Since last holiday season, we have revamped our Gift Guide! Within this helpful resource you will find all of our top toys organized by age group for the holidays, birthdays, or anytime! We also have some friendly tips for gift giving and how to pick presents for boys and girls, from dolls and science kits to books and pretend play toys. We also have our Gift Finder to help you narrow down our toy selection by age, gender, price and brand. See some favorites below. Perhaps you need some stocking stuffers or other smaller surprises? Browse through hand-picked toys $15 ... Read More >

By now, you may have seen our recent blog posts of shopping tips for holiday toys - browsing by by age group and by toy department. If you know your favorites, want to complete a set, and so on, sometimes the way to go is to shop by brand! We have dozens of educational toy brands on our site, big and small. Here is a selection: Alex Toys Beka Bruder Toys Calico Critters Corolle Dolls Creativity for Kids Educational Insights Franklin Sports Kettler Kid Galaxy Toys Lamaze Toys Manhattan Toy Melissa & Doug Papo Toys Plan Toys Ravensburger Ryan's Room Schleich Toys WOW Toys Please do visit our entire alphabetical brand page, so you can see all that we carry ... Read More >

Having already covered how to browse our site by age group of the child for whom you are shopping, we now take a look at a handy way to shop based on a child's interest - shopping by department! Within all of our departments, you can see more sub-departments, like within Pretend Play Toys you will find Dress-up Toys, Spy Toys, Magic Sets and much more! One of our most expansive departments, among our Arts & Crafts for Kids you'll find kits proper for younger and older kids, plus easels, supplies, and themed projects like sports, nature, and fashion design. We keep ... Read More >

Hello! It's sure been a busy few months for us and we bet it has been for you too! It's hard to believe another holiday season is upon us. We'll be back with more on this blog soon, but for now we wanted to provide some ideas on how to use our website to help simplify your toy shopping for the holidays, while finding quality, educational toys that kids will love. Today, we take a look how to browse and shop by a child's age group! Our selection of baby toys for little ones up to 12 months proves you're never ... Read More >

Greetings from Growing Tree Toys! This quick blog post is to let our friendly readers know that we are taking the summer off from the blog, but will be coming back this fall with something new and exciting! So what have we been up to, and what's going on this summer? Well, we're a relatively small company, but in a way we are "Growing" with two babies arriving in the span of about three months! Looks like we have a couple new in-house product reviewers. So thanks to everyone for reading, and we'll be back soon! In the meantime don't forget ... Read More >

All April long, any reviews submitted and approved count as entries into our Super Review Contest! One lucky reviewer will receive quite the grand prize - a $500 Gift Card to Growing Tree Toys! To get started, simply find a toy on our site that you are familiar with, and review away! The chances you have to win grow with how many reviews you write! - Write up to 5 approved reviews - get 5 contest entries per review! - Write 6-10 approved reviews - get 10 contest entries per review! - Write 11+ approved reviews - get 25 contest entries per review! In addition, ... Read More >