Cat's Cradle: A Book of String Figures
Painstakingly clear instructions for five different string figures, charmingly illustrated. Attached to the book is a tie-dyed string loop -- all you need to bring is ten fingers. 36 pages. Full color. Awards: Parents' Choice Classic Award. Age: 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 Manufacturer: Klutz
Earlyears My Travel Town
My Travel Town is a soft, lightweight soft-sculpture portable town with built-in handles. Each of the four familiar connected buildings - the car wash, school, police station, and fire house - has a door and holds a smooth, easy-to-hold plastic vehicle that invites your toddler to drive the sport utility vehicle, school bus, police car, and fire truck in, out, and all around the town. Little ones can also match the color of the vehicle to the inside of its building. Awards: Parents' Choice Recommended (2001), Dr. Toy's 100 Best Children's Products (2001), Dr. Toy's Best Children's Vacation Products (2001). Age: 1,2,3 Manufacturer: International Playthings
Götz Aquini Doll
This play doll has a hard body and can be taken right into the bath. Set includes doll, potty, bottle, and towel. Your choice of Boy (GZ54007B) or Girl (GZ54007G) doll. Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products. Age: 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Manufacturer: Götz Dimensions: 13"
I Play Little Doctor Kit
Deluxe kit includes electronic stethoscope, blood pressure gauge, reflex hammer, thermometer, syringe, auriscope, laryngoscope, and pretend reusable bandage. Awards: Oppenheim Gold Award. Age: 2,3,4,5,6 Manufacturer: International Playthings
K'NEX Musical Ferris Wheel
Wow your friends and family with the sights and sounds of the newest amusement park ride from K’NEX! This 3 foot tall Musical Ferris Wheel includes a motor and sound module as well as 8 fun-seeking figures to help you create a real carnival atmosphere. The color-coded‚ step-by-step instructions will guide you through construction of this ride from the ground up. The Musical Ferris Wheel's bright colors‚ motion and sound make it an eye catching‚ crowd-pleaser! ALSO BUILDS: BOOM RIDE and SPIN RIDE! Dr. Toy Dr. Toys Classic Award Builds 3 working carnival rides Motorized power and fun carnival music 8 fun-seeking figures 686 pieces Musical Ferris Wheel build over 3 feet tall! Color coded instructions included for all builds Includes new LS Power Pack (batteries not included) Batteries Required: (2) AA batteries Age: 8,9,10,11,12 Manufacturer: K'NEX
Slamwich Card Game
Flip and stack this clever loaf of cards to build slamwiches and double-deckers. Tomato, onion, tomato... slap! Get there first and win the pile. But watch out—you'll have to catch the thief and stop the muncher from stealing the stack of cards. When you're out of cards you're out of the game. The player who collects all of the cards wins. Parental alert: a sharp eye and fast hand will prevail. Play all out, but the kids will beat you every time! Slamwich teaches reading readiness skills, like visual discrimination and sequencing. While kids are flipping and stacking cards, they're actually learning how to recognize a series, make combinations, and anticipate what might happen. From 2 to 6 players. Awards: Parents' Choice Approved Product, Games Magazine Top 100 Game, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award, Specialty Retailer's Top Toys—as voted by readers, Canadian Toy Testing Council ***. Age: 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,Adult Manufacturer: Gamewright
Wizmo® Magnetic Skill Toy
A dynamic way to help children learn about magnetism, gravity, and centrifugal force. Roll the wheel along the flexible wire track to perform amazing tricks. Comes with a booklet with instructions for 8 tricks. Awards: The Lion & The Lamb Project: Top 20 Non-Violent Toy List--1999. Age: 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,Adult Manufacturer: Binary Arts Dimensions: 13.5x7.5x2.5
Visual Brainstorms®
One hundred maddening, mind-bending brainteasers to give your brain a lively workout and to delight family and friends. This game helps kids develop lateral thinking skills and understand spatial relations.Awards: Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award--1996. Item out of stock. Age: 10,11,12,Adult Manufacturer: Binary Arts Dimensions: 5.25x8x1.75
Window Art
Making beautiful window art is about as simple as squirting mustard on a hot dog - and about sixty million times more fun. Window Art comes with six bottles of peel-off window colors and an instruction book with more than a hundred ready-to-trace designs. Here’s how it works: Trace a design in Black Outline. Squirt the Window Colors to fill it in as you please, blending the paints to make additional colors. Peel up your design and stick it on a shower door, car window, mirror, or any other glass surface you like. If you change your mind about where you want it, just peel and stick it again and again. The finished sun catchers don’t fade or melt, and won’t mar windows in any way. With Window Art, every room can have a terrific view. 62 pages. Full color. Awards: Creative Classroom's Teacher-Tested Tools and Toys, National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Book Award. Age: 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 Manufacturer: Klutz
Window Art Deluxe Refill Set
Age: 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 Manufacturer: Klutz
Twister® Game by Milton Bradley
The game that ties you up in knots! Spin the spinner then move your hands or feet from one colored circle to another. Awards: Dr. Toy Best Classic Toys--1999. Age: 6,7,8,9,10,11,12 Manufacturer: Hasbro
Two Glass Plates by Creativity For Kids
Learn the unique technique of reverse glass painting using two plates as your canvas. Paint your designs on the back in reverse - foreground first, then background last. Then turn them over to enjoy your masterpieces from the front. These plates make great decorative items or you can eat off them! Awards: Parents' Choice Award--Recommended (Spring 2000). Age: 7,8,9,10,11,12 Manufacturer: Creativity for Kids
Thomas the Tank Engine - Under-the-Bed Trundle Playtable
Playtable with drawer for Thomas Wooden Railway storage! When not is use, the trundle table is easy to store: includes caster wheels, and fits under standard child-sized beds. Playtable includes Island of Sodor playboard. Measures 49.5" w x 35.5" long x 7.5" h. Awards: 2003 - Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Gold Seal. Age: 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Manufacturer: Learning Curve
The Cootie Catcher Book
A clever little book on everyone's favorite playground fortune-teller, with 20 pre-printed tear-em-out-and-fold-em-up pages. Plus instructions on how to make your own cootie catchers and the fortunes to go inside. Written by the Editors of Klutz. Awards: Parents' Choice Approved Award. Age: 6,7,8,9,10,11,12 Manufacturer: Klutz
The Etch A Sketch® Book
The classic drawing toy and a whole book full of new ideas for playing with it. Comes with twelve vinyl pages that cling to the Etch A Sketch screen, creating game boards, mazes, drawing inspirations and team challenges. Written by the Editors of Klutz. Awards: Parents' Choice Approved. Age: 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,Adult Manufacturer: Klutz
The Mozart Effect: Music for Babies - From Playtime to Sleepytime (Cassette)
Young babies and children will learn to love and appreciate classical music with this wonderful collection. Includes: 1. The Toy Symphony, II 2. Excerpts from 12 Variations on Ah, Vous Dirai-Je, Maman, K. 265 3. The Toy Symphony, III, Minuet 4. Flute Quartet in C Major, K. 171 5. Rondo - Allegro Ma Non Troppe from Serenade No. 9 N D Major, K. 320 Cap 6. Flute Quartet in C Major, K. 171 7. Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K. 183, II, Andante 8. Organ Music, Variation on K. 265, Ah Vou Dirai-Je, Maman Janos Sebestye 9. Adagio III from Quartet No. 20 in D. Major K. 499 "Hoffmeister" Eder Q Awards: Parents' Choice Award--Recommended (1999). Age: 3 months - 3 years Manufacturer: New Sound Music
The Scrambled States of America Card Game
Quick! Find a state that ends with the letter A. Now find one that borders Tennessee. Have fun learning about the United States in this madcap game of observation and quick reflexes. Collect cards by matching states to a Scramble card. Or "Go the Distance" and find a state's closest neighbor. Whoever scrambles to match and collect the most state cards wins. Whoever said that learning about U.S. geography had to be boring must not have read The Scrambled States of America. We fell head-over-heels for Laurie Keller's hilarious story and knew that it had the making for a great game. As with her book, we hope our game provides a fun way to enrich basic knowledge of U.S. geography. Players learn the names, capitals, nicknames, shapes and positions of the states through a myriad of visual teasers, language riddles and geography challenges. After playing, you'll see that there's more to the 50 States than meets the eye! Awards: Dr. Toy's Top 100 Children's Products, Dr. Toy's 10 Best Socially Responsible Products
The Shrinky Dinks Book
Shrinky Dinks is amazing shrinkable plastic. Draw or trace a design on it, color it, cut it out with ordinary scissors, bake it for mere minutes on a cookie sheet in your oven and, presto, your creation shrinks to 44% of its original size. You get six sheets of Shrinky Dink in this book, along with a mind-boggling collection of ready-to-trace, ready-to-color, ready-to-shrink artwork. 38 pages. Full color. Awards: Canadian Toy Testing Council Best Bet Award, DiscoverySchool.com Award of Excellence, Parents’ Guide to Children’s Media Award. Age: 6,7,8,9,10,11,12 Manufacturer: Klutz
Rubik's Cube
The classic #1 best selling brain teaser. Billions of combinations, only one solution. Awards: Dr. Toy Best Classic Toys-2000. Age: 8,9,10,11,12, Adult Manufacturer: Hasbro Dimensions: 9x6.5x3.25
Safari Rush Hour®
In this exciting jungle escape game, a Safari Rover is trapped amid wild animals in the African wilderness. An outstanding playing experience for the entire family, with richly detailed animals, multiple ways to maneuver your escape car, and game-within-a-game 50 challenges including 10 Junior challenges. Awards: Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award 2001, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award 2000, Parents' Choice: Approved--2000, The Lion & The Lamb Project: Top 20 Non-Violent Toy List--2000-2001. Age: 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,Adult Manufacturer: Binary Arts
Rat-a-Tat Cat Card Game
A Fun Numbers Card Game with Cats (and a few rats). Get rid of the rats and go for the cats! Win by having your cards add up to the lowest number (a poker face helps). Exchange a card on each turn, with Peek, Swap, and Draw Two cards adding an extra twist. Cagey thinkers of all ages will crow with delight over this game of strategy, memory, and a little luck. As children play Rat-a-tat Cat, they develop a sense of timing and an understanding of basic, but essential, mathematical concepts. They learn ways to remember their cards and strategies to figure out what cards other players might have. They also begin to develop an intuitive sense of probability. Rat-a-tat Cat requires skill, strategy, and awareness, challenging both young children and adults. For 2 - 6 players. Awards: Dr. Toy's Best Children's Vacation Products, Mensa Best New Mind Game, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award, National Parenting Publication Association (NAPPA) Honors, Games Magazine Top 100 Game, Canadian Toy Testing Council ***,
Read All About Me Activity Kit
Create a personal history of you and your family. Begin by coloring the 12 themed pages of line art and then embellish with the crayons, markers, glitter, glue, scissors, and 24 sheets of colorful construction paper that are included. Decorate and bind the pages together for your own unique family keepsake. Awards: Early Childhood News 100 Best Product Picks Age: 6,7,8,9,10 Manufacturer: Alex
Set of 3 Jumbo Chalk
The extra large size of these jumbo chalk sticks makes them easy for little hands to hold while drawing on sidewalks or chalkboards. Awards: Parents' Choice "Approved" Age: 3,4,5,6,7,8 Manufacturer: Alex
Play-Doh® Classic 4 Pack
With Play-Doh modeling compound, you can sculpt anything you can imagine! Includes 4 six-ounce cans in red, white, blue, and yellow. Awards: Dr. Toy Best Classic Toys-2000. Quantity orders of this item may increase shipping cost. Age: 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Manufacturer: Hasbro
PLAYMOBIL® Farm
By the time the sun rises over the SystemX farm, the farmer has already been working for awhile. The heifer and the sow with her 3 piglets are looking expectantly through the fence for their breakfast. The farmer is on his way with a sack of grain in his wheelbarrow. The dog takes a morning drink from the water trough while the cat playfully chases after two doves perched on dormer window. When feeding time is over, the cow is put out to pasture. Then it´s time to use the working winch to load a heavy bale of straw into the hayloft. Awards: Parents' Choice Award--Recommended (Fall 2000). Age: 4,5,6,7,8,9 Manufacturer: PLAYMOBIL® Dimensions: 28x12x18 in. (LxWxH)
Nail Art
Tips, techniques, and hundreds of designs to paint on fingernails (and toenails, too). No artistic genius required. Comes with six colors of non-toxic, peel-off nail paints. 58 pages. Full color. Awards: Parents' Choice Approved. Age: 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 Manufacturer: Klutz
PDQ: The Pretty Darn Quick Word Game
Quick! Try to make a word out of the letters SMP. Sound SiMPle? How about PTR. Get the PicTuRe? In this lightning fast party game, it's an all-out race to be the first player to shout out a word using all three letter cards in play. Each round starts with a different set of letters - it's up to you to fill in the blanks. Whoever has the most cards at the end of the game is the WNR! For 1 or more players. Playing time: about 15 minutes. Multiple game plays. Includes 78 letter cards and rules of play. Awards: Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award. Age: 8,9,10,11,12,Adult Manufacturer: Gamewright