Product: Snap Circuits SC-750R Student Electronics Training Program (& other kits) Company: Snap Circuits (Elenco) Website: www.snapcircuits.net Recommended Age Range: 4 and Up Price Range: ~$125 (as low as $20 for smaller kits) Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Comments: Snap Circuits are a ...
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Robot Turtles
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Product: Robot Turtles Company: Think Fun Website: http://www.robotturtles.com/ Recommended Age Range: 4 to 8 years Price Range: ~$20 Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Comments: My 4.5 year old and I are seriously loving this game. When I started college 15 years ago, I knew I wanted to do ...
Strider Balance Bike
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Product: Strider ST-4 No Pedal Balance Bike Company: Strider Website: www.striderbikes.com Recommended Age Range: 2 to 5 years Price Range: $80-$110 Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Comments: My 4 year old son has been riding his friend’s Strider bike occasionally since about his third birthday ...
Travel Guess Who
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Product: Travel Guess Who Company: Hasbro Website: www.hasbro.com Recommended Age Range: 3 and up Price Range: ~$9-$15 Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Comments: First, there is a tiny deck of 20 cards that are part of the game and keeping track of those can be challenging with a toddler who ...
Magnetic Dry-Erase Board
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Product: Lap-Size Magnetic Dry Erase Board Company: Varies Recommended Age Range: 1 year and up Price Range: ~$7-$15 Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Comments: I love the flexibility of little lap-size magnetic dry-erase boards. I let my kids use the markers occasionally, but due to odor and ...
Playing Cards
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Product: Playing Cards Company: Bicycle (or others) Recommended Age Range: 1 to 100 years Price Range: ~$2-$5 Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Comments: I pretty much always have a deck of playing cards with me, even if it’s just me and my husband that need to wait somewhere (like an airport ...
Travel Connect 4
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Product: Travel Connect 4 Company: Hasbro Website: www.hasbro.com Recommended Age Range: 3 years and up Price Range: ~$10 Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Comments: We have an older version of travel Connect Four than the one presently being sold, but I imagine the current version is still a ...
Magnetic Books
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Product: On the Farm Magnetic Story & Play Scene Company: Top That! Website: topthatpublishing.com Recommended Age Range: 18 months to 4 years Price Range: ~$8 Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Comments: We got one of these magnetic books from a used book store and it was missing half the ...
Play-Doh
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Product: Play-Doh Company: Hasbro Website: playdoh.hasbro.com Recommended Age Range: 18 months to 5 years Price Range: ~$5-$20 Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Comments: We use homemade play dough at home so that we can have as large a quantity as desired, but we always take a few small size ...
Travel Magna Doodle
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Product: DoodlePro Trip Company: Fisher-Price Website: www.fisher-price.com Recommended Age Range: 1 to 7 years Price Range: ~$10-$15 Amazon Product Page (Affiliate Link) Comments: I was a little disappointed with the quality of picture made by this Fisher Price travel magna doodle and by how ...
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