USAopoly’s Lift It! challenges players to create structures using the Lift It! crane, which they can attach to their heads using the included headbands, or maneuver with their hands. Players race to beat the clock and construct what is on the building cards in order to advance around the game board. The game improves dexterity, balance, and hand-eye coordination in players ages 8 and up.
Kids ages 6 and up will get their synapses firing fast with Swingy Thing, from Fat Brain Toy Co. This brainteaser features colorful spinning flippers and dippers that will strengthen kids’ problem solving skills through 52 challenges. The brain-bending fun starts out easy with the Earth Blastoff, where kids only spin one of the dippers. The challenges get increasingly difficult, and once completed, kids can do them all again in the opposite direction, doubling the play value.
JULY/AUGUST 2015
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