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Made in the U.S. from 100-percent recycled plastic milk containers, GREEN TOYS’ line of environmentally friendly toys expands with Mini Construction Vehicles, for kids ages 2 months and up. The set includes a front loader with a moveable scooper, a cement mixer with a revolving drum, and a dump truck with a classic open box bed. Each vehicle comes with its own bulldog construction worker, which kids can interchange between the three vehicles. They do not contain any BPA, PVC, phthalates, or external coatings, and are packaged using recycled and recyclable materials and are printed with soy inks.
Magic Moves RainbowJam
SPECIALTY TOYS & GIFTS
PLAY VISIONS’ Sands Alive! line grows (and glows) with new Sands Alive! Glow, which is playful sand with a customizable glow feature. Now kids can make creations that glow in the dark using the two included tools: the Sands Alive! Glow Tool and the Sand-Charging Glasses. The Sands Alive! Glow Tool is a light pointer kids use to doodle in the sand. Kids can highlight a cool feature of their structure, practice the alphabet, or draw a funny face. The Sands Alive! Sand-Charging Glasses transforms the sand as kids build and play. Different movements cause different glowing reactions.
EDUCATIONAL INSIGHTS introduces Magic Moves RainbowJam. Kids can touch a color to hear a musical note, or touch multiple colors to compose their own masterpieces. They can sing along to nine color songs with different musical styles, including rock and jazz. It also recognizes colors from any flat surface. RiddleCube is a game that encourages outside-of-the-box thinking. Players must draw a challenge card, and then fold, twist, and stretch their RiddleCube to recreate the picture or word challenge depicted on the card. The first player to complete five challenges wins. Parents can make bedtime stories interactive and memorable with the Pete the Cat Puppet-on-a-Stick. It can be used to bring any of the 20 published Pete the Cat storybooks to life, or kids can use it for imaginative puppet shows. In the Koala Capers game, players roll dice to find a pattern and search cards for an outfit with the matching pattern to help the Koala family find their outfits. The first player to collect five outfits wins, but one bad roll can put a wrinkle in his or her plans. Players can cross train their brains with Kanoodle Extreme, which features a sliding game board and more than 300 2-D, 3-D, and sliding 2-D puzzles. Kids can pick one of the 12 puzzle pieces, set up the challenge, and place the remaining pieces to solve the puzzle.
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MAY/JUNE 2015