Turn Rainy Day Blues into a Rainbow of Fun

Mixing rainy days with children can be a recipe for disaster. When kids are stuck indoors, they get antsy, loud, and BORED! Cooped up kids are dangerous to family health, as they push just the right buttons to drive parents crazy, or at least to distraction. Retailers to the rescue! Help families quickly cool down the kids’ cabin fever with entertaining products from The Little Experience, eebee, GIANTmicrobes, and Buckyballs. With a surplus of tedium tamers on hand, your business will be on your customers’ list of “fun places to go,” and they will happily spend extra time and money in your store.

The Little Experience Creates “I-Made-It-Myself” Kits

Today’s children have so many more electronic toys than the previous generation. It can be challenging to get them to do anything but play on computers or hand-held games. To provide her own four children with interesting activities that ran on brain power rather than electronic power, Tai Broadhurst began assembling creative craft kits that promote creativity and participation, and develop children’s talents for art, building, sewing, knitting, fashion, designing and more!

Tai’s idea crafted a growing business, and after three years of creative planning, she started her company, The Little Experience, and introduced her activity kits to the public. Children can make things “all by themselves,” or with parental participation that generates quality time together. Kits guide kids to make all kinds of creations, including dolls, stuffed animals, rockets, forts, play clothes, totes, hair accessories, castles and lots of other great things. There are four kit sizes: Mini, Medium, Max and Max Plus kits. All include supersize fun!

The Minis are perfect for boys and girls between the ages of 3 and 12. Both the Medium and Max Kits are geared for ages 4 through 12. The Max Plus kits are just for kids 6 and up.

Kids love to do-it themselves. They just need a bit of direction and inspiration. See how stimulating imaginations can also stimulate your sales, at www.the-little-experience.com

eebee is an Expert in Baby Busy-ness!

When stocking up on entertaining toys, don’t forget about the babies! Babies and toddlers have short attention spans too, but when they get bored, they usually cry, and that’s a sad situation! Sometimes it’s even more difficult to find toys to keep babies and toddlers busy. Thank goodness they’ll be happily buzzing and busy as bees with eebee’s adventures.

eebee toys were created based on the premise that babies and pre-schoolers learn by doing. Hands-on activities and exploration of the world around them are important to normal development. With this approach in mind, eebee has created a wide assortment of exploratory toys, interactive books, stimulating music, adventurous DVDs and even bright, colorful clothing.

As a company that believes that there are unlimited ways to play and explore, eebee designs its toys to stimulate a child’s creativity and imagination. Like the toys, the interactive books also have a variety of engaging activities for parents to participate in with their little ones.

For example, Mix and Mash: Adventures in the Kitchen for Baby and You, is the first cookbook solely geared toward cooking with baby. This cookbook incorporates learning through food shapes, sensory input activities such as mashing, shaking, smashing and more, and special bonding time, blending up a super fun culinary adventure that parents and babies alike will both enjoy. Perfect for the short(est) order cook in the family!

To create a buzz of excitement in your store, check out www.eebee.com

GIANTmicrobes Cure the Blahs

Drew Oliver took a germ of an idea and created a “monster,” called GIANTmicrobes! These plush “organisms” are comically cute cooties that are sure to cure even the most severe cases of boredom. Oliver’s funny formula combines tons of laughter with a little learning. The stuffed macro micro-buddies help children learn what different microbes actually look like. Plus, rather than just preaching to kids for the umpteenth time to “cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze,” now children can see for themselves why it’s so important to grab a tissue!

GIANTmicrobes bring the microscopic world of microbes to life, and emphasize that microbes are living creatures too. Each one represents an actual germ, magnified a million times bigger, cuter and healthier! Each microbe toy includes a humorous touch; for example, the “Mad Cow Disease” GIANTmicrobe is white with black spots, offering plenty of bovine appeal. Oliver’s campy twists keep the microbes just amusing enough to please even the most ferverish germaphobes.

The tag on each GIANTmicrobe shows what it really looks like under the microscope, and explains how the microbe functions. With a huge selection of 60 plush microbes, the assortment and creativity is, well…nothing to sneeze at! Infectious bestsellers include The Common Cold, E-coli, Ebola and Brain Cell. Dads are even catching the fun, with the introduction of neckties that sport all kinds of micro bugs!

Take a healthy dose of GIANTmicrobes, and watch your sales get hale and hearty, at www.giantmicrobes.com

Magnetic Buckyballs Attract Attention and Repel the Doldrums

Speaking of things that are catching on, it’s hard to resist Buckyballs by Zoomdobble! Buckyballs may be the coolest new addictive way to calm older kids’ clamor for indoor fun! Buckyballs are recommended for kids over 12, due to the small pieces.

A set of Buckyballs contains 216 Rare Earth magnets that are small enough to be formed into an endless array of shapes, patterns, puzzles and forms! Like regular magnets, each Buckyball has two poles; one side attracts and the other repels. Kids and parents alike will be quickly attracted to and hooked on this “toy of the year,” and spend hours twisting, shaping, manipulating and building their own creations. Retails for $29.99. Put a set or two out in your store to pull in customers’ attention!

Check out the magnetic draw of Buckyballs at www.getbuckyballs.com

What boredom busters for kids of all ages do you sell? Comment below…