested for my kids is Lego! I posted it on Facebook! Thanks for this generous chance!
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