All our favorites for preschoolers,
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There is something for every preschooler to learn and play with as they grow! Check it out!

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Bean Bag Toss Game: Bean bag toss games are great for increasing hand eye coordination, balance, and overall gross motor coordination. Take a few steps back or try to stand on one foot to make the activity harder!
Stomp Rocket Dueling Launcher: Practice jumping and stomping as you and your child see how high you can make the rocket fly. Race to find where the rockets fell, and do it all over again!
Mini Glider: Get outside and practice gross motor coordination skills as your preschooler throws the glider in the air to make it fly. Model how to launch the glider and see whose goes further.
Hopper Ball: These are great for balance and coordination. Once your preschooler gets the hang of hopping, have them hop around an obstacle course you create!
Toss & Catch Set: Another great way to get outside and practice hand-eye coordination and modeling functional language: “swing, catch, throw!”
My First Foam Pogo: This is a great activity for sensory input and overall strength & coordination. Use inside or outside for endless fun!
Bubble Wand Set: With this set you can blow bubbles, or see bubbles form when using your arms to swing the bigger wands back and forth! This set is also fun for color and shape labeling. See who can blow the biggest bubble!
Grow-With-Me Batting Tee: Practice batting without having to continually go and chase the ball! Great for working on hand-eye coordination and overall balance.
Chalk Holder: Have fun with chalk without getting your hands messy! Writing with chalk is a great and fun way to practice mature grasping and pre-writing skills.
Mini Goal Sports Set: Kick the soccer ball, slap shot the hockey ball, and more! Great for a little one who is trialing out different sports, or you want options to play in the backyard or in the driveway! Your preschooler will utilize visual-spatial skills when kicking or hitting the balls into the goals.
Wooden Sensory Table: Preschoolers still love sensory experiences! Made with solid wood and comes with collapsible bins - this table is great for sensory and imaginative play.

Paint With Water: This painting book comes with the paint already on the page - just get a cup of water and start painting! Practice a mature grasp using the paintbrush and starting to paint inside the lines.
Snip, Snip! Scissor Skills Book: Cut, fold, paste, and create. This is a great activity book for practicing scissor skills while your little one creates different crafts.
Wooden Craft Kit: Work on sequencing, problem solving skills, and fine motor coordination as your little one paints and builds these wooden cars. After creating your vehicles, take your cars to the floor for a vehicle race.
Modeling Dough Kit: Great for increasing fine motor strength! Use the different tools to roll, mold, and construct different masterpieces.
Foil Fun: We love these! Practice peeling the stickers and pressing them down on the foil sheet and seeing what you create together!
Play-Doh Vet Set: A fun way to incorporate sensory play while working on fine motor skills! Your preschooler can “groom” the dog while practicing using scissors & tweezers, stamping, molding, and more.
Stamp Set: Stamps are a fun and less mess option for arts and crafts and perfect for increasing hand and finger strength.
Spirograph Jr.: Remember these?! Such a fun activity for increasing pencil grasp strength and coordination. Take turns picking out different wheels to create different designs and pictures.
Silicone Art Mat: Help contain the mess of arts and crafts with this wipeable silicone mat. Have your preschooler practice squeezing the paints into the squares, dipping the paintbrush, and then washing it off, too.
Twistables Crayons: These are great for using in coloring books to practice coloring in the lines. Your child can work on mature grasping and twisting with these crayons.
Craft Scissors: These are perfect scissors to transition to when your child is ready to graduate to “real scissors”. Help teach scissor safety by practicing placing the cap on the scissors when you are not using them.
Play-Doh Mixer Set: So much sensory pretend play here. Let your little chef mix, press, squeeze, roll and manipulate all types of kitchen creations with this mixer set!

Cash Register: Pretend to buy simple things around the house and have your little one “check you out.” Great for practicing identifying numbers, simple math, and increasing fine motor coordination as they press buttons and handle the money.
Melissa & Doug S’mores Play Set: Practice sequencing as you and your child roast, construct, then serve s’mores to each other. Use this set to talk about and teach campfire safety before going outside to make real s’mores together.
Grill & Serve BBQ Set: Take turns taking each other’s order with this fun grill set. Work on fine motor skills as you use the play knife, spatula, and tongs to flip, cook, cut & serve items.
Classroom Play Set: Playing school is a fun way to introduce and talk about preschool. Take turns playing teacher and use the daily board to create your own circle time. Start to introduce weather, the days of the week, and a simple daily schedule (i.e. play-eat-outside).
Grocery Store Food & Role Play Set: Let’s go shopping! Set up some play food items around the house, then give your child a list and have a scavenger hunt to find all of the items. Cash each other out to work on simple math concepts and counting.
Melissa & Doug Scoop and Serve Ice Cream Set: What a fun set that’s perfect for modeling phrases and longer sentences (“I want a BIG ice cream cone! I want MORE scoops!”) as well as later modeling colors and descriptive words (“ooooh my ice cream is SO COLD!”) Practice ordering and taking turns making ice cream with your little one!
Lalo Workbench: This is sturdy & so well made, we love it! Support fine motor and pretend play skills all at once! Find something that is “broken” or needs “fixing” and get to work. Model how to use the tools, but also let your child troubleshoot. Then narrate the process from start to finish! Code EATPLAYSAY saves 10%!
Dentist Pretend Play Set: Great set for talking about and modeling teeth brushing, flossing, and what happens when you go to the dentist. Have your little one practice on the play mouth. Model all of the different tools and work together as the dentist and hygienist!
Pet Care Play Set: A great way to teach responsibility through play! Your preschooler can take care of the dog & cat - feed and groom them. This allows for great realistic pretend play.
Astronaut Outfit: For the child who loves adventure and outer space! Talk about spaceships, rockets, planets, stars, and more. To take the role play further, build a fort and pretend it’s a space shuttle.
Fishing Play Set: Go fishing! It comes with measuring cards so your preschooler can measure how big the fish are. Such a great hands-on tool for learn big vs. small and counting.
Tea Set: Have a tea party with some friends or stuffed animals. Practice scooping, pouring, and serving with this precious tea party set. Take turns serving each other and engaging in pretend play!

Lite Brite: Another throwback! Remember these?! Lite Brite is perfect for rainy or cold day fun! Increase fine motor skills and problem solving as your child pokes the pegs in to make beautiful pictures.
Pen Control Tracing Book: A great on-the-go activity book for the car or a restaurant. Your little one can practice their writing and tracing skills, then erase and use again and again.
Wooden Shape Puzzles: A great activity for talking about shapes and matching as your child uses the picture cards to create the same image.
Dressing Busy Boards: These aren’t just for fine motor skills, they are great for practicing those self-help and dressing skills outside of actual dressing times.
Wooden Lacing Boards: There’s a card and lace for every letter of the alphabet! Work on hand-eye coordination, fine motor control, letters, sounds, and vocabulary all at once.
Magnetic Color & Number Maze: Practice color sorting and increasing pencil grasp as you drag the colored balls to their corresponding colored ice cream cone. Since everything is contained, this is a great activity for on-the-go.
Noodle Knockout: A fun game for preschoolers! Practice counting, taking turns, and increasing hand strength.
Wooden Sticks Game: A fun fine motor game for kids. Let them help you align and push the sticks into the tower, then practice using a pincer grasp to pull the sticks out before making the balls drop!
Rock ‘n’ Gem Surprise!: Our OT’s FAVORITE fine motor game. This game works on everything - from hand strengthening to bilateral coordination (using two hands together) and more. You and your little one will love breaking open the rocks to find the hidden gems!
**Pro Tip: Have a picky eater?! Hide small food items inside the rocks to help spice up meal times!
Helping Hands Fine Motor Set: Put these tools in a sensory bin and work on so many fine motor skills. Scoop, squeeze, drop, and pinch!
Lacing Sneaker: Introduce your preschooler to lacing and the steps to tying a shoe!

Remote Controlled Car: Let your child “take the wheel” and experiment with controlling the car. This stunt car can flip, spin and rotate 360 degrees!
Blu Track: A fan favorite at Aly’s house. It’s easy to set up your own track and works with any car! Use it indoors or outside!
Radio Flyer Ziggle: Twist and wiggle to make this “vehicle” go!
Razor Jr. Lil’ Kick: A fun ride to take a spin around the block or on a walk. Works on lower body strength & coordination, too!
Magnatiles Downhill Duo: This is a great toy that combines building skills with a love for racing cars. Your child can build the track and watch the cars zoom down.
Picasso Tiles Race Track: Build a race track however you’d like and see how fast the cars can go! Problem solve putting the track together while introducing the concepts of gravity and speed.
Bike: A great option when your child is ready to graduate from a trike! It comes with sturdy training wheels and an adjustable handle, too.
Hot Wheels Monster Trucks: For the Hot Wheels collector, add some monster trucks to the collection.
Hot Wheels Ultimate Garage: There is so much to do with this! Park 50 cars, race, complete stunts, fire the cars down the track to defeat the dragon, and more. Fantastic reviews.
Lego Set - Spidey’s Mobile Headquarters: This is a great set for the Spidey fan who likes to build. Work together to complete this set using the included guides. Once it’s complete, your child can engage in endless pretend play.
Road Tape: Let your preschooler pull, tear, and press the tape down to create their own racetrack or roads.

Lego City Fire Station: A great building set if your child has graduated from Duplo blocks. Practice sequencing, following directions, using the picture guides to build together, and engaging in pretend play!
Magnatiles Classic Set: Build in 2D or 3D with this set. Your preschooler can imagine a scene, and then build it!
Duplo Visit The Vet Set: Engage in open-ended play with this vet set. Build together, then talk about what vets do.
Train Tracks: Building doesn’t just mean blocks! Work on increasing motor skills and problem-solving skills with your child as you work together to build a train track. Practice driving the train along the track as you build to help them problem solve how to keep building the track. This set is compatible with many train brands!
Lego Classic Set: If your preschooler has graduated from Duplo blocks, this is a great starter set to introduce Legos! The pieces are smaller so your child will also be using fine motor skills when building! This set allows for tons of creativity.
Magnatiles Space Shuttle Set: 3, 2, 1…blast off! If your preschooler is interested in outer space, this is a cool set to add to your Magnatiles collection. Build the space shuttle and talk about astronauts, rockets, and the solar system.
Electric Drill & Building Set: This set is versatile and works on lots of skills through play! Create patterns with the nuts and bolts, build flowers or other figures, too. Your preschooler will use their imagination and creativity while building something different each day - all while working on hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills!
Lincoln Logs: Did you know Frank Lloyd Wright’s son invented Lincoln Logs in the early 1900s?! This is a tried and true building toy that works on fine motor coordination, creativity, and concentration!
Gears Building Set: A great set to introduce STEM concepts and build with gears. This set works on cause and effect, problem solving skills, and so much more.
Melissa & Doug Town Play Set: We have this set and love it! Use it on a car rug, or build your own town with Magnatiles as the roads and these buildings/stores and traffic signs. Talk about which buildings will go where and what occupations are within the town!
Lego City Construction Set: Construction lovers will enjoy building a wrecking ball crane, dump truck, and abandoned house. Use the picture instructions to build and play together. Legos are great for working on focus, concentration, and problem solving skills through play!

Wooden ABC Blocks: These are fun for stacking and building, but also can help with letter and number identification.
Alphabet Puzzle: Ask your preschooler where certain letters are - “Can you find the K?” If they need help, tell them what color to look for as a hint - “It’s yellow!” When you’ve found all the letters, have your child put the puzzle back together again!
Pen Control Tracing Book: A great on-the-go activity book for the car or a restaurant. Your preschooler can practice their writing and tracing skills while identifying letters, too.
Alphabet Acorns: Pop each acorn open to find a little toy that starts with that letter! Work on letter identification, and start to introduce letter sounds. “Look, the A has an apple!” Practice sorting with this set as well.
Self-Correcting Alphabet Wooden Puzzles: This puzzle set is great for working on matching and letter identification with capital and lowercase letters.
First Learning Puzzles: Another good set for encouraging letter identification with capital and lowercase letters and talking about letter sounds.
Counting Sheep: Match the sheep’s wool to the colored dots on its back. Your preschooler can work on color matching, counting, and number identification.
Self-Correcting Number Puzzles: This set works on number identification and representation. Introduce number order, talk about which pieces have more items and which have less items.
Alpha Pops: Match the capital letter to the lowercase letter on the pops, all while working on hand strength clicking the popsicle pieces together and taking them apart.
See & Spell Puzzles: Great first puzzle for beginning spellers. Use the puzzle and letters to talk about each of their sounds and how they go together to make a word.
Write & Wipe ABC: Work on mature pencil grasp and tracing capital and lowercase letters with this book!
Magnetic Fishing Puzzle: Practice using motor control to hover the fishing pole over the fish pieces to “fish” them off of the puzzle board while working on letter identification.

Standing Easel: Did you know writing/coloring/drawing on a vertical surface increases hand and wrist strength?! This easel is perfect for holding paper steady while your preschooler creates, all while strengthening their fine motor muscles!
Kidkraft Large Dollhouse: Dollhouses are great for pretend play, acting out routines, and more! This one is great because it’s a larger/taller size for preschool-aged children and comes furnished.
Sensory Swing: If you have a child who is sensory-seeking, or one that just loves to swing, this is a great “toy.” This swing provides a hug-effect that helps to provide gentle pressure and a calming effect. It can also be used to climb on to develop balance and other gross motor skills!
The Big Dig: Exactly what it looks and sounds like - this is a big digger your child can operate! There are 2-handed controls that make it easy to both dig and dump. Take it in the sandbox, out to shovel snow, or dig holes to plant a garden!
Tonie Box: The perfect “no screen” option for kids, Tonie boxes play your child’s favorite stories in an easy-to-operate audio player. Listening to stories read aloud strengthens your child’s attention, listening and comprehension skills! All the EPS team’s toddlers have Tonie boxes and LOVE them.
Everyday Heroes Play Set: These toys are great for preschoolers because they allow combinations of concepts to create phrases and sentences. Plus, acting out 3-4 part routines help with following of multi-step directions and sequencing. Work on pairing nouns & verbs in phrases, and adding adjectives as your child grows and creates different play scenes with the community helpers.
Climbing Dome: Your child can get their energy out and work on balance, climbing skills, and coordination with this climbing dome.
Rock & Roll Seesaw: Okay, these are so cool and we hear great things! Tons of fun while your child works to balance and climb on this inflatable rock & roll seesaw.
Grocery Mart: This is such a fun set! Your child can stock their grocery mart with play food, move the belt to scan items, input numbers on the calculator and practice counting money and giving change, too. The pretend play is endless.
Truck Builder Kit: Our friend’s boys LOVE this! You can take the parts off and put them back on. It has lights and real engine sounds! You can pretend to check the oil, beep the horn, shift gears, etc. It’s great for the preschooler who loves to tinker!