Take a Look at These Holiday Toys

Science Kits and Dress-up Take Kids on Adventures

By Julie L. Jones
June 2010

There’s always the challenge of deciding what to order for the Christmas season, and once you do, where to store it! For that first part, TDmonthly Magazine wants to ensure that you don’t miss out on some new and exciting products for 2010. Our Holiday Preview coverage features popular categories of toys, gifts and juvenile products. Just click the links below for highlights of items to consider for fourth quarter. See something your customers may like? Simply click on “Add to My Inquiry Basket” to reach the manufacturer with a wholesale request.

Elenco’s Solar Kit has worked up some fine sales, and wind energy is the focus of new kits from Thames & Kosmos and Perisphere & Trylon. Check out additional launches from Tedco and The Young Scientists Club in TDmonthly’s Holiday Preview of Science & Nature gifts.

Little girls can match their Groovy Girls this holiday season with Manhattan Toy’s line of coordinating dress-up. Creative Education of Canada gives grade-schoolers performance-worthy fashions, while Little Adventures transforms girls into princesses. Unwrap cool gear this Christmas with TDmonthly’s Holiday Preview of Costumes and Apparel.

Pigs that pop, store change, play party games, and support the outrageously popular fad of snap-back, shaped rubber bands are the focus of TDmonthly’s Holiday Preview of Novelties. It might turn out to be a boar-ing holiday season.

Warriors, fairies and plain ol’ folk from popular action-figure lines Safari Ltd., Schleich and Hotaling Import’s Papo give kids plenty of opportunity to create their own imaginative scenes. And Pretty Ugly’s rolled out a pretty cute new series of wonderfully quirky Uglydoll figurines. See TDmonthly’s Holiday Preview of Action Figures and Animal Replicas.

Preschoolers will get down to playing and learning with Lilly Bean felt food sets, Grasshopper prep kits, and projects full of shape and texture from 1-2-3 Preschool Projects. Get to know plush friends, playsets and more in TDmonthly’s Holiday Preview of Preschool items.

Puzzles, crayons, teddy bears and lip balms get their start on domestic soil in this collection of American-made items. See products from Jonti-Craft, Diggity Kids, International Arrivals and others in TDmonthly’s Holiday Preview of toys and games Made in the USA.

Toysmith may help drum up holiday tunes with a musical set from its B. line, and Magicforest introduces the Moulin Roty of plush animals from France. See rattles, blankets, onesies and more in TDmonthly’s Holiday Preview of Infant & Toddler gifts.

Saturnian 1 Sport and Monkey Business Sports will give kids workouts large and small with soccer this holiday season, while Can You Imagine makes a big boom with its new rocket. See more of TDmonthly’s Holiday Preview of Sporting Goods and Outdoor Toys.