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Made to Play!: Handmade Toys and Crafts for Growing Imaginations
We’ve written before about how much we love Made By Joel, Joel Henrique’s website that features his charming handmade children’s toys. This means we also love Joel’s first book, Made to Play even...
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Gold Temporary Tattoo Bracelet 8-Pack
Not quite jewelry, not quite a tattoo, gold shimmering temporary tattoos have all the glamour and none of the commitment (or needle pokes) of traditional tattooing. We keep packs of them on hand for...
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Giant Bubble Wand Kit
nomoosinaround.blogspot.com We love this giant bubble-blowing rig similar to the one that the San Francisco Bubble Man uses to create massive, gleaming rainbow bubbles! They’re excellent for children...
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Freeform LEGO Architecture Studio + Book
LEGO We’ve always been enamored of building blocks for their cool modularity and open invitation to improvise, and we find that this jumbo building kit from LEGO is the perfect thing for adults to...
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Fabric Pens in 5 Colors
We love to turn our fabrics into impromptu drawing spaces. It’s easy with this five-color kit of fabric markers. We’re thinking not only pillows, but shower curtains, placemats, window shades,...
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Donut Chef
amazon.com We’re always on the lookout for great children’s books to give as gifts to our friends’ kids: books that are inexpensive, and can be enjoyed over and over again, not to mention inspiring...
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Beautiful Oops!
This kids’ book by Barney Saltzberg, follows a simple, but for some, very challenging philosophy: “When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an opportunity to make something.” Beautiful...
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Balancing Block Sculpture Set
amazon.com These rustic wooden blocks made us reflect on ‘process,’ and long days on a beach spent happily balancing stones…which made us want the white ones. They’re a good way to cool your brain...
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50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)
Gever Tulley, founder of Tinkering School for Kids, has published a book we’ve been waiting for, not just to give to the kids we know, but us adults as well, because the same idea applies: By...
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Peel and Stick Chalkboard Sheets
amazon.com As we’re always gaga for low-impact re-stickable items for your wall (remember our gargantuan DIY post-it notes?), these ready-to-use chalkboard sheets in “slate grey” were absolutely...
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The Phantom Tollbooth
amazon.com We are amazed at how often we return to The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster’s classic kid’s book that is celebrating 50 years of stunning popularity. It’s the story of Milo, a bored...
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Remote-Controlled Miniature Helicopter
Amazon At a loss as to what to get an artist friend for his 50th birthday, we thought: a helicopter! This cunning, remote-controled flyer was a HUGE hit, and our friend has since given it to five of...
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Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty
In the ’70’s, after the brilliant Anne Herbert coined the phrase Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty, she collaborated on a short poem-of-a-book on that theme. Long out-of-print,...
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Original Colorforms Anniversary Set
When we were kids, we played for hours with our Colorforms set: colorful geometric and abstract shapes that would stick to the accompanying glossy black boards and other smooth surfaces (like...
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