The Feelings in Control Flipbook is a remarkable resource with which to help children learn to identify, understand and regulate their emotions. Each flip of the page offers up an illustration of a child in the midst of experiencing a strong feeling: nervous, scared, happy, sad, frustrated, and more, with 20 emotions in all. The facial features and body language of the kids in these pictures convey a good deal about what ...Read more

With 455 addition, subtraction and multiplication exercises to explore amid a wealth of festive components, the Ferris Wheel Arithmetic Board proved to be an immensely popular way for kids to develop their math skills! The double-sided magnetic game board offers two satisfying ways to play. One side displays a Ferris wheel with 10 empty seats to be filled, each with a different number associated with it. After placing a n...Read more

Few things stir kids' imaginations the way superheroes do, a fact the makers of this fine game put to excellent use in making physical fitness not just fun, but positively heroic! Each of the original heroes that appear throughout the deck of cards is also displayed on their own unique Character Trading Card, glorious illustrations accompanied by a list of traits that flesh out the heroes' personalities. Players take turn...Read more

Flashcards Tactile Montessori helps little ones enjoyably develop not just their sense of touch, but the ability to make important mind-body connections by imagining or intuiting what an object, plant or animal might feel like simply by observing a picture of it. A number of ancillary skills also come into play, such as the acquisition of new vocabulary words and the grouping together of pictures and objects based on simi...Read more

This delightful fidget toy from Trainers Warehouse offers a mesmerizing and playful way to soothe oneself while allowing the mind to roam freely or mull over a problem to be solved. With gentle pressure from thumb and fingers, Flexygon's outer edges can be rolled endlessly inward as the inner edges roll outward, or vice versa. There is a satisfying feeling of gentle tension and release due to Flexygon's firm silicone hexa...Read more

The Garden Part-Whole Board incorporates several exceedingly fun puzzles and games through which children are able to rapidly develop a variety of mathematical and problem-solving skills. The front of the game board displays a garden-like setting segmented into 3 sections that, in conjunction with the set's owl counters, question cards and number tokens, makes the process of understanding and calculating sums and differen...Read more

Youngsters respond to this interactive plush toy with a mix of adoration and delight, a consequence of its warmly appealing appearance and powerfully engaging interplay. For parents, a big part of the draw stems from key elements of Social Emotional Learning incorporated into Wigglebug's design and the interpersonal skills kids soak up along the way. There are four distinct play modes, during each of which Wigglebug's bel...Read more

The Glow Art Studio gives kids the ability to draw and write with light, a feat that had budding artists wide-eyed with amazement from the get-go! The magic is done in the dark, where pointing the light wand at the reusable Glow Canvas and moving it as desired creates luminous glow-in-the-dark artworks. Additional nuance is achieved through proximity. The closer the light wand's tip is to the canvas, the more vivid and fi...Read more

The beacon-like luminosity of the markers in the Glow Fusion Marker Coloring Set brings a whole new level of enjoyment to the process of making art, especially in the dark! Kids couldn't get enough of filling in the excitingly-themed line art (Mythical Creatures, Monsters & Aliens, and Deep Sea Creatures, in 3 different sets) with leap-off-the-page colors that seem to breathe life into every stroke of the marker! In addit...Read more

Cleverly billed as "the cheeky version of Go Fish," this fresh and amusing update on the classic card game makes for enormously fun family entertainment. The sheer diversity of laughter-inducing bums (as in buttocks) is reason enough for celebration. Each of the 25 different bum cards in the 50-card deck is delightfully illustrated, amusingly named, and well within the bounds of tastefulness. Not only did parents and gran...Read more

There is something irresistibly exciting about the idea of a set of dice that connect to, and interact with, your tablet. GoDice has delivered on that promise with its compact, modern and visually-appealing design and the facility with which each die's face-up value is displayed onscreen by the free, interactive GoDice app. That magic is made possible by each die's 3D sensors and wireless connection capabilities, technolo...Read more

This 2-to-5-player card game delighted kids, teens and adults with its contemporary themes and highly entertaining game play. Players race to raise opponents' risk levels high enough that their devices (represented by laptop, phone and tablet tokens) are vulnerable to being hacked. No one is exempt from such attacks, and players are well advised to incorporate defense into their strategies or else find all their devices h...Read more

This fun, fast-moving game proved exceptionally effective in helping children learn to recognize and identify specific emotions in others, an essential skill that promotes productive social interactions and emotional growth at home and in school. At the start of the game, each player receives an illustrated game board that depicts three scenes in a given context such as at school, in an amusement park, on an airplane, and...Read more

We can't praise this game highly enough. Its design is strikingly original, the dynamic, crisply-paced play wildly entertaining. Head Spin is a puzzle-solving game with a powerful fun factor that gets even the most puzzle-averse players eager to join in. It's also an exciting race in which manual dexterity and quick thinking will take you far! While the 200 puzzles are wonderfully varied (10 categories with 20 puzzles eac...Read more