The American Specialty Toy Retailing Association (ASTRA) unveiled its 2018 Best Toys for Kids award winners. The list includes 17 winners in 16 categories. The Best Toys for Kids program was created by ASTRA to help its retailer members attract media coverage and customers to their stores during the fourth quarter.

ASTRA provides 300 free, professionally designed 2018 Best Toys for Kids brochures to member retailers for use in their holiday marketing. For more information about the award winners, and to order additional Best Toys brochures, visit besttoys.astratoy.org.

The 2018 Best Toys for Kids award winners are:

Active Play
Stomp Rocket Stunt Planes (D&L Company)

Bots
Kids First Coding & Robotics (Thames & Kosmos)

Classic Play Under 7
BRIO Railway Starter Set (Ravenburger North America Inc.)

Classic Play 7+
Liquid Glass Thinking Putty (Crazy Aaron’s)

Constructive Play
GraviTrax (Ravensburger North America)

Creative Play Under 7
Create with Clay Dinosaurs (Faber-Castell USA)

Creative Play 7+
Rock and Roll It SpecDrum (MukikiM Toys)

Early Play (Infant)
Dimpl (Fat Brain Toy Co.)

Early Play (Toddler)
Kullerbu Construction Site Set (HABA)

Game Night
ITZI (TENZI)

Game Play Under 7
Gnomes at Night (Peaceable Kingdom—A MindWare Brand)

Game Strategy
Photosynthesis (Blue Orange Games)

Logic
Turing Tumble (Turing Tumble LLC)

Pretend Play (Fantasy)
Folkmanis Mouse in Pumpkin (Folkmanis Puppets)

Pretend Play (Fantasy)
Rose Gold Wings & Tutu Set (Creative Education of Canada)

Pretend Play (Role)
Aquarium (PLAYMOBIL)

Scientific Play
Snap Circuits BRIC: Structures (ELENCO)

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Stephanie Grassullo

Stephanie Grassullo

Stephanie Grassullo is an associate editor at Adventure Publishing Group. In addition to handling toy and licensing news and updates for The Toy Book and The Licensing Book, Stephanie also writes toy reviews and commentaries for the Toy Insider. When she’s not binge-watching old episodes of Gossip Girl, Stephanie is always game for Boggle tournaments—she’s the titleholder Boggle champion in her family, and proud of it! Stephanie firmly believes that there is no awkward moment that can’t be remedied with the help of Bop It. To get to know her better, follow her on Twitter @steph_grass.

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