IlluStory is meant to encourage and celebrate the creativity that lies within every child. We have all heard our children weave intricate yarns, now they can turn those imaginative ramblings into a forever keepsake. Children are given a blank slate on which they can spin tales to their heart’s content (well, 10-14 blank pages). Each […]
A steady stream of great scores and reviews were received for this new game that is fun but also teaches valuable manners and social skill lessons. Q’s Race is easy enough for a three-year-old to play and engaging enough for older kids enjoy. What the game excels in is helping children develop and enhance their
Many of our parent testers were familiar with Lalaloopsy dolls and were excited to see this new hair play edition in our testing centers. Right from the start they were very happy with the quality of the doll itself. Each doll impressed as being put together well, with fun details, great hair and beautiful brightly
Water play is the stuff of childhood summers and MGA has created a water play station that proved to be a favorite with our testers. The table is a perfect height for toddlers and delivered endless hours of laughs and entertainment as everyone enjoyed watching the water splash in all sorts of ways. Kids loved
Tiggly is back. The groundbreaking toy that works literally ON your iPad. Inside the box, you will find five pieces that are really unique because your child places them directly on the screen. These well made colorful counting toys feature special capacitive “feet” on the bottom that interact with the touch screen of an iPad.
Skōsh is a fascinating trivia game that encourages players not to throw their hands up in surrender because they don’t know an answer. No Skōsh doesn’t expect you to know answers to questions like “What percentage of coffee drinkers add cream and/or sugar to their coffee,” even Nate Silver doesn’t know that answer. But that’s
When you see a small pack of flash cards that costs just a few bucks the last thing you think you or your children are going to experience is fun. Well, think again! Parents and child testers described this math game as one that is both educational AND fun to play. The game does and
TREND enterprises has compiled a powerhouse set of educational card games that impressed testers with elementary school aged children. The Math Power Pack is a set of 4 different flash card sets. The cards teach/reinforce addition, subtraction and telling time along with a fun “war” style card game. The packaging is clear, bright and quite
TREND wasn’t kidding when they included the word Power in the title of this new educational release. This all-inclusive reading program is designed to help children develop very comprehensive reading skills. It covers all major areas of reading – decoding and phonics, using picture clues, stringing together consonant-vowel-consonant words, sequencing and sentence making, as well
Testers have told us that when starting the assembly of something as big as Jungle Jumparoo there is always the concern that the building process will be overly complicated with missing pieces, etc. Not the case with Jungle Jumparoo. Testers had high praise for the ease with which this big activity set was assembled. Once
