13 Best Kids Headphones (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Protect Those Headphones

Even durable headphones are casual to damage. We person mislaid pairs to folks lasting connected them, cats and robot vacuums attacking the cables, and chairs rolling implicit them. I person learned that a basal oregon holder is worthy the concern if it keeps those cans disconnected the floor. Even if your kids lone sometimes retrieve to usage it, that could widen the apt lifespan of their headphones.

We usage the Satechi 2-in-1 Headphone Stand with Wireless Charger ($56), which besides has a spot for charging your telephone connected the base, but there’s nary request to walk that much. This New Bee Headphone Stand ($7) volition bash the trick. My PC gaming eldest has a Hanger Mount ($8) clamped to the desk, and it works large for keeping that headset retired of the mode erstwhile it’s not successful use.

Other Headphones We Like

These headphones didn't rather gain a spot above, but we inactive liked them.

Heyday Kids’ Wired Headphones for $10: Target’s caller Heyday headphones for kids are precise affordable and bounds measurement to 85 decibels. We tried the wired, super-fun, unicorn horn headphones (there’s a dinosaur brace too). We besides tested the somewhat much costly wireless, progressive noise-cancelling headphones ($25). Both sounded OK for the money.

Juice Pro Wireless Headphones for £35: For the 10-year-old kids successful 1 of my wife’s classes, these headphones were singled retired arsenic the champion due to the fact that they are precise comfy, they are wireless, and they connection decent progressive sound cancellation. Sound prime is decent, the headphones are hard-wearing, and they are made from 100 percent recycled plastics. They are besides inexpensive for folks successful the UK (sadly, unavailable successful the US).

BuddyPhones Cosmos Fun for $60: These headphones by Onanoff connection 3 volume-limiting options astatine 75, 85, oregon 94 decibels, but that apical bounds should lone ever beryllium utilized for abbreviated periods (50 minutes oregon less). There are stickers to customize the cans, and they are well-padded, but the verdict from the kids was conscionable “OK.” The beingness of ANC and 42-hour artillery beingness is welcome. The 3.5-mm audio larboard allows for plugging in, and we emotion that you tin besides usage it to nexus 2 pairs of Buddyphones and stock audio (handy if your kids are sharing a tablet to ticker a movie).

Headphones We Didn't Like

These headphones did not walk muster, for either america oregon our kids.

Juice Animals Wired Headphones: Simon truly wanted to similar these headphones arsenic they are made wholly from recycled plastic, 20 percent of the profits spell to The Born Free Foundation, and they travel successful amusive panda oregon tiger designs. They are besides precise affordable. But, sadly, some pairs we tested developed faults wrong the archetypal week.

StoryPhones: While the thought of headphones that play stories based connected “StoryShields” you connect is clever, enabling kids to power stories easily, the StoryPhones are excessively costly for the physique and dependable quality, other stories are pricey, and the shields are easy lost.

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