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’d love a few things from the Rec Room Games category! Lots of old school fun without the screen time!
I would like the LEGO Adventures with Mario Starter Course because I love LEGO and Mario
I’d love to play around with the Miko 3 AI robot!
Would so love to win: LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle
I would really like the Kool Karz Chevrolet Camaro Ride On Car and I would choose prize bundle 11!
I’ve entered via Twitter
@Amandamasters5
I would definitely shop from the Lego category for my 15 year old son. He has been a Lego aficionado for years!
I’ve entered via Facebook
Amanda Masters
I would love to have The Game of Life!! So nostalgic and takes me back to playing it when I was a kid. Good games are timeless
LEGO Ideas: Fender Stratocaster – 1074 Pieces (21329)
In Toys for all Ages I would choose the Category 2-4 years Thanks
I really like the selection in the 8 – 13 age range section for the kids in my life. We have an age gap but these are all great for both kids and thats important in my holiday shopping.
I’d shop in the 14+ section of your website for my boyfriend (he’s a child at heart)
I’d be happy to get Adventures with Luigi Starter Course or Hasbro Battleship 🙂
I would pick the Hasbro Yahtzee Dice Game, Christmas Memories are wonderful! Thanks
The toy that interests me the most is the LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle because its a set the whole family would enjoy and lego is a gift that we heavily invest in.
I would love the Kool Karz Bumper Car Ride-On Toy and the Lego Friends House!
I would love the WowWee CHIP Robotic Dog! Sounds like the next best thing (or better) than the real thing!!! Haha
I would love the Kool Karz Bumper Car Ride-On Toy!
I would be interested in shopping the RC toys category
I would like the Kool Karz Ride-On Bumper Car for myself.
SUPER MARIO LEGO!?!
My family would LOVE that!
Thanks for the opportunity!
Model Number: 71387
Web Code: 15550934
I’m shopping in the Educational & Learning Toys for 0-24 month kids!
Prize 15 for my older kids
I’m a sucker for lego and Mario. I’d love a go with the LEGO Super Mario: Adventures with Luigi Starter Course – 280 Pieces
Model Number: 71387
Web Code: 15550934
Posted on my Twitter page: @janissa_b
https://twitter.com/janissa_b/status/1587862720170311681
I would shop in 8 to 13 years old. My daughter always wanted a telescope. Would be awesome to win one for her.
I also have posted for entry on Twitter as @michaelmottisha
Prize 13 looks wonderful
i also posted to Insta. as @mottypark ..thx mucho
Would love prize 13
The Lego city farm looks epic, my daughter would love it.thanks
I would love Hasbro The Game of Life. Brings back childhood memories.
The Osmo little genius starter kit would be perfect for my two grandchildren
The Lego city farm would be perfect for my two year old grandson
The Lego Marvel Spider man would be great for my two kids
I’d like the Prize 10 package for myself.
i would like to shop the 2-4 year olds category for my nephew Jasper
Love the Lego City Farm
i sure would gig this toy!- Kool Karz Chevrolet Camaro Ride-On Car, and i would choose prize bundle 11
LEGO Technic!!!
I would shop in the 14 plus up age bracket. I’d be interested in radio controlled vehicles.
the lego city farm
So difficult to choose, but I think Prize 2!
I SHARED ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/fraitzy/status/1587853818829885440
The Lego city farm
Wow! they all look great prizes I would love the Hasbro Ultimate Catch Phrase for me, LEGO Technic: Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 – 522 Pieces or the Camaro ride on. would be perfect for my boy!! great contst, thank you for the chance to win, good luck!!!
The Lego Marvel Spider man would be great for my two year old son
I would like the Miko 3 AI Robot
The Osmo little genius starter kit would be perfect for my two year old
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