Is there anything better than getting to crawl into a tent and having a private space to play, read and relax? We think not. This year, one of the most versatile gifts you can give your little one is a canopy tent. 

Some of the prettiest and most durable ones come from The Better Toy Store, which offers a variety of tents for every kind of child. Our personal favourite is the Marrakesh Canopy Tent, which transforms playrooms into fun adventure lands. Complete with full-length mesh windows that provide privacy without preventing light and ventilation, as well as internal pockets to store toys and trinkets and more, this is a gift that will stay with your kiddo for years to come. 

Remember those little inflatable pools our parents would get for us when we were kids to splash around in? Well, they have only gotten bigger and better. 

This year, get your kids out of the house to enjoy the sun with Motherswork’s Intex Gator Play Centre. This dynamic inflatable pool features a water spray, a water slide, a mushroom shade for those extremely hot days, inflatable fish and even a fishing bucket for added fun. 

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Get ready to be named parent of the year when your child unwraps the Melissa & Doug Fresh Mart Grocery Store set.

Available at Pupsik, a local toy store, the Melissa & Doug Fresh Mart Grocery Store is a free-standing play space that allows kids to role-play shopping and checking out customers at a supermarket. The realistic wooden set comes with a hand-cranked conveyor belt, a play scanner, a bagging area, a card swipe machine, a cash drawer, and shelves for supermarket produce. 

This Christmas, try something new by getting the Tatling in your life a wooden activity set from Enstories that is both educational and imaginative.

The play set features 324 wooden pieces and is perfect for a child who is just learning how to count, sort and identify colours. Besides being incredibly durable, these loose pieces, which come in nine variations and different colours, allow your child to play freely, imagine and create independently. 

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