Meet Norman PhartEphant. He’s an African elephant who was adopted by a US zoo, and the dietary changes has given him some problems with gas…. He farts and he farts a lot!

PhartEphant is a wonderfully soft plush toy, made in lovely light gray and pink colors. He is about 10″ tall, has a thick trunk and big flappy ears – perfect for small hands to hold on to and if you squeeze PhartEphants tail he’ll start farting!

PhartEphant has a variety of no less than eight different farting sounds, and one of them is even followed by him saying “sorry”. Maybe this plush toy could make a great ice breaker, or a nice introduction to a little talk about bodily functions!

The embarrassed impression on PhartEphants face, and a cute lower lip sticking out under the right side of his trunk, makes no one doubt how he feels about his flatulence. Can’t help having empathy for this little guy. He’s cute all the way!

The plush toy can be purchased directly from PhartEphant, for 24.95 USD each. (21.95 USD each if you buy more than one!)

Fierce Fun Toys donates a portion of all proceeds to children’s charities.

Giveaway – Two PhartPhant Plush Toys are Looking for a New Home!

Fierce Fun Toys were happy to sponsor two Norman PhartEphant plush toys for our giveaway!

If you want a chance to win one of the two plush toys you’ll need to do two simple things;

1) Comment on this post, to let us know you’re entering the giveaway.

2) Go to PhartEphant and let them know about a store that might want to sell PhartEphants. Remember to leave your name too!

Last chance to enter the giveaway is July 10th. 2009.

Note: Your information will be used for this giveaway only, and will not be shared with anyone. Only US residents can enter the giveaway, and only one submission from each household will be accepted.

For the older children R/C Helicopters is surely one of the more interesting things to play with. Not only is it badass to fly a chopper round the block but it’s also an educational toy you can learn from.
The more inquisitive teen will begin to wonder how the chopper mechanics work and maybe start to tinker with it. Especially when it crashes and something breaks you have two options – either go to the shop and get it fixed or buy the parts yourself and work on it.

R/C stands for Radio Control. The helicopter is controlled with a remote powered by batteries and is usually powered by batteries.

XHeli.com is one of the major dealers of everything in R/C Helicopters. They have lots of products and spareparts.

You can use this coupon link for a discount there:
XHeli.com $10 OFF $125 – Lowest Price RC Helicopters

Our Childrens Gorilla is a Swedish company which makes very exciting stuff for children. One of their products, “Facestape”, just won the Gold award at this years Kolla! competition (a Swedish design competition).

Facestape is tape full of black face features which can be used to make funny faces. The different motifs can be put together in all kinds of different ways.

There are three more tapes in this “series” – Ropetape, Windowstape and Chaintape. As the names might suggest these tapes are adorned with windows, rope and chain motifs.

Why not let the children decorate the box with funny faces, chains, ropes and windows the next time you are sending a package?

All four tapes are available for purchase in Our Childrens Gorillas online shop for 13,00 GBP/piece, including world wide shipping.

I would have linked directly to their products but they’ve opted for a really annoying Flash based page which makes it impossible to link to anything except the front page and it’s hard to navigate as well.

Need some fun and educational activities to engage in together with the kids? Spend a couple of minutes browsing YouTube or Metacafe and you’ll discover lots of educational “how to” videos of experiments that’ll make time pass quickly for both kids and grownups.

Following is a few of my favorites.

Bristlebot- The little toothbrush robot

One of Evil Mad Scientists videos on Metacafe, “How To Make A BristleBot” , shows you how to make a small robot that drives around by itself, by the use of the head of a toothbrush, a pager motor, two copper treads, foam tape and a watch battery. It’s a simple experiment with lots of educational value. It can keep your child occupied for quite some time. A more detailed description on how to make the Bristlebot, and what you need to make it, can be found at Evil Mad Scientist.

How to Make Slime

Good video on how to make toy slime, in any color you want, in an easy, low cost way.

How To Make Hot Ice

This is weird, and so cool. Small as well as big boys will love this one. Liquid becomes ice when you touch it!! Could make hours of fun! Have a look at the video.

Balloon Hovercraft

D3stiny at Metacafe shows you how to make a balloon hovercraft. It’s quite easy.

Unbelievable Origami Toys

It is incredible what you can make with just a piece of paper, a bit of tape and a few crayons! Following are a couple of videos showing you how to build little paper toys for/with your children. The first one is the good old Jumping origami frog toy. One piece of paper becomes a frog that jumps when you pat it on the back. The second one is The twisting hexagon, very difficult to describe, so it’s better you just have a look at the video! If you find these fun you should keep an eye on all the related videos that appear in the right side when you play the videos as well!

Have fun!

Remember when you were a child and had to write your name in all your schoolbooks? If you’ve saved some of those books you might scoff a bit at the childish handwriting, especially if it was a book you really loved.

My Retro Baby to the rescue! If you have young children already in school or soon to be enrolled you can have them stamp their stuff with these rubber stamps. It looks nicer and is more fun. There are lots of different “faces” available for these stamps, e.g. with glasses, freckles, plaits or afro and you can of course personalize the stamp with the name of your child.

The retro rubber stamps cost $ 24.00.

Muddy Cloud’s colorful plush toys are so simple, cute and colorful, they make me smile.

The simple shapes, contrasting colors and texture, of these plushies, gives them developmental value, and their sizes and shapes makes them perfect pillows for the little ones.

At the time of writing there are four different plush toys available, and they all have matching hats and mittens!

Dolls are 18.00 USD, sets (containing hat and mittens) are 32.00 USD, hats are 22.00 USD and mittens are 14.00 USD at Muddy Cloud.

Spök-Spök is a great example of Swedish designer plush.

The name Spök-Spök comes from the Swedish word for ghost “spöke”, and the brands main characters are the two friendly ghosts Spök-spök and Spökelina.

Other characters are the ghosts best friends Morot the carrot, Baron Von Con the blue traffic cone and Toofhairy the tooth.

The plushies are soft like baby toys and have a few decorative details, in contrast colors. The details are eiter embroidery or print.

Stop by Spök-Spök for more information. There’s a webshop on it’s way at this site, but until it’s done you can buy Spök-Spök plush through these stores.

These wonderful handcrafted wooden wall clocks are decorated with vintage styled artwork on the front, and signature gold finish on the back. They are 10 1/2 ” battery powered quartz precision wall clocks, of heirloom quality.

The clocks are available in four versions with different motifs of toys from the olden days  – the vintage toy airplane, the wooden pull-toy duck, the red metal wagon and the vintage toy car.

All four clocks cost $ 39.95 at Sassy Mia.

Via Kidpoop

Spread Heads are head shaped tops for ketchup- and mustard bottles. Ketchup comes out of the nose, like a nosebleed, and mustard comes out of the mouth, like vomit….

I can just imagine little boys having loads of fun around the dinner table with these!

They’re not expensive, but you may have to use a little extra money on mustard, ketchup and soap if you choose to purchase these.

Have a look at how they work…

$4.49 at SpreadHeads