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 be shopping in the Educational and Learning Toy category.
I would like the LEGO Friends: Andrea’s Family House for my daughter.
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Chevrolet Camaro Ride-On Car for my grandkids
I would shop in the 13+ category
I’d probably buy my kid something from the Board Games, Cards and Puzzles category
I would love to win the WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog for myself!
I would be interested in shopping from the category: Toys for 8 to 13 Years for my grandson.
I would like to win the WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog for myself.
WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog
I intend to give all gifts away to needy children
My favorite is the WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog in the prize 15 package.
I will be shopping in the Board Games, Cards & Puzzles category for the children in my life.
I would love to have the LEGO Technic: Ford Mustang Shelby GT500.
I would be interested in the Karaoke category for my daughter.
I would like the 3Doodler Create+ Pen Set for myself.
I would love to see prize 15 under my tree for the little guys.Thanks for the chance.
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The toy category I would be interesting in shopping from would be “Baby & Kids Toys” for a child in my life.
The toy I would like most for myself would be the LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle – 764 Pieces (42139).
I would love the Kool Karz Chevrolet Camaro Ride-On Car for my grandkids
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I would love to shop the RC Toys category for my kids – they love taking them out to the park, the pond, everywhere.
For myself? I would totally love to find the WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog under the tree this year!
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Prize 15 Please
#15 for 2 kids from Ukraine
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The child that I would be shopping for would be interested in toys from the 5 to 7 year old category.
I would like the 3Doodler Create+ Pen Set for myself.
I would be interested in shopping in the LEGO category for my family members.
I like the Hasbro Yahtzee in prize 1, plus it also has the WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog.
I like the WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog in the prize 15 package.
I would be interested in the 14 plus age for the Drones category.
Only child in my life is the neighour’s kid, and frankly he doesn’t seem too bright, so for him I’d get something from the Educational Toys category.
Would be fun to have the WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog.
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I love to shop in the Board Games, Cards & Puzzles for the children in my life because that way we can play games and interact with each other without electronics.
I would love to have the LEGO Technic: Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 because it’s my hubsand’s favourite car.
I would like the Miko 3 AI Robot
I’d be Interested toys for 5-7 years old.
Love the Lego Technic – Ford Shelby
I’d love to win prize 14, my son loves Lego and it’s not cheap!
Baby fairy jar blue. And any Lego, still love to play with the kids.
the LEGO Toy category would be super
Selecting just a toy, the WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog would be cool, but any prize pack would make me a favorite uncle for the nieces and nephews
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I would like prize 15 because it has little Mario plush
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