The holiday catalogs have started arriving in droves and Black Friday is just around the corner! That means it's time to start thinking about holiday presents, but I thought I'd try something different for this year's Holiday Gift Guide. I love doing categories of presents (like last year's gift guide for the Little Art + Crafter, Young Builder, Starting Scientist, Beginning Traveler, and Budding Designer), but I thought it would be fun to re-group all of our Friday Five favorites of what we've been playing and reading for this year's guide. They are all tried, tested, and approved by Kane and Cam (and me). I simply listed them in the order we played or read them this year. So without further adieu, here's what we've loved from this year that we think would make perfect holiday gifts for your kiddos!
Playing
1. White Mountain puzzles
2. LEGO Architecture Studio
3. Timeline Historical Events card game
4. Brain Quest cards
5. Twister
6. Robot Turtles
7. Rat-a-Tat Cat
8. Zeus on the Loose
9. Sushi Go
10. Agricola
11. Cinderella Uno
12. Dragonwood
13. Zeus on the Loose
14. Spy Gear
15. Outfoxed
16. Clue
17. Baba Yaga
18. Top Trumps Harry Potter
19. Don't Be Greedy
20. Pokemon Trading Cards
21. Longhorn
22. Cranium Brain Breaks
23. Magnatiles
24. Sorry
25. Just Desserts
26. Enchanted Forest
27. Set
28. Rush Hour
29. Grimm's Wooden Mandala
Reading
1. Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase series
2. Seven Wonders series
3. The Sherlock Files series
4. The Secrets of Droon series
5. Septimus Heap series
6. Blue Balliet's Hold Fast
7. Blue Ballet's Pieces and Players
8. A to Z Mysteries series
9. The Island of Dr. Libris
10. Treasure Hunters series
11. Benjamin Franklin Huge Pain in My ...
12. Lunch Money
13. The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers)
14. Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
15. A Week in the Woods
16. The Heartbreak Messenger
17. Sasek Classics
18. Magic Treehouse series
19. The Worst Class Trip Ever
20. Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series
21. Brick Fairy Tales + Greek Myths
22. Lunch Lady series
23. Enchanted Glass
24. Mr. Chickees Funny Money
25. The Call of the Wild
26. A Street Through Time
27. The Chronicles of Narnia
28. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
29. The Unwanteds
30. Treasure Island
31. I Funny series
32. Travels with Gannon and Wyatt series
33. Phillipa Fisher and the Fairy Godsister
34. How to Catch a Bogle
35. The School Story
36. The Gutsy Girl
37. Woods Runner
38. Cam Jansen series
39. House of Robots series
40. Inkspell
41. The Great Shelby Holmes
42. Frank Einstein series
43. Bad Kitty series