Here’s a few of our favorite gift items for all ages for the upcoming Holiday Season!
Melissa and Doug Slice and Bake Cookie Set
Try out this adorable life-like play food set for the little chef in your household available from Growing Tree Toys! This colorful wooden set includes 12 wooden, sliceable cookies and 12 toppings, wooden knife, spatula, cookie sheet and a kitchen mitt for safe, “low-calorie” play! The cookies store in a durable dough tube.
A huge hit in my household among children from 18mo – 5 years old!
This family game for all ages reinforces vocabulary, phonics, and word categorizations in record speed. Players pick a card from the alphabet letter stack and a card from the answer stack. Then it’s time to think fast to generate as many logical associations as possible. Includes 98 cards and instructions.
Good for hours of fun on Family Game night! Fun Questions with lots of think fast answers. You’ll be laughing the whole night through! Ages 7 and up.
Enjoy 24 sing-along songs for the whole family. There are tunes celebrating the alphabet, letter sounds, early counting, manners, and more. These upbeat rhythms are endorsed by Early Childhood Educators and Speech Therapists as a great “first learning” language tool. Follow-along ABC chart included. 65 minutes.
Our kids danced around for the whole CD! We were all singing and dancing the day away! Ages 2 – preschool
Delight them with 8 fun and whimsical Get-Set Placemats™.
Choose their favorite theme, and they can customize a place
setting for everyone at the table. They’ll stay busy, have fun,
& learn a thing about where to put the fork, knife and spoon.
Each SET comes with 8 placemats and 8 sticker sheets. (4 designs, 2 of each) Each placemat is printed on heavy paper stock with activities on the back. GREAT for eating out at restaurants or friend’s houses. Will keep your preschooler entertained for through the whole meal!
Sounds and Textures Photo Blocks Inspire Fascination
Bright, bold colors; high contrast, symmetrical animal faces; and real-life photographs of people baby loves, make these photo blocks the perfect toy to stimulate baby’s visual development. Babies love to look at faces, even as newborns, so these lightweight photo blocks will capture even the youngest child’s gaze and imagination. The set has four blocks that stack to make a house. There are two cubes with rattles inside, a rectangle and a triangle for the roof.
My 18mo old sat and played with these blocks for quite a while. Stacking, throwing, chewing, squishing – all fun for him! Birth and Up
Touch & Talk Laptop Inspire Communication 
Baby will get straight to work having fun with this toy inspired by mom and dad’s laptops. This fabric covered toy has bold, bright, geometric prints to help baby focus and lots of brilliant colors to stimulate visual development. The screen is a large, True Reflection™ mirror that reflects baby’s image – a site she loves to study. Push the keys to hear colors in English and Spanish, musical notes or silly rhymes and sounds. When it’s time for a break, baby can close the laptop and tote it around using the convenient little fabric handle.
Lots of fun that kept baby entertained! 6mos and up.
Baby’s First Sounds Inspires Communication 
This set of books is filled with bright, bold images and made from sturdy, “wet-proof” material that stands up to eager hands, teething and readers who drool over the pages. The colors, geometric designs and symmetrical elements are perfect for calming baby and helping little ones focus. The words imitate baby’s first babbling sounds. Reading these little books with baby encourages her to experiment with language and refine her skills. A soft, plush block features images from the books to reinforce the sights and sounds. Shake the block for a soft rattling sound. 6mos and up.
A great way to engage your toddler in the love of reading and sounds!
Fill & Spill Barrel Inspires Exploration 
There’s nothing more fun than this barrel of monkeys! A clear, lightweight barrel that is easy for baby to dump is filled with an assortment of brightly colored, soft plush monkeys, plastic barrels and bunches of bananas too! The monkeys have symmetrical, smiling faces. That symmetry has a calming effect on babies and young children. The soft monkeys encourage baby to reach out. Manipulating them helps strengthen gripping muscles and squeezing them to hear a squeak gives baby a giggle. The wide mouth barrel encourages baby to fit the pieces back in. This fill and spill activity encourages baby’s motor-cognitive development and is a precursor to shape-sorting.
Even our preschoolers got a kick of out this one! The kids loved to fill up the barrel and spill them out time and time again! Ages 6 mos and up.
In the Human Body Detectives series, two young Human Body Detectives, Merrin and Pearl, magically enter different systems in the body to solve a health mystery. Through action packed fiction stories, listeners learn how the various systems work and what foods best fuel each system. The accompanying workbook filled with puzzles reinforces what kids have learned and help them further understand the importance of maintaining a healthy digestive system. Includes a 24 page workbook filled with puzzles and games, audio cd and 2 full color pages of stickers.
Our preschoolers enjoyed this action packed story and workbook. Filled with stickers and lots of opportunities to color, it was perfect for our kids – PLUS they learned lots of great facts about the human body!
Henry & The Crazed Chicken Pirate 
Barnacle Black Ear and his band of Buccaneer Bunnies are back! The floppy-eared scallywags are busy — shooting one another out of cannons; swinging from the masts of their ship — too busy to listen when Henry finds a threatening message in a bottle. While Henry works frantically on his book, HENRY’S PLAN FOR IMPENDING DANGER FROM THE UNKNOWN ENEMY WHY WROTE THE SCARY NOTE, his mates bowl with coconuts or dig for treasure, and his father, Black Ear, bellows that Henry is wasting his time. But when Crazed Chicken Pirates attack the unsuspecting Bunnies, will Henry and his book save the day?
A fun story, with lots of easy to read words – silly too! The kids really enjoyed listening to this story and have asked for it time and time again! Great for all ages!
Where’s My Mummy?
Little Baby Mummy does not want to go to bed. Demanding one more game of “Hide and Shriek,” he runs outside to conceal himself in the graveyard, but Mama Mummy doesn’t join him. The only time the youngster is truly frightened—by a mouse—his mother is there to comfort him, take him home, and tuck him into bed. A not-too-scary bedtime book featuring a baby mummy and his Mama mummy.
A fun and entertaining short story that is sure to please all!
Rock icons Los Lobos are back with a new album for the whole family. The three-time Grammy award winners have recorded an album of Disney Classics and a few obscure gems, but with a distinctive Latin rock n’ roll twist – Los Lobos Goes Disney. Songs from Snow White, Robin Hood, 101 Dalmations, The Jungle Book, Toy Story and more round out this 13-track CD that will have fans young and old dancing and singing along.
The kids LOVED this CD and it is now a staple in our home AND car. Dancing and singing is sure to happen each time you play this one!
More products to come for this holiday season!
