{"id":1417,"date":"2008-11-15T10:28:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T15:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2009-11-17T08:12:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T13:12:26","slug":"best-bet-toys-for-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/11\/15\/best-bet-toys-for-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Bet Toys for 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Edited to add: <\/strong>Click this link for information on the most recent CTTC Toy Report for 2010<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

Apparently, I’m a creature of habit and tradition. (Who knew?) Each year since 2005, I’ve blogged about<\/a> the Canadian Toy Testing Council’s <\/a>annual Toy Reports. I love these reports because they aren’t sponsored by any company or store; toys are tested and rated by Canadian kids and families. You can search for a particular toy<\/a> to see how it ranks and what families did and did not like about the toy, or you can peruse the Best Bet listings<\/a> for the best-ranked toys of the year. There’s also a “children’s choice<\/a>” category, and breakdowns by age group.<\/p>\n

This year’s Best Bet toys include old standards like playdough (in this case a Diego\/Backyardigans combo), Brio trains, Lego, and a handful of Crayola sets. They also recommend a Musical Bingo game which sounds kind of intriguing and an indoor Scavenger Hunt game from Pazow<\/a> that I might just have to pick up for my little scavengers.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for recommendations for great kids’ books, you can get that from the CTTC site, or you can hop over to Mad Hatter’s blog<\/a> and take a look at her ongoing series<\/a> on the subject.<\/p>\n

This year, our Christmas gifts to the boys will skew toward their current obsessions with Lego, Pokemon (choke), and Star Wars. Simon loves board games as much as I do, so we’ll add to our family collection of those, too. And while I’m guessing Lucas would be just as content to play with the wrappings as the toys inside, I’ve got one of these classic FP telephones<\/a> stashed away for him, too. Some toys never go out of style!<\/p>\n

Got a favourite toy or gift to recommend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Edited to add: Click this link for information on the most recent CTTC Toy Report for 2010.] Apparently, I’m a creature of habit and tradition. (Who knew?) Each year since 2005, I’ve blogged about the Canadian Toy Testing Council’s annual Toy Reports. I love these reports because they aren’t sponsored by any company or store; … Continue reading “Best Bet Toys for 2009”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-culture","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}