Gifts for Kids under $25

The glowing peg board, updated with a brighter light and the same pegs. Under ten dollars and in every stocking.

Pick a card, pass the rest, build the best sushi plate. Fifteen minutes, twelve dollars, in a tin that fits a pocket.

A hundred wooden blocks in four colors with a box to put them back in. The first building toy, at fourteen dollars.

Two real walkie talkies that reach across a campground. The gift siblings use for a year of spying on each other.

The card game for kids and adults where you try not to draw the exploding kitten. Fifteen minutes, endless rematches.

500 interlocking plastic discs in a jar. The building toy that costs twenty dollars and gets built with for years.

A thousand pieces of Disney and Pixar characters on a table for a week. The recovery gift that fills quiet evenings.

140 crayons, markers and pencils in a case that closes. The art supply gift that goes in the car.

Two teams, one-word clues, twenty-five words on the table. The party game that works with grandparents and gamers at once.

Sand that sticks to itself and not to the floor, in a box with molds and tools. The quiet-afternoon toy.

The 16 inch Squishmallow, the size that works as a pillow. Austin the Avocado is the one that is never out of stock.