Rockabilly Lottie possesses a captivating charm that's evident even before she is out of the box. Her appearance is laden with fine details that capture and convey a fully-formed personality. Kids respond to her as if they've just acquired a new best friend, and the abundance of imaginative scenarios her presence unleashes is a wonder to behold. Rockabilly Lottie's appearance includes retro-style cat's eye glasses, a bow...Read more

This is a remarkably cool toy that inspires a tremendous amount of creative and imaginative play. The kit includes a variety of elements - volcano molds, dino skeletons, rolling pins, UV LED glasses and light pen - but the star component is the 1 lb of Sands Alive!, a substance that looks like a cross between sand and dough. It is almost a shock to find that it is super soft to the touch, yet highly moldable and not at al...Read more

With this kit, kids create a mystical little island all their own. The fun starts with assembling the colorful paper dinosaurs, trees, and volcano, then positioning them in the plastic tray above empty cavities. The next step is to pour the special crystal-growing liquid into each of those cavities, where a chemical action begins to cause colorful crystals to take shape, forming and growing all along the edges of the pape...Read more

Scout's Build & Discover Tool Set is a highly effective, deeply enriching play and learning experience for young children. The colorful, compact, easy-carry tool box doubles as Scout's puppy playhouse and is as much a treat for the imagination as it is a play land for burgeoning motor skills and number awareness. The set includes 5 different toy tools. Scout's voice, interlaced with songs and sound effects, guides kids th...Read more

The adorable stuffed woodland creatures children make with Sew Softies give them a sense of the vast creative possibilities sewing has to offer. And the ease with which kids get great results from the kit instills in them both the confidence and desire to continue creating and crafting in the future. The kid-friendly components, with oversized needles and precut holes in the felt fabrics, make it safe and simple for kids ...Read more

The Zeenie catchphrase, 'Saving the planet . . . that's our style!' immediately clues you to the fact that you're not looking at just another fashion doll. Which in no way implies that they're not beautiful. They are, with eye-catching outfits, hip hairstyles, and luminous eyes. But the Zeenies are much more than that. They're eco-warriors whose mission it is to save and protect our planet. Each 12-inch doll has its own u...Read more

This is one smart train! For starters, it's a great ride-on toy that helps kids acquire balance and mobility. But it also contains a remarkable number of learning activities, including manipulative features such as a storybook, clock, gears, walkie talkie, and sliding colored pieces. Built-in technology allows the train to be highly interactive. It speaks, sings, plays music, even asks children to engage in specific activ...Read more

Skosh is super-fun, quick-moving entertainment that enables even those without a knack for details to have the time of their lives in trivia-land. There are always exactly two teams, which can be any size. Both teams answer 4 questions in writing at the outset of each round, things like 'What percentage of people are friends with their mom on Facebook,?' Each answer earns an amount of points determined by its closeness to...Read more

It often seems Activision couldn't possibly top previous enhancements to the Skylanders franchise, yet they continually come up with surprising innovations that make the game more action-filled and exciting than ever before. This time out, Skylanders SuperChargers adds land, sea, and sky vehicles to the mix, introducing a fleet of powerful vehicles piloted by a special team of characters. SuperChargers offers 20 new Skyla...Read more

Each of the pieces and components that make up this game are so colorfully and cleverly designed, children tend to burst into smiles at the mere sight of them. The mice alone (intensely colored two-and-a-half-inch tall critters with long, crooked tails) inspire glee. Kids can't keep their hands off them, which is a good thing because players must use those mouse tails to try to hook cheesy letters that lie randomly sprea...Read more

Both the appearance and functionality of SmartMax Build & Connect speak to the play needs of young children. The set's visual and tactile appeal (bold, bright colors, large, easy-to-manipulate pieces) immediately engages young hands and minds, while the ease and speed with which the magnetic pieces form larger constructs makes for immensely satisfying creative play. And it shows, in the smiles on children's faces and in h...Read more

Liven up any gathering by unleashing Spectracube - fast-moving, easy-to-learn fun that gets the good times rolling in a jiffy. As is always the case with games from Funnybone Toys, the components, packaging, and instructions are of unusually high quality, designed with flair, wit, originality, and humor. The instructions include six distinctly different games, each of which makes use of the unique, colorful, highly roll-a...Read more

A good dice game is a pleasure to behold, and this one's a beauty. Stack Attack combines several elements that make for a great family game - luck, strategy, speed, simplicity, and visual appeal. Each player gets five brightly colored dice and matching Dice Cup for rolling. A clever item called the Quake Plate is the foundation on which players build a tower of dice, taking turns rolling and adding any that are 1 higher o...Read more

The depth to which even very young kids become absorbed in the simple peel-and-stick process of adorning the Unicorn mosaics in this kit is remarkable. The pleasure they take in doing so is no less notable, as their fingers become increasingly adept at finding just the right spot for each of the multitude of sparkling tiles and gems. A numbered legend tells them where each color and shape belongs, and progress tends to b...Read more