These sweet, wide-eyed plush animals are not just toys, they're guardians-in-training! Developed with the help of a pediatrician, Dream Team Pets is a wonderful way to help kids get the restful sleep they deserve, easing away the angst and fuss that can occur at bedtime. It's your child's participation in the pets' training that soothes bedtime anxieties away. Each plush animal comes with a Certificate of Training and a s...Read more

This kit makes it extremely easy and enjoyable to learn a variety of embroidery stitches. Within minutes of opening the package, we had girls and boys deftly stitching away with the kit's plastic needles and six spools of colored embroidery floss. The step-by-step instructions teach the 10 basic stitches used in most embroidery, and the outline stencils make it simple for even a complete novice to get beautiful results. J...Read more

This is an exceptionally fun game in which every move counts. Each player starts with a bird playing piece and a given number of energy chips of varying point values. The goal is to be the player with the most energy points once all players' birds have made it to their nests. Flying burns up energy points (paid by you before the end of your turn) equal to the number of spaces you move. But you also collect energy chips of...Read more

This well-designed electronic version of Hangman takes playing the classic game to a new level of fun. With its ongoing interaction between players, physical and electronic components, and built-in sound effects, Electronic Hangman is like having an exciting TV game show in your home. Players take turns being the game master, who sets up a word of 8 letters or less using tiles that perch atop the Hangman unit facing away ...Read more

By any measure, this is a whole lot of mat. The foam material is scored in a way that makes it easy to fold and unfold to a variety of sizes, enabling the mat to fit any number of physical spaces. Fully extended, it's just under 6-1/2 feet long by 5 feet wide. At its most compact, it's 29 inches by 15 inches. It's also thick, durable, and comfy, with a patterned texture that encourages tactile adventure. Each side is cove...Read more

Kids absolutely love making and eating ice pop snacks with Zoku Fish Pop Molds. It's incredibly easy to use. Just pour fruit juice, yogurt, or some other favorite blend of fresh ingredients into the six molds and insert a different playful plastic fishtail into each. All six molds are in a single sea-blue base, so just pop it in the freezer and 8 hours later you're in ice pop heaven. The fishtails act as handles for hold...Read more

Playing with Flip & Draw unleashes creativity, but it also seriously tickles the funny bone. Each Flip & Draw book contains 10 mix & match characters to color in, plus 5 blank sheets on which to draw your own. Coloring in the pages is a blast, but the fun really kicks up a notch once the flipping begins. Mix & match means each page consists of 3 panels, so rather than turning the entire page, you can just turn the part of...Read more

FlipStir Puzzle is invigorating, maddening, simple, challenging, stimulating, and perhaps even a little diabolical. The goal - to order 10 plastic wedge-shaped pieces so that the snippets of artwork on their sides come together to form a whole - would be easy if it were possible to touch them with your hands. But those pieces are encased in a clear, sealed plastic cylinder. The only way to touch them is with a wand that e...Read more

The 129 year old company Steiff is famous for creating creatures of unparalleled quality, and this first edition Forever Steiff Friend from Luxury Kitten is no exception. Lovely and handmade, elegantly attired in a beautiful, elaborately detailed outfit, this classic Steiff 'Pilla' mouse comes with an updated twist and an appearance so vivid as to seem a storybook character come to life. And indeed, Madeline is a Habersha...Read more

When kids play with Fort Magic, there's a sense of empowerment in the air, as if someone just handed them the keys to the kingdom. That's because suddenly so many things are possible, and on such a grand scale. Working with nothing but their hands, in a matter of minutes they can build structures large enough for an adult to stand upright in. These can be simple, or elaborate, from modest tent-like structures to labyrinth...Read more

Kids find this plush version of Franklin the turtle (from the popular Franklin and Friends show) to be irresistibly charming. He looks just like he does on television, brightly colored, with a polka dot red bandana tied around his neck and trademark red cap hovering over his familiar, friendly face. Except that this Franklin is squeezably soft, a portable, comforting presence that goes wherever your child goes. There's l...Read more

Everybody's favorite turtle, Franklin, is all revved up and ready to roll. His trusty automobile, riding high on four big wheels, is activated by a simple pull-back motion. When released, the toy car and Franklin go zipping across the floor. Even better, this rugged ride is designed especially for fun in the tub, so suds are no deterrent to bath-time adventures with Franklin. He'll float across the surface of the water un...Read more

This craft kit is particularly enjoyable for children, due in no small part to its ease-of-use and the exceptionally pleasing result it produces - a plump, colorful, happy-looking Owl Doll. The Owl Doll body is the first thing to be made, and the step-by-step instructions make for relaxed, focused work, winding the yarn around the French knitting reel and then using the crochet hook to lift and place the yarn over alterna...Read more

Once you've finished building Future Car, you'll have a sleek-looking remote-controlled vehicle (10 inches long by 6.5 inches wide) at your fingertips. Just download the free app and you'll be steering and driving Future Car by moving your thumbs on the screen of your iPhone or iPad in no time. You can do some pretty nifty moves and get some good speed with it, too. This comes in handy when you activate the Augmented Real...Read more