Once again, the season that kids all over the world are waiting for has finally arrived! For parents like you, Christmas also means a time to hurry up and buy that perfect gift for your child. You could buy the most popular or the most expensive gift in the store or you could ask your kid directly what he or she wanted most as a gift. However, if you haven't bought a gift yet or you haven't known what to buy for your child, then check out the following Top 10 Christmas Gifts for Kids for this year.

1. Angry Birds Merchandise

First on the list is this year's hottest game on mobile phones, Angry Birds. Because of its popularity, the brand has expanded from mobile apps to all sorts of merchandise, including kids' apparel, plushies, and children's toys. Great Christmas gift ideas for your child who loves to play Angry Birds on your phone or on the computer include a white baby tee with a colored Angry Bird print and a plushie of any colored Angry Bird. Moreover, the top 10 Christmas gifts for kids includes the Angry Birds Knock on Wood game, which consists of wood blocks that your child can stack together and a launcher for lobbing the rounded heads of Angry Birds against the stack of wood.

2. Classic and Special Edition LEGO Sets

For many years now, LEGO has been marketing toys designed to foster a child's creativity. The structures that your child can make range from the classic city or farm buildings to a pet shop. There are even themed LEGO sets that let your child reconstruct Hogwarts Castle from the world of Harry Potter or creatures from Atlantis. As of this month, the most popular top 10 Christmas gifts for kids include the LEGO Ninjago Spinners Spinjitzu set.

3. Barbie and Other Dolls for Girls

Nothing beats Barbie, her fashionable clothes, and her pretty accessories as one of the top 10 Christmas gifts for kids. Once you buy your little girl a Barbie, you'll also have to buy some extra gowns, skirts and blouses for her doll's wardrobe. Later, you'll have to add jewelry and fashion accessories to keep Miss Barbie looking so fab and glam all the time. Ultimately, Barbie needs a house to give her privacy when changing clothes and a nice, cozy place to entertain friends and sleep at night. Of course, Ken, as Barbie's boyfriend, must look well-groomed and fashionable as well with his own updated wardrobe and fashion accessories.

If Barbie isn't your girl's thing, then give her a walking and talking life-sized doll. Because of their batteries and mechanical limbs, these dolls' arms and legs break more easily than the flexible, movable limbs of Barbie. However, life-sized dolls that talks or walks with a push of a button, that close their eyes whenever they're laid down "to sleep", that "eat" their specially formulated food, or that "drink" their special milk bottle provide a higher level of interactive play than an unmoving Barbie sitting on a miniature chair.

4. Electronic Novelty Toys

Electronic novelty toys usually have unique and amazing features, such as a lamp that projects a static celestial display of stars around your child's room or a small robotic dog that barks, moves its head, runs on its four legs, and obeys to voice commands, such as "sit" or "play dead." Among the top 10 Christmas gifts for kids are the Tickle Me dolls of Baby Elmo that rolls around and giggle when touched. There were also Tickle Me versions of Elmo's friends Big Bird, Ernie and Cookie Monster. Moreover, there's a new "Let's Rock Elmo" set that features Elmo "using" different musical instruments, such as the tambourine, the mambo drums, and a microphone.

5. Electronic Educational Toys

Educational toys have come a long way from simple cubes painted with a letter, an animal, or a shape on each side or a box of two-dimensional puzzle pieces. Today, your child learns through interactive play with an electronic educational toy that functions like a mini computer. A prime example of this type of educational toy is the LeapFrog LeapPad Learning Tablet, which has a touchscreen capability using a stylus and comes with over a hundred educational videos, learning games, and storybooks fit for children 4 to 9 years old. The tablet has a built-in camera and customizable software that your kid can easily configure, such as his or her preferred wallpaper.

6. Handheld Gaming Devices

The popularity of video gaming consoles, such as Xbox, Wii and PlayStation, have made handheld gaming devices proverbial entries in the Top 10 Christmas Gifts for Kids every year. Among handhelds today, the Nintendo 3DS leads the pack, followed by PSP Go and PSP 3000 in second and third spots. Although its features fall within the same impressive range as the other models of PSP and Nintendo, the capabilities of Nintendo 3DS packs an additional punch with its unique ability to take 3D photos and play 3D games in multiple levels. Of course, mobile technology have become so advanced that your iPhone or Droid Smartphone easily substitutes as a game console when you install child-friendly gaming apps or videos for your kids to play with and entertain themselves while in the waiting room or while traveling.

7. Kiddie Bikes and Cars

Almost everywhere, most children receive either a kiddie-sized bike or a kiddie car as a Christmas gift or birthday present. Spend happy times teaching your child the basics of biking or happily watch your child pedal in delight in his brand-new four-wheel drive. For older kids, you may buy them something faster, such as the Razor Riprider Trike that has a huge wheel in front and a couple of inclined caster wheels at the back for stability during a full 360-degree spin. However, for younger children, you should first buy them a kiddie bike with a low seat, a pair of thick rubber wheels in front and back, and a pair of sturdy training wheels that can be removed when your child has learned to balance the bike by shifting weight from side to side while pedaling.

8. Wearable Christmas Gifts for Kids

Kiddie apparel, children's watches, costume jewelry, belts and other fancy fashion accessories, kid-sized sunglasses, and headgear like caps and bonnets would never go out of style. Designer clothing and high-end retail brands of clothing for children remain favorites as Christmas gifts from parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, older siblings or cousins, and very close friends of their parents because of the practicality the items provide to the kids. If you have older kids aged seven and up to their teenage years, then they'll surely appreciate these types of gifts more than your preschooler or infant does because the clothes, watches, jewelry, shoes, and other branded stuff also serve as status symbols for them when they're out with their friends and when they're with their peers at school.

9. Kids' Merchandise Tied-In with Movies or TV Shows

If you know your child's favorite shows, movies, animes, or characters, then you could gift your kid with a few collectibles or some merchandise tied with a popular movie, TV show or anime. Children younger than seven years old would love a stuffed toy of their favorite characters from animal-themed animated shows, such as My Little Pony, Winnie the Pooh and Friends, or Mickey Mouse and Friends. The toddlers and preschoolers would also love to wear t-shirts that bear colorfully printed images of their favorite Disney or Warner Bros. cartoon character or their most admired superhero in the Marvel universe.

Children seven and older might prefer a shirt printed with rubberized images of the coolest and most popular anime/manga characters in the United States. To give you an idea, you should look for toys and apparel related to the Naruto universe, including character-specific costumes and their respective set of accessories, such as headgear with a piece of shiny metal at its center that bears a carved symbol. Aside from shirts or stuffed toys, film outfits and TV networks also sell miniature dolls to younger children who may want to complete a cast of characters, such as the Bratz or the PowerPuff Girls dolls for younger kids and the softly-molded action figures of Justice League and X-Men characters with movable limbs and removable weapons and accessories.

10. Collectible Action Figures and Model Cars

At seven years of age, some children develop an interest in collecting certain objects, such as variegated rocks or comic books. It's not surprising, therefore, that model toys have remained in the Top 10 Christmas Gifts for Kids. As a parent, you might have noticed your children's fascination with die-cast action figures of their favorite superheroes or anime characters, or you might have seen how enamored your little boy was with collecting tiny cast-metal cars from Matchbox®, Hot Wheels®, or Micro Machines®. Each tiny car offers hours of racing fun because of the friction motor that propels it forward after a quick backward pull on its four rubber tires has produced enough traction to tighten the motor's gears.

If your child enjoys assembling and customizing miniature toys, then you should introduce him to the art of making model cars, planes and trains with from an assembly kit. Children 8 years and older can easily follow the kit's printed instructions in putting together parts made of plastic, or even, laser-cut wood that rarely needs a painting job. To add safety and ease in handling the pieces of a model kit, you should choose a model train or plane whose proportions are nearer to the actual measurements of that particular model and make in real life. For example, if you want to gift your child with a beginner's kit in model trains, then you should buy a kit with an HO scale that's wide enough for detailing and small enough for school-age children to handle.

Before you purchase any of the items in the Top 10 Christmas Gifts for Kids, you should do a little research first on the current brands of the product you're planning to buy. Check each brand's suggested retail price from different web stores or online shopping catalogs. Compare each brand's retail price and find the online shopping site that offers the lowest price. Generally, this quick price analysis based on online prices gives you three advantages: it cuts down your actual shopping time, it helps you choose the best brand to buy, and it offers you the convenient option of purchasing through an online store and paying with your credit card, plus the added privilege of a 24-hour home delivery service for buyers in the United States.