We’re giving away $1000 worth of scooters for your whole family! Woot!
You all know we like giving you stuff, right? Right! So to make a few families’ holidays a little more fun, we’re excited to give away $1000 worth of Micro Kickboard scooters for the whole family. How cool is that? This contest is now over. However, be...
Check out our top picks for toys and games all 25% off at Target today. YES!
Target rolled exclusive weekend deals every weekend in November and December and as a dedicated Tarzhay shopper, I am all about this! Especially since today’s deal is a whole 25% off toys at Target. What better way to say, “attention holiday shoppers:...
11 things from our childhoods that should definitely stay there!
This post is sponsored by Nintendo, who is awesome for letting us do this. The 80s and 90s were…quite a time. And so we cordially invite you to laugh with (at?) us as we depict some of the stuff we don’t miss a bit. From the hell of cassette tapes to...
14 cool kids’ stocking stuffers all supporting indie shops
When we shop around for our kids’ stocking stuffers, our longtime readers know that our hearts always grow three sizes when we share handmade items or those that support indie shops and businesses. With that in mind, have we got a website for you. Our sponsor...
Color-your-own printable paper dolls that bring twice the creativity.
I’ve been lugging a big bag full of toys and snacks to keep my three year old entertained lately, but I’m planning on lightening my load, thanks to the cool, modern printable paper dolls by Merrilee Liddiard that I just found. Aren’t they gorgeous? I...
FAO Schwarz is back for the holidays, and everything is not even a billion dollars!
I didn’t grow up in NYC so I don’t have FAO Schwarz shopping memories like some of my city friends. But I did know about them from Big, and I loved pouring through their catalogs around the holidays every year, carefully circling the hundreds of high-end...
A modern, small-space art solution for crafty kids
My kids’ grandparents regularly ask what cool, creative gifts they can give them at the holidays (because we have awesome grandparents), and this year I’m putting Playpa play paper on our list without a doubt. I just discovered this huge roll of coloring...
3 new building toys for animal lovers that kids (and parents!) will adore | Sponsored Message
This is a sponsored message from MEGA Whether you’re shopping for birthdays, holidays, or even World Animal Day (that’s today!), these three new animal-themed building toys from kid-favorite MEGA might just be the perfect gift for the little animal lover...
The first AR teddy bear blends high-tech with old-fashioned creative play | Sponsored Message
This is a sponsored message from Seedling Kids love tech. Kids love stuffed animals. So of course kids are going to love Parker, the world’s first Augmented Reality teddy bear who’s here just in time for the holidays. Parker combines classic pretend play with...
You have to see these 60 Broadway musicals recreated with LEGO minifigs!
When I came across Broadway Bricks, a site for which 15-year-old Jack Abrams geniusly recreates the great Broadway Musicals using LEGO minifigs, I simply can’t believe I hadn’t seen it before. I immediately sent the link to my daughter, because she has a...
Women Who Dared blocks are the feminist baby gift we’ve been waiting for.
The accomplishments of women build on one other. We couldn’t have a female presidential candidate today, for instance, if suffragettes like Elizabeth Stanton hadn’t demanded the right to vote, and pioneers like Shirley Chisholm hadn’t broken that...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz!
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