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2011 Tillywig Award Winners

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Create Your Own Puzzle with Pencil Crayons Back to top

Here's a marvelous idea that will provide hours of creative fun AND a cherished keepsake. Create Your Own Puzzle comes with two large, blank puzzle boards and 18 colored pencils. Each 20-piece puzzle board becomes a canvas on which you create your masterpiece, as simple or elegant as the mood that strikes you. When you're finished, it's puzzle time. Take your work apart and put it back together, time and again gleefully w...Read more

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Destination USA
Price $ 24.95
By MindWare
Age
8 & Up
Top Fun

Destination USA is a board game in the best possible sense of the words. From its sprawling, brightly illustrated playing board to its simple, startlingly fun game play, every aspect is tremendously well thought out and contributes to the fun. Players use cards from their hands to navigate a playing piece around a large map of the U.S., picking up tokens and Destination Cards, both of which are worth points, along the way...Read more

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Dinosaur Play Set
Price $ 90.00
By Tolo
Age
1 - 5 Yrs.
Best Family Fun

Too few children's products in today's marketplace adequately encourage imaginative fun, so Tolo's Dinosaur Play Set is a welcome arrival. Its wonderful simplicity, colorful plants, creatures, and accessories, and stony backdrop set a stage that will ignite your child's imagination and keep it engaged for hours upon hours. There's as close to no assembly as conceivably possible - from box to full set-up took about a minu...Read more

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DIY Sqwishland
Price $ 9.99
By Sqwishland, LLC
Age
5 & Up
Best Family Fun

The beloved Sqwishland family of colorful collectible rubbery characters is about to get bigger, and YOU just might be the creative genius behind it! DIY Sqwishland comes with a 5-inch blank Sqwishland character (Parrot or Frog, with more styles on the way), 6 acrylic paints, a brush, and a code to unlock the online gallery of kids' homemade designs. Paint the blank character in your own inimitable style, then upload pict...Read more

Do Re Mi Musical Blocks Back to top
Age
4 & Up
Top Fun

We don't see enough products that enable children to make music with their own hands. Do Re Mi Musical Blocks do that and engage kids on several other levels as well. There are eight blocks in all, each with a different size (and pitch) xylophone bar affixed to the top, enough to play an entire octave of the C major scale . Each hollow block is larger than the next, and they come nested so that the entire set fits compact...Read more

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Age
3 - 8 Yrs.
Top Fun

This all-in-one drawing activity kit is perfect for spontaneous, creative fun - anywhere, anytime. With it's compact re-sealable packaging, Doodle Roll practically fits in the palm of your hand, yet yields countless hours of inspired entertainment. The E-Z tear edge allows kids to tear off a sheet any size they like (with a nice, even edge) ensuring that the canvas matches the inspiration, large or small. The children we ...Read more

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Eleminis
Price $ 14.99
By Smileypop
Age
7 & Up
Best Family Fun

Eleminis is a fun, fast-moving card game. Players take turns drawing a single card from the top of the deck and playing it in some fashion, the goal being to be the first to fill in five empty slots on the table in front of you with the five different Eleminis (Fire, Plant, Air, Water, and Rock). There are two types of cards, Character cards (which include the 5 Eleminis), and Action cards. Character cards are played face...Read more

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Fastrack
Price $ 19.99
By Blue Orange Games
Age
5 & Up
Sterling Fun

Fastrack is a game of non-stop action in which small wooden disks are propelled, rapid-fire, by two players on opposite sides of the board aiming for the same small opening. The disks are propelled by means of an elastic band stretched across each player's end zone. A single finger is used to take aim and let fly. The goal is to get all the disks onto the other players' side, and it's worth noting that the opening is just...Read more

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Find it On a Hunt
Price $ 20.00
By Find It Games
Age
8 & Up
Sterling Fun

Labradors, squirrels, and ducks, oh, my! This decidedly outdoorsy version of Find it not only contains dozens of miniature representations of things you would find on a hunt, the tiny pellets among which they are hidden extend the theme nicely with a blend of wood-tone and camouflage colors. Like all the Find it games, On a Hunt keeps your hands moving and your eyes sharp as you race (either solo or against other players)...Read more

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Find it Veggie Tales
Price $ 25.00
By Find It Games
Age
4 & Up
Best Family Fun

What's better than a great idea? Two great ideas that come together for double the fun! Now your favorite VeggieTales characters can be found in a new version of Find it, but only if you keep your hands moving and your eyes sharp! This is an extremely engaging game, equally suited to solo play or group fun, in which players race to bring hidden objects into sight. Hold the clear cylindrical container in both hands (it's f...Read more

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Fleeting Foxes
Price $ 21.00
By HABA
Age
5 & Up
Best Family Fun

This is a five star game. HABA's games are always strikingly original, among the best on the market suited to younger children and entire families. Fleeting Foxes is especially fun, a race in which players' Foxes strive to catch up to Hen, all of which are being driven forward by rolls of the dice. One of the unique aspects of game play is that, in a single turn, a player moves all pieces on the board, including those of ...Read more

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FlipOut
Price $ 19.99
By Gamewright
Age
8 & Up
Top Fun

FlipOut is easy to learn, has a great balance of skill and luck, plays well across a broad range of ages, and is loads of fun! Players each have six cards arranged in an arc in a card-holder in front of them, so that they can only see one side of each card while their opponents see the other. The cards have colored patterns on both sides, and the goal is to obtain as many cards as possible by collecting sets of 4 to 6 mat...Read more

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Fruitonimoes
Price $ 12.95
By Bananagrams
Age
5 & Up
Best Family Fun

Banagrams has taken the classic game of dominoes and made it zestier, more colorful, and, of course, given it a bright fruity twist! The Fruitonimo tiles are smooth, white, cool, and contain six different fun fruit patterns. After drawing five dominoes from the draw pile, players take turns matching one domino at a time from their hand to the dominoes in play on the table. If a player can't match an open tile, he or she m...Read more

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Age
2-5 yrs.
Best Family Fun

The Garden Plate makes eating fun and easy for young children, helping to keep them happy and engaged at mealtime. The plate is divided in ways that allow different foods to be kept separate and makes it easy for little hands and developing motor skills to get food onto forks and spoons, with special nooks and crannys for just that purpose. The colorful design integrates fairy wing patterns that match the Tillywig Award-...Read more

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