An educational toy is a toy designed to teach people, typically children, about a certain subject or help them learn a skill as they play. A teddy bear A Toy is an object used in play. ...

Examples include:

• Building toys, such as toy blocks.
  • Automoblox wooden construction cars
  • Konstruk-Tubes Tubular Building Kit
• Interactive electronic toys
  • LeapFrog Enterprises: LeapPad, iQuest
  • Texas Instruments Speak & Spell, Speak & Read and Speak & Math
  • Geniac and Brainiac
• Educational electronics kits
  • Gakken EX-System and Denshi blocks
• Educational science kits
  • chemistry sets
  • crystal growing kits
  • Toy microscope
    • Intel Play
• Scale models
  • Model airplanes
  • Model railroads
  • Model cars and other vehicles
  • Animal replicas, such as the dinosaur-themed Carnegie collection
• Toy musical instruments
  • Toy piano
• Robot kits
  • Lego Mindstorms
  • qfix robot kit

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See also

• Educational game
• Constructionist learning