GeniusBlocks, like other fine products from Hanz, unleash possibilities, and in doing so, inspire creativity and innovation. There is an interesting convergence of simplicity and sophistication in this unique 100-piece building set. The simplicity resides in the fact that all the pieces are the same size, shape, and design. The sophistication stems from the ways those pieces can connect to one another and the manner in wh...Read more

GiggleTime Babies come with numerous lifelike touches that enhance the make-believe experience young girls so delight in. Not the least of these is the infectious giggle that lights up the room each this baby doll gets a hug or gentle squeeze. An internal beanbag weights the doll just right (about 16 ounces) to make holding, rocking, and carrying her both easy to do and substantial enough to feel lifelike. Tilt her to a r...Read more

The ease with which Grill Party can be learned and played gives it broad appeal but also makes going deeper into the thinking aspects of game-play a natural evolution. Players alternate turns in which they 1) swap one of their own Grill Food Pieces with a Grill Food Piece from the Grill or from another player's food supply, and 2) play Grill Food Cards from their hand before replenishing those cards from their own draw pi...Read more

Each of the 7 models/experiments you'll build with this set contains a powerful gyroscope that seems to defy gravity. Despite the swiftness with which you'll excitedly assemble and reassemble the pieces, morphing from one experiment to another, each of these models has a highly polished, futuristic look. Robo Gyro in particular, with his see-through blue skull, mechanical arms, and pincer hands, looks like he sprang from ...Read more

Two seemingly opposing principles - simplicity and complexity - are at work in HanzMoto, a building set that enables you to build a wild variety of highly original vehicles and other designs. The simplicity refers to the sameness of the parts - 8 identical wheel assemblies and 140 identically sized and shaped (though they vary in color) blocks. The complexity stems from the versatility with which these uniquely shaped blo...Read more

Few things create glee the way a good Easter Egg hunt does. With Hide'em & Hatch'em Eggs, you get the fun and excitement of the hunt plus an entirely different kind of fun once the hunt is over. Hide'em & Hatch'em Eggs look and feel surprisingly like real colored eggs, but there's far more to them than that. Once you've found them, simply place them in water and wait. Within 24 hours the eggs begin to crack. In another d...Read more

High Tail It, like a number of other excellent board games from publisher SimplyFun, has a way of getting your brain crackling, your mind working in new and different ways. Shortly after starting play, you find yourself seeing patterns and relationships that eluded you moments before. The further you get into game play, the more vivid those connections, and your ability to spot and anticipate them, become. That's the sign...Read more

Inspired by the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, this guided activity book provides exceptional creative stimulation for young minds while simultaneously exposing them to the beauty of art history. Open the book anywhere, and on the left you'll find a photograph of a historical work of art with a short paragraph providing background information on it. There are masks from around the world, an ancient...Read more

This guided activity book has the same great format as The I (Heart) Art activity book (above), except that here the focus is on historical and contemporary design rather than fine art. Each of the thirty or so activities in this book stems from accompanying photographs of exceptional design works, the result of a collaboration with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The activities are highly varied and imaginative...Read more

Playing dress up is a staple of childhood, and for good reason. It allows children to enrich their knowledge of the world through imaginative exploration while innocently trying out some of the many possibilities life has to offer. Little Adventures makes a specialty of providing high quality, affordable dress ups for just such a purpose, and Ice Princess is a prime example. Ice Princess is a light blue one-piece outfit c...Read more

The degree to which outfits for dress-up play have blossomed in recent years is remarkable. This is due in no small part to manufacturers like A Wish Come True, a company whose focus is on producing high-quality, exciting costumes for a variety of ages. That emphasis on quality and detail is evident in their new Ice Princess dress, a garment lovely and regal enough to satisfy even the upper echelons of royalty. More impor...Read more

The most striking thing about this kit is that the results - the rings, bracelets, earrings, and necklaces you'll be making quickly and easily - are so astonishingly attractive and wearable. By easy, we don't mean mindless - there's plenty of creative license you'll bring to bear with respect to size, design and color. But the actual 'how to' of using the brightly colored silicone 'O' rings to make striking, funky, fashio...Read more

This tablet designed just for kids is an extraordinary learning tool. Its Wi-Fi connection comes with kid-safe controls that allow exploration of VTech- and parent-approved websites. Kids can also use an exclusive free app available on the App Store and Google Play to exchange text and voice messages, photos, drawings, and more. InnoTab 3S Plus comes pre-loaded with 16 great apps (games, an art studio, video recorder, an ...Read more

There are a number of things that set this product apart from many other building sets on the market. One is the high level of structured guidance provided. The Guide Book includes more than 60 pages of easy-to-follow photographs showing, step-by-step, how to build an immense variety of models (letters, animals, autos, boats, dinosaurs, and lots more). In addition, six incrementally difficult instruction sheets show dozen...Read more