Geemo is an alien-like magnetic toy with flexible arms that can grab- or repel each other.

Kids have to use their fantasy and be creative when playing with Geemo. The possibilities this toy offers are great as you can make some really huge structures.

Geemo is made under strict quality standards, is non-toxic and washable. It’s available at Brooklyn Juniors Supermarket shop and costs 42.00 USD.

Tying shoelaces comes easy to some children and for others it’s quite difficult.

We adults often forget how much it means to learn things like tying your laces, and how hard it can be for children that are having difficulties learning it.

Shoes and Laces Wooden Toy is meant to make shoe lacing fun, and might be the exact thing some children need to make them want to learn.

The Shoes and Laces Wooden Toy is available at Linen Kids for 7,50 EUR.

This is Magis’ wonderful cardboard playhouse named Villa Julia.

Villa Julia is adorned with black cartoonish lines showing important details like the doorknob and separating the foundation wall stones and structure. The cardboard is a canvas, ready to be coloured and drawn on by it’s new inhabitants.

The Spanish designer Javier Mariscal is the mastermind behind Villa Julia. He has worked with Magis on their Magis Me Too products several times before.

Villa Julia can be bought at Panik for 147.00 GBP.

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P’kolinos wooden Baby Puzzle Stacker combines the developmental benefits of the infant toy classics, the stacker and the puzzle, to offer them in one toy.

The Puzzle Stacker helps the child fine tune it’s motor skills, develop spacial logics and learn color and size recognition.

Besides contributing to the child’s development this wooden puzzle stacker toy is also very aesthetic. It has a simple clean design and fresh colors combined with natural wood.

The P’kolino Baby Puzzle Stacker costs 38.50 USD at P’kolino.

Girards wooden toys and games are the kind of things you buy because you just cant take your eyes off of it.

Except for the obvious uses of these toys, any of Girards toys would also work nicely as ornamental pieces. Exploring the wonderful detailed decorations of each toy and game could occupy a baby or toddler for ages, and the lovely colors and shapes will work nicely as decoration in any nursery.

The lovely colors and shapes makes Girards wooden toys something a toddler might wish to try and eat, so keep an watchful eye on any hungry toddler playing with them!

Having said that it should be mentioned that the materials used for all items are non-toxic, so a little gnawing would only be hurtful to your wallet, as each toy costs quite a bit!

The Alexander Girard Memory Game costs 320,00 USD, the Alexander Girard Puzzle costs 250,00 USD, the Alexander Girard Blocks costs 120,00 USD and the Alexander Girard Nativity Game costs 410,00 USD but they’re absolutely beautiful!

New paper craft toys are constantly being developed, and now I think it’s time once again to have a look at some of the many free paper craft toys available.

• Rommy No.02 – Cute robotlike paper craft character sitting down, made by Japanese paper engineer Tetsuya Watabe. Both paper craft toy and instructions are available for download.
• Hoophy – Shin Tanakas hooded characters. Several artists have contributed to the development of Hoophy. David Flores, Superdeux and Skwak are amongst those who have designed their own versions.
• Macula – Christopher Bonettes many characters are very different from each other, and they are all available for download at his site. There are, amongst others, a deer, holiday characters and several different monsters. Both colored and blank templates available for many of the characters. Find all of Maculas paper craft characters at the top of the page.
• Loulou – Several different character designs, all decorated using lovely color combinations. One of the characters is a slightly confused robot.
• Marshall Alexander – Marshall Alexanders site is full of funny characters. He has a wonderfully clean and colorful way of decorating his paper toys. Two of my favorites are Bite Me (screaming lady and shark), and PaperBoy (boy and dog with cardboard boxes over their heads.)
• Horrorwoods Calling All Cars – Blank template of a car with a driver. Decorate your own version and share it with the world by sending it in! It will be made available for free download at some point. Keep an eye on the Horrorwood blog if you’d like to keep yourself updated on the latest entries.
• Panda – Big bellied blue panda ready to be downloaded at nykocity.
• Nanibird – Small birds in lovely colors. There are five collections containing several versions. See all Nanibirds under “The Birds” in the right side of the site.
• My Little Cthulhu – Frenchman Jerome has made a paper craft version of John Kovalic’s squid-like monster. This character is available in green, orange and black.
• Mecha – Paper model of Mecha, a robot from the popular Japanese anime series Space Runaway Ideon. This model consists of many small parts!

A tip: Draw any template onto blank paper, thereby creating your own blank templates, and decorate as you’d like! Use you imagination! Just remember that it is someone else’s creation you’re playing with, so play with it at home, but think twice before using it for other purposes!

Babies just love to pull, bite and suck on jewelry, and thus wearing jewelry while holding a baby can be potentially dangerous for both baby and the jewelry.

But is it any wonder that babies become interested in your bangle or necklace while sitting on your lap? It’s all straight in the babies face screaming “come and get me!”

This is why I think the concept of teething jewelry is simply brilliant, as it replaces all those potential dangers with safe teethers.

SmartMoms Teething Bling is a series teething jewelry consisting of teething bangles (12.75 USD), teething pendants (19.10 USD) and teething keychain charms (15.90 USD) in many fashionable colors.

The teething jewelry is made from a food-safe, phthalate-free and federally-approved silicone, making it completely safe for the baby to chew on.

There are gift boxes available, containing color matching teething jewelry. These gift boxes cost between 28.75 USD and 36.00 USD, depending on what’s in them.

You can buy SmartMoms Teething Bling at the SmartMom website.

Teething Bling Gift Box Giveaway!

SmartMom has kindly offered to sponsor a giveaway for our readers!
One lucky winner will receive a Teething Bling Gift Box of his/her choice.
All you need to do to enter the giveaway is to let us know you’d like to enter by commenting on this post.

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

Note: Your information will be used for this giveaway only, and will not be shared with anyone. The giveaway is open to everyone.

The giveaway is over and the winner is…..

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.

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.