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Deciduous Puzzle Springs to Life on Your Tabletop

Get in the mood for spring with this Deciduous Puzzle from Anthropologie, which lets you add leaves, apples, birds and other natural wonders to the branches of a lovely, three-dimensional tree. Featuring 170 pieces in all, it’s made from a combination...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Mar 19th, 2010, 12:00 pm
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Toroflux: No Hands Were Lost in the Making of This Toy

It looks like a mashup between a hula hoop and a strand of razor wire, but the Toroflux is actually a safe, mind-bending kinetic sculpture that, besides having no parts that’ll cut your hands off, also gives you a fun way to observe strands...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Mar 17th, 2010, 9:00 am
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This Easter Bunny Smells Like Mommy

Want to add a little comfort for nighttime when you’re past the co-sleeping stage? Towel dolls are made to absorb Mom’s scent and offer tots a sense of security while they cuddle. Often with knotted ends for teething tots, they’re made...
Continue reading » Posted by jeannesager on Mar 11th, 2010, 1:24 pm
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Baby Macgyver Goes Camping

Ever wonder what Macgyver took camping when he was a kid? Somehow I think the seven-function binoculars for kids was high on his list. It’s binoculars. It’s a monocular (which made my kid pretend she was the prince’s butler from Cinderella),...
Continue reading » Posted by jeannesager on Mar 11th, 2010, 11:25 am
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Kids Wanna Know – What’s Inside Animals?

Has you curious kid ever asked you “mommy, what’s inside a snake?” or maybe they’ve asked what’s inside a horse, a giraffe or even us.  You could pull out Grey’s Anatomy and get really into or you can just tip one...
Continue reading » Posted by SunnyChanel on Mar 9th, 2010, 9:25 pm
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Giveaway: Science Gets WILD! For Kids

The push to go green hasn’t just helped our earth. It’s helping parents too – flooding the market with ways to convince our kids science is just as cool as Hannah Montana and Spiderman. Take the new WILD! Science line from International...
Continue reading » Posted by jeannesager on Mar 8th, 2010, 11:30 am
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Food Chain Friends Plush Creatures: Get in My Belly!

Sort of like Russian nesting dolls — if those dolls had an attitude and subsisted on one another – Teetersaw’s Food Chain Friends are adorably mean-spirited plush animals that (gulp!) really eat their own. Each Friend fits neatly...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Mar 7th, 2010, 10:00 am
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Julius Meets the Sock Monkey

We’ve been dressing our kids in Small Paul since Paul Frank shrunk his monkey, but now it’s time for our two favorite primates to meet. Julius has been sock monkeyed. And he is waiting to be cuddled to smitherens by your own small person. The...
Continue reading » Posted by jeannesager on Mar 5th, 2010, 1:00 pm
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Telling Time Goes Back to the Earth

Was there any science class experiment that stuck with you like using your potato to conduct electricity? It’s time to bring it on home Mom and Dad. A potato clock kit will let your kids turn a spud rescued from the kitchen into green power for...
Continue reading » Posted by jeannesager on Mar 4th, 2010, 11:30 am
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It Spins and It Spells

If you grew up in the eighties, chances are you remember the speak n’ spell, the computerized toy that would read out what you’d just written. A precursor to the souped up toy computers of today, it was the sort of thing we used to drive...
Continue reading » Posted by jeannesager on Feb 25th, 2010, 1:00 pm
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They’ve Got the Doll on a String

If you’ve noticed little creatures hanging off the kids’ bags on the drop-off line but never been able to get a good look, here you go. Kamibashi string dolls are taking over the playground, and Babble got hold of a few to see what they’re...
Continue reading » Posted by jeannesager on Feb 23rd, 2010, 11:29 am
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Play-Doh Goes to the Movies

Parents have long celebrated the benefits of popcorn for snack time. Now it’s moving on to play time. Play-Doh’s added to its popular “cooking” line this spring, and this time they’re taking kids to the movies with the Poppin’...
Continue reading » Posted by jeannesager on Feb 17th, 2010, 12:21 pm

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