Every holiday season toy lists are sent out by retailers, magazines, and more. We’ve pulled together several lists so you can compare them all in one place. We’ll update and add info regularly, so please bookmark us. Also, many of these toys are being bought up and resold for much higher prices already so if your child has his/her heart set on a particular toy, buy it now before all of them are gone at the original prices.
The Hot Holiday Toys for 2016 Lists We’re Curating
Parent Magazine
Their list of the must-have gifts for the upcoming holiday season. The list is a compilation of a summer’s worth of testing of hundreds of toys by seventy-five children and their parents. Parent Magazine’s editors took the test results and narrowed down the choices to the top forty-four toys in categories from infant to school-age children. The toys were chosen for their ease of use, originality, fun factor, the length of play, and first-person feedback from the kid testers.The Parents Best Toys of 2016 list appears in the November 2016 issue of the magazine and online.
Amazon.com
The Amazon Hot 100 Holiday Toys list is live! Many of the toys have short videos to share their features. You can find the full list and videos here. Shop the top 100 toys, by age, parents picks, kids picks, deals, stem picks, craft & create, active play, mini madness, tech toys, family night, fire Kids Edition, or treasured toys.
The Hot Toy List for 2016 for:
- Newborn to 12 Months (infants and crawlers)
- Ages 1 and 2 (walkers and toddlers / 12 – 24 months)
- Ages 3 and 4 (preschoolers)
- Ages 5, 6, and 7 (kindergarten / school age)
- Ages 8+ (school age & up)
The great list!!! These are great suggestions to help me choose the toys for my kids. Thanks for sharing!!!!! Love this!!!
so happy i found your lists, just as i started thinking about my holiday gift list. what great ideas. i’m bookmarking this for sure!
Ooh what great pics! I love holiday shopping and have been itching to get started! These are some great ideas!
What a great list!!! So many goodies on it!!!!Shopping for kiddos can be pretty tough so thanks for the suggestions.
This is an awesome list! This will give me some great ideas of what to give my son
These are great gift guides!! I have a lot of nieces and nephews to shop for so I will definitely be checking these lists!
What an amazing list. There are so many toys out there it is nice to see what is the most popular because I usually by based on the reviews and ratings.
I’ll have to check out your list for kids 8+. My grands are making me feel old as I just realized that the youngest is 8 and the oldest is a teen. It was easier to shop for them when they were younger, but now I depend on gift guide suggestions to give me an idea of what to buy.
Oh gosh, I don’t even want to think about getting presents! This is a super great list though!!
Such a great list! I am always on the hunt for new and exciting items for the holidays, so I love these type of gift guides!
Thanks for sharing the list! Very useful and makes my holiday shopping easier!
Amazon is indeed the best place to shop on line in my opinion because they have such great prices. This list I will have to share with my nieces and sister for their little ones. The Space Scooter Ride On would be perfect for my niece’s kids. Thanks for sharing this awesome list of the hot holiday toys.
Oh this is great. This will make shopping and finding the best toys easier. It’s always difficult to know what the kids are into these days.
I like that they are all in one place and easy to navigate from one page to the other.
What a great list of hot holiday toys that are hot right now. I am sure this list will help many 😉
I didn’t realize they had come out with the hot toy list!! It is fun to see how the list changes from year to year.
Thanks for this list! My family has a little one in the family and we love to spoil her! LOL.
This is an awesome list! I am never sure what to get my child because the trends change almost daily. This will give me some great ideas of what to get him for Christmas.
Now THIS is a gift guide. There is so much here. Thank you so much. I literally CANNOT go wrong with this list. Yay!