At-Home Camping for Kids is a Near Site Better!

With kids back in school, families are forgoing the Great Outdoors for home-based camping adventures, including backyard sleepovers, scout gatherings, slumber parties, and preschool nap camps. The Giggle Guide^® presents fun camp gear, including flashlights fashioned from Legos by Play Visions, innovative nap mats from My NapPak, Pacific Play Tents for housing active imaginations, and even a new way to roast marshmallows with the Spinmallow. These products are perfect for playful pastimes at a kid-friendly campground where reservations are never needed – the family living room!

Lego My Flashlight

Play Visions, Inc. has offered unique products and toys since 1990, when three high-school classmates created the company to add more innovative products to the toy market. Retailers and customers alike have benefited from their twenty years of imaginative toy concepts.

Always offering illuminating, never-seen-before products, Play Vision has departed from the traditional flashlight format by combining kid-favorite Lego bricks with the function of a headlight, lantern, or flashlight. These cross-market products offer the nostalgic feel of lanterns and torch lights with the perennial Lego appeal. While the toys work as a campout accessory, kids also enjoy using these products as reading lights in bed. These are bright ideas for retailers’ end cap displays, as they make powerful impulse buys for parents, scouts, kids and campers of all ages!

Lighting options include the Lego LED torch mini-figure; the Lego LED Dynamo Torch; a Lego LED Lantern (for reading under a blanket or extra safety while following a dark pathway); and a Lego LED Head Lamp that includes a Lego mini-figure that clips to a headband, backpack, jacket, or belt. Light comes out of the mini-figure’s feet with adjustable legs, allowing the light to be directed in any direction. Prices range from $7.99 for a small key chain version to $23.99 for the Lego LED Dynamo Torch.

To help bring your in-store campsite to light, contact www.playvisions.com

My NapPak Makes for the Best 40 Winks

Need and innovation come together in the My NapPak, which was created by Beth Clampitt in 2001 as a solution to the basic, less-than-ideal sleeping arrangements provided at many daycare facilities and schools. While My NapPak’s original function was for daycare and schools, the 24 x 54 inch roll-up nap bag is the perfect size and weight for camp-outs in family rooms, tree forts, backyards and at slumber parties.

My NapPaks retail for approximately $49. Personalized embroidery can be special ordered for an additional $10. The soft, machine-washable and durable My NapPaks are available in a variety of colors and patterns to bring sweet dreams to boys and girls alike. The My NapPak collection includes five different playful themes and designs which are all machine washable.

Why not stock as many My NapPaks as there are winks in naptimes – at least 40? Wake up to the possibilities at www.mynappak.com/wholesale2010

Pacific Play Pitches Tents

Pacific Play Tents take the “table fort” to a whole new level with innovative and fun play tent structures. The company celebrates the nostalgic creations of home-made forts that are still built on the imaginative energy of children at play! Pacific Play Tents are durable, fun, and an outlet for active play. The tents are available in a wide variety of options, including bed tents and playhouse tents that look like a clubhouse or cottage.

Whether Pacific Play Tents are used for bed tents, family room forts, or backyard campouts; imagination is paramount in their creation and design. While the basic Pacific Play Tent structures are designed as singular play tents, additional tunnels and tents can be connected together to create larger fantasy backdrops for children playing at home or in a camp-out setting.

For distribution possibilities, sales pitch a tent from www.pacificplaytents.com

Spinmallow Brings a New Spin to Roasting Marshmallows

Bent coat hangers and dirty sticks are marshmallow-roasting tools of the past, thanks to the Spinmallow, an innovative kid-size tool that helps kids roast and spin marshmallows to ooey-gooey perfection over an open fire. The Spinmallow combines a telescoping rod, double prongs and battery power to produce perfectly cooked marshmallows or hot dogs, without direct exposure to a hot bonfire.

A trusted Marky Sparky toy product, Spinmallow is a great addition to your campfire tool section or scouting options. The dandy Spinmallow is an entertaining and useful addition to any camping experience and is a highly functional tool, with a detachable and easily cleaned 29” skewer and spinning capabilities at 92 RPMs to evenly toast campfire treats!

Find out s’more at www.markysparkytoys.com