Create your own card line with Color Fantasy’s Color Your Own
Card Collection (ToyFairPreview)
($7.95), which includes two nature designs and 5”x7” matching envelopes
to decorate. Send your friends birds, flowers and animals that shine at
night, crafted with Alex Toys’ Glow in the Dark
Origami Paper (ToyFairPreview).
For $2.50, you get 18, 6/6 sheets. Jazz up the mail even more by making
personalized stamps from art, text or photos with Speedball Art
Products’ Speedy Stamp Kit (ToyFairPreview)
($26.49). The kit includes a flexible rubber carving block that picks
up toner and ink (just like Silly Putty), a brayer and stamp pad.
Mold It Kit
Perfect Copy
Make a seamless mold of anything you own with Skullduggery Inc.’s
Eyewitness Mold It Kit (ToyFairPreview)
($12.95). The kit lets you make permanent casts from a reusable mold.
Cement a friendship for all time with Precious Impression’s Best
Friends Keepsake Kit (ToyFairPreview)
($16.95), with molding bucket, 1 lb. of Precious Gel, 2.5 lb. Precious
Stones, and assorted best friend charms. Likewise, Art Molds Sculpture
Studio (ToyFairPreview)
brings us Art Molds lifecasting kits, supplies and finishing
kits such as the Face Mask Kit ($45.95) for beginners
or the Head Portrait Kit ($115.95) for intermediate-to-advanced
artists. Also, check out the EZ Torso-Belly Mask Kit
($59.95)-- a great gift for an expecting mom or big brother or sister
to be!
Squizzers Safety Scissors
Rain or shine
Little hands ages 2 and up will appreciate Squizzers Safety Scissors
($2.49), by Hygloss Products Inc. (ToyFairPreview.)
The scissors are operated with an easy-to-use squeezing action that makes
cutting a breeze. From Alex Toys (ToyFairPreview)
comes a variety of award-winning craft kits that will keep kids busy during
the summer doldrums. Items such as the up-beat Splash N Sparkle
Umbrella Painting Kit ($15.00), for ages 7 and up, and the Dress
Up Bear Kit ($20.00 for ages 7 and up), with everything you need
to design and sew a colorful teddy bear outfit. Older kids will enjoy
decorating an original way to carry their favorite CDs with Alex’s
CD Case ($13.00).
Writer's Bio: Karen Mendez Smith has been involved
in children's media for over twenty years as a literary agent, writer,
and creator of animated television and film. Co-founder of Satori Organics
and M/Path Press, she is a parent to eight children and five incredible
grandchildren (and counting).
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