Articles by The Toy Chest

Sewing Gifts That Actually Get Used A seven-year-old showed up at our store last month clutching a small fabric pouch she'd made herself. Crooked stitch...

Paper Folding Magic: Finding Gifts for Your Origami-Obsessed Kid That stack of paper cranes on the dresser isn't going anywhere. Neither is the fortune ...

Gifts That Make the Night Sky Click for Young Astronomers Stargazing changes a kid. One clear night in Brown County, looking up at the Milky Way away fr...

Gift Ideas for Your Fossil-Obsessed Kid A six-year-old walks into our store clutching a rock she found in her backyard, absolutely convinced it's a dino...

Superhero Gifts That Go Beyond the Cape Every kid who loves superheroes eventually hits a wall with the licensed stuff. Another action figure that looks...

Rock-Obsessed Kids: Gifts That Feed the Collection Every rock collector starts somewhere. Maybe it's a quartz crystal spotted on a Brown County trail, o...

Tween Gifts That Don't Feel Like "Baby Stuff" Eleven-year-olds are tricky. They roll their eyes at anything that seems too young, but they're not ready ...

Gift Ideas for the Kid Who Can't Stop Moving Dance kids are a special breed. They practice pirouettes in the grocery store aisle, choreograph routines t...

Gears, Levers, and Pulleys: Gift Picks for Young Mechanics That kid who takes apart the remote control "just to see how it works" isn't being destructiv...

What to Buy the Kid Who Collects Everything My grandmother had a curio cabinet filled with tiny spoons from every state she'd visited. I thought it was ...

Dollhouse Gifts That Actually Get Played With A kid who loves dollhouses isn't just playing with tiny furniture—they're running a household, solving pro...