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Social Skills Puppet Set Back to top
Age
4 - 8 yrs.
Brain Child

The Social Skills Puppet Set provides a structured, enjoyable and effective approach to helping children understand, absorb and display appropriate social behavior. The set comes with large Max and Millie Hand Puppets, a marvelously helpful 71 page activity book and twelve full color emotion cards. The book contains sixteen social skills lessons, each of which starts with a story consisting of dialogue between Max and Mil...Read more

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Soggy Doggy
Price $ 19.99
By Spin Master
Age
4+
Best Family Fun

Peals of laughter and squeals of delight are the norm whenever Soggy Doggy starts shaking the water off his furry body. Even before the game begins, Soggy Doggy is a sight for sore eyes, plunked as he is, in a water-filled bathtub at the center of the board. The race to get around the board is on! When players land on certain spaces, Soggy Doggy must be further doused from a showerhead hovering just above him. Other space...Read more

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Sort & Build Farm
Price $ 24.95
By VTech
Age
12-36 mos.
Best Creative Fun

The Sort & Build Farm inspires kids to build, sort, stack and engage in a wide range of creative play! Developing young minds get a big boost from the physical and electronic features of this colorful playset. The farmhouse contains a variety of openings (heart, circle, square, triangle) and comes with colored blocks that will each fit only through the matching-shaped space. The blocks have animal pictures on them and are...Read more

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Age
8+
Brain Child

Space Gyroscope is a compact, self-contained unit that functions as both a gyroscopic stunt course and electronic gyroscope starter. The 40+ piece set is fun and easy to assemble, with decals that dress up components for maximum visual effect. Once assembled, getting the action in high gear is as simple as inserting the gyroscope into the futuristic, robot-like base unit and gently pressing down. The gyroscope's interior ...Read more

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Space Scooter X580
Price $ 149.00
By Space Scooter
Age
8+
Top Fun

Its unsurprising that heads turn whenever a Space Scooter X580 goes zipping by. Unlike a conventional scooter, this ingeniously designed vehicle is powered by a teeter-totter motion with which the rider's feet alternately push into the front and back of the board. That continuous pumping action generates higher speeds and longer distances than a traditional scooter and makes for an exhilarating mode of travel in which the...Read more

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Splash
Price $ 19.99
By Sierra Pacific Ventures LLC
Age
6+
Best Family Fun

Splash is a fast-moving, intensely entertaining game in which a keen eye and quick reflexes will get you far. Players aim to get four of a kind while rapidly passing and receiving cards to and from their neighbors, with the ultimate goal being to be the first player to spell SPLASH. Once any player achieves four of a kind, he or she grabs one of the dolphins from the table, signaling the others to do the same. Since there...Read more

Spooner Freestyle Balance Board Back to top
Age
3 - 14 yrs.
Top Fun

Spooner Freestyle Balance Board serves up a limitless array of fun physical activities ranging from rocking and balancing acts to dazzling tricks that give the rider the feel of surfing, skateboarding, or snowboarding - anytime, anywhere. The 22.5 inch X 11.25 inch board works on all surfaces, indoors and outdoors, and has a weight limit of 500 lbs. The board's centered spoon shape enables just about anyone to quickly gai...Read more

Spotted Basket Tea Set Back to top
Age
3+
Best Creative Fun

The expressions of joy on children's faces when they open this bright red picnic basket (nicely sealed with an elastic clasp and ornamented with checkered bows) and discover the treasures inside is a pleasure to behold. An explosion of pattern and color greets them, red and blue dots gracing the basket's interior and the magical-seeming items nestled inside. A sense of spellbinding enchantment only grows stronger as those...Read more

Squaremino Board Game Deluxe Edition Back to top

Squaremino is an extraordinarily entertaining game, a delicious tightrope of skill and luck that enables players of varying ages and skill levels to compete with one another while enjoying highly social group fun. Players start off with 12 tiles apiece and take turns playing 2, 3 or 4 tiles at a time by adding them to a communal network of intersecting tiles. The tiles added on a turn must either all be the same color, nu...Read more

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Start-Up Circuits
Price $ 19.95
By MindWare
Age
18mo.-6yrs.
Brain Child

Start-Up Circuits is a wonderfully effective approach to teaching children as young as 18 months the abstract concept of circuitry. It's a joyously hands-on mix of fun and learning through which youngsters learn a great deal. The set includes 6 pieces that, at first blush, could simply be colorful building blocks. However, snapping any of the 3 action tops together with any of the 3 switch blocks so that the red line alon...Read more

Starter Pack of 119 Big Briks Back to top
Age
3-7 yrs.
Best Creative Fun

Youngsters have an absolute field day building and creating with this enormously fun construction toy. Sized perfectly for small hands to easily hold and manipulate, the Starter Pack of 119 Big Briks provides a whopping variety of colors, shapes and sizes, including triangles, circles, semi-circles, rectangles, stackable baseplates, and more! Kids get right down to business, constructing everything under the sun from mini...Read more

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Step & Learn Scout
Price $ 19.99
By LeapFrog
Age
1+
Brain Child

Little ones become highly motivated to get up and move when Step & Learn Scout is around. This interactive, playful pup comes with a plastic leash that lets youngsters take him on fun-filled walks during which Scout sings educational songs and utters enthusiastic, affirming phrases. Head, legs and tail move rhythmically as Scout rolls across the floor, his LED backpack displaying individual letters and numbers in time to ...Read more

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Storytime Rhymes Sheep
Price $ 24.99
By VTech
Age
Birth+
Parents Favorite Products

Storytime Rhymes Sheep is a soft, cuddly companion that calms and entertains little ones with lullabies, nursery rhymes and a host of fun songs, sounds and phrases. There are two play modes from which to choose, Soothing Mode, which can go a long way towards helping baby along a short trajectory towards sleep, and Playtime Mode (more lively and upbeat). Starting, stopping and changing tunes and sounds is as simple as pres...Read more

Tad's Get Ready for School Book Back to top
Age
2+
Brain Child

Tad's Get Ready for School Book deeply engages preschoolers and helps them maximize their learning potential. The book's 12 interactive pages are loaded with activities through which young ones explore letters, numbers, colors, animals, shapes, music, emotions and more. Touching any of numerous illustrations on each page brings the book to life, activating words, phrases and educational content related to the image touche...Read more

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