Creativity for Kids Easy Sparkle Window Art
(Creativity for Kids $6.50) A small craft kit for a rainy day pick me up. Kids use sparkle window paint and rhinestones to decorate the big butterfly and rainbow window clings. The clings are made of a thick foam and are easy to fill. Like pencil and paper tasks, this calls for controlling a "writing-like" pen with fine motor skills. Helps kids develop eye hands skills needed for school task..but a lot more fun that drilling. Once the paint has dried, kids peel off the back
Creativity for Kids #HatNotHate Quick Knit Loom
(Creativity for Kids $24.99) Our tester thought this was one of the best kits of the year! This hat-making kit comes with all the supplies needed to make, wear, and accessorize two hats! One for you and one for your sister, cousin, best friend. It comes with 180 yards of very pretty multi-colored blue Lion Brand Yarn, a reusable 9” loom, loom hook, tassel and pom-pom maker, two faux leather #HATNOTHATE tags, and instructions that are totally doable. Kids can reuse the loom to
American Girl Courtney Moore Doll 1986
(American Girl $110 doll and book) Courtney, the newest historical American Girl doll is growing up in 1986. She wears neon bright fashions, big curly sandy-blonde hair, and likes music videos, the mall, going to the arcade, playing pac-man, her caboodle full of hair supplies, and her boom box. She comes wearing a denim skirt, bright blue off the shoulder crop top, plus white faux-leather slouchy boots. But pop culture is just one part of her story. Courtney is no frivolous a
Child’s Play Ten Little Fingers
(Child’s Play $5.99 each ) Ten Little Fingers is one of a charming collection of baby board books that have been re-illustrated. Sturdy enough to read and play with infants, these are favorite nursery rhymes that children soon know by heart in the months and years to come. A good way to interact, develop motor skills, and enlarge language concepts through active play that gives words meaning. Each of these charming books has one rhyme and the actions are illustrated by a div
Manhattan Toy Bababall
(Manhattan Toy $22) A new look for a fabric ball for your baby. Bands of high contrast black and white patterned fabric are intertwined with bright primary colored bands. The spaces between the bands give little hands multiple ways to grab and hold. IT's not just designed for visual sensory appeal; the satiny ribbons attached feel different from the cottony bands and inside the big ball, a small ball with a quiet sound adds yet another sensory dimension. Ideal for rolly-pol
Lego City Space Lunar Space Station
(Lego $48.00) With the Space Lunar Station, kids can build a lunar space station with 3 separate modules, giving them open-ended configuration possibilities. There's also a detachable shuttle toy for hauling supplies between Earth and the Moon. The kit includes 2 LEGO City astronaut minifigures, 2 space station crew member minifigures and a robot, plus a satellite and a central airlock. With 412 pieces, this will challenge young builders dexterity, patience and problem solvin
LEGO City Ski Resort
(Lego $89.99) Maybe you can’t get to Aspen this year, but kids can do a lot of winter role play after they build this ski resort, that includes a rescue base, half-pipe and grind rail, ski shop, hot drinks stand, helicopter toy, 4x4 truck and snowmobile with attached trailer. Testers loved the great supply of minifigures...11 on all: 3 ski patrol members, a ski shop clerk, helicopter pilot, skier, snowboarder, 2 kids, hot drinks stand clerk and a customer, plus dog and builda
LEGO Friends Jungle Rescue Base
(Lego $79.99) Inspired by National Geographic Explorers, who protect endangered species, this Animal Rescue Base is intended to inspire another generation. LEGO Friends are ready for adventure, their job, to help rescue the sloth and bring it back to their tree house sanctuary. The elaborate kit includes 3 buildable mini-doll figures, 2 elephant and 2 sloth figures, plus many accessories, such as toy walkie-talkies, animal-rescue kit and a robot-drone. This rescue station ha
Les Déglingos Soft Toys in Tubes Collection
(Triaction Toys $19.99 each) You’ll want a menagerie of Les Déglingos! Their name is French for crazy or wacko. It should also mean adorable! We love the way these delightfully soft huggable animals arrive in a tube, printed with a face that hints at what animal will emerge. There’s a huggable blue hippo, a comically cute baby ostrich, an outstanding white-beaked pink flamingo, a sweet little white llama with a tuft of white fleece on top of its head; and a friendly tufted
Blue Orange Bye Bye Mr. Fox Cooperative Game
(Blue Orange $21.99) Spread the word! There's a cunning fox out there eager to snatch the chicks. Players must help the hens keep their little chicks safe. Take turns: Spin the spinner to see what you will move on your turn: an egg, a chicken, or the little fox? Careful! Don't let fox snatch the eggs from the hens! All players work together to move three eggs into each hen's house to win the game· This made a real hit with our five year old testers and his parents. INCLUDE
