Holiday Gift Guide

Summer Big Fun Workbook Bridging Grades P & K

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Get preschool kids ready for kindergarten and keep their learning skills tuned up all summer with this innovative workbook that’s curriculum-based and teacher-approved. Kids will love the puzzles, poems, stories and more that make skills practice fun. Plus, there’s lots of bonus items: a pull-out HIDDEN PICTURES progress poster, reward stickers, an award certificate, outdoor activity ideas and crafts!
Expertly crafted to prevent “summer slide,” the Summer Big Fun Workbook will give kids a head start on their upcoming school year. It provides the right balance of review to maintain skills, and a preview of what’s to come.
The varied content will appeal to kids with a broad range of learning styles. Humor and colorful illustrations keeps kids absorbed longer, which helps them develop persistence and attention to detail. Great for homeschoolers, too.

Available at: https://www.highlights.com/store/summer-big-fun-workbook-bridging-p-k and https://www.amazon.com/s?k=highlights&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

Summer Big Fun Workbook Bridging Grades K & 1

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Get kids ready for first grade and keep their learning skills sharp all summer with this innovative workbook that’s curriculum-based and teacher-approved. Kids will love the puzzles, poems, stories and more that make skills practice fun. Plus, there’s lots of bonus items: a pull-out HIDDEN PICTURES progress poster, reward stickers, an award certificate, outdoor activity ideas and crafts!
Expertly crafted to prevent “summer slide,” the Summer Big Fun Workbook will give kids a head start on their upcoming school year. It provides the right balance of review to keep skills sharp, and a preview of what’s to come.
The varied content will appeal to kids with a broad range of learning styles. Humor and colorful illustrations keeps kids absorbed longer, which helps them develop persistence and attention to detail. Great for homeschoolers, too.

Available at: https://www.highlights.com/store/summer-big-fun-workbook-bridging-grades-k-1 and https://www.amazon.com/s?k=highlights&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

Summer Big Fun Workbook Bridging Grades 1 & 2

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Get kids ready for second grade and keep their learning skills sharp all summer with this innovative workbook that’s curriculum-based and teacher-approved. Kids will love the puzzles, poems, stories and more that make skills practice fun. Plus, there’s lots of bonus items: a pull-out HIDDEN PICTURES progress poster, reward stickers, an award certificate, outdoor activity ideas and crafts!
Expertly crafted to prevent “summer slide,” the Summer Big Fun Workbook will give kids a head start on their upcoming school year. It provides the right balance of review to keep skills sharp, and a preview of what’s to come.
The varied content will appeal to kids with a broad range of learning styles. Humor and colorful illustrations keeps kids absorbed longer, which helps them develop persistence and attention to detail. Great for homeschoolers, too.

Available at: https://www.highlights.com/store/summer-big-fun-workbook-bridging-grades-1-2 and https://www.amazon.com/s?k=highlights&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

Jet Duck Create a Pirate

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The Jet Duck Create a Pirate has 15 pirate themed accessories to enable creation of different duck characters to encourage social and interactive play. The water cannon constantly fires all around helping to promote fine motor skills and imaginative play. Scoop container with drain holes attaches to tub allowing easy mold free storage of jet duck and its accessories.

Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Yookidoo-Toddler-Shooter-Creation-Bathtub/dp/B07G7JQ15H/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540323264&sr=8-1&keywords=jet+duck+create+a+pirate&dpID=51-iX8YAdKL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

Hoyle Seal Squad TM

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Seal Squad a card game that encourages teamwork, simple strategy, and decision-making. Each player on their turn rolls The dice and moves any of the team’s seals the direction indicated on the compass die and the number of spaces On the number die. As a team try to collect as many fish as you can by landing your seal chips on the fish spaces. When the walrus reaches the fish pile, The game ends and he gets all of the fish remaining in the pile! If your team collected more fish than the walrus, you win!

Available for purchase on Amazon and iTunes
or https://www.amazon.com/Hoyle-1042677-Seal-Squad/dp/B07QL9PGSY/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=seal+squad&qid=1558386417&s=gateway&sr=8-2

Hoyle Super Me

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Super Me is a combination of matching and memory! turn over one of the Red emergency cards. If you have a super me! card that can help the situation on the emergency card, pair the two cards and lay them down in front of you. If you turn over an emergency card you can’t match with one of your super me! cards, turn it back face down and your turn ends. The winner is the player first to match all your super me! cards to the emergency cards.

Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Hoyle-1038961-Super-Me/dp/B077THYN13/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Hoyle+Super+Me&qid=1569953204&s=gateway&sr=8-1

Hoyle Monkey Mother May I?

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Monkey, may includes elements of the kid-favorite “Simon says!”. Turn over the top card on the draw pile and place it face-up nearby to form the discard pile. If it shows a monkey doing an action quickly Do the same action the first person to do the action gets a dollar from the Monkey bank. If you draw a monkey, may I card, you must choice from the Two options which is the right thing to do. The winner is the player with the most Monkey money at the end of the game

Available at Amazon.com and https://www.amazon.com/Hoyle-1038938-Monkey-May-I/dp/B077TDLCJT/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=monkey+may+i&qid=1558386806&s=gateway&sr=8-1

Hoyle Mixed Emojis

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Mixed Emoji a card game that encourages recognizing and expressing emotions, and memory. Players take turns placing a card face up on top of the previous card, making a face, and giving an example of when they feel that Emoji. When you place down a duplicate card and remember that player example emotion, you take the whole pile of cards and place them on the bottom of your stack. When the timer runs out, the player with the most cards wins!

Available at Amazon.com and https://www.amazon.com/Hoyle-1042641-Mixed-Emojis/dp/B07QL9JMKF/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=mixed+emoji+cards&qid=1558386634&s=sporting-goods&sr=8-6

Little Earth

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A Star is Born! earlier this year, Celestial Buddies Earth plush went on the ride of his life! When Celestial Buddies’ plush Earth was unexpectedly placed on the SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, the little toy and the company was thrust into the ride of a lifetime. Within minutes, the toy was a global, no actually, a universal hit! After video surfaced of the plush toy being used as a “Zero Gravity Indicator” and floating around inside the ship, the social media floodgates opened. Then, as the SpaceX craft docked at the International Space Station, astronauts brought “Little Earth” on board the Space Station and began posting pictures of the plush Earth. The fun and engagement, particularly with Astronaut Anne McClain, has created a social media news wave and celebrity status for Little Earth.

We’re now able to fulfill the orders pouring in for having one of the first toys go to space.

And the toy’s trip isn’t ending anytime soon. Little Earth had a change in flight plans and has been added to the crew of the Space Station. Now, an honorary astronaut, Little Earth will continue to engage, entertain and enthuse the world about the space program, the wonders of science, and the universe. Stay Tuned.

Available at: Amazon – all museum stores – celestialbuddies.com

Simplay3 Toddler Tower Adjustable Stool

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Kids love to get up close to where the action is alongside their parents and grandparents whether it’s in the kitchen, bathroom or in the home workshop! Perfect for caregivers in schools and child care environments too! This sturdy step stool is enclosed on 4 sides, assembles in 5 minutes and designed with safety in mind wherever extra height is needed, both indoors or out. Made in the USA.

Available at: Amazon – Simplay3 – Bed Bath & Beyond – BuyBuy Baby – Kohl’s – Home Depot – Wayfair – Walmart – Target