Humble wooden blocks get a beautiful makeover

by Christina Refford | Toys + Playthings

Whether you are looking for a stunning first-birthday gift for a special child in your life, or your preschooler just loves to build, this beautifully designed set of colorful blocks is one toy they’ll treasure. Especially when they are building the Land of...

Cool thank you cards from kids (that they’ll actually want to write)

by Liz Gumbinner | DIY

One of my resolutions this year is to be a little more diligent about getting kids to write thank-you cards. So the first thing I did was order some that they got to pick out themselves. They were so thrilled to see them arrive that they jumped at the chance to start...

The coolest kids toys of 2012: Editors Best of 2012

by Cool Mom Team | Editors Best of the Year

We love nothing more than finding toys for kids that are handmade, or at least, don’t require an on and off switch and 300 batteries. Instead, our favorite toys of 2012 are all powered by the imaginations and little hands of kids. Liz LEGO Friends As one of the...

Delightful dinosaur board books for budding paleontologists

by Christina Refford | Books for Kids

Perfect prezzie alert: At some point (usually during the Late Toddler/Early Preschool Era), most kids go through a fascination with the creatures of the Mesozoic Era, otherwise known as dinosaurs. If you have a toddler who adores all things Large, Scaly, and Extinct,...

We’re in holiday heaven with Homespun Vintage clothes for kids

by Delilah S. Dawson | Kid Style

Looking for holiday styles with true vintage pop? If you’re shopping for a one-of-a-kind kid-seeking style that transcends the stuff on the rack–you’re going to squeal over this gorgeous line of reworked retro treasures. Homespun Vintage hearkens...

Small Business Saturday: Shop small, save big. What’s not to love?

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

We’ve been proud supporters of Small Business Saturday since it began in 2010, and we’re so happy to see it take off in a big way. (Pun intended.) Then again, are you surprised? Every day is pretty much small business day at Cool Mom Picks.However this...

Tea Collection’s new holiday fashions = major kiddo cuteness

by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style

I’m finding it hard to believe that I’m already thinking holiday clothes for the kids, but…yep. Already thinking holiday clothes for the kids. And since my children pretty much live in Tea Collection, it’s always one of the first places I turn...

The All for Children Collection by H+M and Unicef means one more for all

by Liz Gumbinner | Kid Style

We love shops like H+M which offer stylish but still affordable clothing–especially for our kids who we know won’t be wearing that pair of jeans for another six years. But we’re especially excited when we learn that the same shops are committing big...

New! The perfect party decor kits from Minted.com. Now your parties can look like Those Parties without much effort at all.

by Cool Mom Team | Party Ideas

We’ve loved the beautiful cards and invitations from Minted.com ever since we discovered them on day one, so it makes perfect, brilliant sense that they’d evolve from cards and invitations, and launch a gorgeous new Party Decor line. Hooray! Plus, like all...

The most spectacular vintage paper dolls. We want them all!

by Stephanie Slate | Toys + Playthings

Paper dolls are the perfect emergency boredom-buster to have on hand, at least if you’re our family; every fall, a bunch of annoying colds and coughs descend on my children, leaving at least one of them at any given time home on a school day, moaning...