FIVE free kids scooters? Giving them away? What’s that you say?
Do we have your attention now? That’s right dear readers, our friends over at Kickboardusa.com saw our Mini Kick and Maxi Kick Scooter reviews and have given The Toy Report FIVE Kick scooters to give away to five lucky readers FIVE! One of these premium kids scooters could be yours!
We have THREE Mini Kicks and TWO Maxi Kicks to give away. That’s a lot of scooter power! One each of the Blue, Pink and Orange Mini Kick Scooters, and one each of the Black and Purple Maxi Kicks Scooters. These are easily the best kids scooters on the market today, and we’re very grateful to Kickboardusa.com for giving us this chance to thank our readers!
Does anyone else out there love sock monkeys? I just saw this and had to share. It may be the greatest thing I have ever seen. I love how nonchalant he looks.
Today we get back to the Beach toys (and no, Annette Funicello is not involved). If you are in the market for a slightly more comlicated beach toy, the water pump is for you. It is fun with just a bucket of water, but we have been known to incorporate them into our sand castles. The princess loves this because she is way into anything she can pour. My favorite is this Gowi water pump set. It includes a shovel and teddy bear sand mold and the pump feeds onto a water wheel. The pump comes off so the pail can be used for sand carrying too.
It doesn’t have a water wheel but the pump and bucket are enough for a rollicking good time. These are also popular with kids who are reading the Little House books.
The boys were invited to a robot and monster birthday party last week. This may be my favorite theme of any birthday party yet – because really who should be forced to choose between monsters and robots? A wonderful time was had by all. The robot and monster loving boy’s parents set up an amazing art station with cut out felt monster shapes for sewing and gluing. There were all sorts of googly eyes, pompoms and shiny things and some really excellent monsters were created. The following were our presents.
I love this book, Leonardo the Terrible Monster by Mo Willams. A not so scary monster, determined to scare the tuna salad out of someone, ends up joining forces with the boy he intended to scare. It has Mo Willam’ simple but expressive illustrations and his signature humor – funny to kids and grown-ups alike.
Robot Shrinky Dinks. Doesn’t everyone love shrinky dinks? This little kit is nice because there is no cutting involved, just coloring and shrinking, making it a good shrinky dink choice for younger kids.
The piece de resistance: The Schylling High Wheel Robot. It is made of tin and looks like something out of a 1950’s movie. You wind up the key and it walks and the wheels in its body turn and make sparks. Why yes, it does come in packaging that allowed us to open it and play with it a little before we wrapped it, why do you ask? It does say in big letters on the bottom that it is NOT A TOY and only for adult collectors. Yes, we did give it to a 6 year old. I think that the toy itself is not dangerous, but it could break in such a way as to become dangerous (sharp twisted metal – I think that there is no way a tin robot can meet current safety standards). There aren’t any kids in their house younger than 6 and I know the parents well enough to know that they wouldn’t mind a toy that was a little breakable, not when it is this cool. That is my justification – use your own judgment. It is pretty freakin’ cool, though, no?
I saw this on Cool Mom Picks last week. The Sand Sac is a 100% cotton pail that comes with a bamboo shovel (admittedly it looks more like a spoon but it will still shovel sand). It also comes with fabric markers so you can decorate yourself. It is such a perfect sand toy, especially for anyone concerned about having to much plastic. It will carry sand or water just like a plastic bucket but it made of renewable resources, is machine washable and contains no petroleum products (yay!). It is also collapsible, meaning it takes up much less room in an overcrowded beach bag. I think I may put this on my list for all summer birthday parties. The Sand Sac people suggests using them as party favors – and now I have another reason to wish my kids had summer birthdays.
We get a lot of random mail here at The Toy Report asking us if we’ll post something on this new toy or that new gadget by various manufacturers, and typically we ask a toy manufacturer to send us a sample of their stuff so we can have our playtesters evaluate it fully.
However, in some cases we see a toy so darn cool that we just can’t wait to let you know about it, and this is one of those times. We’d never heard of Bluw.com before Myriam contacted us asking if we’d review some of their toys. Everything on the site is designed by the company and they have toys like you won’t find anywhere else.
This one really caught my eye. Yup, those are radio controlled jousting knights. The goal is to joust and knock the opposing knight from his seat which ends the battle.
Note, this is not a toy for the very young, as it has small parts and appears to be quite fast and challenging for even adults to joust accurately. Probably put this one in the 8-12 year old range.
“Tis the season for beach toys (not that we have had much beach weather here yet, and have I mentioned that all the rain has made me cranky?). I am going to round up some of our favorite beach toys for you, the ones that get used not the ones that get left in the [...]
We have been getting a lot of rain around here lately, making the beginning of summer a little soggy for our liking. Although we are not opposed to going outside and playing in the rain, sometimes you just have to find things to do inside, and for us that often included board games. The two [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Mrs TR posted a review of the Stomp Rockets that are one of the boys favorite toys ever. The spell checker thinks that favoritest isn’t a word, but if it is not, it really should be.
Anyway, Stomp Rockets do exactly what they sound like. You stomp on a little plastic [...]
Much to my (and my kids’) disappointment, we do not own a Rody inflatable horse. However, we have friends who have one and that is really the next best thing to owning one yourself. Why do I love Rody? Well, first he is shiny, and don’t we all like shiny things? Really, he comes in [...]
We don’t review many kids toys that make noise here at The Toy Report. Mrs. TR historically has had a very strong aversion to toys that make noise.
Imagine her surprise when we received one Mr. Norman PhartEphant in the mail. After some discussion we decided that despite any misgivings we might have with [...]
FIVE free kids scooters? Giving them away? What’s that you say?
