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Screen-Free Kids-Must Haves
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items Wanting to live a more screen-balanced life with your kiddos? You don't need lots of extras to do that! Here are the items that we love, beyond the normal items in our home.
Want hours of entertainment that your kids will keep coming back to? These are by far our favorite magnetic tile kids. From the normal kids to the car and marbel runs--your kids can build, knock it down, and build again.
PicassoTiles: Vibrant Magnetic Tiles & Building Toys for Creative Kids ...
Stop the insanity of filling up water balloons and then having a million pieces to pick up. These water balloons are reusable! We use them for outside play, in the pool, in the tub, and for frozen excavations. Worth every penny!
Water Balloons
This kit is the best! It comes with the loom for multiple bracelet styles and provides for hours of screen-free fun. We love using it when we travel. It's a great busy bag accompaniment because the kit is small enough to fit inside a backpack.
Rainbow Loom MEGA Combo Set, 7000+ Bands
These make a great gift! Giant blocks that are sturdy enough to hold 150 lbs of weight. We love building, destroying, and building again. Because these are big enough to create forts the kids can actually fit in, they are a loved extra in our house.
PixelStackers 100 Jumbo Cardboard Building Blocks
Want something easy to stick in your bag or purse that kiddo 18 months-4 can play with over and over again? This is the item! Easy to carry around, screen-free, and keeps them entertained placing and pulling off the stickers.
Walenced Reusable Sticker Book for Toddlers 1-4 Years
We LOVE Legos and the Creative Brick Sets are our favorite because there are a few direction sets to follow, but real magic in these sets is the open-ended play. Your kids will pull these out over and over.
LEGO Classic Vibrant Creative Brick Box 11038
This is a bubble machine! And what kid doesn't love bubbles. It turns our back yard into a bubble wonderland. It's also been holding up well to my littlest one who thinks he needs to move it constantly.
Narwhal Bubble Maker - Sun Squad™: Plastic Bubble Toy for Kids
We love using these toppers on our magnetic tiles. They go right on top and we create entire roads for our hotwheels cars. The kids love the fact that there are train tiles and road tiles… and they LOVE the parking spots.
Magnetic Tiles Road Toppers Set for Kids 3-6
One of our favorite kits! We love making car tracks and seeing how we can adjust them to make the cars do all sorts of things. We also love the marble run--and the best part with this set is that the marble is big enough you don't need to worry about...
PicassoTiles 108pc 3-in-1 Marble Run Track
Kids in LOVE with Trash Trucks? This one is AMAZING! We bought it for my son 2 years ago and it's still his favorite. The sounds, the fact that he can push it and it will roll on it's own, and the fact that it comes with the containers… it's a winner...
JOYIN Large Friction Garbage Truck Toy Set
We absolutely love these books for on the go screen-free fun. We use them over and over again and both of my kids-3 and 6-love them.
Water WOW! Animals - ON the GO Travel Activity
Hands-down the best bike for young riders. You'll be amazed at how quickly your kiddo understands how to balance and then the transition to a pedal bike is so much easier.
Strider 12” Sport No Pedal Balance Bike Kids
Want to add bricks to your kits but not spend a fortune? These are our favorite non-Lego brand bricks. They click together great with the Legos and allow us to really create a nice set of building blocks.
ekuzi Classic Bulk Bricks Compatible with Lego
Want a tablet that is truly screen-free? These are great because you can take them anywhere, provide for a great drawing surface, and there is no mess.
KOKODI 10 Inch LCD Writing Tablet for Kids
Hear “I'm Bored” no more. Easy opportunities to get your kiddos creative juices flowing and out of the bored slumps.
Summer Adventure Pack-No More I'm Bored
STEAM activities for every season… your kids will LOVE each of the activities and reflection questions are provided so parents can connect with kids.
Seasonal STEAM Activities
This is a favorite for us. Stories, crafts, recipes, and games… and all screen-free. Plus, what kid doesn’t love getting mail?
Highlights for Children