The Best Tech Gifts For Kids

Playskool Friends Sesame Street Love2Learn Elmo ($60) brings Elmo to life and engages your child through play and music.

Intended for ages: 18 months and up

Marbotic Smart Letters ($50) pair with all iPads to help your child learn to write and read.

Intended for ages: 18 months and up

Fisher-Price Think & Learn Code-a-Pillar ($40) will teach your child how to code before they can walk.

Intended for ages: 3-6

Hot Diggity Dancing Mickey Plush ($30, originally $40) will dance the day away with your little one.

Intended for ages: 3 and up

Kidz Gear Volume Limit Headphones ($17) are intended to be the safest headphones for kids, but are adult quality.

Intended for ages: 3-9

Vtech Kidizoom Camera ($40) is a kid-friendly solution to your child grabbing your smartphone to take photos.

Intended for ages: 3 and up

CogniToys Dino Educational Smart Toy ($100, originally $120) will engage your child in technology with conversation-based educational play and without a screen.

Intended for ages: 3-10

The Barbie Hello Dreamhouse ($300) is the dollhouse of every child's dreams — it communicates with your child, starts up dance parties, and has sensors and lights.

Intended for ages: 4 and up

A bit more kid-friendly than other tablets, the nabi SE Tablet ($80) features a locked homepage for parents to manage screen time and apps, and comes with a learning system built in with fun lessons for kids Pre-K to grade 6.

Intended for ages: 4-12

The Star Wars Interactech Imperial Stormtrooper ($30) is an interactive figure with over 65 sound effects and phrases and a blaster accessory.

Intended for ages: 4 and up

Wonder Workshop Dash the Robot ($150) is a real robot who will interact with your child and engage them in interactive tutorials, projects, and lessons.

Intended for ages: 5 and up

The Osmo Genius Kit ($100) pairs with an app to encourage interactive play and learning.

Intended for ages: 5 and up

The Osmo Coding Set ($50) teaches coding to your child in a kid-friendly way.

Intended for ages: 5-10

Any kid can build a computer using the Kano Build Your Own Computer Kit ($135, originally $150).

Intended for ages: 6 and up

Using the blocks in the SAM Labs Science Museum Inventor Kit ($140) — paired with an app — kids can invent anything they can dream up.

Intended for ages: 7-12

The View-Master Virtual Reality Starter Pack ($18) from Mattel will surround your little one with 360-degree environments.

Intended for ages: 7 and up

Bloxels ($50) provide your child with the unique opportunity to engage in hands-on video game creation.

Intended for ages: 7 and up

The littleBits Rule Your Room Kit ($100) allows your tween to "protect" their belongings with a number of sneaky tech traps.

Intended for ages: 8-12

The littleBits Gizmos and Gadgets Kit ($200) features over 16 crazy inventions for your child to test out.

Intended for ages: 8-12

Bring your favorite '80s Nintendo games back to life with the Nintendo NES Mini Gaming System ($60), which will feature 30 built-in classic games that you loved as a kid and your kids now need in their lives.

Intended for ages: 8 and up

The Anki OVERDRIVE Starter Kit ($150) features sensors, motors, robots, and more — all to help your little one build the ultimate racing track.

Intended for ages: 8 and up

Circuit Maze Game ($24) is a logic-based strategy game that will keep your kiddo thinking for hours.

Intended for ages: 8 and up

The Skylanders Imaginators Starter Pack ($75) helps your child to bring a Skylander of their creation to life, giving them full creative reign over the Skylander world.

Intended for ages: 8 and up

The Ozobot Avengers Master Pack ($125) helps your child to develop skills in the field of robotics alongside Captain America.

Intended for ages: 8 and up

With the IDO3D 3D Printing Studio ($15, originally $20), children can draw upward and build their own 3D structures.

Intended for ages: 8 and up

The XYZ Printing da Vinci Mini Maker 3D Printer ($228) helps your child to create 3D models of their own design.

Intended for ages: 8 and up