If your child can name a Spinosaurus but will not sit through a ten-minute documentary, a dinosaur excavation kit is the closest thing to a hobby you can hand them in a box. We ran ten of the highest-rated dino dig kits through a family test bench over six weeks, and the difference between a … Read more
A pedal go kart is the rare toy that a child can genuinely learn on. There is no battery to charge and no motor doing the work, so every metre of forward travel comes from the rider’s own legs, and the skills it builds carry straight over to a bicycle. After weeks of comparing karts, … Read more
Choosing the best ride on cars with remote control for parents comes down to one question: can you actually steer the car when your child is behind the wheel? A parental remote is not a gimmick. It is the feature that lets you hand a two-year-old the wheel on a driveway with a road at … Read more
Two kids sharing one ride-on car solves a problem no single-seater can: the older sibling stops winning every turn at the wheel. After comparing ten two-seater models across 12V and 24V platforms, the best two seater ride on cars for kids in come down to three things — real four-wheel drive, tires that grip grass … Read more
Choosing the best electric ride on ATVs for kids is harder than it looks, because the category actually spans three very different machines. A 6V quad for a two-year-old tops out around 1.5 mph and lives on a carpet or a smooth driveway. A 24V four-wheel-drive rig with 800W of motors and a parent remote … Read more
If your child has decided that every day is a construction site, you have a short window of years where a ride on excavator is genuinely useful rather than another plastic toy that ends up in a toy box within a month. I spent several weeks comparing the 12 models in this roundup, riding them … Read more
A 12V ride-on truck is the sweet spot for most families buying a battery-powered vehicle for a child aged 3 to 7. It has enough torque to cross a lawn or a gravel drive, tops out fast enough to feel like a real truck but slowly enough for a parent to keep control, and runs … Read more
If your child has decided that tractors are the only interesting vehicles on earth, you are going to be the one looking for the best ride on tractors for kids, and you are going to be looking for a long time. There are hundreds of listings, most of them look identical in a thumbnail, and … Read more
A UTV roof is a panel that bolts to the factory roll cage of a side-by-side to block sun, rain and overhead debris. You can get one as a soft fabric top, a molded hard plastic roof, or a rigid aluminum panel, and every one of them mounts to the cage rather than to the … Read more
An ATV cargo rack is a steel or steel-mesh platform that bolts or clamps onto the front or rear rack of a quad bike, adding tie-down points and keeping gear out of the mud. It is a bolt-on accessory, not a factory part, and it is for riders who haul hunting gear, camping kit, coolers, … Read more