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!
The VTech Marble Rush Ultimate Set would be a hit in our home!
Telescopes section
Miko AI Robot
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shop for nephew in the Educational and Learning Toys category or the Telescopes!
gotta win some lego
For my kids I’d shop in the Educational and Learning Toys category or the Telescopes!
I would choose the Lego category
For myself I’d love the Hasbro Battleship game! I haven’t played in so long!
I would love any Lego sets
Prize 13 for myself to give to my nephews. lol.
Toy category LEGO for my nephews.
Prize 13 for my nephews.
Great toys
The robots or the board games look great
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I’d like to shop in the karaoke category for my child.
I would choose the Lego category for shopping.
I would love prize 13.
I’d choose the LEGO Friends: Andrea’s Family House for myself!
I’d shop from the Lego category for gifts since I can find gifts for all ages.
I’d like to get the LEGO Technic: Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 – 522 Pieces (42138) for myself.
My nephew would love the robot dog!
Prize 12 would be great for my girls, for myself would be the Hasbro The Game of Life 🙂
I would like to shop in the telescope section if I had to get a gift for a child.
I would be interested in shopping in the telescope section if I had to get a gift for a child.
I think prize 15 would be nice.
Would love to shop from Category #7 for my niece.
Prize number 9 is what I would want for myself,
Prize number 9 is what I would want for myself.
We love shopping for rec room games and board games but my kids would go crazy for the robo dog and the fairy jar!
Oh man my daughter would love the fairy jar and my son would go nuts for the robot dog!
I’m interested in shopping from the Electric Transportation category!
Prize number 7 sounds great!
Prize pack #10 would be great for my family!
I don’t think you can ever go wrong getting a kid something from the Lego category.
I’d love prize pack #4 because the robotic dog sounds amazing!!
Prize package 8 would be awesome
Toys for 5 – 7 for my nephews!
Prize 15 for myself! <3
Entry 2 – I’d shop in the toys for 8 to 13 year olds category most.
Entry 1 – I’m interested in the LEGO Technic: Ford Mustang Shelby
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I would pick the Board Games, Cards & Puzzles category as we love boardgames in our home
I love board games so I would pick the Hasbro Risk prize for myself
LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle –
For my kids. They love lego and can learn about real life equipment and mechanical pieces at work.
toy category: LEGO and Building Blocks – 5 to 7 Years
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