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!
I would shop the 8-13 category
I would like the LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle for myself (sorry kids!)
ages 10-14
8-13 years old
5-7 range
8-13 year range
looking in 10 to 14 yo range
5-7 age range
4-10 age range
lego set
Lego Technic All Terrain Vehicle
Little Buddies Isabelle Plush
Little Buddies Mario Plush
lego
WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog
LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle
The baby and kids toys would be great for my grand kids!
I’m interested in shopping in the LEGO category. Thank you
I would like the LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle for myself. Thank you
Obviously the Lego category is my favourite
Lego is fun at any age
I am interested in shopping in the LEGO category.
Prize 15 with the LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle for me.
The educational and learning category for the kids.
I would love the Hasbro Battleship Board Game from prize 15 for myself.
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The toy age group I’d be looking at is the 8-13 & 5-7 age range.
Love to win for Christmas, have grandsons in ages 10 to 14
I would love the LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle in Prize 14. My son and I love to build with LEGO.
I would love to win the collection of toys in Prize #13
Looking for the 5-7 year age range toys!
looking for 4-10 age range
I would love to win the Battleship game
The Board Games, Cards & Puzzles toy category
I would love to win lucky prizes #10, 11 or, 12!
I would choose the age category 8-13 years
Love them all, I have twin grandkids and they love cars, so I would take prize #4
I would like the Hasbro Battleship Board Game for myself!
LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle for my grandson and LEGO Friends: Andrea’s Family House for my granddaughter! I would be their hero!
Do I know some kids who would love love love this
I would love the Hasbro The Game of Life Board Game for myself since I have not played that game in many years.
I would be interested in the Educational and Learning Toys for the 5 to 7 age group.
I would love to win lucky prize #13
I’d choose the 8-13 years category for my nephew
The Lego Technic All Terrain Vehicle in prize 13.
I definitely would like the LEGO Friends: Andrea’s Family House for my grand girls.
The Miko 3 Ai Robot for our grand sons
I would be interested in shopping the LEGO category.
The WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog in prize 15 for myself.
Risk for me…Miko Ai robot for my kids
Lego Technic for me.
My kiddo is in the 8-13 group.
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