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!
Create Your Own Flower Garden
- 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
Create Your Own Octopus
- 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
Create Your Own Goo/Slime
- 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
