Galison/Mudpuppy's knack for creating exciting, distinctive children's products now includes this craft kit that uses cardboard tubes (the sort found in paper towel and tissue rolls) as a prime crafting component. The kit includes several such tubes and kids are encouraged to collect their own, extending the fun and putting to good use what would otherwise go to waste. The real stars of the kit are the more than 80 bits a...Read more

With Chrono Bomb kids weave through a simulated laser field, high-stepping and belly-crawling their way to defuse a bomb in the nick of time. Set-up is easy - 27.5 feet of string provides the laser-like obstacle course, interwoven and crisscrossed through a series of clamps attached to furniture. The end of the string is attached to a sensor, which connects to a toy bomb. In SINGLE mode, the bomb buzzes each time the lin...Read more

Clemmy is no ordinary toy turtle. Just flip up his shell, and tucked away inside you'll find 15 safe, soft, flexible building blocks, in seven different colors ready to come out and play. The top of his shell provides a base on which those building blocks can rise up in various colorful configurations. In addition to being a storehouse of creative activity, Clemmy's four wheels make him a playful pull-along companion. Chi...Read more

The brightly colored plastic pieces that are the primary building blocks of CLICS consist of flat, rectangular shapes that snap together with a satisfying click. Once joined, their point of connection acts as a hinge, making possible the construction of very durable 3-dimensional structures at a surprisingly rapid pace. For example, building a cube that can bear a weight of well over 100 lbs takes about 30 seconds. The il...Read more

With Color Alive, kids experience the thrill of watching their coloring come to life in ways that blur the boundaries between physical and digital. The coloring is done with paper and crayon using any one of four different Color Alive sets - Skylanders, Barbie, Enchanted Forest, and Mythical Creatures. An innovative (and free) 4D Color Alive app allows kids to then scan the colored drawings into their device and trigger o...Read more

The abundant storylines that flow from young minds when kids play with Colorforms reaffirms the adage that 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' In this case, imaginations are the source of both the pictures and the words, while Colorforms provides the creative medium and catalyst that fuels the fun. Each themed playset in this line presents characters from a given franchise (Frozen, Doc McStuffins, Avengers, Despicable ...Read more

These liquid chalk markers generate vivid colors and textures that pop, breathing fresh life into kids' artwork and inspiring them to new heights of creativity. For use on non-porous surfaces (glass, plastic, metal, mirrors, whiteboards, . . .), the resultant artwork wipes clean when the fun is done, bringing a smile to parents' faces. Water based, odorless and non-toxic, these markers are an excellent fit for artistic en...Read more

Crayola Cling Creator is a remarkably enjoyable product, so well-designed and executed that kids find themselves deeply immersed in fun mere minutes after it's out of the box. It's a compact, highly organized, cool-looking creative laboratory for making flexible colorful shapes that will stick to, and peel easily from, just about any smooth surface. What those shapes and colors will be is up to the child. It's a simple ma...Read more

Easy Animation Studio extends Crayola Color Alive's ability to bring drawings to life by giving kids full control over their animation via a repositionable mannequin included in the set. After coloring in a favorite character and scanning it into the free app, kids control the digitized character's movements using the mannequin. Because the app automatically fills frames between poses, it only takes a few positions of the...Read more

Here is a concept that gets a big, enthusiastic response from children of all ages. This stamp set lets kids make a variety of sea-creature imprints in a number of colors. Here's the hook, and it's a big one - the ink pads don't appear to hold any color (or ink, for that matter). But press the Stamper on one of those inkpads and it suddenly glows with the color of the invisible ink you're using. And although the Stamper s...Read more

Crayola Crayon Carver puts a different sort of crayon magic at kids fingertips by enabling them to carve precise messages and designs along the sides of their crayons. The Crayon Carver is both a children's toy and a feat of engineering. Kids arrange up to 9 tracing tiles containing letters and/or playful icons on a bar along the front of the device. They then trace those letters and symbols with a plastic stylus while a ...Read more

With Crayola Creations Thread Wrapper, giving your gear a colorful, updated look is as easy as one, two, three. This little dynamo is about the same size as an electric pencil sharpener and works similarly, but to very different effect. Simply prime the thread wrapper with up to 3 spools of different colored thread, affix the clear plastic cover, and off you go. That cover has an opening through which to insert whatever o...Read more

With warm weather upon us, creative energy abounds, and kids are constantly on the hunt for new ways to play outside. Enter Crayola Colorfoam, a dramatic and frothy way for kids to add outdoor color and creativity to any day. Available in three custom colors - Foamy Yellow, Puffy Purple, and Fluffy Fuschia - each Colorfoam comes in a soft plastic canister that fits nicely in the palm of the hand. Just unlock the nozzle, p...Read more

This mighty Mega Pack from Crayola provides an impressive array of colors and special effects with which kids can create dazzling sidewalk art. The Mega Pack contains a dozen heavy-duty sidewalk chalk sticks, 12 different colors in four dynamic special effects. Whether doing solo creations or group art, this arsenal of colors and effects greatly expands the creative possibilities. Kids might start with some of the super-...Read more