If you’re looking to discover the top Toronto toy stores, you’re in luck. Scroll down to learn more about both online and retail toy shops. You’ll find the best made in Canada toys, games, puzzles and gifts for kids all from these local Toronto shops.

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TOY SHOPS IN TORONTO

Wooden Name Canada

Wooden Name Canada creates beautiful made in Canada personalized name puzzles made from Canadian maple. Simply let them know the preferred name you would like, the colours you want the letters painted and whether you would like to add an object like a dinosaur, dog, flower, & airplane to your puzzle.

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Picture Credit: Wooden Name

Cate & Levi

Cate & Levi is by far one of our top choices for fun Toronto toy stores. Their shop feature made in Canada puppets using recycled and reclaimed materials. This is really an incredible shop and our first choice when it comes to gifts for kids.

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Picture Credit: Cate & Levi

Arbor & Anchor: Toronto Toy Store

Beautifully handcrafted made in Canada toys like wooden name puzzles, wooden dinosaurs, stackable rainbows, rocks and more are all available from Toronto toy store, Arbor & Anchor. Their custom name puzzles make the perfect gift. Choose the name you want displayed, pick the type of wood you would like them to use or choose a rainbow painted option and they will handcraft a beautiful name puzzle. 

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Picture Credit: Arbor & Anchor

Toronto Toy Stores: SK Toy Box

Toronto toy store, SK Toy Box, is another local Toronto shop offering Montessori inspired toys. They have a variety of educational toys that support development and creativity and help keep your child engaged in their play.

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Picture Credit: SK Toy Box

Nona Canada

Nona Crochet handcrafts the most incredible dolls. The intricate details in the beautiful crochet clothing and in the faces of each doll is exquisite. Each doll is uniquely herself, so you are bound to find the perfect fit for a gift. These will be dolls that will be kept, remembered and cherished forever. We love the made in Canada mermaid crochet doll shown below.

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Picture Credit: Nona Canada

Balu Organics

Local Toronto shop, Balu Organics offers elegant and modern ball pits for kids. Using organic foam for their ball pits, you can choose your colour of velvet for the pit and coordinating balls to suit the decor in your home. We all remember how fun a ball pit was as kids, now you can have all the fun without compromising the aesthetic of your home.

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Picture Credit: Balu Organics

Toronto Toy Stores: Toy Town

Toy Town is just what you think when you dream of the ultimate toy store or one you would see in the movies. It’s an independent toy store, family owned and operated, so it definitely has a little extra magic compared to big box stores. They have everything from toys to puzzles, arts & crafts to games and everything in-between. You will have no problem finding the perfect gift and have the most fun doing it!

Visit them in person at:

  • 1754 Ave Rd, North York, ON

Playful Mind Toys

Remember when your parents would take you to your neighbourhood toy store when you were a child and that feeling you would get when you walked through those doors to see all of the incredible toys, games, and crafts lining the shelves? That’s the feeling you will get when you walk into Playful Minds Toys. Buying a gift for someone? They will even wrap your gift for you for free!

Visit them in person at:

  • 657 St. Clair Ave W, Toronto, ON

The Swag Sisters’ Toy Store

The Swag Sisters’ Toy Store is another local Toronto shop that has a large collection of toys to shop. They have everything from puzzles, stuffed animals, lego sets, dollhouses, magic play sets, and everything in between.

Visit them in person at:

  • 1511 Gerrard St. East, Toronto, ON

Mastermind Toys

Mastermind Toys is a large Canadian toy store with retail locations across Canada, including Toronto. You can visit them in person at one of their six locations in Toronto to shop their incredible collection of toys, puzzles, dolls, arts & crafts activities, and even kids books. We love that Mastermind Toys also host lots of incredible kids events like a Polly Pocket Scavenger Hunt. You can check out their store events page for more information.

Faith & Sparkle’s World

Even though Faith & Sparkle’s World isn’t technically a toy store, we want to include them in this shopping guide because they have some really cute children’s books that would make great gifts for kids. Their books are written by child author, Faith Abraham.

Toronto Toy Shops: My Gifted Education

These beautiful puzzles and brain logic games from Toronto toy store, My Gifted Education, will get your child problem solving, thinking, being creative, and having fun. Drawing from the Montessori and Waldorf curriculums, these simple and high quality toys will have your children playing and learning for hours.

These are our top choices when it comes to the top Toronto toy stores. We’ll keep updating this list as we discover more local Toronto shops to share with you. Thank you for supporting these Canadian businesses.