Little boys can be difficult to shop for, even more so during the holidays when everything is on sale and looks good. But we also know that the more gifts the kids receive the less time they’ll devote to each one, so we want ours to be the one that they love so much they’re still playing with it months after unwrapping. With any luck, it will become their favorite and they’ll refuse to put it down!

To make life a little simpler, I’ve compiled this list of 40 AMAZING toy ideas under $50 for your toddler boy, nephew, God Son, you name it! They are all great for birthdays, the holidays, or even just because. Check it out and see if the perfect gift for your 2-year-old boy is on it!

Best gifts for toddler boys

Magna-Tiles 32-Piece Clear Colors Set

This 3D magnetic building blocks set is STEM approved! It not only helps encourage hours of imaginative free play but it also helps to develop your child’s math, science, and tactile skills! 

4 Sets Kids' Role Play Costumes

Every child loves to play dress up, and with these costumes, your child can choose between being a doctor, a surgeon, a police officer, or even a fire chief! This set helps to develop educational skills, work on problem-solving, and helps to give recognition to these job professions. It also promoted children’s collaboration and communication skills which are great! 

Little Tikes Cozy Coupe 30th Anniversary Car

What makes this Cozy Coupe extra special is that it has removable floorboards and a handle for parents to push, encouraging family bonding as well as individual play. Outdoor playtime is a great gift for toddler boys because it helps them to explore their own backyard and enjoy the fresh air.

Vtech Touch and Learn Activity Desk

This interactive toy includes 5 activity pages for a child’s exploration. It helps encourage learning in math, science, language arts, and social studies! Gifting your toddler with this deluxe toy can help to develop your child’s math, science, and vocabulary skills.

Little Tykes 3’ Trampoline

While some parents might be leery of the idea of gifting a toddler boy with a trampoline, this small one is great for indoor use and a little less scary than a large enclosed one in the backyard. It’s great for helping to burn off their extra energy and can become your best friend when you’re tired and your toddler isn’t!

2 in 1 Scooter for Kids with Folding/Removable Seat

This scooter is great for accommodating 2-4-year-olds and can be used both indoors as well as outdoors. It’s adjustable for helping to meet the child’s needs and gives such a smooth and quiet ride that you’ll love playtime.

Lego Duplo My First Cars and Trucks

Every kid loves legos, but many 2-year-olds aren’t ready for the responsibility and safety rules that come with small standard sized legos. This is why Duplos are so great. Not only that but the larger pieces are easier for their tiny hands to grasp and work with. This toy encourages building and role play as well as promoting collaboration between kids which helps with developing communication skills.

Wildkin Nap Mat with Pillow for Toddlers

This is like a sleeping bag and pillow combination that are perfect for getting your toddler excited about nap time. Keeping the kids snug as a bug at home or away, and as an added benefit the company has matching lunch boxes and backpacks you can buy. This would be a perfect gift set for a kid in childcare as it would really help their personal belongings to stand out from the other kids in the room. No more confusing mix-ups!

Vtech Go! Go! Smart Wheels Park and Learn Deluxe Garage

Allowing your kids to build their own interactive garage and race cars helps them to role-play and enhance their motor skills. What makes this toddler gift even better is that it is compatible with the Go! Go! Smart Animals playsets and collectible figures. 

Highlights Hello Magazine Subscription

Your toddler can’t read, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t be excited by a magazine. The fun images and themes with every delivery can keep them excited all year and not just on Christmas or a birthday. For safety reasons, it comes bound and not stapled and it also contains the perfect length stories to read out loud and keep your child’s attention span, encouraging a positive connection between reading and fun.

100 Piece Orbrium Toys Triple-Loop Wooden Train Set

A solid wooden train set with 100 pieces and a fun adjustable layout. This gift encourages roleplay and enhanced motor skills. It will promote interactive play with children and its 100% compatible with their other wooden train systems if you choose to expand it.

Magpies Children’s Musical Set

There is no better gift than the gift of music. It is an excellent source of learning whether you’re a traditional parent or into the Montessori programs. This set introduces your child to musical instruments such as the xylophone, maracas, tambourine, sheet music, dance scarves, and the frog guiro tone block.

Little Tykes Easy Score Basketball Set

Indoor or outdoor use, making it perfect for families in townhomes and apartments. It comes with 3 junior-sized balls and promotes social skills, motor skills, and general coordination. It can also promote a love for the game and who knows how that will shape their lives as they grow into youth programs and possibly make a career out of it.

Fisher PriceSpinnyos Giant Yo-ller Coaster

Where was this when I was a kid? It looks like so much fun! Yo trigger offers different sounds and music and encourages interactive play and collaboration. On top of that, it also introduces your child to some elements of physics principles. 

Leapfrog Storytime Buddy

Making storytime that much easier is this cute little dog that will read the books to your two years old. Helping to teach shapes, colors, numbers, and opposites this is the toy that your little boy will look forward to at bedtime every night.

Radio Flyer My 2 in 1 Wagon

Not a wagon to put the kid in, but it is one for your kid to put their toys in. Your toddler will love pulling it around and you’ll love that there’s an extra place to stow their toys away in when not in use.

Vtech KidiBeats Drum Set

A musical fun gift you toddler will enjoy for years (it’s great for ages 2-5). Complete with 3 drum pads and a cymbal, this toy has several unique sounds for sensory development. It also encourages free play, letter, numbers, and a follow-along game which helps to develop your child’s memory skills. 

Playhouse Toy TeePeePlay Tent

A fun canvas teepee that gives your kid a fun quiet place to play, read or explore their imaginations. Perfect for using indoors, outdoors or while traveling.

LiveBox Play Tent

This popup tent has a unique car shape and can be used both indoors or outdoors. Make it even better by adding in balls and turning it into a ball pit. Keep your kids occupied, self-entertained and allow for creative play with this cool tent.

Little Tikes First Slide

Use it inside or outside, fold it up and store it away when not in use. This slide helps to teach coordination for beginner sliders.

Pretex Pack of 2, Cartoon R/C Police Car and Race Car Radio Control Toys

Introduce your little one to RC toys and encourage interactive playing and collaboration. These work on carpets and hard flooring, making them perfect for different areas within your home.

Learning Resources New Sprouts Deluxe Market Set

With over 30 pieces, this toy helps to familiarize your toddler with food items and allow for hours of imaginative free play. Build a child’s vocabulary and practice preparing meals and taking part in mealtime.

Fisher-Price Laugh and Learn Smart Stages Chair

This chair includes smart stages technology that allows for a learning content change as the child grows. Allowing for interactive play and sing-along time. It’s also great for kids under 2 years old! 

Peppy Pets French Bulldog

Each Peppy pup has real dog actions, it can interact, walk and run with your child just like a real dog. It’s a great way to give your kids the company of a loyal companion without the commitment. They get a toy dog and you can avoid taking care of a real one.

Blasland Kids Golf Toys Set

Give learning opportunities by enhancing thinking and creativity, coordination, and sports knowledge. Create a bonding experience while exercising and having fun.

Foam Bath Toys and Alphabet 

Every toddler loves bath toys and these bath toys stick to the walls when wet. Allowing for the learning of letters, colors, and animals too. It will make bath time that much more fun for the kids and you!

LeapFrog Spin and Sing Alphabet Zoo

This fun toy set introduces animal names, sounds, and letters with A-Z  interactive playing. It also helps with the recognition of sounds, animals, and the alphabet as well as helping children to develop motor skills.

Doodle Mat Large Size

With this mess-free art time, you don’t have to worry about the kids drawing on the walls. As an added bonus the pad is travel-friendly!

Kids Toys Hover Soccer Ball Set with 2 Goals

Kicking this hover soccer ball around the house or yard can be a lot of fun for any kid. Running smoothly on any floor type, it can be used in a variety of home settings. As a bonus, it helps to teach learning opportunities to your child while enhancing their thinking, coordination and sports knowledge.

Cyiecw Piano Music Mat

19 key piano kids toy that is foldable and easy to carry (which saves you space!) you can enjoy electronic music with your kids and feel great knowing that it helps to improve the kid’s hand-feet coordination at an early age. Your child can enjoy playing with their hands and their feet simultaneously to create a fun musical number. This set also includes a variety of instrument noises including piano, violin, saxophone, and trumpet to name a few.

Wooden Blocks Puzzle Board Set

Each wooden block is made of high-quality wood with nice and smooth edges and bright fun colors. It teaches your kid to count to 10 and to recognize various fruits. It also helps to develop sorting skills, hand/eye coordination, and fine motor skills.

Top Bright Toddler Fishing Game

Including 26 wooden fish puzzles, you can give your kid a variety of fun to help develop their motor skills by sorting and learning numbers, the alphabet and cute ocean critters. 

Fisher-Price Laugh and Learn Light-up Learning Vacuum

Allow your toddler to roleplay and encourage cleaning with this fun toy. Not only that but it can help with their fine motor skills!

Johexi Busy Boards for Toddlers

This board is great sensory play and can be taken on the go or used at home with 9 different kinds of buckles, zippers, and shoelaces to help keep kids entertained while developing the fine motor skills that they will need.

LeapFrog My First Learning Tablet

A toddler tablet that features much fun and colorful buttons and icons. Introducing letters, numbers, shapes, animals, colors and more! It allows for basic learning while incorporating role play. It also helps to introduce technology.

Lego Duplo Town Truck and Tracked Excavator

This construction toy comes with 2 vehicles, an excavator, a dump truck, and 2 construction figures with safety helmets and other items. Allowing for imaginative play, creative building and helping to develop those early building skills.

Vtech Drill and Learn Toolbox

Get ready to introduce your kids to tools and develop their motor skills with this fun toolset. It helps to show them a wide range of tools, how they’re used, noises and can allow for fun role-play and problem-solving.

Leapfrog Scout’s Goodnight Flashlight

A flashlight that projects an image of planets, lullaby’s and has volume control and timer! Provide familiarity with colors and numbers and make bedtime easier as kids wind down to sleep.

Oball Go Grippers John Deere Construction Cruisers

Including 3 bright farm vehicles for playtime and can be used both indoors as well as outdoors. Encouraging hours of playtime by developing imagination and fine motor skills.

Fat Brain Child’s Personalized Name Puzzle

Fun and vibrant colors spelling out your child’s name not only helps to introduce them to the spelling but also helps develop motor skills and build self-esteem within your toddler.

I’m sure this list is more than long enough for you to find something, or some things that tickle your fancy for the little toddler boy you love. Honestly, you can’t go wrong with any of these picks….I’ve actually already added them onto my Amazon shopping list for my Little David!

Which toy do you think the toddler boy in your life will love the most?

SMOOCHES!

Onteria