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Arts & Crafts   Tommy Nelson's PlayPaks: Beading and Braiding Your young crafters will have great fun making faith-affirming finery to wear or share---from bracelets and rings to ornaments and a necklace! Includes 10 project cards, hundreds of colorful beads, embroidery floss, wire, thread, and clasps. Ages 8 and up.   Tommy Nelson's PlayPaks: Stamping and Stickers In this sturdy, reusable box, kids of all ages will find everything needed to create the coolest greeting cards, bookmarks, postcards, a photo frame, and more! The supplies included can even be used to customize school folders, reports, notebooks, or posters. Using these biblically themed materials, kids will be given a creative outlet for expressing their faith in their own original ways. Each kit is jam-packed with stickers, glitter-pen, markers, stamping pen, notepad, greeting cards, postcards, photo frame, and bookmarks. Recommended for ages 7 to 12.   Tommy Nelson's PlayPaks: Glitter Art Tommy Nelson's PlayPaks are convenient kits that offer creative fun at home, church, school, or on the go! The Glitter Art kit has everything you need to create a variety of colorful, glittery designs--inspirational bookmarks, a doorknob hanger, ID tags, a key ring, and more! Young artists can keep their designs for themselves or share them as gifts for friends or family members. Each Glitter Art PlayPak contains bookmarks, greeting cards, ID tags, key rings, photo frames, and a door knob hanger. One imagination-sparking kit can keep minds busy for hours! Recommended for ages 7 to 12. The Kids' Guide to Making Scrapbooks & Photo Albums!: How to Collect, Design, Assemble, Decorate Create your own papers, string and embossed designs, prints, and marbling, then add self-styled borders and make your own "edgers," "punch confetti," stencils, stickers, die cuts, and stamps. Let creative captioning and journaling capture the moment in your words. Finally, design and make your own covers, and you have a scrapbook that's truly unique! This book has step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow for kids (and grownups!) who would like to make a scrapbook or photo album. With details on how to collect mementoes, design the layout, assemble the pages, and add your personal decorations, there are added helps on making stamps, fingerprint art, cover design, and seasonal page displays. Includes reproducible templates, and this 125-page craft book is completely indexed so it's easy to find the pages you need. Recommended for ages 8 and up.   Garden Book & Greenhouse Your 5- to 10-year-olds will grow their own food and flowers---and learn about plants from the ground up with this just-add-water gardening set! Includes 64-page "how-to" booklet, a shatter-proof 5.5" x 7.5" x 4.25" greenhouse with removable tray for easy drainage and cleaning, two packets of seeds, and two peat pellets. From Workman.   Furry Friends Origami Kit There is something irresistible about furry animals. With this origami kit, you will learn how to fold six amazing animals! And this kit comes with 12 pom poms and 12 googly eyes to make your folded animals into furry friends. Learn how to make a pony, a puppy, a kitty a chick a bunny and a bear cub. Also includes 30 sheets of origami paper. Recommended for ages 7 and up. Contains small parts: Not for children under 3 years. Bible Storytelling Blocks Share the exciting stories of Noah's ark, Moses, Jacob and Esau, Jesus' birth, the Good Samaritan, and the resurrection with this unique teaching tool. Each block portrays a scene, so you can relate the Scripture as you assemble the puzzle . . . together! Includes 4-page guide. Ages 3 and up.   Toys & Outdoor Fun         Hermie and Friends: Large Hermie Plush Toy Now your kids can snuggle up with Hermie, the homely but lovable caterpillar hero of Max Lucado's hit children's video! He'll worm his way into your little ones' hearts with his long, huggable body, funny face, and vivid lime green color. Approx. 12".   Glow-in-the-Dark Skeleton Model Now you finally study the skeletal system not only during the day, but at night as well! Great for parties, mid-night studying sessions or just for fun, this 10-piece glow-in-the-dark, 10-piece skeleton model comes with a stand, full color poster and instructions.   Imperial Spin Top This classic plastic Spin Top is the model all other tops imitate. Imperial's pop-top design allows you to store your top string and button inside the body of the top. This excellent performer is perfect for all top tricks and games. Blister packed; actual color may vary from what is pictured.   20 Piece Chalk Bucket This is the bucket for all outdoor art and game activities! Hopscotch and Four Square games are easy to create. Draw a map, outline a friend, or make a basketball court. Anything that you can imagine, you can create! This reusable bucket has 20 pieces of chalk in a variety of colors. Recommended for ages 3 and up.   Videos       Ribbits! Vols. 1-3, Video Filled with incredible computer animation and fun original songs, Ribbits! follows the life of young Tad Pole and his adventures in the Hopper's Landing a community of Hobbit-like huts and lily pads deep in the Louisiana bayou. Although Tad's not a full-grown frog, he's an honest one. Ribbits! captures a timeless sense of community, family and honesty that's not often seen today. In The Hero of Hopper's Landing, Tad Pole enters the jumping contest at the fair---and loses, but is he big enough to be the hero of Hopper's Landing? In Froggy World, instant fortune hits Tad's pal, Sally, and everybody want to be her friend for a free trip to Froggy World! In The Great Follywood Fizzle, movie-star Caz Frogsley has come to town to film his latest movie! Recommended for ages 3 and up. 3 videotapes. Clay Classics--DVDs Let claymation characters help "mold" your children as they learn righteousness in daily living! Narrated by James Earl Jones and others, these Bible stories and folk tales will teach your kids values they'll use for the rest of their lives. Includes God's Trombones, Martin the Cobbler, and Michael the Visitor. Three DVDs, approx. 30 minutes each.   The Saddle Club: Horse Crazy DVD From the top-selling book series by Bonnie Bryant comes a feature film--The Saddle Club: Horse Crazy! Join Carole Hanson (Keenan MacWilliam), Stevie Lake (Sophie Bennett) and Lisa Atwood (Laura Jean Marshall) in a fun-filled equine escapade. Love appears to be in the air at Pine Hollow. First, there's the arrival of Skye Ransom, a handsome young teenage star who arrives to shoot a film at the stables. The arrival of a female journalist to interview him could also prove fateful for confirmed bachelor Max as well. The Club decides to assist Max in his budding romance--a relationship that might not survive their help! Meanwhile, Kristi and Megan fall in love with a cowboy teaching a Western Clinic at the stables. His stories about a cursed mystery horse lead The Saddle Club girls into yet another exciting adventure! Recommended for ages 8 to 12. Approximately 100 minutes. DVD Extras: Special Horse Training Featurette Behind-the-Scenes Footage   Be sure to browse the Christian Book Distributors website for more great deals on Videos & DVDs, including Hermie, Jay Jay and Bibleman titles!

From LEGO

The V-wing Fighter                                                                                                                            My son just received this LEGO kit for his 6th birthday and really enjoyed putting it together and playing with the finished product. It wasn't too complicated,  he was able to follow all of the directions himself.  This was his first "kit" so he was very proud to have built it all on his own.

Highlights for Children

(Click picture to order) Some hot sellers:          I remember these magazines from back when I was a child.  I loved the Hidden Picture pages.  Now there are two different magazines, one for ages 2-6 and one for ages 6 and above.    3 Games in one!  Teach your children these classic arcade games right in your own home.  Two choices for dress-up, both dolls feature magnetic clothes.     What a sweet cooking set! What little boy doesn't want his own robotic hornet?     These 3-D reptile puzzles are on sale too.

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Back to Basics Toys

Snap Circuits Jr. Click picture to buy Several other moms have recommended this toy and my husband couldn't wait any longer to try one out.  We were able to buy ours locally with a coupon, but if you don't have that option you can find it at Back to Basics. My son opened this on the morning of his birthday and immediately went to work.  The instructions are both written and pictoral so my son was able to do many of the first projects by himself just following the pictures (similar to a LEGO kit).  We talked about how circuits work and the difference between a parallel circuit and a continous one.  The first song the sound box played was "Happy Birthday!"  Lots of great fun was had.  My husband is already looking foward to getting the larger 300 activity set next year. Thomas the Tank Engine Play Tent Click picture to buy This is the Take Along Thomas set, not the wooden one.  It's not as "classically" Thomas, but it is much more affordable.  The trains that go along with this set are die cast and slightly smaller than the wooden Thomas trains.  My son tells me that his wooden trains can run on this track, but I think they are a bit wide for it.  So it is important to know which kind of set you are buying for before you purchase any trains.  The benefit of this set is that a space under the lid holds the track pieces and there's room for several trains in the roundhouse itself.  My children keep this affordable set at grandma's house while we have the wooden set here at home.  They are crazy about Thomas!  Be sure and check out the Thomas the Tank Engine play tent available at Back to Basics as well.  Cardboard Construction Blocks My children have a set of these blocks and they get a lot of use.  The kids create walls to knock down and roadways for their cars.  These are lightweight, but do take up some space.  You'll need a little time to get this item put together- the blocks are shipped flat and you have to fold them into shape. Tickle Bee This classic preschool game from the '50s provides simple fun for little ones. Children use the magnetic wand to guide the bee around and through the park without getting "stung." Self-contained game is plexiglass covered, with attached wand. For 1 or more players. Size 13.4"l x 6.25"w x .75"h. (Age 3+) Did you have one of these as a kid?

Magic Cabin and Hearthsong Toys

Kaleidoscope kit from Magic Cabin.  Doesn't this look fun?  Colorful Spinning Tops from Hearthsong We have a top similar to this. Ours has a race car and an airplane. We also have a top that changes colors as it spins and another old fashioned metal top. Each of our kids has enjoyed having a special top of their own. Do you remember these? Another item from the HearthSong catalog that's on my personal wishlist. Hmmm... I need to talk to grandma. Inuit Igloo Play Set This has been on my wishlist for quite awhile. We studied the Inuit Indians this summer as part of our Five in a Row studies.

	Zig Zag Tower from Hearthsong                                   These are fun! We have a much smaller version that only allows one car to go down the ramps at a time. My son would LOVE to get his hands on one of these.