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Introduce your household to Echidna Shuffle

Introduce your household to Echidna Shuffle, a family-friendly game of picking up cute bugs and delivering them to their stumps. Roll a die and move the twelve adorable echidnas who carry the bugs on their backs. Keep to the paths and get your bugs home. But watch out, other players may derail you. Deliver all three of your bugs and win!

The game has big, beautifully crafted echidnas that kids love, and six different kinds of bugs in bright colors with matching stumps. There is also a unique two-sided board to keep things fresh and exciting. Echidna Shuffle is also designed with smaller hands in mind so the whole family can enjoy playing together!

With its addictively cute pieces, sturdy construction and intuitive game play, Echidna Shuffle has already won several awards, including the Origins Award: Fan Favorite Family Game of the Year (2019), Mom's Choice Awards Gold Award: Family-Friendly Game (2022) and the Creative Child Award: Game of the Year for Family Games (2022).

Echidna Shuffle is for two to six players, ages six and up, and an average game takes only ten to twenty-minutes to play. The game has been a huge hit with groups of all ages from around the world.  So, hop on an echidna and join the shuffle. Isn't it time to find out what you've been missing?

www.wattsalpoag.com
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Raising Environmental Awareness Through Play

More and more parents believe taking care of the planet is an important value to share with their kids. What better way to do it than through gameplay? Adventerra Games is the only company in the world with a game catalog entirely dedicated to environmental topics!

Eco-education Experts

Each of the company’s games and puzzles addresses a critical issue like recycling, water conservation, energy use, endangered species, and more. With di erent lines speci cally designed for toddlers, preschoolers, elementary and middle-schoolers, kids have a blast while building STEM skills and learning how to protect the planet!

Award-Winning STEM Toys

In addition to being STEM.org authenticated, Adventerra Games has won more than 90 awards to date, including seals of approval from recognized parenting institutions like the Mom’s Choice Awards and e National Parenting Center, and endorsements from popular media outlets such as the Good Housekeeping’s 2021 Top Toy Award.

Planet-friendly & Sustainable

Adventerra Games walks the talk: all of their games are 100% plastic- free, both recycled and recyclable, made in North America. ey use vegetable inks, sugar cane shrink wraps, compostable cardboards, and wood certi ed by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

P-flector® 


Made in the USA, the P-flector® solves a particularly annoying parenting problem of potty-training kids peeing through the gap between the toilet seat and bowl.  

Winner of Creative Child Magazine’s Product of the Year (2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019), Baby Maternity Magazine’s 2022 Top Choice Award, and 2021 Mom’s Choice Award, the P-flector® is a flexible urine shield that attaches to the underside of a toilet seat and blocks the gap between the seat and bowl, preventing seated potty-training kids from peeing through the gap.  It attaches with pressure sensitive double-sided tape to round and elongated toilet seats with flat or curved bottoms. Once attached, it can stay in place for extended periods of time; how long depends on individual use.  While the tape is not permanent, additional tape is available to reapply as needed.

The P-flector® keeps kids’ clothes and floors dry. Say goodbye to cleaning up urine puddles, yellow stains down the front of the toilet or yellow stained floors in front of the toilet.  The P-flector® can also be used by seniors and individuals with special needs.  It’s easy to attach, can be cleaned in place, saves parents and care-givers time and avoids the frustration of cleaning up the mess associated with this type of potty-training accident.  The P-flector® and additional tape are available on Amazon.  

http://forkidsbyparents.com
info@forkidsbyparents.com
(877) 489-3332

Introducing New Duncan Flash Cards!

If you have had kids, you probably have experienced the frustration of opening a brand new deck of flash cards, and then completely failing to get them back in that same chipboard sleeve. Or at least not without tearing the sleeve. Just never seems to go back in the same way! Ultimately you end up putting a rubber-band around it.

With the new Duncan Flash Cards, you can get your cake and eat it too! You get a great deck of bright, high-quality, speed-flipping flash cards plus a clear, protective case for easy transporting and storage. In addition, answers to equations on reverse side of each card make learning easy for all.

Great merchandising with the peggable individual decks of cards. Or sell the Multi-Pack at a discounted price with the bright carrying case that holds all 4 decks.

Perfect size for speed and easy flipping!
• Answers on reverse side for all equations
Protective case for easy transport & storage Rounded corners give strength to cards
Color coded for easy sorting

Duncan® is one of the oldest and best-known toy makers. Founded during the Great Depression, the story of Duncan® Toys is unique: one full of curiosity and invention that could only be fueled by the uniquely entrepreneurial spirit of America.

For over 90 years, Duncan has crafted high quality skill and activity toys for every generation. From schoolyard yo-yo demonstrations to modern champions touring the globe, the Duncan brand symbolizes exceptional quality and play value.

How Wikki Stix Help Kids Learn. 


As the manufacturer of a very versatile product, we sometimes feel the need to help our customers understand the multiple applications of Wikki Stix...and which product does what!

And that is very true in the case of our Preschool Activity Book.  Created with input from a (very brave) woman who taught first grade for thirty years...The Preschool Activity Book is designed to help children be ready for first grade, by providing school readiness skills in a fun and playful format. And, what an amazing book it is with 28 pages providing 30 fun activities!

To help parents understand how this works, we created a separate sheet, which is included in each book...explaining how each activity contributes to a child’s educational preparedness.
For example, what appear to be simple fun connect-the-dot pictures, actually help reinforce numbers in sequence.

And the same is true of all the fun, play-based activities...some assist with visual discrimination while others address creative thinking and problem solving. Letter recognition is important, and occurs on several pages, as does color identification.

Understanding two-step directions is also found on a number of pages.

So by including a sheet, which clearly defines the preschool readiness skills offered in this book, we provided parents with an understanding of how this fun activity book is not only entertaining and engaging...but a valuable tool in getting
kids ready for their next step!

www.wikkistix.com
info@wikkistix.com
800-869-4554

Introducing the P-flector®

Potty Training Without the Mess

For Kids By Parents®, Inc. was created out of the need to solve a particularly annoying parenting problem with my oldest son in his potty training phase, peeing through the gap between the toilet seat and bowl. My attempt to solve this problem resulted in the creation of our 1st product, the P-flector®, which is our initial contribution to the juvenile products industry.  

Made in the USA and winner of Creative Child Magazine’s Product of the Year (2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019), Baby Maternity Magazine’s 2022 Top Choice Award, and 2021 Mom’s Choice Award, the P-flector® is a flexible urine shield that attaches to the underside of a toilet seat and blocks the gap between the toilet seat and bowl, preventing seated potty-training kids from peeing through the gap.  The P-flector®’s flexibility allows it to conform to the shape of both round and elongated toilet seats with either flat or curved bottoms. It’s attached to the seat with pressure sensitive double-sided tape and once attached, it can stay in place for extended periods of time; how long depends on individual use.  While the tape is not permanent, additional tape is available to reapply as needed.

The P-flector® keeps potty training kids’ clothes and floors dry; say goodbye to cleaning up urine puddles, yellow stains down the front of the toilet or yellow stained floors in front of the toilet.  The P-flector® can also be used by seniors and individuals with special needs.  It’s easy to attach, can be cleaned in place and saves parents and care-takers time and avoids the frustration of cleaning up the mess associated with this type of potty-training accident.  The P-flector® and additional tape are available on Amazon.  

http://forkidsbyparents.com
info@forkidsbyparents.com
(877) 489-3332

Duncan Flash Cards

If you have had kids, you probably have experienced the frustration of opening a brand new deck of ash cards, and then completely failing to get them back in that same chipboard sleeve. Or at least not without tearing the sleeve. Just never seems to go back in the same way! Ultimately you end up putting a rubber-band around it.

With the new Duncan Flash Cards, you get your cake and eat it too! You get a great deck of bright, high-quality, speed-flipping ash cards plus a clear, protective case for easy transporting and storage. In addition, answers to equations on reverse side of each card make learning easy for all.

Great merchandising with the peggable individual decks of cards. Or sell the Multi-Pack at a discounted price with the bright carrying case that holds all 4 decks.

Perfect size for speed and easy ipping!
• Answers on reverse side for all equations
Protective case for easy transport & storage Rounded corners give strength to cards
Color coded for easy sorting

BUY NOW AT www.yo-yo.com
order@yo-yo.com | 800-356-8396

The premiere company in North America presenting award-winning classical music for children

For over 30 years the Children’s Group has been producing award-winning collections of music that introduce children to the best Classical composers in history. Our goal is to provide children with an engaging educational point of entry into the world of classical music through stories that bring the great composers to life, creating an emotional connection to their masterpieces, and inspiring personal development through exposure that leads children to to greater achievement and success in life.

Our series includes the Classical Kids CDs (also available as audiobooks) where the life of each composer and historical context about their music is presented as a story infused with their most-loved tunes. These include Beethoven Lives Upstairs, Bach Comes To Call, and Gershwin’s Magic Key. The 10-set series includes Handel, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Vivaldi.

From its modest beginnings at her dining room table, series creator Susan Hammond created an Emmy-Award winning video, five acclaimed touring Symphony shows, four beautifully illustrated books, two DVDs, and acclaimed Teacher’s Notes. For her efforts, Hammond won an unprecedented six Juno Awards and has been honoured with the Order of Canada for her contribution to the Arts.

The Mozart Effect series is built upon music educator Don Campbell’s research: that music is not only rich and rewarding to experience, but a bridge to a more creative, intelligent and healthy life. Campbell’s book The Mozart Effect, was a bestseller in 1997, while the accompanying CDs The Mozart Effect Music for Children and Music for Babies series dominated the Classical Billboard charts for the following two years. Each CD is designed to enhance intelligence, inspire creativity and encourage body movement. This series combines up-to-date medical and psychological research in creative and intelligence development to provide an effective learning experience for children.

Each series is a favourite among primary school teachers and the Children’s Group provides extensive teacher resources packages that guide classes through the content on each CD, so that children of all ages can learn age-appropriate appreciation for this music. Over the last 20 years both of these series have earned accolades and awards from parent groups, educational publications and classical music organizations. Most of these CDs have been re-recorded in recent years with the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra in order to benefit from modern production. They are manufactured in Canada and distributed globally, with versions available in English, Spanish, German and French.

https://childrensgroup.com/
sales@thechildrensgroup.com
customerservice@thechildrensgroup.com
(905) 690–9397

Fun for Ages 3 to 103.

For years Wikki Stix have been regarded as a “preschool or little kids” product…and indeed we are! Two new items definitely attest to that. The all-new Activity Set is full of hands-on fun for ages 4-6…and includes a lightweight playboard, fun purple carry bag with I.D. sticker, 4-page booklet of ideas and illustrations…and 84 Wikki Stix.

The Preschool Activity Book provides school readiness skills in play-based activities to help preschoolers prepare for their next step! With 72 Wikki Stix and over 30 fun activities created by a 30-year first grade teacher, it is fun, engaging and educational.

And Wikki Stix are proud to be an American-made kid’s toy…something that clearly sets us apart from the vast majority.

But looking across the whole line, you will see items from the STEM Pak…to the Creative Activity Pak for Senior Living facilities.

For middle school and high school science, there is no easier way to create and demonstrate molecular structure, the DNA double helix, and concepts like wave amplitude, isobars, cross sections, fractions and so much more!

For the activity center in a senior living facility, finding something new and innovative to engage the residents…can be a challenge!  Wikki Stix provide a unique, hands-on activity that not only entertains seniors but can provide an impetus for conversation and interaction.

And while mentioning fun get-together activities, Wikki Stix offer lots of fun favors for activities of all kinds…birthday parties, Halloween hand-outs, Valentines Day…and a fun pak of USA landmarks and special places!

www.wikkistix.com
info@wikkistix.com
1-800-869-4554

Award Winning Stories With Characters That Delight 


Award-Winning children's author, Alva Sachs, takes the reader on a journey of adventure, fun, and friendship with her empowering, exciting, and engaging stories for kids.

Creative, original, along with illustrations by Patricia Krebs, that make adventures come to life!  Kids actually feel part of the story and can see themselves as one of the characters.

Extended follow-up activities for readers after the story include word searches, crossword puzzles, word scrambles, along with creative coloring sheets, just for fun!  

FREE to download at our website! https:www.threewishespublishing.com Made in the USA

Three Wishes Publishing Company
https:www.threewishingpublishing.com
818-878-0902

 

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