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- Crayola is getting a lot more creative beyond just making crayons and markers lately. Their new Crayola Marker Maker + Wacky Tips is like a mini science lab for markers and gives kids all the tools they need to make their own. With the three bottl
- Kids can create their own robotic Picasso with the 4M Doodling Robot Kit. The kit comes with everything you need minus the screwdriver and AA battery. Once they assemble the robot, sit back and watch in amazement as the vibrating motor bounces arou
- GoldieBlox is zip lining down to save your daughters from the world of princesses! The Goldie Blox Action Figure teaches young girls how to build Goldie a 13" zipline – teaching the basic engineering principle of suspension. The action figure doll
- The Little Live Pets Butterfly House is like a Tamagotchi pet come to life. Kids can hold the battery-operated butterfly in the palm of their hands and keep them happy through different stages of feeding, play and sleep. In turn, the butterfly resp
- Playing ball just isn't the same anymore. For your older kids, Sphero 2.0 is a new improved version and just what they need to stop saying "Mom, I'm bored!" This app-controlled ball can move and change colors with a tilt or touch of the fingers on
- French artist Hervé Tullet needs a medal for getting young kids off their parents’ iPads with his interactive book, Press Here. Thanks to its wild success, Press Here The Game has arrived. The game features 25 colorful painted boards complet
- Little toddlers will love learning their ABCs and 123s with Petit Collage's Ocean Nesting Blocks. Each of the ten cardboard boxes stack up to three feet high, giving tots lots of fun building up their under the sea world. The boxes are made of 80%
- Go beyond the typical Play Doh or Mini Slinky for stocking stuffers. If they are 2 and up, chances are they are addicted to at least one of the app games from Toca Boca. Took Ink is a set of eight high-quality temporary tattoos featuring key charac
- Keep those little fingers busy (and out of chaos) Christmas day building the Marble Run 103-Piece Set. With colorful pieces and tracks that turn, spin and drop through, you'll probably find it just as fun to help them build amazing structures. The
- Little kids get their own wrist wearable with the new V-tech KidiZoom Smart Watch, months before Mommy and Daddy get their new Apple Watch. Kids can snap photos, take video, dictate a message, play learning games, oh and of course tell the time wit