A great tool for getting preschoolers ready for school, this card deck is designed to help master the correct way to write numerals and the corresponding number words. Every card shows the proper starting points for writing a numeral and is designed as a practice space for both tracing and writing them. Cards also show how to write the corresponding number words, again starting with tracing and moving on to writing free h...Read more

This colorful, inviting set helps kids develop early reading and writing skills using simple phonics words. The set's fun and effectiveness is further enhanced by the ease and simplicity of its use. Each card has two or three words on it. Kids work their way from card to card, filling in missing letters representing a specific sound (short a, hard g, etc.). Each word has a playful illustration above it of the object repre...Read more

The wonderfully diverse set of activities presented on these cards stimulates the brain in a multitude of fun and exciting ways while helping kids develop fine motor, writing, and other essential skills. Each card features a different activity. The cards are grommeted together, maintaining the order of the cards and preventing individual cards from being lost or damaged. The dry-erase marker has a built-in eraser, making ...Read more

Anyone who's ever spent time patiently unraveling a knotted ball of string will appreciate the challenge and brilliant design of this highly entertaining brainteaser. The clear, plastic sphere-like object has 12 elastic strings stretching across its interior, crossing paths with one another. The strings are colored (red, orange, purple, yellow - three of each) and have plastic nodes at either end holding them in place fro...Read more

Bubbling Blooms Body Wash provides a gentle, skin-loving cleanse for your body, free of the synthetic ingredients found in so many other body wash products. What you put on your skin gets absorbed into your body, so it's not just the health and beauty of your skin that benefits from Sparklehearts' use of natural ingredients. It's all of you. The packaging is fun, attractive, and made from recycled materials. A quick push ...Read more

A steady hand and steely nerves are required as you guide a metal loop along the crooked contours of the buzz wire. Don't let them touch, or the balloon might go bang! The loop is small (about 3/8 inch diameter), and the distance you must travel along the buzz wire on your turn is determined by the lucky spin wheel. Each time you slip up (and you will) triggers a buzz, along with the possibility that the balloon will exp...Read more

Cahootie is a quick, easy, very social game for 2 or more players. This modern version of the home-made folded paper fortune-telling game many of us played as children contains bright, colorful graphics, positive girl-empowering themes, and overall high quality craftsmanship. It comes with 40 reusable stickers, 8 of which can be loaded into the Cahootie for play on a given turn. Stickers contain either a fortune, tri...Read more

We can't say enough about what a great game this is - it's quick-moving, enormously fun, engages everyone from start to finish, and cultivates some fundamental skills including simple strategic decision-making. Just a few seconds (literally) of looking at instructions, and we were ready to go. Each player receives a hexagonal game board containing 61 spaces marked with images (a button, a tiger, an airplane . . .). Player...Read more

Celtic Challenge has a winning recipe - a pinch of luck, a dash of skill, simplicity of execution, and a unique presentation. The handsome hardwood board and rustic tiles give it an ancient look and feel. The pace of play moves at a good clip, and a game only takes about 20 minutes. Start with the tiles nested in layers and all but the top layer of four face down. The goal on your turn is to choose the symbol (there are f...Read more

Kids will love this beautifully constructed, exceptionally well-designed game. Parents will adore that it's easy to set up, fun to play, and teaches colors, counting, matching, movement, objects, money sense, and a balanced approach to food. The goal is to be the first player to fill your shopping cart with six items (from five different food groups plus one treat). Players store purchases in brightly colored little shopp...Read more

The chop balanceBIKE from Prince Lionheart is rugged and durable, its look designed to emulate that of a vintage motorcycle. The 100% birch frame, rubber tires and handgrips, and height-adjustable seat create a perfect vehicle for building balance and coordination in young children while instilling in them the confidence necessary to transition to a two-wheeled pedal bicycle. Children learn to balance and steer, first wal...Read more

As with all the CitiBlocs wooden building sets, part of the beauty of the new Green & Turquoise blocks stems from the way they kick-start a child's imagination. Kids' hands seem to start flying at the mere sight of them, and the speed with which they can be used to construct an almost limitless variety of structures is at times stunning. Made with the same precision cut, high quality wood as in the past, these new bloc...Read more

Picture this: You answer a knock at your door and find a delivery man with a package your children excitedly open to find . . . frogs, LIVING FROGS! How cool is that? Few things are as fun for a child as getting a new pet, and few things are as gratifying for a parent as finding a pet that requires near zero maintenance, in other words, a pet you can say yes to with all your heart. The Classic Kit Eco-Aquarium from Wild C...Read more

Construction Plate is a great way to make eating more fun for young children. The surface of this brightly designed, dishwasher-and-microwave safe plate is compartmentalized, creating nifty places for various foods and utensils to go. Certain of the plate's features work well with Constructive's Tillywig Award-winning Eating Utensils. Down the hatch!...Read more