A child can slip through the opening of this plane and run around holding the sides of it, pretending to fly. It can also be decorated and personalized with paints, markers and accessories. It measures 29" x 18" x 18".

This eco-friendly animal stool is chemical-free, recycled and recyclable. The sculpture piece also has a very real purpose — to be sat upon ridden like a horse. "The product is done in a very humorous way. We have many more styles with an animal table," Cathy Henszey, executive creative director of cardboardesign, told TDmonthly. Launch date: February 2009.

With this product and a little bit of imagination, kids can travel the galaxy and whiz off to distant planets in their very own rocket. They can paint and draw on the rocket, or decorage it with stickers, sparkles, string, pins or even faux-metal papers. A project might include creating an interior of environments such as a flight panels and hot buttons. “Our ‘made in America’ rocket promotes pure self expression and role play in an old-fashioned way by not using high-tech gadgets or batteries in a chemical-free environment,” Cathy Henszey of cardboardesign told TDmonthly.