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You all should know by now that I absolutely LOVE toys that encourage creativity and independant thinking in children and the Illustory kit from "Creations by You" is one of the most creative toys I have come across in quite a while. The Illustory Make Your Own Story Kit encourages children to use their own creativity to write an illustrate their very own story! The kit comes with everything needed for your child to write their own story: 18 book pages, 2 cover pages, 10 washable markers, a story web planner, instructions, an order form and a prepaid envelope. Children use the enclosed materials to create their story complete with pictures and then you mail in
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the story with the enclosed prepaid envelope. In a few weeks following receipt of your child’s story the company will mail back a professionally type-set book along with your childs colorful illustrations included! Children also have the opportunity to include an "about the author" section to their book and design the cover! You can even order extra copies of your child’s book to send off as gifts to family and friends! The Illustory kit won the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award, Parents’ Choice Classic Award, Family Life’s Best Learning Toy Award and Dr. Toy Best Toy-Classic Award! This kit is recommended for children ages 6yrs+ and makes a great gift!
You can find the Illustory Make Your Own Story Kit over at Amazon.com or you can look for it in your local stores; however, I have not yet found this one in any of my local stores!
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Make A Mask by Educational Insights is a great arts and crafts activity for kids over the age of 6 and I can promise that adults will have a lot of fun with this one too! This fun Make A Mask set allows your children to make their own masks using a mold to mold it over the base included in the kit! The kit comes with one facialform, a roll of MagicMold plaster gauze, siz paints, one brush and a 16-page how-to guide to help you make your own personalized mask! The Make A Mask kit is a great way to keep idle hands busy on a rainy day as well as allow your children’s imaginations run wild as they create wacky colorful masks from their imaginations or
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from using the inspiration included in the packaging of the Make a Mask set! The Make A Mask set is recommended for children 6yrs and up because of the actual casting of the mask process, this is not recommended for younger children. The Make A Mask kit was designed and developed by the Los Angeles Mask Theatre and was the winner of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award!
You can pick up your Make A Mask kit for under $15 from Amazon.com! You will also find other merchants selling it for similar prices at Amazon too!
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Finding arts and crafts activities to keep the attention of children of all ages is never an easy task, however, tie dye crafts have always been a great way to entertain children and adults of all ages. The Tie Dye kit by Jacquard is a huge tie dying kit which can dye up to 15 different shirts! The Tie Dye kit comes with one pair of rubber gloves, four squirt (mixing) bottles, rubber bands, 1/3lb of dye fixer, and premeasured red, blue and yellow dye. Even though the kit comes with only three dyes you can combine dye to create more colors just as you would with paints. The Jacquard tie dye kit is parents choice recommended as a great activity for all of the family to do together! This
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is also a wonderful activity to bring home around easter time so you can create tie dye shirts as well as tie dye eggs! The great part about tie dye is that even adolescents who really hate family activities come together to see what kind of artsy color combinations they can put together. Tie dying is also a wonderful way to teach your younger family members about the creation of colors from primary colors!
The Jacquard Tie Dye Kit is available from multiple online stores, you can price match a few of these online retailers at Amazon.com !
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Today’s toy review is a big name toy which is a no no here at Kidazy; however, it’s such a great idea that I couldn’t help but post it and the price doesn’t hurt either! The Crayola 150-Count Telescoping Crayon Tower is a really neat invention in that it completely avoids the worn cardboard boxes of crayons that break and spill crayons everywhere! This set has 150 crayons including regular Crayola colors, metallix FX crayons and glitter crayons giving your child a lot of choice when it comes to which color to use! The greatest part about this Crayola invention is that it telescopes up making it easy for your child to grab the crayon that they need instead of having to cram little
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fingers inside a cardboard box and fish out the color they want and it also prevents crayons being tipped all over the floor which saves you a floor full of crayon wax shavings! Another great aspect of Crayola products – you can always refill them and you can find them ANYWHERE!
You can find the Crayola 150-count telescoping crayon tower just about anywhere that Crayola crayons are sold! As always, if you can’t find your product at a local store take a look at Amazon.com!
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As a child I remember loving arts and crafts time at school and my favorite thing to do was to use our classroom stencil bucket and create stencil drawings. The Little Comics Stencils from Djeco are really cute comic character stencils that kids are sure to enjoy. The set of comic stencils includes five colorful animals including a bunny, a bear, a crocodile, a cat and a chick! These stencils allow children to stencil these characters all on their own and decorate them as they wish. The stencils are recommended for children ages 3yrs and up and emasure 8"L x 8"W. These stencils are great for encouraging creative expression, cognitive / fine motor /
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gross motor and sensory development as well as independant play! Djeco also carries other stencil sets as well including the princesses stencils, the horses stencils, the world stencils and farm animal stencils although my favorite is the comic stencil set because it’s much goofier than the other sets!
The Little Comics Stencils set is available from Amazon.com for just under $7, a great deal if you ask me! All of the stencil sets from Djeco can be found over at Amazon.com so if you’re looking for more than one set you’ll be able to combine your shipping costs.
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