Our Toy Insider Mom Laurie Schacht stopped by the CBS2 studio to show the best toys and do-it-yourself projects to keep kids from being bored for the rest of the summer. Watch the video above to check them out, and get more information below!
- All you need are pipe cleaners and tissue paper.
- Step 1: Create layers of tissue paper.
- Step 2: Fold the tissue paper out accordian style.
- Step 3: Wrap it around your pipe cleaner.
- Step 4: Fold out the tissue paper to make your petals!
- The neoprene pouch is both the travel kit and the game arena.
- Inside there are 40 custom bells in four different colors and three different sizes.
- Players use the magnet wand to pick up bells of only one color. They can make a string off the end of the magnet wand, or create a cluster—just don’t pick up bells of any other color or the turn is over.
- The game involves a blend of strategy and dexterity while playing.
- The first player to collect all 10 bells of one color wins!
- Ages: 6+
- MSRP: $19.99
- This ball has a high bounce and a super grip that allows for one-handed catches!
- The ultimate ball offering high bounce and super grip.
- Features a soft, but tough, outer web that makes catching it easy for any hands.
- Measures about 6” in diameter, making them easy to catch, throw, and kick.
- Its high bounce delivers on any surface from grass to street, even sand and water!
- The durable inner ball and E-Z Grip’s outer web deliver unmatched performance for playing everything from catch to kickball, and even water volleyball in the pool!
- Ages: 3+
- MSRP: $9.99
- All you need is a toilet paper roll, paint, paint brushes and decorations!
- Step 1: Cut the bottom of the toilet paper roll to create legs for the octopus.
- Step 2: Paint the octopus any color you want.
- Step 3: Add decorations, such as googly eyes, to give your octopus some personality!
- Yummy Nummies are candy, snack, and meal making sets that come with everything kids need to create no-bake, realistic-tasting mini foods!
- Magically fun and delicious, Yummy Nummies intrigue little taste buds with an involved and educational activity that requires no oven or stove.
- The results are adorable little foods that look and taste just like the real thing – a hamburger tastes like a real tiny hamburger, and the cupcakes smell freshly baked!
- Made with only food ingredients from the USA, Yummy Nummies are a tasty and fun way for little chefs to explore and learn in the kitchen!
- Ages: 6+
- MSRP: $7.99-$15.99
- Qixels is the newest boy activity that inspires them to use their imaginations with cubes that fuse together with a blast of water.
- Kids can create 8-bit worlds of monsters, warriors, ninjas, and more.
- Gets kids away from the screen.
- Ages: 5+
- MSRP: $9.99-$19.99
- Ingredients: Corn starch, water, Borax, glue, and food coloring
- Step 1: Mix 1 cup of corn starch and 1/3 cup of water
- Step 2: Add food coloring, Borax, and glue
- Step 3: Mix them all together!
- Step 4: Store in plastic bags so it doesn’t dry out.
Outdoor Unbelievabubble (Uncle Bubble)
- These bubble will defy physics and you won’t believe your eyes with these fun and entertaining bubbles.
- These bubbles can grow to astonishing sizes and will be fun for kids and adults of all ages.
- Create one large bubble with the bubble wand and blow smaller bubbles into the large bubble or just create all sorts of giant bubbles that you won’t believe are real.
- This bubbles will amaze your eyes and keep you and your kid’s entertained for hours. 20″ long bubble wand Made of plastic
- Detailed instructions on back of package
- Includes 4oz unbelievabubble bubble solution
- Ages: 3+
- MSRP: $20