The ultra-durable – and highly-adorable! – WOW toys are available in playset themes that appeal to boys and girls ages 18 months to 5 years. The hands-on toy line features kid-powered “push and go” friction motors and realistic sounds that enhance the toys’ play value– no batteries required! Each WOW product comes with an incredible ten-year satisfaction guarantee. The “WOW-worthy” new offerings include:Flora’s Fairy Garden – Children can dream big when they enter the gate at Flora’s Fairy … [Read more...]
Sammy Sea Patrol Review
My son was very excited when I opened up the box that arrived at my house from Ravensburger and saw this fun new toy! He started yelling "swimming guys, I love swimming guys!" He was even more excited to see that the life preserver could save the "swimming guys" and be reeled back into the vehicle by the push of a button.Sammy's rescue vehicle features a spinning lifeguard watchtower and a life preserver that is reeled in when you push the blue buttons on top of the car. It is a bit loud … [Read more...]
Wooky Entertainment Block Crayons
The new Block Crayon products include themed playsets as well as coloring book ensembles and accessories that feature the line’s signature color-saturated, non-toxic and odorless crayons. The range includes single- and double-tipped blocks embossed with letters, numbers, objects and an array of 3D sculpted characters for added fun. New additions to Wooky Entertainment’s Block Crayon lineup for children ages 18 months and up include:Color & Stow Pony Stable – A pony-themed activity set … [Read more...]
Ravensburger’s New Assortment of Puzzles
Ravensburger announced several new puzzles to their line up at the Toy Fair in 2013. The Kinder Collection For the younger set, Ravensburger broadens its puzzle offerings to provide more ways to engage children’s imaginations while sharpening their hand-eye coordination and color matching and sequencing skills. Ravensburger’s debut Kinder Collection features whimsical images of a princess, robots, cats, farm and vehicles. The contemporary and brightly-colored puzzles, available in a range of … [Read more...]
What’s New from The Orb Factory?
I've told you in the past how much I love The Orb Factory. They just released some new toys and I'm happy to share some of them with you! The Orb Factory now has a fun line of Plush Crafts that feature no sew room decor crafts. My daughter is all about decorating her room, so I new instantly she would love to work on one of these projects.When I opened the box and she saw the butterfly pillow she wanted to get started right away. She has been talking non-stop about how she will make the … [Read more...]
Take Apart Helicopter Review
I have a 3 year old son that likes to bang and build, take things apart and put them back together. He is an engineer, just like his daddy! With all those character traits it made the Take Apart Helicopter the perfect toy for him!The Take Apart Helicopter is from the construction sets series of toys from Educational Toys Planet. This toy comes with 20 pieces and a screw driver that enables you to take the helicopter apart and build itagain. My son was in heaven having a real helicopter to … [Read more...]
Educational Toys Planet
I am always on the look out for great products to tell you Mommies about! I'm excited to announce that we will be doing a toy review from Educational Toys Planet! Stay tuned for some info on some great toys for your kiddos! … [Read more...]
James Bond 007 Skyfall Aston Martin Review
Do you have a favorite toy at your house? We sure do! It is this amazing Aston Martin featured in the new 007 Skyfall movie from Toy State. I knew my son would love this car, but I had no idea how much. Everyday he tells me "I love this car so much" or "this is my favorite car ever!" Why is this car his favorite? Lots of reasons. First it looks cool, and he loves race cars! This definitely looks like a race car. Second there are 3 buttons on the top of the car opening a whole world … [Read more...]
Amazon’s 2012 Holiday Toy List
We didn't go out Black Friday shopping. We didn't want to mess with the crowds, plus we didn't want to get a babysitter! The perfect solution to Black Friday is Cyber Monday!! Thanks to Amazon there is a fantastic Holiday Toy guide for me to browse and still get some fantastic deals! I LOVE how they break it down to Boy Toys and Girls toys, or different ages. This is such an easy way to navigate the deals and score some great finds for Christmas! … [Read more...]
Beeps’ Peeps Car Mat Review and Giveaway
I feel like we often have a lot of girl items to giveaway on this blog so I went on a quest to find an awesome boy toy! I definitely found it when I stumbled upon Beeps' Peeps Etsy store. Check out this:This is an On-The-Go car mat! This cute play mat has a street for toy cars to play on as well as 3 pockets to hold 3 matchbox sized cars. It folds up nice and small, perfect to fit in a diaper bag or purse. This mat is VERY sturdy, made with durable fabrics. There are also washing … [Read more...]
Story Time Felts Farm and Zoo Adventure Review and Giveaway
Remember my friend Awnya, she was our first ever guest blogger back towards the beginning of Making of a Mom! She shared an article on Time Management Tips for Moms. Now she is sharing some of her felt products with us! She is an independent consultant for Story Time Felts and has sent me a few products to play with, share and give to my readers!! Today we are starting with the Farm and Zoo Adventure set!! These cute little felt finger puppets are a HUGE hit at our house. … [Read more...]
Boy’s Toys for the Girls
As modern parents we try endlessly to breakdown gender stereotyping for kids, don’t we? Leading toy designer and manufacturer LEGO is all for that as well, it seems. Once a byword in the boy’s toys department, LEGO has finally introduced a range for girls; but how successfully are the brick based beauty parlours at challenging these roles? Some commentators have suggested that LEGO’s friends range don’t challenge much at all and only reinforce the traditional roles. The Friends range is set … [Read more...]
Yard Sale Season rocks!!!
Here it is folks! Our newest yard sale finds! Woot! Remember my 3 part posts about successful yard sales? (posts one, two and three!) Well, our favorite city wide yard sale happened over the weekend, and here are our top 10 favorite treasures (in no certain order):1. Little dune buggy $15- my nephews went crazy for it! And the seat is adjustable, so it can fit each of them! Woot! 2. A HUGE bag (weighing in at 7 pounds) of fabric flowers $10- oh the many hair clips I can make … [Read more...]
Labeling Tubs
It is common courtesy for friends to help clean up after they have been playing at your house. I don't mind cleaning up with my children when we are at a friends house, but sometimes it is very difficult because I don't know where all their toys belong.When I lived in Kansas I had a group of friends, and we would have a play group every week. We would rotate houses so everyone got a turn to "host the mess." We would all fumble through putting the toys away and follow the lead of the person … [Read more...]
