9 Toys Your Kids Will Love That Will Make You Nostalgic for Your Childhood

Shopping for toys with your kids (or for your nieces and nephews) can be overwhelming sometimes, because there are all these new gadgets and TV shows and movie characters you just don’t identify with. This may make you nostalgic for all the toys you played with when you were a kid (troll dolls, anyone?).

But really, there’s plenty of toys that you grew up with that are still around–and you can easily take a stroll down memory lane with your kids with the click of a button. Here are some of my favorite retro toys (like the 1959 Barbie, I admit):

1. Tin Kaleidoscope, $8

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2. Etch A Sketch, $7

3. Blow Up Balloons, $5

4. Tamagatchi, $12

5. Troll Dolls, $16

6. Original 1959 Barbie, $25

7. Raggedy Ann, $16

8. Kirby’s Dreamland Triple Deluxe, $42

9. Mario Kart 8, $53

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Joanna C. Valente

Joanna Valente is the former Staff Writer at Kveller. Joanna is the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Xenos, and Marys of the Sea, and received an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. You can follow @joannasaid on Twitter and @joannacvalente on Instagram.