Making sure you and your baby get enough rest are high priorities for parents of young children, because the caliber of that rest time directly impacts your entire day. Lullaby Light Cube provides tremendous help in that regard by creating a consistent, controlled environment that soothes your baby to sleep with calming music and a gently lit sky. Lullaby Light Cube is wonderfully sturdy, attractive, and compact (measures...Read more

The speed and ease with which kids construct vivid scenes using Magnetic Figures from Mudpuppy is a huge part of the fun. Imaginations run wild with well over a dozen exciting, diverse titles and themes to choose from (Pirates, Mermaids, Time Travel, Fairy Tales, Monsters, Ballerinas, Robots, to name just a few). Regardless of the title, each set comes in a portable hinged tin and includes 4 illustrated background scenes...Read more

Boys will make cool, rugged wristbands from paracord (a material originally used to suspend parachutes) with this fun, easy-to-use kit. The process is smooth and repetitive, with simple instructions and a box that acts as your workstation. Just choose a color, slide the ends through both sides of a buckle, and secure one half the buckle to your workstation. From there on out, it's just a matter of making a succession of a...Read more

Make-A-Mask combines artistic self-expression with imaginative play, providing dazzling illustrated designs for kids to tear off, color in, cut out, and wear to their heart's content. The identity-altering artwork sparks inventive games, wild theatrics, and kooky, interactive play. Each of the 8 titles in the Make-A-Mask series follows a different theme (Monsters, Butterflies, Pirates, Princesses, to name a few ) and come...Read more

This single set, using the same colorful, connectable pieces, lets you build four different helicopter models, each of which lights up using the special Laser Pegs design. The set includes a mobile power source that feeds low voltage current through the special toy construction, illuminating the connected pieces with a beautiful, futuristic glow. In addition to the power source, the set comes with 2 Laser Pegs, 45 Constru...Read more

It's quite wonderful that the Orb Factory offers this creative collage kit so perfectly suited to children as young as 3 and up. The design allows kids to simply peel off portions of the playful artwork, unveiling sticky areas they can customize. By adding colored cotton balls, glitter, and snow-like fun foam (all included) to the existing artwork, they'll learn to express their creative side, as well as how to match colo...Read more

Whether using your own photos or some of the 144 cool, playful, preprinted images included in this set, My Image Bracelet Maker makes it easy to create great-looking reversible bracelets that have a very personal feel. As always with products from Crorey Creations, this set is compact, portable, and contains everything you need efficiently tucked away in drawers built right into the workstation. The tiles that make up the...Read more

One of the many enjoyable things about My Image Button Maker and other offerings from Crorey Creations is how easy the product designs and step-by-step instructions make it to produce great results. My Image Button Maker lets kids make personalized, professional-quality buttons, quickly and easily, with a choice of pin or magnet for each button-back. Accessorize outfits, decorate lockers, make refrigerator art - let your ...Read more

My Lanyard Maker is like having a lanyard design and production studio at your fingertips. Its compact, efficient layout makes it easy to carry with you anywhere, and its two drawers (with two compartments apiece) contain all the materials you need to create colorful lanyard keychains, backpack charms, bracelets, and more. The top of My Lanyard Maker is your workstation, and provides two different ways to anchor the stati...Read more

Fast, simple games can pack a special kind of wallop, and as dice games go, this one has it all - speed, fun, excitement, and lots of dice (18 white and 18 orange to be exact). The dice are covered with an abundance of playful symbols (ghost, rocket, palm tree, bunny rabbit . . .), and NADA! is played in rounds. Each round begins by rolling some of the dice. There are two ways to score in a round, either by being first to...Read more

It's hard to do Copter Darts justice with words. You have to see, feel, and toss them in order to fully appreciate them. For starters, they have a distinctively fun, cool look that's equally appealing to youngsters, teens, and adults. And when you hear 'darts,' you tend to think 'pointy.' Nope, no points here, just round-nosed (about 2-12 inch diameter) black PVC heads weighted just right for throwing. And when you toss t...Read more

These miniature versions of Copter Darts (see Copter Dart review above) bring a whole new kind of excitement to indoor/outdoor play. Smaller, lighter, and faster than their big brothers (but otherwise virtually identical in design), these soft foam darts spin with the same remarkable aerodynamic motion. With their weighted PVC noses, all Copter Darts land standing straight up, wings in the air, making them easy to spot. E...Read more

OgoSport's products consistently have a unique look and feel, a high level of quality and appeal that immediately catch the eye. That perception, of something fun, and different, increases the closer one gets. Volo Fleet consists of 3 different Volo Darts, each sold separately - the Havik, the Fenik (with solid foam-ball noses), and the Hok (with a hollow rubber nose). With their lightweight, throw-perfect design and copt...Read more

One of the many wonderful things about this game is the ease with which it stimulates improvisational storytelling while keeping everyone thoroughly engaged. The game is as much about listening as it is about storytelling. One player at a time actively spins the tale by placing Story Cards on the table while introducing elements found on those cards (a dragon, a witch, falling in love, etc.) into her story. The other pla...Read more