TOY WEEK - TOYS FOR CREATIVE KIDS

Tuesday, December 2nd - Featured Items

CHORD BUDDY TEACHING GUITAR
Learning how to play guitar has never been easier. Simply attach the Chord Buddy to the fret of the included guitar and start strumming. Chord buddy allows you to progress faster, without seeming like work or learning at all.  This effective, all-in-one system, is suitable for all ages. Kit includes: Junior guitar, song book, DVD and more. ($159.99, Ages 4+)

VTECH ROCK AND LEARN KIDISTUDIO
Now your child can perform and record like a rock star with the Record & Learn KidiStudio by VTech. Be creative and explore a variety of musical instruments. Adjust the tempo and sing along to the music while recording a musical masterpiece to share with family and friends. Learn to play favorite melodies by following the lights on the light-up keyboard. You can also choose an instrument and use the keyboard to play that instrument’s different sounds. Be creative and add variety to the music by pressing the cymbal or tapping along on the drum to add a beat to the song. Or play with the scratch disc sound effect like a DJ. Speed up or slow down the tempo to match your style. This KidiStudio also lets you sing along to 20 melodies in Rock, Hip Hop, Jazz and Techno styles with a real voice-changing microphone. ($49.99 Ages 3+)

B. MAT-A-MATICS
Soft, fold away floor mat comes with tons of fun features: Musical notes glow as you step in time to the music, bounce around making crazy combinations of the silliest sounds, or simply play your favorite nursery songs. ($49.99 Ages 3+)

MAGNA TILES
These colourful translucent tiles have magnets inside them that allow you to build whatever your imagination can think of! They're fun tested and kid approved and winners of multiple awards for educational excellence. Create cubes, pyramids and other geometric shapes as you creatively explore math and spatial relations. This is also a wonderful toy to help develop spatial, tactile, patterning and basic geometry skills. Some "how-to" examples are included on the packaging, once you've mastered these, just wait to see what your imagination builds up for you! ($129.99 Ages 3+)

SQUIGZ DELUXE SET
Apply pressure to two Squigz. Air rushes out and the fun rushes in! Connecting to each other and to any solid, non-porous surface - Squigz are a species all their own. They flex. They stick. They suck people into creativity. Once they take hold, it takes some pull to separate them. When Squigz POP! in protest - you’ll have to admit… your hands and ears are shamelessly delighted! ($57.99 Ages 3+)

3D DREAM CAR PUZZLES
Build your dream car with a 3D puzzle! This 3D puzzle has unique shaped pieces to create a model car puzzle. When you've finished piecing the car together, you can use it to decorate your bedroom, playroom, library and more! ($14.99 Ages 8+)

ALEX DELUXE METALLIC HAIR CHALK SALON
Colour your hair with 12 bright colours including glittery metallics! Washes right out with shampoo. ($13.99 Ages 8+)

FASHION PLATES DELUXE DESIGN SET
The classic mix and match fashion drawing set is back and better than ever! The new Fashion Plates™ design set makes it easy and fun for aspiring designers to create their own fabulous fashion designs. Create one-of-a-kind looks by combining the different rubbing plates together into the new Fashion Plates™ tablet. With just a few passes of the rubbing tool, your design transfers to your sketch paper. Adding colours and detail to your new look is a snap with the included artists pencils and the fashion textures built into the back of each Fashion Plate. The stylish portfolio case neatly stores your tablet, plates and tools making it easy to take your designs and fashions on the go! ($29.99 Ages 6+)

LOOPDELOOM SPINDLE WEAVING KIT
Weaving just got fast & fun! Loopdeloom brings the fun to making woven items. An ingenious new loom design with spinning pegs makes weaving simple. It's easy to setup and it easy to use. Make purses, cell phone and tablet cases, scarves, rugs, and more! ($34.99 Ages 8+)

SANDS ALIVE 5LB DELUXE INDOOR SANDBOX SET WITH TOOLS AND TRAY
Introducing an amazing and unique play material: SANDS ALIVE! Consisting of sand and other natural ingredients, the only way to describe the feeling of this material is sublime! Sands Alive is 100% organic and never dries out. It is non-toxic, bacteria free, water soluble, and is soft to the touch when you mould it, squish it, and can be played with again and again! ($79.99 Ages 3+)