Author Archives: Allison
Bubble Talk
Bubble Talk is a multi-award winning, fast-paced family board game that asks players to match hilarious captions with funny pictures. A game that is as much fun if you are 8 or 80, the game begins when each player draws … Continue reading
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Think Plaid, Think Local!
Where are you going to be at 1:30 am on the Friday after Thanksgiving? Waiting in the parking lot of the mall to storm through the doors as soon as they open to snag one of the door busters? Black … Continue reading
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Jamie’s Picks
Collage Printmaking Kit “Learn real art!” (and some vocabulary-this type of printmaking, with a collage, is called “collography”) reads the package of this totally fabulous art kit. Fashion yourself a kind of “Shepard Fairey of your mom’s fridge” with Eye … Continue reading
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Molly’s Pick
Maybe I’m a little biased as an art history student whose favorite artists are Gustav Klimt and Vincent Van Gogh, but I’m so excited about Master Kitz by Kidzaw. It can be a challenge for parents and teachers to get … Continue reading
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Family games for the holidays
As the holidays rapidly approach, most of us are getting ready to spend more time with our families. At Christmas in my family someone always includes a cool new game in our Yankee Swap that we all end up trying … Continue reading
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Remote-Control Machines
Thames & Kosmos never disappoints with their science kits. The Physics Solar Workshop wowed us last year and this year it is the new Remote-Control Machines kit that has caught our attention.
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Little Bear
One of my favorite aspects of parenting a young child was the bedtime routine: bath, pajamas, crawling into bed, and of course the story to send my little one off to dreamland. Now that my little one is not so … Continue reading
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