Too Much Awesome

Here’s a few last minute Easter toys you can get shipped fast from Amazon. Good for moms and dads surprised by how early the Easter bunny shows up this year. First of all, here’s the link to all of Amazon’s Easter toys under $10 – for economizing Easter Bunnies (and moms and dads) everywhere.

At some point we begin to ask “Why?” And when the answer isn’t readily available in the brain of some adult, kids need another hands-on way to find out.

As the new Cartoon Network show, Ben 10, gains popularity, so do its toys.  The show about a boy, Ben, who is able to transform into any number of alien life forms thanks to his technologically advanced watch, the Omnitrix, is rapidly growing fans.  This Japanese animation inspired cartoon rides the wave of other popular [...]

Wooden toys have always been a favorite of mine.  There is something about the solid, lasting, made-of-the-earth quality of wood that satisfies a need I have as a toy-searching parent.

Toy Fair this year was full of wonderful new items that shows “green toys” are gaining in popularity.  My favorite: this new environmentally friendly dollhouse by Plan Toy. The Green Dollhouse is made of renewable resources and is modeled after a sustainable home for reducing, reusing, and recycling.  There are built in recycling bins, a [...]

My family came a bit late to the Webkinz craze, but we’ve recently had quite a bit of the fun with our new toys.  First I have to admit that I have actually had more than one Webkinz in the house for nearly two years and we’ve yet to establish the online version of the [...]

If this year’s Toy Fair is any indication, the hot toys this year will be more affordable and maybe even (do we dare to dream it?!) quiet.  Some consumers – and therefore manufacturers – are shying away electronic toys and are instead going with classics, standards, and often even avoiding battery-based toys.

What makes a toy a learning toy? It is quite possible that any toy can be a learning toy — from coloring books and building blocks on. But most people have something quite different in mind when they talk about learning toys. So when looking for something interactive with an educational spin I found a [...]

I have been surprisingly pleased in recent years by some of the dolls I’ve come across in my motherly adventures in little girl land. I grew up in the heart of Cabbage Patch Kid land (that’s in northeast Georgia if you never knew) and we were sure to visit Babyland General, the “hospital” where the [...]