Sensory Fidget Tubes
Watching the glitter, colors and other materials traverse these fidget tubes offers a calming experience for kids who need a minute to cool down. This set comes with four tubes, a glitter tube, a fidget tube, a reverse hourglass and a gravity spinner, but Hand2Mind also has tubes that also work on naming emotions or look like trees in changing seasons, among others. Ages 3+
Mega Bloks Musical Farm Band
This toy is a two-for-one: Kids can use the big building blocks to construct some of their favorite farm animals — which, when assembled, double as musical instruments. It comes with 45 blocks that can become horse xylophone, a cow drum, a pig cymbal, a chicken rattle, an egg clacker, a sheep with guiro-like notches and more. In addition, some of the blocks have other sensory features, like ears with textures or pieces that click, and it also comes with six color-coded pieces of sheet music with nursery rhymes. “This is a great toy for fine motor development and musical interest,” one parent tester noted. Ages 1+
