Best toys for 7 year olds 2024, tried and tested by parents and children

They've also probably grown a fair bit in the past few months, and rapidly refined their balance and coordination skills, so pedal bikes and more 'grown-up' scooters are a great buy – as are toys that require running around exercising those improved motor skills outside.

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Your child is also ready for toys that take a little time and patience to build, nurture or collect – from craft projects to more complicated construction toys.

Below, you'll find a great selection of toys suited to your 7-year-old. From science and STEM toys to help improve their education, to care and nurture toys like Tamagotchi's!

Best toys for 7 year olds at a glance

Best science, STEM & building toys for 7 year olds

• Pixicade Mobile Game Maker, £29.99
• SmartGames Cats & Boxes, £16.99
• Schleich Volcano Expedition Base Camp, £119.99
• Build Your Own Tyrannosaurus Rex, £9.99

Best creative toys for 7 year olds

• Gift in a Tin Magical Fairy Fun, £13.93
• Plus-Plus Learn to Build Colorverse, £49.99
• Lexibook Disney Stitch Electronic Diary, £39.99
• Tamagotchi Pix, £59.99
• MINTiD, £45

Best role-play toys for 7 year olds

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Delivery Van, £40 £26.99
• Scruff-a-Luvs Cutie Cuts, £24
• Hot Wheels Action Sky Crash Tower, £54.99

Best dolls and soft toys for 7 year olds

• L.O.L. Surprise! OMG Cores Series 6 – Sketches and Melrose, £29.99 each
• Barbie Pop! Reveal Fruit Series Dolls, £26.99
• Cam the Calico Cat with Beanie Squishmallow, £42.99

Best active toys for 7 year olds

• Dr Zigs My First Giant Bubble Starter Kit, £19.99
• Liferyder Infinity Scooter, £140
• LeapFrog Magic Adventures Binocular Camera, £69.99

What are the best toys for 7 year olds?

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Best Science, STEM & Building toys for 7 year olds

1. Pixicade Mobile Game Maker, £29.99

Available at: Amazon

Age suitability: 6+ | Best for age: 6+ | Batteries: None

A great combination of creativity and gaming, Pixicade is all about drawing out a video game on paper and then seeing how it comes to life as a real game. The games can be played on either a tablet or smartphone, and shared with friends in the Pixicade Arcade on the app. Included in the box are 5 Pixicade pens, 3 game design booklets with an introduction to concepts, activities, templates and 40 drawing pages that take you though ever more complex tasks. Two special QR codes allow you to access the app on 2o devices – and with the app, you upload a pic of your game and, in 30 seconds, the game will be ready to play.

I like that my drawing comes to life and that you actually get to play it as a game. It's my best toy after Lego and playing outside! My favourite games to make are the maze ones and each one gets better.

2. SmartGames Cats & Boxes, £15.99

Available at: Amazon, Smart Toys and Games

Age suitability: 7+ | Best for age: 7+ | Batteries: None

It may seem simple but this single-player game develops logical thinking, problem-solving and pre-coding skills and is a whole lot of fun to boot. The object of the game is to move one puzzle piece at a time until all five cats are inside a box. We love that it has 60 multi-level challenges to complete, providing longevity for your 7-year-old. The mid and high levels are a genuine challenge for parents to join in with, too.

The game is really well made. It is one of those toys that you can play for hours on end and re-use over and over. My daughter really, really enjoyed it. It’s a fantastic twist on a moving pieces puzzle game and the quality is fantastic. It's a really well-thought-out game.

3. Schleich Volcano Expedition Base Camp, £199.99

Available at: Schleich and Amazon

Age suitability: 4+ | Best for age: 6+ | Batteries: 3 x AA (not included) and 4 x LR44 (included)

This volcano set vibrates, smokes, has a river of light-up lave and actually erupts, spewing out stones. Plus, if you can take your eyes off the volcano effects for just a minute, this playset all ofeatures a research station, an obstacle course, an escape slide and a secret cave. It certainly delivers on the excitement front: sounds, vibrations, flashes lights, smoke.

Comes with 1 dinosaur researcher figure, 2 dinosaur figures, a firing canon, a removable laboratory container, crystals, stones, plants, and a stalactite.

The volcano is great, I like making the rocks fall down!

4. Build Your Own Tyrannosaurus Rex, £9.99

Available at: Build Your Own

Age suitability: 8+ | Best for age: 7+ | Batteries: None

This clever kit contains 23 thick cardboard parts that you slot together to build into a sturdy T Rex that stands in a suitably menacing crouch – and, when you pull a tab, it opens its fearsome jaws. The instructions could be a little clearer in places but the build is great fun and takes about 40 minutes. Comes with a press-out T Rex Fact Stand.

I like how the T Rex roars when you move it. Some bits were tricky to build and I needed help but I liked looking for all the different pieces and fitting them together. It looks great when it's finished!

Best creative toys for 7 year olds

5. Gift in a Tin Magical Fairy Fun, £13.93

Available at: Amazon and Bright Minds

Age suitability: 6+ | Best for age: 7+ | Batteries: None

This is a complete craft set in a tin, including all the materials you need (including pipe cleaners, fabric flowers, thread and glue) to make up to 8 wooden-headed fairies and a fairy door. The instructions are easy to follow and picture-led and there's plenty to keep little fingers occupied over several crafting sessions – unlike some kits where all the fun is quickly had and then it's over.

6. Plus-Plus Learn to Build Colorverse, £49.99

Available at: John Lewis and Amazon

Age suitability: 5+ | Best for age: 5-9 | Batteries: none

The Colorverse set is packed with accessories and over 1000 building pieces in a spectrum of beautiful colours. This set includes six small baseplates and ten wheels, offering endless possibilities for building and design.

I liked the different colours available and wanted to try to make the sun and dragon, but it was hard to follow the pictures, even with Mummy’s help (as Mummy struggled too). I like that there’s lots of pieces, and I like picking the colours and counting. Yes, I will play with this again another day.

7. Lexibook Disney Stitch Electronic Diary, £39.99

Available at: The Entertainer and Amazon

Age suitability: 6+ | Best for age: 7 | Batteries required: 3 x AA (not included)

Every child needs a little bit of privacy away from their parents, and you can give them that with this Stitch-themed Electronic Diary. The Electronic Diary comes with a paper notebook which can be locked away inside with a 4-digit code. It also comes with a voice recorder, 10 songs and a built-in photo frame to add the personal touch.

8. Tamagotchi Pix, £58.99

Available at: Amazon

Age suitability: 6+ | Best for age: 7+ | Batteries: 2 x AAA (not included)

This revamped version of the classic '90s toy allows you to interact with your Tamagotchi pet in a whole new way, thanks to a built-in camera. You can use the camera to take photos with your Tamagotchi character, play with them, cook for them, bathe them and customise your items, then connect with friends and send your Tamagotchi on playdates. You can collect multiple Tamagotchi characters and raise them with different traits and jobs, and you can also complete missions on Tamagotchi.com to unlock additional features.

I love this Tamagotchi, I love to use the camera to take photos with it and also take selfies with it. There are so many games, and also I like to complete the missions – some of them are really hard and challenging.

9. MINTiD Dog-E, £66.99

Available at: Amazon and Selfridges

Age suitability: 6+ | Best for age: 6+ | Batteries: 1 x 3.7V Lithium Rechargeable Battery (included)

This highly interactive robot pet has hundreds of responses and personality traits. No two dogs are the same as each one has its own combination of colourful lights, eye shapes, and collar design. Just like the real deal, every dog will behave differently, whether that means they demand food regularly, want lots of walkies or just want more hugs. Whatever their behaviour, your dog will use emotes, icons and messages to communicate with you. You can either interact with the dog itself or through Dog-E’s connected app and even teach it a few tricks.

It is very fun! I like playing the start and stop game with Elsa (the name Melanie gave her Dog-E). There are so many things to play with Elsa in the App. I like changing her colours, I like to feed her with the bone and then she will follow me and I like to take her to the vet.

Best role-play toys for 7 year olds

10. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Delivery Van

Available at: JD Williams and Very

Age suitability: 4+ | Best for age: 7+ | Batteries: 3 x AA (not included)

Our home testers had great fun playing with this exciting playset, which features the pizza van out of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem movie. Brightly coloured and decked out in fun features, the van is designed to help Turtle fans and their friends recreate scenes from the film. The biggest feature is the pizza-fire button, which slings pizzas in quick succession from the van’s motorised launcher and is adjustable so you can hit targets near and far.

The van opens front and back and comes with 8 pizzas to load up and fire. While there is room for all four Turtles and even Splinter to sit together, the figures are sold separately and none are included with this set, which is something to note if your child doesn’t already have the figures.

Harry was so excited to open it and set it up. He was really impressed with how fast the pizzas flew out of the side of the van. He had lots of fun playing with it and showing his 3 year old brother how to flip out the pizzas too.

11. Scruff-a-Luvs Cutie Cuts, £29.98

Available at: Amazon

Age suitability: 5+ | Best for age: 6+ | Batteries: 2 x AAA (included)

This super-shaggy puppy (choose from a Yorkie or a Frenchie) comes with clippers for you to clip its fur into a tidier shape and stuff the clippings into a little cushion for your pup to sit on. The box includes a comb, collar tag, doggy nail polish and other styling accessories – and the box itself doubles as a pooch-pampering salon. It certainly has a lot of wow factor: the clippers make a great buzzing sound, there are accessories to unwrap and, well, who wouldn’t love to paint a pup's toenails?

I loved cutting her hair and washing and drying her. It was a lot of fun and I loved bathing and drying her. This is one of my best toys and I really hope Santa will bring me another one.

12. Hot Wheels Action Sky Crash Tower, £54.99

Available at: Amazon

Age suitability: 5+ | Best for age: 7+ |Batteries: 4 x D (not included)

This tall tower, complete with a looping track, means you can race multiple cars up and down at the same time. It features a motorised booster that makes the cars jump high and crash in mid-air, and comes with 1 Hot Wheels vehicle (others sold separately).

Best dolls and soft toys for 7 year olds

13. LOL Surprise! OMG Core Series 6 – Sketches and Melrose, £29.99 each

Available at: LOL Surprise

Age suitability: 4+ | Best for age: 7+ | Batteries: None

These 2 articulated dolls, sold separately, are loud, bright and colourful and very poseable. Sketches has long rainbow-coloured hair while Melrose has blonde hair and big purple eyes. They come – as you'd expect from the LOL! Surprise label – with 20 'surprises', in little paper parcels, that you unwrap to find clothes, a hair brush and accessories – and there's also a stand. The clothes seems a bit tricky to get on and off at first – until you discover that the doll's hands are removable.

Isabella likes the outfits and has been having fun interchanging them with each other. She loves Sketches’ long rainbow hair and Melrose’s cool guitar bag. The dolls have encouraged some great imaginative play.

14. Barbie Pop! Reveal Fruit Series Dolls, £26.99

Available at: Hamleys, The Entertainer

Age suitability: 3+| Best for age: 3+ | Batteries required: None

The Barbie Pop! series comes with one surprise after another. Our child testers loved opening their drink cup to reveal their fruit-themed Barbie (she comes in one of four flavours: strawberry lemonade, fruit punch, watermelon crush or grape fizz). A neat feature is the colour-changing hair – you just add cold water to your doll and watch as a bright hair streak runs through her hair and make up appears on her face. You can take them away by adding warm water.

The container also unboxes a fruit-scented slime that's hiding Barbie's pet and a number of accessories. Plus, ice cubes that you can "pop" open to reveal extra roller-skates and a mini-drink.

15. Squishmallow Cam the Calico Cat, £42

Available at: Amazon

Age suitability: 3+ | Best for age: 6+| Batteries required: None

With their big eyes, fuzzy fur and squashy insides, these toys are great for squishing – and they've acquired cult status with older children who also enjoy collecting them. One of the first Squishmallows was Cam the Cat. Now, his brother Calico has hit toy shop shelves in his super-stylish purple beanie. Cam comes in multiple sizes but we're plumping for the 16-inch, as it's a great size for bedtime hugs.

Best active toys for 7 year olds

16. Dr Zigs My First Giant Bubble Starter Kit, £19.99

Available at: Amazon

Age suitability: 3+ | Best for age: 6+ | Batteries: None

This eco-friendly bubble kit comes with enough concentrated mixture to make up to 1,000 giant bubbles, a bubble wand, cotton rope and a book of instructions and tips to help your child get started. It takes a wee while to get the hang of making the bubbles (and diluting the mixture correctly) but the results are truly squeal-makingly spectacular.

The bubbles are incredible – this is super cool and exciting!

17. Liferyder Infinity Scooter, £140

Available at: Liferyder

Age suitability: 5+ | Best for age: 7+ | Weight: 5.5kg | Max user weight: 50kg | Batteries: None

This stylish, all-terrain foldable scooter has 2 big 12" wheels and handlebars with 3 height settings (extending from 75cm to 85cm). It’s available in more than 35 different graphic designs – which can be peeled off and replaced as your child's tastes change.

My daughter loves this scooter and this is her preferred choice over her bike and another scooter she has. She loves the funky design on the scooter which makes it really unique and she feels really grown up.

18. LeapFrog Magic Adventures Binocular Camera, £69.99

Available at: Amazon

Age suitability: 4+ | Best for age: 5-7 | Batteries: 4 x AA (included)

These real interactive binoculars can help budding nature enthusiasts to discover plants and animals in their very own back garden. Using the flip up screen, you can view over 340 real life images and videos provided by the BBC of animals, plants, and habitats from all over the world. The binoculars also come with a built-in camera to capture and share photos, and a day and night mode.

My daughter was very excited to play with this toy. I liked how the binoculars took us outside to play and for walks along country lanes and nature reserves, which in turn led to other activities, introducing play and excitement beyond the toy itself.

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