smart toys and gifts for educational fun

For those looking to take their Halloween decorations to the next level, the Dremel Pumpkin Carving Kit allows fast, easy sculpting of spectacularly spooky jack-o'-lanterns. Create intricate, frighteningly festive designs on pumpkin surfaces using the lightweight 6-Volt Dremel Alkaline Cordless Rotary Tool, which offers two speeds for varying levels of intricacy. The included high-speed cutter accessory has rounded edges and is ideal for carving fine details, and 10 templates make carving elaborate pumpkin designs as easy as tracing a drawing.

Melissa and Doug Deluxe Standing Easel
Generously sized chalk board and dry erase boards are perfect for projects large and small. Easel folds ups easily for convenient storage and features a colorful paint tray with cup holders. Has an easy loading paper roll holder and an extra large tray for holding erasers, chalk and clips. Paper cutting edge at top of easel means clean paper cuts for your artist's work! 4 large clips included.

Melissa & Doug Deluxe Easel Paper

Great value
Easy loading
Each roll is 25 yds long
Recommended Age Rating is 3 Years and up

Value-priced, easy-loading replacement paper roll for the Deluxe Standing Easel

Mindflex Game

Mindflex, the new mental acuity game from Mattel, makes that dream a reality.
Mindflex combines advanced technology with the power of thought
Create an interactive experience unlike any other
A game where players compete in the ultimate mental marathon
The various obstacles can be repositioned into many different configurations

Melissa & Doug Deluxe Easel Companion Set
There's 25 pieces in all, including: four bottles of poster paint, four spill-proof paint cups, roll of easel paper, 10 jumbo triangular chalk sticks, felt eraser, dry-erase marker and four paint brushes.

Art Supplies

Eyeball Anatomy Model

Anatomy Brain Models

Heart Anatomy Model

Discovery Channel Macro Microscope

With both micro and macro settings, this microscope lets you see everything from butterfly wings to plant cell walls.
Features:

Kid-friendly microscope with real power
Both micro and macro settings
Explore objects from 40 to 400 times their actual size
Super-clear images at every level
Pivoting die-cast metal base with high-impact plastic body
Soft textured handgrips
Flexible, 360-degree rotating eyepiece
Precision ground metal lenses with optical quality glass
Lenses are interchangeable with most standard, research-quality microscopes
Independent light source focuses beam on (or through) the specimen
Lens bulbs are easy to replace
2 month manufacturer's warranty

Includes:

Five vials of remarkable specimens to examine
Five prepared slides: two insect cross sections, two plant cross-sections and one slide with a real 900-year old, Peruvian mummy wrap!
Tweezers
Eye-dropper
Measuring beaker
Spoon
Blank slides for collecting your own specimens
Experiment booklet

Learning Resources Prepared Slides Combination Set, 48 Specimens

Wing of Locust, Hair of Dog... A recipe from the Elizabethan Cable Food Network? No, just a couple of samples from our collection of (48) specimens preserved for your classroom examination, with (4) well-labeled specimens on each of (12) standard-size slides.
You get animal, plant, insect, textile, and pollen and spore specimens, including camel hair, camellia leaf, plant louse, fruit fly, fern spore, bee wing, nylon, wool, lily pollen, bamboo shoot, goldfish scale, and three dozen more, including our homonymic favorite, hare hair.
Grades three and up.

World of the Microscope
Science & Experiments Series
Fascinating, hands-on introduction to using microscopes, this book is packed with exciting projects which reveal the amazing detail of the world around us. Illustrated, step-by-step instructions for techniques such as lighting, mounting, sectioning and staining show how to get the best from a microscope. Also investigates the applications of microscopes in science and industry.

Prepared Microscope Slides
Insects
Microorganisms
Sea Life
Bacteria
Tiny Animals
Animals
Plants
Pollen
Textiles

Talking Dictionary & Spell Corrector

44,000 Elementary word dictionary with easy to understand definitions.
Spoken words and definitions for accurate pronunciation.
Phonetic spelling correction, interactive homophone finder.
Animated handwriting demonstrates print and cursive.
Personal spelling word list, 5 games with variable skill levels.


Includes microscope and digital camera One eyepiece adaptor, four prepared slides, and eight blank slides One pair tweezers and four plastic bags One explorer book One software CD Rom and one special planet earth CD	Professional quality microscope with digital eyepiece Ulead Photo Explorer software included; editing and text adding capability Magnification from 40X to 400X Cordless LED light source	1.3 Mega Pixels USB Computer Connection 24bit RGB Color Video or Still Image Capture AVI Video Format

Planet Toys Planet Earth Digital Microscope Kit
Ultimate 400x Digital Microscope
Digital USB Microscope Video Camera

Extremely Lightweight and portable
Powerful 60-100x magnifation to view even the smallest details
built in light provides a bright, clear image
rubberized eyepiece for comfortable viewing
fits easily in your pocket to bring anywhere

Digital Blue: QX3 Microscope
Connect the microscope to your PC, put something under the scope...the image is displayed on your monitor actual size, 10X, 60X, or 200X. You can take snapshots and videos of your specimens, make time-lapse movies, create slideshows complete with sound, transitions and more. You can even e-mail your work to family and friends! Includes microscope, tweezers, specimen jars and containers, sample slides, tweezers, and software.

Learning Resources Gears! Gears! Gears! Oogly Googly
Includes motor and hand control (with forward/reverse switch), gears, springs, connecting blocks, two claws, and three eyeballs. Starting with the motor pack, add the pieces together according to the instructions or follow your own mad scientist ideas to create endless mayhem. Can be used alone or with other Gears! Gears! Gears! sets.

Learning Resources Gears! Gears! Gears!
Great toy to help open up the world of "how things work" for younger kids. Inspires imaginative play, problem solving, and cause & effect thought processes. Gear up for hours of colorful action with Gears! Gears! Gears! enables children to create hundreds of three-dimensional construction possibilities. Set features plastic gears, connectors and interlocking bases packaged in a giant storage tub with an Activity Guides.

Gears! Gears! Gears! Boogie Buddy Motorized Sets
Challenge kids' mechanical reasoning skills while encouraging creativity and gross motor coordination through building and movement. Color-coding makes it easy for children to follow building instructions for three different models. They can also create their own model. Compatible with all other Gears! Gears! Gears! Sets, sold separately.

Leapfrog Learning Systems

Handheld computerized learning system
Learn to write letters on the L-Max handheld screen - the letters you write will appear on the TV and star in an animated story!
Learn on the go or at home
Works with the full Leapster and Leapster L-Max software library
Stories suddenly come to life with the light tap of the Magic Pen
The award-winning LeapPad Learning System teaches fundamental reading skills in a way that keeps your child coming back again and again
The LeapPad Learning System uses a larger platform and thinner pen designed for preschoolers and kindergartners to introduce them to the magic of books and reading
The library is organized by grade to teach reading, phonics, vocabulary, math, science, music and much more

School Supplies
Mead Wireless Neatbook 3 Subjects College Ruled	Colored Pencil Set	Rainbow Construction Paper	Crayola Crayon
All Purpose Child Safe Glue	Building Blocks	Play School	Chemistry Kit

Ticket to Ride
Great Family and Friends Board game. 2 to 5 players compete for control of routes accross the United States. Play takes about an hour and you will find yourself thinking strategically during and after the game. Get this game for fun and have a great time thinking.

Blokus Strategy Board Game

Grades K and up. Europe's 2003 game of the year! Develops logic and spacial perception while kids learn to be tactical. Players take turns placing pieces on their board, each starting from their corner. Each new piece must touch at least one other piece of the same color, but only at the corners! The goal is to get rid of all your pieces. The game ends when all players are blocked from laying down any more of their pieces.

Naturally Playful Sand and Water Activity Center

This Sand and Water Activity Center features wood crafted styling and nature's colors s. It's divided into two separate sides -- one for water, the other for sand. It holds up to 20 lbs. of sand and two gallons of water. The accessory set includes an umbrella, two bridges, two boats, two pots and one shovel. A durable, one-piece plastic cover keeps the sand clean and dry. Elastic tie-downs on the ends of the lid keep it securely attached. An umbrella is included for shaded play . Measures 46.5"L x 26"W x 18.25"H.

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