Educational smiles and fun gifts are always parents’ holiday goals. Expanding these 12 interactive options can help develop color and word recognition, memory, first steps, counting, reading, writing, hand-eye coordination, and more. Waiting for game time (while studying)!

This toy can train your baby to develop from a floor crawler to a free-range toddler. The hoverboard cruising puppy has two learning buttons and more than 65 songs, sounds, melodies and phrases for teaching feelings, numbers, Counting and gross motor skills. Cool dogs can adapt to floor games, prom, and always like to follow the leader's game. Exclusive to Wal-Mart.

VTech Hover Pup, $42, walmart.ca