light up the Lego
What has eight lights, is ten feet tall and made of legos? Its the giant lego menorah, which was lit at Binghamton University’s Tillman Lobby. The menorah is part of the annual toy drive by Jewish students during the celebration of Chanukah. The menorah was constructed with 3,500 pieces of legos. ~ Wicz.com That’s a lot [...]
A season for giving
But just a few scant days before the Salvation Army begins distributing those toys, it finds itself short of being able to provide a gift to about 250 children registered for the program…“At Christmas you want every child to have a toy and a wonderful memory of Christmas day that they will remember the rest [...]
Planes, trains and automobiles
…or just trains. Toys for two year olds to ninety year olds. For some, there is nothing quite like building your own personal model railway. My hubby’s father scooted him out of his bedroom to make space for one! For all those enthusiasts out there, I found an interesting tip on balast by Stan in Irvine: In a scale model, [...]
Green toys – Toys with integrity
The toy breakfast listed under my post on wooden toys yesterday was designated ‘green’. As climate change becomes increasingly more obvious, the pressure is on to consider more carefully the toys that we buy for our children. A great toy idea for this year would be the Green Toys Recycle Truck. A good way to get your child [...]
Wooden toys forever!
I’ve been hunting up some wonderful toys for two year olds for Christmas to put together a list of the top ten toys with wheels. My favourites, of course, are the wooden toys. I have a passion for these and have been collecting them for some time. It probably all started with being a ballerina [...]
Happy Meal Toy Ornaments
“I came up with a creative way to put them to good use a few years back and now that I have this blog it’s the perfect time and place to share this little “happy meal toy ornament” tutorial” ~ Heather Sitarzewski What a fantastic idea! Wish I’d thought of that…off to find my pliers!
Zhu zhu and the zoo
This year’s hot, must-have, beat-your-neighbor-over-the-head-for-it toy makes no sense at all. A Zhu Zhu pet is a robotic hamster, and not even a cool robotic hamster. It’s a cat toy, basically. It employs no new technology, and you can easily get similar robotic rodents. The sole unique thing it does is make a toilet flushing [...]
Stuck in the mud
Mud. Yup – that’s the good stuff, Mum. A local clothes-washing detergent’s “Dirt is good” campaign has catchlines like: “it’s not dirt, it’s a star in the making”. So let’s get to it. Dirt and seeds. Or beans, in our case. This can’t be hard. Fun in a couple of easy steps. Take a plastic cup, put [...]
Precious jewels
Christmas is a time – you can ask my family – when I get horribly sentimental. Really. Part of it is because my family are on my mind all the time and part of it is that this is the only time of year that I get to do an almighty clearout. This means coming [...]
Bake it up, baby now!
A colleague accidentally printed off some recipes for baking with children. I’m hopeless at baking, so I figured these would be easy enough to try. Wrong. Oh well. Still…it got me thinking about little ones and baking and that it would be a fun activity to do, especially in the holidays. The very small ones may [...]
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