Winner:GOLD Best Toy Design (6+ Years)
Who:Yoto
What:Yoto Mini (2024 Edition)
Why:
Yoto Mini provides a wonderful way for your children to explore independent listening, allowing them to hone their taste and giving them autonomy with their listening choices. This player works with a library of over 1000 audio cards containing audiobooks, music, creative and learning activities and podcasts. It has an amazing battery time of 14 hours and its extremely portable size, makes it ideal for your child to take anywhere! Holidays, car journeys, sleepovers and visits, it provides a world of entertainment for your child without a screen in sight. We love how it is so simple to use – simply pick an audio card, slot it in the top and use the two dials to select and adjust volume.
“ Fantastic! So simple and yet with such a great variety of ways to entertain and stimulate your children.
“Excellent easy and intuitive design. Love that this allows such a range of screen free play, including make your own! An innovative way to engage a child during travel or for quiet time with a wide range
of screen free fun.”
“I am so impressed with the size - perfect for travel and I would MUCH prefer my daughter to listen to music and stories on a flight than be glued to a screen.”
Innovative and look cool. The perfect blend of play and technology.
Winner:SILVER Best Toy Design (6+ Years)
Who:WellyWeight
What:WellyWeight
Why:
This wonderful water game has such a simple and ingenious premise. It provides hours of fun while developing confidence and learning limits in the water. The light-up WellyWeight adds a whole new dimension and extra layer of fun to dive and retrieve games and creates a sense of drama as you race to beat the light! Easily changed settings on the base of the welly mean you can set the time for different abilities with a choice of 10, 20, or 30 seconds.
“ A great idea to encourage confidence in the water.”
“Easily A+ for innovation”
“Unexpected design - cute and memorable. Colour changing fun. Very creative! A fun game for the whole family!”
So fun! As the parent to a child who is learning to swim and dive, I think this is such a great product that makes the process into a game. Great idea!
Winner:BRONZE Best Toy Design (6+ Years)
Who:Plum Play
What:Plum® Water Park Blaster Course
Why:
This Water Park Blaster course is a child’s dream and addresses multiple aspects of development, as is standard with this fantastic company. With features like water blasters, splash areas, and many interactive elements, it encourages children to invent their own games and work together creatively, while promoting physical activity and outside play, which is so important for developing strength, coordination and physical and mental wellbeing. Made with weather resistant, strong, high quality and non-toxic materials, parents can rest assured that the Water Park Blaster Course will provide their children with a safe, durable and stimulating toy for many years.
A brilliant way to encourage physical activity and interaction. I love the way it stimulates creative thinking to get around the course.
Great design inspiring summertime fun with friends and family.
Something different for those summer months. Kids will love this.
