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2021 Tillywig Award Winners

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OMG Snuggle Me!  Back to top
OMG Snuggle Me!
Price $ 12.99
By Scentco Inc
Age
3+
Best Children's Products

These lightly scented, adorable bedtime buddies are a treat for the senses appreciated by parents and kids alike. Each OMG Snuggle Me! plush companion is 10 inches tall and comes nestled head to tail to toe in a playfully appealing cloth sleeping bag with the only part visible being their eyes peeking out enticingly. It is unlikely you've ever seen your child more eagerly unwrap something than the excitement with which th...Read more

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OuiSi
Price $ 35.00
By OuiSi Inc.
Age
4+ yrs.
Best Creative Fun

With 210 stunningly vibrant, visually-connected photo cards and a multitude of games and activities to explore and enjoy, OuiSi exemplifies the very creativity it so abundantly inspires. The interconnectedness of two or more OuiSi cards can stem from any number of visual elements in the individual photos, be it similar shapes, colors, concepts, patterns, perceived functionalities and much more. The process of seeking out ...Read more

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Paint & Create Easel Case
Price $ 24.99
By Crayola
Age
4+
Best Creative Fun

The Crayola Paint & Create Easel Case comes loaded with art-making tools that help unleash kids' imaginations, inspiring countless hours of creative exploration and self-expression. Raising the lid reveals an array of implements that includes paints, brushes, mixing trays, pencils, crayons and watercolor paper sheets. There is also a double-sided easel whose bottom edges fit into grooves on one side of the case, allowing ...Read more

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Age
7+
Best Family Fun

Proof of the adage that good things come in small packages, Pattern Pursuit is a phenomenally fun card game that wowed everyone who played it. The game mechanics are simple enough that they can be learned quickly, yet the abundant strategic possibilities each card played unearths keeps players' brain cells crackling. Players take turns adding or removing build cards from a shared space on the table with the goal of recrea...Read more

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Age
3+
Top Fun

Opening a product's packaging has never been so much fun as it is with these scintillating, self-inflating, hangable plush accessories! First, there's the mysterious puzzle ball in which they come housed, a sphere that splits apart into six pieces when thrown against a cushioned surface such as carpet or grass to reveal what's inside. Save those pieces, because reassembling them into a ball is quite an entertaining mental...Read more

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Pony Pile-Up
Price $ 16.99
By Mudpuppy
Age
4-10 yrs.
Best Children's Products

This wooden stacking and balancing game proved to be an instant favorite among kids and, not surprisingly, their parents. After all, what mom or dad doesn't enjoy seeing their children happily immersed in developmentally productive play? Pony Pile-Up's considerable appeal also stems from its richly-imagined components: a magical-looking wooden pony (with a rainbow mane and tail) upon whose surface players take turns stack...Read more

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Age
3+
Best Children's Products

The first thing kids notice about Poppy the Kindness Unicorn is how cheerful and inviting she looks, a lifelike and welcoming quality youngsters respond to wholeheartedly. The set includes not just Poppy the plush animal but also a pair of matching sparkly treasure bags (a small one for Poppy and a child-sized book bag for her new human companion) as well as a delightfully upbeat hardcover storybook. The adorable unicorn'...Read more

Really?! Think you know me? Guess again! Back to top

This delightfully entertaining and often uproariously funny game makes for the perfect icebreaker at parties and get-togethers of every kind. The game components are brilliantly designed: a tall, clear plastic cup filled with play ice cube pieces along with a deck of cards and several dials (more on those in a moment). Like many of the best party and family games, this one takes only seconds to learn and moves along at a ...Read more

ROAD BUILDERS ANIMAL ISLAND Back to top

ROAD BUILDERS ANIMAL ISLAND is an exceptionally fun and effective logic-building game for young children. The imagination-stirring theme challenges youngsters to help animals find their way around the island by using some or all of the game's 9 illustrated magnetic tiles to build roads that connect the desired objects and/or animals to one another. Each puzzle challenge begins by selecting and placing a topic card inside ...Read more

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Robotic Fish
Price $ 24.99
By PlaySTEM Education
Age
6+
Brain Child

Fueled by a powerful desire to see PlaySTEM's Robotic Fish in action, youngsters eagerly set themselves to the task of building this aquatic robot from its 20 or so individual pieces. Assembly took under 30 minutes to complete and required a bit of focus plus the occasional use of a Phillips screwdriver, and kids took great pride in being able to do it on their own. The thrill of accomplishment soon gave way to glee as th...Read more

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The ten experiments found in the SCIENCE DREAM FACTORY offer kids a fun and fulfilling way to learn about science through focused hands-on activities and observation of outcomes. One of many features that make youngsters' explorations enjoyable and productive is the manner in which all components arrive pre-organized and bagged according to the needs of each experiment. Similarly motivating are the exciting payoffs that a...Read more

Scribble Scrubbie Ocean Pets Lagoon Playset Back to top

Hands-on artistic fun and an abundance of imaginative pretend play start flowing freely the moment the Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Ocean Pets Lagoon Playset is out of its packaging. Children immediately gravitate to the adorable, colorable ocean pets they can creatively and repeatedly customize using any or all of the set's washable markers. Each of the 4 washable figurines that come with the set (Shelly the shark, Walter t...Read more

Shanghai Meiying Nostalgic Animation Collection Back to top

This enchantingly illustrated 1,000-piece puzzle is packed full of nostalgia-inducing images straight out of classic animated films from Shanghai Film Studio, including beloved characters such as Monkey King, Calabash Baby, Black Cat Sheriff, Nezha and more. Even for those who may be unfamiliar with the films or their vividly-depicted characters, this puzzle makes for an utterly engrossing pastime. The puzzle pieces are s...Read more

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Everyone who tried Mideer's silky washable crayons fell in love with them, and for good reason. The colors produced are more intense than regular crayons, resulting in lines and shades that pop pleasingly against backgrounds in ways that inspire bold, vividly detailed artworks. Even more jaw-dropping than the visual results is the way the Silky Crayon glides almost effortlessly across the page, requiring extraordinarily l...Read more

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