4 toy trends your kids are about to go gaga over

Game on

Some 67 percent of U.S. households play video games, so it’s no surprise that gaming was big at this year’s Toy Fair. But it’s one thing to play a video game, it’s another to build your own, and that’s exactly what kids will be doing this year.

Toys to watch for:

Bloxels — Kits allow kids to build a physical game world with colorful dots, snap a photo and then play in that game world inside the toy’s app.

Technology Will Save Us DIY Gamer Kit — Kids can build a game from the bottom up by first soldering together their own electronics, coding the games and then, of course, playing!

Next up: Make the code