Little mice need players' help to push their pieces of cheese into their mouse holes. But participants must watch out for the cat! To play the game, players try to flick a mouse token on the game board so it hits and propels one or more cheese tokens into a mouse hole. The first team of mice to get all its cheese through the mouse holes is the winner. This wooden game is made in Canada. Launch date: 2009.

Bagazoo is a wonderful game for the whole family and an ideal game for children's parties. Eight different games can be played with the Bagazoo. It received a 2008 iParenting Media Award. "Bagazoo is set up to provide more opportunities to play than a normal bean bag toss game. It provides more challenge for the older children, while still accommodating the very young ones," Mary Pepin, project manager for Bojeux, told TDmonthly. Launch date: 2009.

Girls can stencil brightly colored 3-D flora and fauna onto their skin using the four included tattoo sheets, four colors of sand, one bag of glitter, one funnel and four glass bottles with corks, plus instructions. This new tattoo concept should appeal to tween girls. The tattoo is created on the stencil, then transferred to skin.

This carft kit contains translucent butterfly templates that girls can color in and decorate with the included markers, jewels and wires. The kit contains one line-art acetate sheet, five colors of dimensional paint, three suction cups, wires, beads and instructions.