arts and crafts – All The Best Toys

Crayola Crayon Town Large Mat Zoo Set

This 2010 Toy of the Year award winning set is perfect for a rainy day or indoor play. It is sure to spark creative and imaginary play for your kids. Kids can use the crayons not only to color the three-dimensional zoo scenes, but they can also use the crayons to build animals and other zoo components, which they can then play with.

This play set is designed to last for a long time. You can buy any standard pack of Crayola Crayons to use with this set, so if the crayons from the set break or wear out, then they can easily be replaced. Crayola makes replacement color pages available online for a free download, so even once all the pages in the set have been colored, the fun keeps going with new coloring pages.

This toy comes with plastic figurines including the zoo keeper, monkey, giraffe, alligator, lion, and a polar bear. Also paper figurines including an all-terrain vehicle and wagon, a tree, the “Fold & Build” polar bear cave, a lion’s den, and a monkey tree. There are 2 coloring mats and 8 crayons.

Orb Factory Sticky Mosaics Jewelry Box

The Orb Factory Sticky Mosaics Jewelry Box is a great decorate by number arts and crafts project for girls to create and decorate their own jewelry box.

You are never too young to have a special place to hold all your prized possessions. This decorate-by-number jewelry box is a simple and easy to use craft. Girls will have fun with Sticky Mosaics for hours and have a beautiful keepsake when she is done. Adorn it with jewels and gems because this kit comes with hundreds of sparkling stickers. Easy to use and fun for kids of all ages. Simply follow a numbered pattern to decorate every angle of this pretty box.

This craft box is recommended for ages 6 and up and consists of several small pieces.

Play Doh Mega Fun Factory

Play-Doh has been a best selling toy for a long time. The new in 2010 Play Doh Mega Fun Factory will provide lots of fun and creative play time for kids.

The name of this product says it all! Mega Fun! Load your PLAY-DOH in one end and turn on your conveyor belt to stamp out pretend toys or food from one of the two gear molds. Keep your conveyor belt running and you can stamp out tons and tons of fun creations! (15+molds included)

Play-Doh is one of the best toys to encourage imaginative play and bring out the creative in kids. There have been several people who have said that the play-doh that this product comes with comes in very tiny containers. So you may want to buy some additional Play-Doh to go along with this toy. This is great toy for kids 3 year old and up.

See pricing for the Play Doh Mega Fun Factory on Amazon here.

Best Baby Photo Albums for Toddlers

Babies and toddlers love to look at picture books. They really love to look at pictures of themselves and their families. These photo albums are designed for kids as young as 1 year old and will be sure to entertain. I created a picture album like this with a few baby pics and a few family pics when when our boy was about 1 year old. He loved it then and still likes to look at it years later and talk about the pictures “when he was a little baby”.

Arts & Crafts for Valentines Day

Ucreate Games and Animation by Mattel

The New Ucreate Games and Artimation by Mattel is one of the most popular toys this year for kids age 7 year old to around 13 years old.

This unique and creative new game allows kids to take a simple drawing and then animate it. Kids can build and customize unique games with a combination of hand drawings, and a library of: drawing templates, photos, sound effects and other game components. This games requires that you connect it to a computer with an internet connection.

Aside from a computer and internet connection, everything else you need is included. The kit includes a drawing table, folding camera software, dry erase drawing supplies and a game template booklet.