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Sort In The Box is so colorful, playful, and inviting in appearance and design that children are instantly drawn to it. This brilliant educational game consists of a highly appealing wooden box with 4 compartments with brightly colored lids, each containing a slot through which youngsters drop object tiles during the sorting process. The 60 object tiles can be sorted according to either class or attributes. The 3 main cat...Read more
Like Omicron Adventure (see separate review above), this construction kit presents creative and play possibilities that go well beyond the step-by-step builds outlined in the easy-to-follow instructions. As with all YOXO products, both the assembly process and finished constructions have an excitingly distinctive look and feel that sets them apart from other kits. The uniquely designed links connect easily and firmly usi...Read more
Spin-balls LED Poi is an outstanding and joyful way for kids and adults to engage in impressive feats of physical coordination and conditioning. It involves using hand, arm, and full-body motion to spin two glowing LED balls, each of which is attached at the end of its own adjustable-length cord. The included instructional DVD is excellent, and the results are often dazzling. There is no right or wrong way to spin. Peopl...Read more
Spirot has that rarest of qualities: it can be replayed endlessly without losing an ounce of its entertainment value. The game play is simple but ingenious. After setting up a playing board of 9 black & white photographic cards in a 3 X 3 grid, players take turns stacking a colored card from their hand onto a matching photograph on the board. The goal is to create a 3 card sequence (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) in w...Read more
These Night Mission Goggles rank highly in coolness of appearance, providing an authentic, high-tech look that lets kids slip quickly and easily into exciting, James Bond-like role play. The cutting edge headset, with tinted goggles, attached Flip-out Scope, and built-in twin LED spy lights, looks fantastic. Although they are made of plastic, the goggles are visually indistinguishable from metal. Their dark, sleek design ...Read more
Reading fluency is on the way with this marvelous merging of physical and digital play. Square Panda's fabulously fun educational apps for the iPad interact beautifully with this phonics playset's physical components, which include a game board-like base unit and 45 tactile letter manipulatives. Kids place these 'smart letters' into slots in the board while playing onscreen games that include island bowling with a coconu...Read more
Stratego is one of the best-selling games of all time. That popularity stems from incredibly well-designed game play in which two armies are pitted against one another, each controlled by a single player. Each 30-piece army consists of 24 soldiers of varying ranks - Sergeant, Captain, etc. - as well as 5 bombs and a single flag. To either player, all pieces in their opponent's army look identical because rank only appear...Read more
Crayola Super-Duper Art Studio is a fun-filled creative station whose wide-ranging features let kids make art on a grand scale. Two chalkboard surfaces on one side and two magnetic dry erase boards on the other promote solo and group activities in which up to four children can draw and play at the same time. Both sides are equipped with clips that keep sheets of paper in place and well-designed trays for holding art suppl...Read more
The Swurfer is an exciting reinvention of the classic tree swing. The curved shape of its hard-rock maple base (made in the USA) provides power, stability, and a wide range of motion. Riders can sit or stand. The pair of ropes that attach to each end of the base have adjustable wooden handles for riders to grip while swinging, letting leg and arm strength combine to produce a surprisingly diverse range of linear and ellip...Read more
The sight of Tactile Discs arouses in children an immediate sense of playfulness, a desire to touch, feel, and explore the 10 discs that make up the set. Five very different tactile structures occur on two same-colored discs apiece (one small disc for handheld exploration, one large for positioning on the floor to investigate with hands or feet). Playing with the discs stimulates both the child's sense of touch and the ab...Read more
This highly collaborative game provides players with a framework that makes creating art fun and easy. The playful, structured approach eliminates the second-guessing and inhibitions that get in the way of many an aspiring young artist. The package comes loaded with high quality art supplies - paints, pastels, various types of paper, glitter, glue, scissors, paint brush - along with a color wheel and several decks of card...Read more
The strange, silly, and unpredictable stories that flow from players' mouths during a game of Tall Tales are as fresh to the storyteller as to the listener. Although each player makes up his or her own story on the spot, the contents of the Story Bag (50 miniatures of familiar objects), must be brought into the tale. A cow, the moon, an automobile, a pair of boots, a tiny island - whatever comes out of the bag must go int...Read more
Tapple 10 packs an awful lot of fun into one small package. Its durable, plastic travel case can fit in your pocket, yet holds a sand timer, 80 cards, and instructions for 10 different action-packed games to play. One side of each card displays four color-coded categories that vary from card to card (things like Sports Equipment, Song Titles, Sticky Stuff, Office Supplies, . . .). The other side shows a single letter whos...Read more
The building kids do with this kit is, in and of itself, a marvelously fun activity, but when the play value of the finished marble and gear run is taken into account, the fun factor goes through the roof. The variety of shapes, sizes, and connectors fitted together during the construction process make for an intellectually stimulating experience that requires careful attention. The looks of excited anticipation on kids' ...Read more