Coffee Table Toys Prime Day Roundup (Part Two)
a handful of my most-recommended coffee table toys are on deal today and I am sharing my favorites
As someone whose job involves making recommendations, I feel major pressure to show up with a fully curated, perfectly organized guide ranging from home goods, to menswear, to holiday decor. But it’s just not my style to work that way or shop that way… so I didn’t do that.
And truthfully, Prime Day stresses me out. I get a stomach ache thinking about how many parents are falling prey to the hot toy lists and the FOMO.
Sometimes I am those parents.
I watch the really flashy toy hauls and start thinking that I want those toys? Hello? What? I literally work round the clock helping parents choose toys that last through ages and stages. The ones that build frustration tolerance, and promote independent play. The ones you place on your coffee table and toddlers, teens and grandparents gather around and play.
Those are the opposite of those hot toy hauls, and still, all the frenzy and clever marketing has me almost clicking buy.
And, TBH, sometimes I do. And it can be fun for a day or two. But those toys are built for the excitement of the unboxing, and not for long lasting play.
A handful of my most-recommended coffee table toys are on deal today, and these are the ones people message me about constantly. The ones that everyone plays with from toddlers to big kids. Grandparents and teenagers.
This summer I got at least twenty messages from moms who packed Coffee Table Toys to bring to their lake vacations and to family reunions. The ones they brought to the grandparent’s houses and the ones that gathered all the cousins and family friends around the table, connecting and laughing and creating.
If you are new here, and you’re not sure what a coffee table toy is, start here.
These tubes and wheels are a crowd pleaser. They’d be great at a Thanksgiving gathering to keep the little kids from running. Put them out on a coffee table and everyone will play. Including the grandparents and the teens. They are 16% off today, and come in a huge set. This is the container I keep mine in.
These curves and lines are meant for preschoolers because they’re great for pre-writing skills. But the big kids and the teens cannot get enough of them. Drop them into a tray, ditch the cards that they come with, and watch the play unfold.
These acrylic blocks look like a decor object, but you get to say, “Yes! You can play with them.” The toddler sized cubes are on deal too. This is a “grow with me toy” because kids use them differently at all ages and stages. I’ve seen them used with wooden blocks, for stacking, on a light table, in a window (the light streaming through is beautiful.) You can even drop them in the bathtub or the pool!
Magnetic cubes are the GOAT of Coffee Table Toys. The clickity-clack, and the ease of getting started are irresistible. Everyone who walks past them, toddlers, teens, dads’s who “don’t play” can’t not pick them up.
We recently added these extenders (also on deal) to our set and it’s been a game changer. Toddler/ baby sized cubes are on deal too.
Big kids and teens are obsessed with these. They are teeny-tiny little pixel blocks. I’ve never seen phones go down faster than when these are on our kitchen island and a group of teens are hanging around snacking. We also bring them to restaurants when we go out as a family.
These wheelies sell out every time I post about them, and they’re that good. A friend of mine brought them to her annual family beach vacation where it was all adults and teens, and they were hooked. They started calling them “talking toys” because they’d sit around, chat and build with wheelies.
If you are new to Coffee Table Toys, start slow. Don’t buy the whole collection at once, and don’t put out too many at a time.
Use clear containers because visibility is what gets kids playing. When the toys are in front of them, in sight and in reach, not put away in a box in the closet, they play.
If you have little kids and big kids, the toddler-sized Coffee Table Toys are the way to go. They are big enough you don’t have to worry about choking, but open-ended enough that big kids, teens, and adults will love them too.
Here is a link to the rest of my Prime Day picks (there are only a few more!)
*These links are affiliate links, which means I earn a small commission if you buy. I only ever recommend things I use and believe in.
Have you been loving coffee table toys at your house? Drop a comment below!
x. Lizzie
