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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Walkie Talkies: Such a fun throwback to childhood! Did you use these as a kid? Take them outside and play hide and seek, or play pretend and go on a rescue mission. These won’t disappoint and can grow with your child!

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.
Magical Scratch Art: Your preschooler can use the wooden stylus to scratch the paper and reveal pictures and colors underneath! This is a great quiet activity that keeps hands busy, too!
Stamp Set: Stamps are a fun and less mess option for arts and crafts and perfect for increasing hand and finger strength.
Clay & Dough Tools: These tools are a perfect size for preschoolers’ hands as they play and mold clay and play dough projects!
Foil Fun: We love these! Practice peeling the stickers and pressing them down on the foil sheet and seeing what you create together!
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.
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.
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.
Popstick Puppets: A fun and simple craft for preschoolers that you can use for pretend play after you finish!

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.
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!
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!
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.
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!

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).
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.
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!
Makeup Toy Set: Channel your child’s inner-diva with this wooden hair and makeup set! Set up a pretend salon and enjoy some pampering from your tiny stylist.
Beauty Vanity: This has been a favorite pretend play toy for Jenna’s goddaughter who loves pretending to do hair and makeup. It’s been used and loved for years.
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!

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!
Hot Wheels T-Rex Chomp Down: For all the Hot Wheels fans, try to hit the spot to knock the dino out on this fun loop track.
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!
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.
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.
Hot Wheels Monster Trucks: For the Hot Wheels collector, add some monster trucks to the collection.
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.
Radio Flyer Ziggle: Twist and wiggle to make this “vehicle” go!
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.

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!
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!
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!
Fort Building Set: Our friends have this and we loved playing with it and building our own forts! Grab all the blankets and get to building together!
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.
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!
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!
Star Flex STEM Building Set: This 70-piece set provides tons of opportunities for building creativity! The different shapes interlock to build whatever comes to mind.

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!
Wooden ABC Blocks: These are fun for stacking and building, but also can help with letter and number identification.
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.
Self-Correcting Alphabet Wooden Puzzles: This puzzle set is great for working on matching and letter identification with capital and lowercase letters.
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.
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.
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.
First Learning Puzzles: Another good set for encouraging letter identification with capital and lowercase letters and talking about letter sounds.
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.
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.

Princess Dress-Up Set: This dress up set is perfect for multiple kids. Toddlers can engage in pretend play while also incorporating color matching and self-dressing skills.
Hair Stylist Outfit: For the preschooler who’s into doing hair and makeup, this hair stylist set is perfect. Let them practice on your hair, or a doll’s!
Firefighter Outfit: Let your little one dress up and come to someone’s rescue! Talk about what firefighters do and fire safety when you are engaging in pretend play, too.
Mail Carrier Outfit: Dress up as an everyday hero and deliver the mail! You can write letters together, draw pictures and talk about sending snail mail to loved ones.
Superhero Dress-Up Set: Practice some dressing skills by fastening and unfastening capes, and putting mask on and off head. Set up an obstacle course with couch cushions and kitchen chairs for your little superhero to ‘fly’ through!
Role Play Doctor Outfit: This set is perfect for any child who is hesitant about doctor visits. Practicing what will happen at the doctor before going helps to calm any fears!
Princess Dress: For the preschool princess, this dress comes with accessories including a crown, jewelry, and gloves. It has amazing reviews, too!
Role Play Construction Outfit: Everything your digger-obsessed child needs to do their own roadwork or construction! Talk about what tools a construction worker uses and the function of each as you add them to the vest! Extend this activity further by “building” something out of cardboard boxes, pretend cardboard bricks, or even real wood!
Police Outfit: This outfit comes with handcuffs, a whistle, badge, and walkie talkie. Great for talking about law enforcement, first responders, and helping others!
Astronaut Costume: For the little one 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. Where will you blast off to next?!
Chef Outfit: Everything your little cook needs to fully take on the role of chef. Talk about what tools a chef uses as you cook together in the play kitchen.

Lucky Ducks: Games are short and interactive as preschoolers use memory and matching skills to find 3 ducks with the same shape on the bottom!
Crocodile Dentist: Don’t get chomped as you try to help the crocodile with his sore tooth! Requires no assembly, easy to play, and fun!
Don’t Break the Ice!: Help Phillip the Penguin stay on the ice! Two players go back and forth tapping the ice cubes until Phillip falls through!
Shark Bite: Take turns rolling the dice to see what color fish you need to reach down and grab out of the shark’s mouth. Be careful, he bites!
Candy Land: Still the best game! Take turns drawing color cards and moving your character across the game board through Candy Land.
Perfection: Who else had this game as a kid, too? Match all of the shapes on the game before the timer goes off and the board pops!
Zingo!: With thousands of 5-star reviews, this game is fast-paced and involves picture matching to fill your bingo card. Take turns zinging the picture cards out while playing!
Hungry, Hungry Hippos: This game can be played with 2-4 players - release the marbles and the hippo who eats the most wins!
Disney Matching: A game that involves memory and matching skills with all of your favorite Disney characters! It comes with 36 different characters, but you can start out with fewer cards to match when you start until your preschooler catches on more and more!
The Sneaky Snacky Squirrel Game: Jenna & Alicia’s boys have this! It’s a fun game that incorporates fine motor skills, color matching, and taking turns.
Hoot Owl Hoot!: Another cooperative game with rave reviews! Help the owls fly back to their nests before the sun comes up.
Hi-Ho Cherry-O: A simple game (and blast from the past!) that involves counting and picking the pretend fruit off the trees!

Kinetic Sand Multi-Pack: Kinetic Sand is always a hit! Pull it and mold it, play with it, then put it back in the bag for another day! Comes with three different colors.
Kinetic Sand Folding Sandbox: A great option for storing your kinetic sand and building and creating again and again! It also comes with tools and molds!
Play-Doh Drill & Fill Dentist: Manipulate and mold the teeth, then pretend to be a dentist together while incorporating fine motor skills!
Model Magic: Aly’s absolute favorite for sensory play! You can mold things and let them dry, or continue to store it and reuse.
Pushpeel Sensory Activity Board: This was designed to offer creative, screen-free play. It’s a silicone board with strings to push, peel, and build on to keep hands busy and the mind thinking! Perfect for traveling!
Star Night Light Projector: Sensory play also involves sight! This star projector creates an awesome view with stars projected on the ceilings and walls. Great for a preschooler interested in outer space OR to create a calming space!
Play-Doh Cookie Creations: Roll the cookie dough, cut it, shape it, push the icing out of the frosting tool, layer it, and more!
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.
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!
Modeling Dough Kit: Great for increasing fine motor strength! Use the different tools to roll, mold, and construct different masterpieces.
Sensory Color Sorting Toy: Jenna’s son got one of these and it’s been so fun! It requires bilateral coordination and hand strength to sort the squishy balls into the matching color pockets. A great quiet activity, or perfect to take in the car!
Sensory Seek & Find Bear: Manipulate, shake, and push on the pouch to search for the different items hidden within bear’s belly! There are 25 items hidden within the sensory beads!

Bugs & Butterflies Puzzle: Help your preschooler put this 64-piece puzzle together using the box as a guide. Once it’s together, use the border of the puzzle to play I Spy with 40 different pictures!
Melissa & Doug Barn Puzzle: Put this large 32-piece puzzle together. If your child is stuck, talk through what’s on the different pieces and how they might fit together.
Alphabet Puzzles: Your preschooler can find the different pieces and assemble each mini puzzle - one for every letter in the alphabet! If your child is stuck, suggest they find all the pieces of a certain color to narrow down the options.
Paw Patrol Puzzles: For the Paw Patrol fan, these two 24-piece puzzles are great! Use the box as a guide, and teach your child how to look for edge and corner pieces.
Large Dinosaur Puzzle: Use the box as a guide for this 4-foot long, 48-piece puzzle. Start by finding the edge pieces and work on finding similar colors on other pieces to see what fits together.
Race Around The World Tracks Puzzle: This 48-piece puzzle forms tracks that run around many of the world’s famous landmarks! Use the track’s direction to help provide clues on what pieces fit together. Once you complete this puzzle, a wind-up car can race around the world you built together!
Safari Animal Puzzle: A brightly colored 36-piece floor puzzle with lots of different animals. Help your preschooler find the pieces that work together!
Ocean Puzzle: Another fun floor puzzle with 48 pieces. Help your preschooler by showing them the box as a guide and looking for the corner and edge pieces.
Above & Below Puzzle: A 48-piece puzzle with animals and creatures that live above and below ground! Work on finding the pieces with brown and black to know they go on the bottom (below ground).
Puzzle Sets: Enjoy working on different 60-piece puzzles together! Use the box as a guide for each one and talk about the different animals you see!
Farm Cube Puzzle: Work those problem-solving skills with this wooden cube puzzle - 6 sides means 6 different puzzles! Help your preschooler by showing them how to find the pieces with a border and looking for the same color backgrounds.
Space Puzzle: Work on this circular 48-piece puzzle - the different shape is a fun challenge! Start by looking for all the pieces with the white border to get the outer circle completed, then go from there.

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!

A Hat For House: A storm rips off the roof of a house and the neighborhood comes together to help! A story of helping hands and community.
Clothesline Clues for the First Day of School: The clothesline has clues for who children will meet on the first day of school! A fun story with rhyming and a great primer for school.
Pete the Cat’s Wacky Taco Tuesday: We love Pete the Cat books! This one involves creativity as Pete and his family make tacos at home.
All The Things You Are (and What They Mean): Written by an SLP, this book talks about the characteristics that make children unique!
Never Ever Ask a Pirate to a Party: A silly story about different personalities and acceptance. Party guests cause a ruckus but then come together to make it all better.
The Perfect Fit: A story about a Triangle who thinks she needs to find her same shape, but then realizes that different shapes working together is more fun!
School for Monsters: Dom’s Favorite Things: A story about a little monster who has things he likes and doesn’t want to share them. Other monsters accept him for who he is and he learns how to make friends and share.
How Do Apples Grow?: A more academic book about apples and the growth process. It’s great for practicing story retell and learning about a common fruit!
Giraffe in the Bath: A fun early phonics book that focuses on rhyming! The giraffe has a silly experience that turns out to be fun and gets kids laughing!
Friends: A fun story about how friends can leave each other but find each other again later in life. A great book for littles who may be going to a different preschool than their friends or moving.
Penelope’s Balloons: A story about a little elephant who holds onto 10 balloons and values them more than anything and doesn’t want to play with others for fear of popping them. She loses the balloons and her friends find them and she realizes that the things she has don’t matter as much as the people around her. They accept her for who she is and she still carries some balloons with her.
Table Manners for Tigers: A funny story about how to act at parties and at the dinner table. Perfect for little ones going to a party soon or transitioning to eating in a big chair at the dining room table!