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Give the Gift of Imagination

This holiday season, find gifts that allow your child to imagine; toys that are open-ended! That’s why we call ourselves Imagine Toys because we think all our toys offer that opportunity.

Give the Gift of Imagination

Toys that use imagination:
- are simple
- don’t have batteries
- don’t do all the thinking for the kid
- are open-ended
- allow the child to imagine the play

Read this post on why imaginative, open-ended toys are best for children’s brain and development.

Gifts that Give Imagination

FREE (because you already have them)

Cardboard Box

Stick

Blanket

Pipe Cleaners

LOW COST

Alphabet Blocks
alphabet blocks

Doll
doll

Doctor & Jungle Animals
doctor and animals

MEDIUM TO HIGH COST

Indoor – Outdoor Tent
tent

Play Kitchen
play kitchen

Workbench
workbench

You get the idea, right?

You are looking for a toy that a child can play with for hours, using his or her imagination to develop a pretend play scenario.

These are the toys that are not just best for your kids, but that they will like the best!

Happy Holidays!

~ Melissa

Top Photo credit: I, Timmy / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA

Need a Gift Idea? Give Seedling Art Kits

 

Seedling Art Kits give kids the gift of imagination, creativity, and creation in a kit.

The Create a Wooden People Family kit gives you a wooden doll family of two parents and four children, colored pencils, felt pieces, fabric, craft glue and thread in which to create your own family.

Add paint if you like and you’ll soon have a family of six wooden dolls. We liked this idea of a Box of Princesses from Lil’ Blue Boo to make our dolls into a family of princesses.

Another really great kit for both boys and girls four and up is the Make Your Own Kaleidoscope Kit. The kit includes cardboard tubes, plastic mirror pieces, assorted beads, rhinestones, adhesive paper, foil confetti pieces, craft glue and instructions.

Besides the fun of creating and designing, kids will learn about patterns and symmetry. You can explain to older kids about how the light reflects off the mirror inside. Read more about how a kaleidoscope works.

I love the Design Your Own Superhero Kit, don’t you? What design would your child want on his or her cape? This kit includes a plain cape, craft glue & brush, EVA sheets and stars, felt sheets and shapes, scissors, colored pencils, glitter glue, design page and tips. Perfect for all your creation needs!

Seedlings also offers a Create Your Own Puzzle kit. It includes wooden blocks, acrylic paints, colored pencils, paint brushes, template, instructions to design and paint six different images (one on each face of the block), making a total of six puzzles.

Younger kids could paint alphabet blocks and that would be just as fun and easier than inventing six puzzles. Come to think of it, that sounds fun for me, too!

Don’t you think that creating your own soft doll with this Create Your Own Designer Doll kit would be more fun that getting a pre-made doll this year? This kit contains everything needed to customize a soft doll: 11-inch cotton doll, embroidery thread, assorted fabrics, acrylic yarn, felt, sewing needles and directions.

What kits do you think your kids would love?

What Gifts Do Tweens Want?

I don’t know about you, but I think that tweens are the hardest age for which to buy gifts. It’s sort of an in-between age– they’re growing out of dolls and superheroes, but aren’t teenagers quite yet. So, what presents do tweens want? Here are popular gift ideas for both girls and boys.

Gift Ideas for Tween Girls

Head to Toe Spa

Perfume Science

Heavenly Hair Kit

Rock Fashion Studio

Star Theater

Gift Ideas for Tween Boys

Air Pick Rebel Rock

Custom Rides Design Studio

Techno Gears Marble Mania Extreme

Star Scope Telescope

Vertigo Sky Shark

 

You can’t go wrong with kits for both genders such as craft kits or model kits. When it doubt, have the tween look through websites and catalogues and make a wish list. Make it a fun writing activity!