Activities
Kids can take jewelry design and designyour-own room décor to a new dimension with Shrinky Dinks 3D Flower Jewelry, Statement Jewelry, and 3D Butterfly Lights, from ALEX TOYS. Set for release in the spring, kids can use the new kits to color, bake, and shrink wearable 3-D jewelry and 3-D room décor accessories out of the precut plastic sheets. With patent pending silicon bracelet, ring, and flower molds, kids can infuse their own personal style as they creatively color and transform the flat sheets into 3-D works of art.
WONDER FORGE will expand its line of Disney Imagicademy activity toys with Make It & Play It, which fuses creativity and clay with game play for kids ages 4 and up. Kids can mold game pieces of Disney characters with colorful modeling clay and then play 20 different logic-based games and puzzles. The activity and game combo promotes use of imagination and builds logic and math skills.
SPIN MASTER’s Bendaroos activitiy kits let kids bend, shape, and wrap to create 3-D objects. Bendaroos are easy-to-build flexible sticks that can twist and bend without any glue or heat. Each set includes Bendaroos in three different sizes, moldable 3-D wax shapes, decorations, scenes, accessories, and design templates. Theme packs will feature more than 200 pieces, and the Multi Maker Set will have more than 500 pieces. Licensed kits will also be available, featuring The Powerpuff Girls and Spider-Man.
Once Upon a Craft storybook craft kits, from EDUCATIONAL INSIGHTS, bring together two activities for parents to enjoy with their preschooler: reading and crafting. Each Once Upon a Craft kit includes a 24-page illustrated storybook and two crafts based on the story, with additional craft and activity extensions available online. There are eight themed sets to choose from: The Gingerbread Man, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Ugly Duckling, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, The Frog Prince, The Princess and the Pea, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
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