12 Best Magnetic Toys for Kids, Tested and Reviewed

The Good Housekeeping Institute performs toy testing year-round to create gift guides such as this list of the best magnetic toys. As new toys come in to our Lab, the Good Housekeeping Institute does testing to look for the following:

✔️Safety: Our engineers and analysts make sure that each toy reaches all safety standards. They double-check that there are no pinch points that could hurt a child’s finger, for instance, and perform a drop test to be sure that if a toy falls, it won’t shatter into small pieces and potentially pose a choking hazard.

✔️Ease of use: We evaluate how simple a toy is to assemble, how well it’s constructed and how durable it is during play.

✔️Educational value: A toy is rarely just a toy. Most offer the opportunity for kids to learn, too. Our analysts determine whether toys can help kids understand math concepts, work their imagination, hone their literacy, develop social-emotional skills and more.

✔️Kid approval: We’d never recommend a toy unless we’re sure that children actually like it! Our experts use our own children plus call on a families who test at home to assess the fun factor.