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
In the toys for all ages, definitely checking out the LEGO category
For myself, I’d love Battleship. We love boardgames here.
I would shop from the 14 years and up for all those big kids in my family.
games I could play with my grandkids
Would love the Yatzee game and Koopa plush
I would like the Hasbro Yahtzee for a good old fashioned game night.
All the prizes are amazing. What a thrill it would be to win anyone of them. Lego is always a big hit in our family.
I would like the got to glow fairies jar and the chevrolet ride on camaro car.
Kool Karz Chevrolet Camaro Ride-On Car. Sounds very cool!
I would really like the classic board games. They are always a lot of fun to play.
I’d be interested in shopping from the “Educational and Learning Toys” category for my niece!
I would love the Got2Glow Fairies Jar and WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog for myself. So cute!
classic boardgames
Prize 12 would be awesome. In Toys for All Ages – definitely the Board Games, Cards and Puzzles category to include family members of all ages.
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I’d love to shop from Category 2-4 years, for the children in my life.
I would like all the prizes in Prize Pack #15, especially, WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog.
I would shop in the board games and dolls and dollhouse categories for my 2 children this Christmas season ❤️
The classic boardgames would be great!
For myself, I would love the game of risk!
I would be looking for something in the educational category for ages 5-7 but I will take any of the prizes please!
Prize 11 would a fantastic “Secret Santa” gift for the family with a baby in our neighborhood. Compliments of Best Buy Blog.
I would shop for 0-24 months, there is a young family in our neighbourhood who just had a baby and would be completely surprised with a gift from a “secret Santa and Best Buy”
I’ll be shopping the educational and learning toys for 2-4 and 8-13 would be what I’d be shopping for the kids in my life.
I want the Kool Karz Bumper Car Ride-On Toy for myself, if I could fit.
Shop toys and games by age
would want the LiteHawk TrakHawk RC Tank for the grandkids.
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Lego for my grandkids
Would love the board games
Kool Karz Chevrolet Camaro Electric Ride-On Car – Red
Miko 3 AI Robot – Pixie Blue
WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog
LEGO Technic: All-Terrain Vehicle – 764 Pieces (42139)
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I would love to have the WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog
RC Toys cause we love remote controlled stuff in our home from drones to racing cars
I would love the Miko 3 AI Robot cause I think we would have so much fun together with my kids and it
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Prize 14 would be awesome.
Little Buddies Isabelle Plush for me
I would love shopping in the Lego Category for my 13 year old and 10 year old daughter as we regularly have Lego building family nights.
In Toys for all ages – Board Games, Cards and Puzzles category
I still love playing with Lego so I would love one of the Lego Technic toys.
I would love rize 11 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,
Little Buddies Koopa Paratroopa Plush
i WOULD LIKE TO WIN PRIZE 6 i ALWAYS WANTED A MUSTANG
Anything LEGO would be a great prize to win!
Love all the prizes and would be happy with any of them as there are a few kids in the family that I have to buy for. thank you for the contest
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I would shop in the 0-2 years old group – new baby in the family
I would love to win Prize 15
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