Gel-a-Peel 3D Design Station gives girls everything they need to design and make their own stylish jewelry and other fashion accessories - bracelets, earrings, emoji charms, pencil toppers, key chains, phone cases and more! It's super easy to do. Just insert one of the included paper designs (or create your own) into the 3D template and use one or more of the gel color tubes to trace the design. Wait for it to dry, then p...Read more

It is always exciting when a wonderful new educational toy comes along, but the arrival of Geometiles is particular cause for celebration. This 96-piece set of interlocking tiles offers such a variety of fun, math-based, hands-on learning activities that children can play and learn all day long and never tire of it. The ingeniously designed tiles let kids construct a huge array of 2D and 3D objects, including squares, tri...Read more

In addition to being irresistibly soft, cute and cuddly, this delightful pup responds to more than a dozen verbal and physical cues by engaging in remarkably lifelike antics that match the command given. Among other things, Georgie barks, walks, sits, rears back on his hind legs, shakes hands, high-fives, plays tug-o-war and even breaks out some impressive dance moves. There's an impishness in everything this little Golde...Read more

Go! Go! Smart Wheels Press & Race Vehicles are small but mighty, packed full of fun and action to which youngsters respond with fascination and glee. Just press down on the top of the vehicle and watch it come alive: lights flash, sound effects are heard, wheels kick into motion and carry it across the floor, fun songs and playfully spoken phrases sing out, 'I'm Ray! I'm a quick race car. I'm the champion!' Each colorfull...Read more

Helio Base Station emits LED light through specially designed discs whose content is projected onto the ceiling in a soothing contrast of shadow and light. Instead of seeing stars and moon projected onto the ceiling, kids are treated to a wealth of knowledge as they happily lie back and absorb entertaining educational facts and images that inspire lively interactions and enlightening discussions. Swapping out the discs ch...Read more

Watch a child play with a toy vehicle and you'll soon see every surface within reach - floors, tables, counters, stairs, walls, furniture - being used an imaginary road. Hot Wheels PlayTape takes that high octane fun up a very big notch by letting kids instantly add visually exciting roads and racetrack-like paths, wherever and whenever they desire. PlayTape sticks to any flat surface (even carpeting and upholstery) and i...Read more

This new addition to Mudpuppy's fabulous "I Heart" Activity Book series offers up a powerful blend of fascinating museum- and artwork-related knowledge with a wide range of strikingly creative activities for kids to do. Each activity immediately follows a page on which background information has been given regarding a specific museum and a historic artwork on display. Each activity relates directly to what has just been l...Read more

With Ice Cream Truck, making your own ice cream is amazingly simple and incredibly fun. After mixing up a few common ingredients and pouring them in the back of the truck, children are treated to a highly enjoyable show. At the flip of a switch, the brightly decorated truck begins rolling across the floor, playing Scott Joplin's 'The Entertainer' in true ice cream truck fashion as it chills and prepares the ice cream. Smi...Read more

What Did I Step In? is a fabulously fun memory game that keeps youngsters happily engaged for hours on end. The game's playfulness is gleefully amplified by the ingeniously silly component kids use to flip over cards in search of matches: a miniature red sneaker with a suction cup on the bottom. Press the sole of the shoe onto any of the Green Mystery Cards on the table and it sticks securely, allowing the player to pick...Read more

Everything a child needs in order to write, illustrate and publish their own hardcover book comes beautifully packaged in IlluStory - Create Your Own Book! The kit's excellent guide book ushers kids through the creative process in an enjoyably structured, easy to follow series of steps that make great results all but inevitable. It is also a wonderful educational journey through which kids learn a great deal about writing...Read more

Janod Happy Tree Memory Game skillfully updates the 'card-flip memory game' genre, adding twists and turns that send the fun soaring to new heights. The goal is to be the first player to reconstruct a tree according to a model laid out at the beginning of play. The model tree, comprised of 6 cards, always has the same base and top, but the order of the inner cards is shaken up each game. Players must duplicate the model t...Read more

This joyously colorful puzzle could easily be measured in smiles per minute, so radiant is the response it evokes from children and parents alike. The extraordinarily high quality packaging - a hat box with carry handle and wooden latch on which every little detail has been attended to - is so appealing it could easily stand as a product in and of itself. Inside, though, is where the major fun is at, a 36-piece 19.7 x 15....Read more

Janod Musical Spinning Top puts a magical world at little ones' fingertips, a richly detailed, fun-filled farm scene encased in a plastic dome with a bright red handle sitting on top. A suction cup base holds the toy steady while the scene springs to life in response to pumps of the handle. The external dome begins spinning, as does a column of stacked colors at its center. A tractor pulling two carts begins moving along ...Read more

This enormously fun wooden toy produces a high frequency of smiles and laughter while teaching youngsters something about balance, dexterity, cause and effect and even simple problem-solving. Play starts by placing the wide-eyed squirrel atop a round-bottomed base, where he sits, teetering slightly from the get-go. The goal is to stack as many of the set's 20 colorful wooden acorns as possible on the squirrel's back witho...Read more

This unique and versatile construction toy opens the door to a remarkable level of creative play. Junior GeoStix's straight and curved flexible sticks snap together so easily and in so many configurations (including items with moving parts) that children don't hesitate to jump right in and start building. For those who enjoy the challenge of recreating what they see, the set comes with 30 two-sided activity cards that dis...Read more

One can only marvel at the huge realm of deeply satisfying and often intricate builds the Power & Play Motorized Building Set makes possible. Included is a motor and over 530 classic K'NEX made-in-the-USA pieces that put endless play possibilities at kids' fingertips, whether authoring their own creations or following the detailed full color instructions. Those instructions show how to build a dazzling array of moving veh...Read more

For sheer excitement and fun, it would be difficult to top K'NEX Thrill Rides Web Weaver Roller Coaster Building Set. With 399 K'NEX parts and pieces at hand, kids have the pleasure of immersing themselves in a prolonged build fueled by anticipatory excitement for the adrenalized action that is to come. The finished roller coaster appears dazzlingly intricate to the eye, an effect only amplified once the air-powered motor...Read more

At the risk of putting this bear on a pedestal, we feel compelled to say that is one of the finest (if not the finest) plush animals we have seen to date. In huggability alone, Kaloo Rouge Prestige XXL Bear rates somewhere in the neighborhood of a perfect 10. His stunningly soft exterior, warm, welcoming facial expression, plump belly, and long arms and legs not only provide plenty of squeezable handholds, they collective...Read more

Many a child has abstained from building a card house due to the seeming impossibility of doing so without countless hours of practice. Kardtects turns this notion on its head by enabling even young novices to create elaborate multilevel structures from day one. For starters, Kardtects collectible building cards are specifically designed for building card houses, with more grip and less slip than traditional playing cards...Read more

Each of these four dolls has a brand new look and feel that includes soft, brushable hair, a first for Lalaloopsy dolls! Creativity and friendship are the themes that unite them, yet each doll comes with a distinctive personality whose endearing qualities are expressed through its playful, eye-catching appearance. Attire, hair style and color (strikingly different for each doll), accessories, even the pet that accompanies...Read more

This educational toy does a fabulous job of engaging youngsters, stimulating and rewarding their curiosity with essential sights, sounds, songs and knowledge. The Learning Cube's high level of interactivity is a key factor in its ability to keep kids happily absorbed. Each of the cube's six sides contains a large, colored button that takes children on a different learning adventure. Kids learn the alphabet, numbers, color...Read more

Life Cycle Wheel is one of the new products in 4M's exciting and enlightening Junior Steam series. Its ingenious construction let's children view images of living organisms at various stages in their life cycles, helping kids gain an understanding of how animals and plants grow and propagate. Six sets of life cycle cards are included (frog, bird, butterfly, ladybug, dog, apple). Each consists of 5 cards bearing colorful i...Read more