December 2010 New Specialty Toys — Arts & Crafts

My Wrap® is a made-in-the-USA all-inclusive craft kit to jump-start creativity by enabling kids to easily create their own unique wrapping paper.  Each kit contains two captivating, partially-complete, partially-colored, wrapping paper designs that
jump-start kids’ creativity, allowing them to draw, color and decorate with the kit’s eight crayons, pencil, multiple stencil shapes, gift tag labels, and plenty of colorful stickers.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010

The 12” mannequin-style fashion doll has tucking features in both arms and legs to create pants, jackets, sweaters and more with the included exclusive fabric swatches, accessories, fashion stickers and rhinestone sheet.

Electra Doodle allows a child to create with light hundreds of designs. By using the stylus pen your child can doodle, draw, make kaleidoscope effects, animate, connect dots, play match games, and solve mazes. They can also make personalized signs and messages.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010

Designed for pre-schoolers, this clever and colorful stackable Block Crayon is perfect for little hands as it combinies two of a child’s favorite activities – building and coloring – into one. This product is safe and user friendly for all children. Children can draw, associate images, and improve dexterity, making it an excellent developmental choice for parents of preschoolers. With multiple playtime activities to offer, this is a perfect new choice to expand a child’s dexterity and creativity at a young age.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010

Make a tropical fish mobile, make dinosaur tracks, create a storybook about where you live, play games, make greeting cards, do word-finds, make a door hanger for your bedroom, create dinosaur scenes and ocean scenes. Wikki Stix adhere to virtually all smooth surfaces with just fingertip pressure, so there is no glue, no preparation and no cleanup.  Great for home or school.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010

Moon Dough is hypoalergenic, soft, marshmallow-like, cleans up easily, and never dries out so you can use it again and again. Moon Dough is the latest and greatest new molding compound for kids to mold into fun creations they will love to create and play with.  Bale some hay, put it in the barn silo, and turn the crank to create fun 3D Moon Dough animals. Endless possibilities abound using your child’s imagination with this product.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010

How do you feel when you ride a rollercoaster, drop your ice cream cone, hear your parents argue, see a friend left out, get sprayed with water or say goodbye? Choose from 50 situations -- and have fun sharing your reaction and seeing how others react to the same situation. Players draw their feelings using markers on a dry erase mirror and/or magnetic facial components that show surprise, confusion, boredom, happiness, anger, frustration, and more. The 50 cards show vivid photographs of the different situations -- no reading skills are needed to play and all ages will find it of
value.  This fun and interactive game helps kids understand their feelings and reactions to different situations.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010

Ready2Learn™ Paint & Clay Texture Rollers is a roll with paint and clay craft activity that is as easy as using a rolling pin with a set of 4 designs. The clever styles include a dot pattern of various sizes in a random array, a wave pattern, zigzag squiggles, and parallel multi-width rollers are 7” long and made of very durable plastic and hard rubber. Soap and water are all that is needed for an easy clean-up.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010

Lunch Punch transforms everyday sandwiches into dogs, puzzles, elephants, airplanes and more. The extra-thick plastic punches are BPA free and ideal for everyday lunches, special occasions and parties.
— As a mom of kids who hate crust, Jabbering Jessi loved that “With the help of Lunch Punch it is a snap to take off the dreaded crust.” Her daughter enjoyed the butterfly punch while her sons preferred the puzzle variety.
— After trying Lunch Punch, Crystal of Kid Buy Products bragged “about how much work she put into making sure her children had sandwiches cut into little dolphins for lunch while secretly knowing that it only took me about 10 extra seconds to make them thanks to the crazy-cool little sandwich cutters.” Crystal praised the cutters for their large size (minimizing wasted bread) and durability

Symbiotes are cool figures that all use the same head, body and arms. Designed by artist Curt Rapala, each figure is a character that is created in a stylized way. The blank symbiote allows one to create their own design onto the figure, to personalize it as desired. Each White Symbiote comes with four interchangeable hands, Pistol and a Sword.

Available in 1lb bags and in 10 different colors. The sand is non-toxic, contains no free silica or free quartz making it environmentally friendly. $3.95 each.

This portable art set features a plain brown paper exterior that allows users to personalize all sides. The set includes 18 colored pencils, 16 fine-point markers, 18 crayons, 14 pastels, eight watercolor cakes, two paintbrushes, two drawing pencils, a sharpener and an eraser. It measures 14.5" x 10.5" x 2.25" and has a rope handle and closure. "This art set allows ANYONE to personalize their own set!" Xonex Art Director Emily Meluch told TDmonthly.

Kids can learn anatomy, teach posture, do illustrations or recreate Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man with this articulated stencil. The stencil measures 13.5” tall, is see-through and easy-to-clean, and pivots at 15 different points.

The reproducible pages in this resource can be used to create a class set of all 12 books in the Sing Along & Read Along with Dr. Jean series. Students can personalize their very own readers and then use them for repeated reading practice as they sing along or read along in class or at home. The set includes engaging activity ideas for each title to promote an interactive learning experience and reinforce many early childhood concepts.

Teachers can welcome new students with this back-to-school Web-themed display. Use the colorful pieces to promote an interactive learning environment while introducing students to the latest trend in Internet-based communication. Each bulletin board set includes a “Welcome!” sign, a “Class Web Page” chart, 30 student web page headers and four customizable web buttons. "This product is trendy, and speaks to students on a level they can relate to and enjoy," Creative Teaching Press Marketing Specialist Lauren Tuculescu told TDmonthly.

An enjoyable craft project/activity for children and adults. Recommended for use with Sandtastik PlasterMix. 18 unique and reusable Molds per pack. Simply choose the preferred color of plaster, mix the colored plaster with water, pour the mixture into Sandtastik Plaster Molds, wait 30 minutes, and then paint and decorate. Plaster Molds can be re-used over and over again.