(Purple Cow $29.99) Place the small pre-made ‘droodle’ card in the frame, flip the timer and create a larger drawing on the white erasable board using the droodle as the core. Other players try to guess what you have created. Testers liked the fun of this game that calls for fine motor skills as well as creative thinking. It comes with 108 droodle cards, two erasable pens, sand timer, reusable game board and instructions. A fun game for family and mixed age groups. 6 & up Age

(MInecraft $79.99) How’s this for action and thrills? A flying Ghast that can hover, fly horizontally, and vertically. For the uninitiated, Ghasts are a breed of ghouls, a creature found in the Nether in the game Minecraft. They are cube-shaped creatures with 9 tentacles. This remote control novelty toy has an operating range of 25 feet and it’s rechargeable. It’s a fun toy that moves swiftly up and down, left and right, forward and back, but it needs plenty of space, prefera

(Crayola $34.99) This is not the first time Crayola has offered a crayon factory, but it is perhaps the best so far. Unlike earlier models, this one allows kids to watch the process once they have loaded the crayons and chosen one of the three molds they want to use. Now the machine gets plugged in and in moments the crayons begin to melt and slip down the chute and into the mold. The mold chamber is lit and has a red LED power indicator that will signal when the new crayon i

(Toys R Us $39.99 each) This year's Journey Girl Dolls are visiting New York City. Welcome to the Big Apple! As always they are beautifully dressed for their adventures in Gotham. Not only do they all have different colored hair, these girls have a truly individual look. Mikaella, a sophisticated foodie has strawberry blond hair and wears a floral blouse, a pink knitted sweater, black leathery skirt, and tall boots. Kelsey, with long auburn hair, is planning to visit the zoo,