How great would it be to get all of your Christmas shopping done ahead of time this year AND to feel confident your kids are going to love their gifts and keep returning to play with them again and again?

I’ve got some HUGE news today friends! Drum roll please…

The 2016 Toy Gift Guides are here!

In case you’re unfamiliar with our famous gift guide collection, this is not your average roundup of a few of our favorite things – Oh no. This is an incredibly extensive library of the most engaging, brain-growing, and yet still super-fun toys available.

450+ selections viewed by thousands and thousands of parents each year!

And here’s the best part, all of those awesome toys are arranged into specially themed guides with detailed descriptions of each and every toy and categorized by our recommended age ranges for the utmost enjoyment.

This is the only resource you’re going to need this year to nab the perfect gift for every child on your list.

Pin the Gift Guides page to your favorite gift board here or bookmark this page now (and share it with your mom friends – they’ll thank you!).

I’ve spent months talking to friends, school teachers and even toy store owners as well as reading reviews, polling our readers, and scouring toy award lists to come up with these finds.

Ultimately, it’s what my kids are into that most motivates my purchases and I constructed these guides because I know that’s what you care about too.

If they’re going through a constructing stage, then I want the goods on the most stimulating building toys out there. If their creativity is blooming, I’m looking for info. on the highest quality and longest lasting art supplies. And if they can’t get enough of role playing, that means I’m on the search for toys that do a superb job in supporting dramatic play.

In addition, I’ve got a few goals of my own when it comes to toy shopping – getting in some solid independent play during quiet time, burning off steam when stuck indoors, and feeding their little brains in a fun way, to name a few.

I’ve organized this year’s picks with all of these things in mind.

Over the next couple of months I’ll be highlighting all 11 of our gift guides but you don’t have to wait. You can see them all right now!

Plus, bonus, I’ve got two new lists this year: