Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel. In today's video, we're going to be testing out the top
rated Amazon toys and games for kids. I've seen a few videos like this to do with Amazon
fashion, but I haven't seen anyone doing toys, so I thought it would be really fun because
there's nothing worse than when you order a toy for your child, and they have no interest
in it. It's great to get recommendations from friends, but also to read the reviews on websites
like this.
We've been testing them out all week. I have 10 to show you, and my criteria was they had
to be within the Amazon department for toys and games, and they had to have like thousands
of reviews, and their overall rating had to be between 4.5 stars and 5 stars. All of these
have really, really high ratings. Half of them I have heard about before, half of them
we've never played with, so it's been great discovering these, so I'm going to share them
with you.
All of the items that I'm going to show in this video will, of course, be linked in the
description down below, so if you want to go ahead and find them, the links will be
down there.
The first one is one that I hadn't actually heard about before, but a lot of my friends
have. It's called Dobble. It is £9.44, it had 3500 reviews, and the overall rating was
4.8 stars, so really, really high reviews, and having played it I can see why. It was
brilliant. It's a great game for observation, for reflexes, for concentration as well.
We played it with the boys. You basically get a bunch of cards within this tin, you
flip over two of them, and there are lots of different symbols on the cards. On any
two given cards, there will be only one match. You flip over a pair of cards, and your children
have to shout out which item is the match. The one who shouts it out the quickest will
win. My children loved it. They were really concentrating, and focused as well.
I also love the size of this game. It would be ideal for travel or to throw into your
handbag and take to a restaurant with you if you wanted to try and keep them occupied.
Yeah, it was really really good, it lasted a very long time, so I would totally agree
with the 5 star rating.
The next toy is a personal favorite of my boys, it is the Tomy Hide and Squeak Eggs.
I have actually talked about these in multiple different baby essential and toy videos in
the past. All of my children have really loved these Tomy Hide and Squeak Eggs. They are
£7.98 to buy, and out of 2782 reviews, it had an overall rating of 4.7 stars, so really,
really high up there considering it's got nearly 3000 reviews.
I don't know what it is about these eggs, but children just love them. If you ever go
to a playgroup, you'll see that kids will be like gravitating to these eggs. They squeak,
they're colorful, they have faces on them, and they have shapes on them as well. They're
just brilliant.
Jackson still loves them even now. Now that he's getting older as well, he's able to match
up the shape on the bottom of the egg to the shape within the egg carton, so he's still
going strong with these. Yes, I would completely recommend them. I have in the past. We just
love them. If anyone has a baby, these are great from like five months and up. They can
literally, as soon as they're sitting up, they can sit up and play with these.
The next game is one that I hadn't played with the boys before. It's called Pop-up Pirate,
and as soon as Matt saw it, he got really nostalgic because he said that he actually
played this as a child and loved it. It is £9.74, and out of 1734 reviews, it has a
four and a half star rating, so pretty high. It's really fun. You basically get a barrel
and a little pirate, and your children have to put in their colored sword until the pirate
pops up. It's quite like tense because people are nervous that it's going to pop up on them,
and even Jackson was into this. He was playing it. He's only two years old. The whole family
played, so right from Jackson being two, to us as well, and we had a great time playing
it. Yes, I would totally agree, we really enjoyed it.
The next one is a Butterfly Garden, and we've actually done this a few times before with
the kids. It's not really a toy and it's not really a game, but it is something that is
amazing to do with your children, and it will really teach them about the life cycle, going
from a caterpillar and turning into a butterfly. It's £14.49 for the kit, and out of 2000
reviews, it has 4.5 stars, and I would also agree with that. It is an incredibly fun thing
to do, and you can also reuse it in the future.
Basically, in the kit, you get a big mesh container, and then you also get a voucher
to order baby caterpillars from the Insect Lore website. You go on, you order your caterpillars,
they arrive, and you put them in the mesh, then your children can watch them day-by-day,
over the course of about two weeks, they will make their cocoons, and then stay in their
cocoons, and then literally hatch out into butterflies, and then you can release them
into the garden. You can keep them for a couple of days and like look at them and stuff, and
then you can all release them, and it's all very exciting for the kids. You can name them,
you can ... It's really, really fun. I would totally recommend it.
The next top-rated game is a personal favorite of our family's, and hat is UNO. If you've
seen any of my holiday videos in the past, you've probably seen us playing UNO. It had
about 1000 reviews on the Amazon website, and the average review was 4.6 stars. Yeah,
I would give it 5 stars. We really love it.
[Kaylen 00:05:40], he's five, he's been playing it for about a year. It teaches them colors
and numbers. It is like a classic card game. Simple to play, but mom, dad, any age, grandparents,
they will all love it, and everyone can get involved. It gets a little competitive as
well, and it's that kind of game that we played at night, like after dinner. We'll get UNO
out, and all play it together as a family, and we really love it. It is only £4.48.
The next top rated game is called BANANAGRAMS. Let me know if you've ever played this before
because we hadn't, but it is like my new favorite game. We haven't stopped playing it since
we got it. It's basically Scrabble within a banana. It's like a little pencil case,
and it has all the Scrabble tiles within it, but there's no points on the tiles. The aim
of the game is to get rid of all of your letters first, but you don't need a pencil to keep
score, you don't need a board to play it on. You can play it absolutely anywhere. I just
love that it's so good for travel, and you can just chuck it into your bag, or again,
if you're going to a restaurant and you want something to do, you can chuck it in your
bag.
Also, it was really teaching Fraser so much. I think your child would have to be like six
or seven and up. They will have to be able to spell some words, but when Fraser and I
played it, he was learning so much. We kept checking words in the dictionary. If I wrote
a word that he didn't know the answer to, like I wrote the word tardy, and he had to
look up in the dictionary what it meant, and it meant late. He was learning so much, and
it was just really, really fun. Yeah, it's basically Scrabble in a banana, and we love
it. Out of 2000, what, over 2000 reviews, the average review was 4.8 stars, so I would
agree with that.
The next top rated toy that I wanted to show you is the Zogg Diving Sticks. This is perfect
to show you as well with summer on its way. Out of over 600 reviews, it has an average
review of 4.9 stars, so really, really highly rated, and I can agree with that. We've had
this before, and we've actually repurchased them as well. The boys love to put on their
goggles, throw them in the swimming pool, and dive down and get them. They're really
brightly colored and they have a hole in them, so when they pull them out, the boys say they're
having a wee, and they think it's really funny. Yeah, the boys just love them. We also have
these in like the circle version as well, so yeah.
The next top rated Amazon toy that I wanted to show you is the LEGO Duplo train set. Jackson
already had this, and he's always loved it. It is £9.44, and out of over 350 reviews,
it had an average review of 4.9 stars, so really highly rated, and you can get this
for your children from like a year plus. It's good for the little ones as well. It's really
brightly colored, it comes with a few little people and a cat, and also, my son really
likes that some of the LEGO pieces are cars. I think you get four little cars, and you
basically build up the train, and then they can drag it along, and it's just a great start
to introducing them to LEGO anyway.
There were a few Orchard toys that were really highly rated. I've actually talked about the
Shopping List Game before on this channel. The Shopping List Game has over 1000 reviews,
and an average review of 4.8 stars, and my children love it as well. This one did really
well as well. It's called Crazy Chefs. It has about 300 reviews, and an average review
of 4.9 stars. We love them because the kids basically have to match what they have on
their board, so they kind of have to make a meal, or complete their shopping list. It's
a great way to like use their memory because they have to remember where things get put
down and find them again. Yeah, we just loved playing them.
The next top rated toy that I wanted to show you is called Pass the Pigs. Again, a great
one for travel or to stick into your handbag. It's a really simple game. You basically get
these two little pigs here. You have to throw them like dice, and then depending on how
they land, you get different points. If they both land on their back, you get 20 points,
if one lands on its feet, you get five points, and you kind of have to tally up all of the
scores. It was really good.
The only worry for me with this one is that you might lose the little pigs and some of
the parts of the game, like you can basically keep going if you want to take the risk, but
then obviously you risk losing all of your points. I don't know, Matt said I was being
silly, but I was like it kind of feels a little bit like gambling, like you're teaching them
to take these risks. That's the only thing. I wasn't sure about this one. The kids loved
it. It kept them involved for so very long. They really did enjoy it, but you needed like
a pencil and a scorecard. I don't know. Lots of people love it. It had 832 reviews, and
the average review was 4.7 stars.
The next top rated toy is Monopoly. I actually grew up playing this, and now I can play it
with the kids. My two oldest ones are eight and five, and they really enjoy it. As I was
making this video, I looked up when was Monopoly made, and it was made in 1903, and it's still
going so strong. The reviews on Amazon are really good. Out of 350 reviews, the average
rating was 4.8 stars. It's still going really well. It teaches them about money and property,
and it's just fun for everyone to play, so I thought I would show you that one.
Right, so there you have it. That is what our family thought of some of Amazon's top
rated toys. There were lots of other highly rated ones on there, so if you like this video,
let me know by getting a thumbs up or a comment below, and I will be happy to order another
10 in, and test them out. The boys had so much fun doing this, and yeah, I hope you
found it interesting. All of these would make great birthday presents, and yeah, I'll see
you in my next one. Bye, guys.