🦁 Lions? 🐯 Tigers? 🐼 Bears? Oh my! Here’s a new bundle for animal loving kiddos! The All About Animals Gift Bundle is an animal-themed gift pack that includes four Zoo Friends Hand Puppets, an 8-piece Zoo Animals Sounds Puzzle, and a 20-piece Wooden Animal Magnets set. AND this week you have the chance to win one for free! 🐒 Sign up for our email updates this week for your chance to enter (details in stories!) #Lion #Tiger #Giraffe #Puppet #ScreenFreePlay #MelissaAndDoug

Exploring nature offers connection to the larger world and a sense of inner peace. That’s the #PowerofPlay!

Dr. Becky is here to share her advice on playdates! From toddler tantrums to squabbles over sharing, she offers pointers for playdates all around. 😌 Behavior is just the surface our child’s experience, so how do we get curious about what’s underneath behavior? We can start with questions such as, “What’s happening for my child who refuses to share?” or “Why might two friends leave another friend out?” These questions reframe our kids’ struggles as good kids having a hard time, not bad kids doing bad things. To learn more about understanding your kiddo’s behavior, check out our latest blog post, “Dr. Becky’s Guide to Playdates.” (Link in stories!)

So fresh and oh so sweet! Let your littles practice their big business skills with a summertime classic. Find our new Lemonade Pitcher Set and Lemonade Stand both exclusively available at @walmart. 🍋🥤

Nothing beats the sensation of an ice cream cone…except maybe this! Featuring four adorable ice cream scoops that stretch to show friendly faces, a vibrating and chiming effect when it shrinks back down, and multi-textured pieces to help your littles develop their fine motor and sensory skills! #IceCream #ASMR #NewToy #SensoryPlay #MelissaAndDoug

Say hello to Dr. Becky! 👋 Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, mom of three and CEO/Founder of Good Inside. Named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine, she’s rethinking the way we raise our children 💖 We are so excited to partner with her as she shares tips for play and her top toy picks!

Children learn and grow when they explore the physical world. Their minds learn best when they interact and play with parents, siblings, caregivers, and others. Some ways you can help boost their developmental play are: Stimulating their senses, by drawing attention to their sensory experiences through questions, like "what color are you using?" and "have you heard that sound before?" Fine-tuning their fine motor skills, by giving them opportunities to literally grasp the world around them, (like grabbing and pulling fabric from a small container, unearthing buried toys in the sandbox, etc.) And helping to strengthen their memories by playing memory games to build both visual memory (what they see) and auditory memory (what they hear and read).

Are your kid’s puzzle skills absolutely ah-maze-ing? PAW Patrol has got your back! Let them flex that brain power whenever, wherever with 4 different mazes to discover, a million stories to create, and zero pieces to lose! Perfect for encouraging fine motor skills, color matching, counting, and focused play! #PAWPatrol #Maze #ScreenFreePlay #ScreenFreeKids #MelissaAndDoug

We just ❤️ seeing your littles with their favorite toys! | @_islajune, “Eden loves slotting the wooden food shapes in to the puzzle boards & through the holes in the cart! He’s also loved loading his cart up and whizzing around the house. It’s a fab way to help little ones with their learning & development whilst having lots of fun!”

It's officially the first day of summer! And you can’t spell “summer day” without M&D! 😎☀️ Send us your favorite sunny summer memories with your little ones and their favorite Melissa & Doug toys for a chance to be featured! #Summer #SummerFun #SummerMemories #OutdoorPlay #ScreenFreePlay #ScreenFreeKids #MelissaAndDoug

I 😱, you 😱, we all 😱 for 🍦! 😋 @owensbytheocean is a girl after our own ❤️!

Happy Father’s Day! It is so much fun to see of the quality time between dads and kiddos. Check out our stories for a look at some of our favorite moments shared with us!