Tween Accessories Ignite Impulse Sales!

When it comes to the influential tween market, gift and add-on products that attract “allowance” spending are incredibly important. Studies have shown that from “their own” money, tweens easily spend over 50 billion dollars a year! Tweenagers love to shop, and seek out products that speak their language, stand out, and have the potential to generate peer power. Bottman Design, mishu, Just Bubbly and Bamboo Trading Company are a few tween-worthy brands creating trendy, must-have products that can quickly heat up retail sales!

Bottman Design Greetings are In to Get the Message Out!

Bottman Design was started in 1988 by artist Paris Bottman as an avenue to bring her whimsical art into the gift market. Today, the company has grown, and each unique item is crafted from the original artwork of one of ten talented artists.

The Rain & Shine card collection is a perfect gift for tweens to give or receive! These artistic cards are paired with special necklaces that adorn the front of each greeting card. The vibrant, 3-5/8”x5” cards are blank on the inside, making them perfect for kids to express themselves on any occasion. Each card includes a color-coordinated envelope, and an 18” silver plated necklace featuring a large pendant, with a double-sided work of art and inspirational inscriptions.

One fun example of the creativity found at Bottman Design is a congratulations card in the Tweenkle Tweenkle line, which features an artistic graphic of a surfer, and reads “You are one epic chick… congratulations!” The included necklace is a 16” cotton cord in bright blue with a round lacquer pendent sporting a colorful surfer graphic and the words “epic chick”.

Gift cards make great add-on purchases! To put these cards on deck in your store, visit www.bottman.com

Tweens Get Creative with mishu

mishu offers a perfect gift line of tween decorating accessories: each item is fun, bright, and versatile! Magnet frames are available in multiple vibrant shades, including lime green, red, and hot pink. Frames can be accessorized with big, fanciful magnets in a variety of designs that include daisies, ice skates, and cartoon frogs. Other customizable magnetic accessories include photo cables, pens, note stations and bulletin boards.

Tweens love to create their own space with removable wall stickers by mishu. Wall stickers are available as photo frames and chalk boards. Chalkboard stickers come in simple squares, a funky peace sign, or even an Old World Victorian style. For the most “over-scheduled” child, there is even a calendar board to track daily events. Wall sticker photo frames are black with elaborate scalloped edges. These fun frames let tweens freely and creatively decorate and redecorate their rooms, without damaging the walls!

Lifetime accessories include vibrant colors and bubbly designs for cell phone holders, bookmarks, arm bands, and eyeglass trays. With reasonable prices and useful accessories, mishu is sure to have the perfect gift for any tween queen.

For more information about making a stand-out display, take a look at www.mishudesigns.com

Just Bubbly Cleans Up in the Kid Bath Market

Just Bubbly is a unique, family owned bath and body shop on the eastern coast of Rockaway Beach in New York. Artistic soaps, scrubs, and creams are handcrafted and made specifically for younger generations. Each item is created as a vegan product, is not animal tested, and is hypoallergenic.

Sure to be a tween sensation are the Designer Soap Pops from the Spa Collection! These handcrafted and individually inspected soaps look like yummy, mouth-watering popsicles. This line bubbles over with fun designs including Halloween Candy Corn, Summer Watermelon, and Birthday Party in pink or blue. Each season brings a new design to the collection. For the holiday season, the Snowflake design is elegant, with white sparkly snowflakes encased in a clear exterior. Each season has its own design, but the Rainbow Pop is a snap-up year-round buy.

Soaps are also crafted into flip-flops, mermaids, and even the old-fashioned carnival prize of a goldfish in a bag. My Pet Fish retails for only $5 and is a irresistible twist on soap. A plastic, colorful fish swims inside each clear bar of glycerin soap. Just peel off the plastic bag and when the soap is all gone, the fish is free to play in the tub!

Sooner rather than lather, slip over to www.justbubbly.com

“I Care About” Bracelets are Cause to Celebrate!

Bamboo Trading Company offers a large line of accessories and gifts, but the I Care About bracelets are the accessories sweeping tween culture. These bracelets take an artistic, caring, and charitable approach to the already popular wristband. Not only are the bracelets unique and stylish, but they offer a huge selection of worthy causes.

Each I Care About bracelet has a brushed silver, bronze or copper pendant with a colorful, knotted elastic band. The soft elastic band makes them perfect for use as a ponytail holder too. The color of the band corresponds to the cause. For example, the I Care About: The Cure bracelet features a pink band to promote breast cancer awareness. The brushed metal pendant is etched with each cause. Some styles are available with a two-sided spinner pendant.

Causes range from I Care About: World Peace to Living Simply, and Cats. Each cause bracelet offers a 10% donation of the proceeds to an organization working toward the particular cause. Bracelets are shown in an eye-catching display and retailers can choose their own assortment of causes. Bamboo Trading Company will even look at retailers’ local organizations for donation of proceeds.

To get behind the kid-worthy I Care About cause, visit www.bambootradingcompany.com