The top 30 toys to buy this holiday season revealed

Want to know which toys are the hottest this holiday season?

The Good Housekeeping Institute is revealing which toys have their approval as the best toys to buy your kids.

More than 500 toys were tested for safety, quality and skill-building, and then the toughest critics of all-the kids-helped pick the toys and novelties they thought were cool.

In the end, these 30 toys made the cut:

• The Fisher-Price Thomas & Friends TrackMaster Thomas Sky-High Bridge Jump
• Technology Will Save Us DIY Electro Dough Kit
• Be Amazing Toys Frozen Science
• Kids Preferred The World of Eric Carle Little Artist Super Dough
• Blip Toys Street Shots Racers Street Blaster
• Craftivity Kits
• Creativity for Kids Light-Up Doodle Art
• Hot Wheels Criss Cross Crash Track
• MGA Entertainment My First Flyer
• Zing Firetek Zyclone
• B. Toys B. Boogie Woogie Mat
• Crayola Air Marker Sprayer
• 3Doodler Start
• Props in a Box
• Elenco Electronics Snap Circuits Arcade
• Playmobil Pirate Raiders' Ship
• Lion Guard Training Lair Playset
• Ravensburger Space Hawk
• FurReal Friends Torch My Blazin' Dragon
• Hexbug BattleBots Arena
• Crayola Imaginables
• Lego City Airport Air Show
• Wicked Cool Toys Xtreme
• Cycle Moto-Cam
• WowWee Lumi
• BB-8 by Sphero
• Acoustic Loog
• Bosebuild Speaker
• Svan Ice Cream Cart
• Cepia Big Robots
• LittleBits Rule Your Room Kit