The Learning Lab: 17 Toys To Boost Educational Skills

Combining math and music, this educational kit includes a 49-key keyboard and two workbooks that cover topics on addition and subtraction.

Tweens can join Barbie in the world of STEM by conducting 20 different chemistry experiments, such as creating glowing worms, fizzing reactions, glow-in-the-dark chalk, purple slime, and more.

Assemble intergalactic fun with an educational building set inspired by a real NASA rocket. Builders can turn the crank to see the moment a rocket launches in three distinct stages.

Slime meets science with an all-in-one kit that combines gooey creations and hands-on lab experiences. Kids can dissect their slimes and personalize them with colors, textures, and mix-ins.

Add cuddly friends to yoga sessions by choosing from a cat, dragon, or sloth plush ball. Kids can explore mindful movements by using the 10 double-sided yoga pose cards.

With nine flexible magnetic pieces, kids can create more than 100 possible builds that also glow in the dark. The set features pieces that are lightweight, portable, and encourage STEAM-friendly play.

Budding scientists can excavate a skeleton from a gooey tar pit. The bones glow in the dark and come together to make a mammoth model.

Kids can visit the pyramids in Egypt, stand on top of Mount Everest, and explore ancient cities with the VR set.

Toddlers can understand their feelings with a 5-inch plush featuring five emotional expressions: happy, sad, angry, fearful, and surprised. Series One includes Rusty the Bear, Cotton the Bunny (pictured), Iggy the Dino, and Winnie the Unicorn.

Kids can insert one of three disks into a handheld projector to see vibrant and unique images. The series features fun themes, including dinosaurs, outer space, sharks, and cute animals.

Create eye-catching art designs, one pixel at a time, with 30 STEAM challenges that build early coding and math skills. The set includes 750 pixel cubes in eight different colors.

Strengthen math skills with a game that takes the confusion out of fractions. Players will understand fractions as they spin for slices to complete their pies.

Kids will add water to the miniature tank to watch their aquatic pets hatch, swim, and thrive in their pocket-sized home.

With this STEM kit’s dig bricks, kids can excavate six rocks and dinosaur figures. All bricks, including the figures and rocks, glow in the dark.

Explore space from the comfort of home with a STEM set that offers three building options, including a telescope with a solar system model, a UFO ship, and a microscope.

Toddlers can cuddle with plush toys featuring adorable designs and sensory-friendly features. Each pal is made with long pile fabric that’s soft to the touch and features fidget popper feet.

Elevate imaginative play with four-piece sets featuring different animals. Sea animals include a seahorse, a starfish, a crab, and a fish. The Insect set includes a grasshopper, a ladybug, a bee, and a butterfly.