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9 year old

Make Friendship Bracelets

February 21, 2010

It’s amazing how some childhood traditions continue to last year after year and generation after generation, and friendship bracelets are one of those things.
I remember making friendship bracelets as a kid at camp and wearing ones given to me for months it seemed, until they finally fell off in pieces. Being a child of the [...]

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Toy Story LEGOs

January 8, 2010

Our boys are pretty exclusive to the Star Wars LEGOs, they aren’t as interested in the other sets. I imagine that will change once they see the Toy Story LEGOs that are being released to go along with Toy Story 3. I like the Woody’s Round Up set which also includes a LEGO Stinky Pete. [...]

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Boon Odd Duck

December 20, 2009

Know anyone who you could describe as an odd duck? Well, here is the perfect present for them. Yes, quite literally, and odd duck. Boon, as anyone who ready this site knows, is a minor obsession of mine (let’s just say I’m a fan). I am still hoping for a Boon animal bag or four [...]

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Not The Best Stuffed Animal Storage Options

August 10, 2009

I have already confessed my love for the boon animal bag in my Stuffed Animal Storage post. One of the reasons I love it so is that the stuffed animals don’t seem terribly miserable inside of it. Sure they get sat on, but any stuffed animal who has had some coveted time on the bed [...]

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Stuffed Animal Storage

August 3, 2009

We have a bit of a stuffed animal overpopulation problem at Chez Toy Report. There is a huge wooden chest filled with them upstairs, storage boxes in the attic, an empty duvet cover filled with them downstairs, and all the current favorites on the beds, of course. Now, I would be happy to thin the [...]

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Sand Sac

June 23, 2009

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 [...]

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Radio Controlled Jousting Knights

June 22, 2009

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 [...]

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It’s a Brand New Ant Farm

May 12, 2009

Did you know that NASA has developed a translucent, nutritious, non-toxic gel for ants? Well they have and you can feed it to your very own ants in an updated version of the traditional ant farm. A friend’s child was given one as a present and I can attest to the fascination of all the [...]

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The Yggyssey

April 15, 2009

The lovely and talented, prolific and beloved, adored and adorable Daniel Pinkwater is letting you read his latest book, The Yggyssy, for free. Seriously. You can go to The Yggyssy web site and read the whole thing there. It is subtitled “How Iggy wondered what happened to all the ghosts, found out where they went, [...]

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Gardening with Kids

April 14, 2009

I think the secret to gardening with kids is to not care too much about what actually grows. This is an adventure that is much more about the journey than the destination. If you are the sort to want to plant a garden that you can actually harvest, then perhaps you should have two gardens, [...]

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