What if every time you threw a football, it produced a flurry of bubbles in its wake? Well, this lightweight, kid-sized football does just that, with the help of a special circular bubble-producing attachment, and, of course, the One and Only Gazillion Bubble solution. The perfect enhancement for a game of outdoor catch, Gazillion Bubble Football comes with two 'endzone' trays and a bottle of bubble solution with which to...Read more

Getting out in the world with a young child means doing everything you can to make sure she's safe and comfortable. Without confidence in the safety factor, there's no peace of mind. Without the comfort, you have an unhappy child, which can make for a dismal experience for all. And then there's the fact that you only have two arms, and the thought of lugging twice your weight in child accessories can be enough to make you...Read more

GUBS is a strongly imaginative game with an exciting variety of actions that can be taken on any given turn. Players employ richly detailed cards that bestow special powers to the holder while striving to build the mightiest GUB colony. Easier said than done, given the array of card types that can be used to acquire, protect, liberate, devalue, or attack other player's GUB cards. On each turn, a player draws a card and th...Read more

Picture a full-blown playground, designed, sized, and well-suited to a baby's developmental stages, and you'll have some idea of the Gymini Move 'n Play. The mat, approximately 40 inches square, is colorful, soft, cozy, and playfully illustrated. Two brightly colored arches stretch up from the corners of the mat, crossing overhead. Hanging from these, on movable plastic connecters, are a variety of highly engaging activit...Read more

The term 'Play Blocks' doesn't quite do justice to this beautifully made wooden set designed specifically for the hands and minds of young children. Not only is each individual piece a pleasure to touch, turn, hold, and inspect, but the seemingly simple designs fit easily together in a surprising number of ways. Just put a toddler within reach and watch. You'll see things materialize that you couldn't have imagined - hous...Read more

For those of you unfamiliar with HEXBUG Nanos, these tiny, collectible, robotic creatures scurry and explore, wending their way across floors, tables, through mazes, and most amazingly, within their own customizable habitats. The HEXBUG Nano Bridge Battle is a brilliant extension of prior Habitat Sets. Why? Because it's natural to want to pit these guys against one another. We've seen kids (and adults) contrive all manner...Read more

Kids and adults will go bonkers for this. There's a wow factor in the Hexbug products that tends to leave mouths hanging open, and this new Hive Habitat Set is so brilliantly designed, the experience of first laying eyes on it is like stepping into the future of fun. This transportable multi-level Nano environment is highly customizable, its floor spotted with attachment points into which you can pop a dazzling array of ...Read more

Everyone loves finding a hidden prize. Perhaps that's why what we most noticed while observing kids with the Ice Age Excavation Kit was their growing sense of excitement, curiosity, and wonder as their hammers and chisels gradually revealed what lay hidden within each solid blue block. Thrills, too, as more and more of what was unearthed became recognizable - a rib cage? A tusk? - and an eagerness to see it all unveiled! ...Read more

Jenga XXL is the massively popular Jenga game brought to a whole new level, one that makes taking your turn more harrowing, and more fun! Just about everyone is familiar with the concept - each player, in turn, removes a block from the tower and balances it on top, the object being to do so without causing the tower to topple. This requires steady hands, and especially nerves - Jenga XXL starts off at more than 4 and 1/2 ...Read more

This quick-moving, easy-to-learn game is sometimes easy, sometimes not-so-much, with the level of difficulty often impacted by a roll of the die. There are two types of question cards, Just Joe (one player answers the question) and Any Joe (all play). In either case, the first player who correctly answers the question keeps the card, and the first to collect 10 cards, wins. Each question, all of which contain a blank, is ...Read more

Kloo Card & Board Game is really a series of games, each of which uses specially designed color-coded word cards to help you easily and playfully learn a new language. Versions for learning either French or Spanish are available. Games range from solitaire versions to variations of classic card games. The color-coding makes it easy to correctly form sentences, and as games progress, translating the words in these sentenc...Read more

Knock Your Blocks Off has an irresistibly distinctive look and feel that adds to the already considerable fun generated by playing it. The play consists of two phases. In the Building Phase, players work independently to build their choice of one of five possible structures using wooden blocks. Each type of structure has a distinct advantage, and building requires that you properly match colors on the sides of the blocks,...Read more

This game is an extremely entertaining way to spend the evening (or many evenings) with friends and family. There's not much heavy lifting when it comes to strategy (nice, relaxing fun), yet there's more than enough variety to make it plenty interesting. Players each start out with $10,000 in play money and move around the board on rolls of the dice, following instructions on the spaces as they go. The goal is to be the f...Read more

Here's an unusual and highly effective recipe for fun - a cauldron, a magic wand, Magic Jewel chips, and math! Just add players. These ingredients work like a charm, yielding many hours of fun that also happen to be very stimulating to the brain. The cauldron is filled with number chips. On your turn, flip the timer and use the magnetic magic wand to pull chips from the cauldron, verbally stating an equation that uses the...Read more