If you have a little designer or fashionista in your family, or on your toy list, I have some fun toy ideas for you. The Style Six line from Jakks-Pacific. With Style Six embellishing tools, girls can design and customize almost any item in their wardrobe to create their own look or set your own new fashion trends.

Let girls tap into their creative side with the Style Six Silk Screener they can layer on cool and trendy printed graphics to t-shirts and other fashion pieces. The Silk Screener includes 2 silkscreen devices, paint bottles, blotter, roller, masking board, stencil sheets, supply tray, and a garment separator. It is recommended for children 8 and up, and retails for $39.99.

The Style Six Gem Decorator lets girls turn ordinary items into extraordinary works of art by applying colorful rhinestones, ribbons and more! The Gem Decorator includes a gem decorator device, rhinestones, ribbon loops, and ribbons. Recommended for ages 8 and up, with a suggested retail price of $19.99.

The Style Six Airbrush allows little fashionistas to embellish anything from tees and tanks to their favorite jeans with a motorized Blopens® airbrush that sprays on the vibrant colors. The Airbrush set includes a Motorized Airbrush, fabric Blopens, and assorted stencil designs. Recommended for ages 8 and up with a suggested retail price of $19.99.

I’m so jealous! These look so fun. I wish they would have had these when I was growing up!

You can find more information about the Style Six line visit Jakks Pacific.

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You’ve heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I’ve got a new day to add to your holiday vocabulary, Free Shipping Day. If you’ve got plenty of toys to buy this holiday season you’ll be happy to know many online retailers are having free shipping day on December 17th this year.

Over 300 merchants have already signed up to participate in this year’s Free Shipping Day, and founder Luke Knowles expects more than 500 merchants will be participating by the time the date gets here. Some of the merchants that have already confirmed they are participating include Toys R Us, JCPenney, …read more

Girl Gourmet has some sweet jewelry makers for the little girls on your Christmas list this year. From candy necklaces to candy rings these sets are definitely sweet. Check out these Girl Gourmet Sweets Jewelry makers from Jakks-Pacific.
The Girl Gourmet Sweets Candy Jewelry Factory allows girls to design, bake, wear and eat scrumptious candy jewelry such as necklaces, bracelets and rings. The set features a small baking oven and a variety of molds to create jewelry charms and sweet gems. Kids fill the molds with the candy chips and pellets included in the set and add colorful sprinkles to decorate.

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There’s a new virtual world for preschoolers and their parents to check out. Wiggletime.com, based on preschool favorite The Wiggles. Wiggletime.com is designed as a safe online environment for children to learn and play.

The website features interactive play for children, and helps you as a parent introduce your child to the Internet, without the risk of children communicating with strangers. The new website is also completely free of advertisements.
The Wiggles are big on getting children up and moving, so Wiggletime has  a “take a break” feature that encourages children to get up an wiggle every twenty minutes.

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Building a gingerbread house can be a fun project for you and your kids. It’s a great fall and winter family activity, especially around the holidays. You can even get together with some friends and have a gingerbread house making party Build one giant gingerbread house, or several smaller ones to take home.
“How To Build a Gingerbread House” is a great guide to help you along the way. The book contains step-by-step instructions, easy recipes and over 200 color photographs to help you complete your gingerbread house project from start to finish.

The best part is, all you need to get …read more

Today I have some fun toys to share with you. Kimochis are new toys with feelings inside. Kimochi (pronounced Key.Mo.Chee) means “feeling” in Japanese. The three Kimochi characters,  Cloud, Huggtopus, and Bug help kids communicate their feelings in a fun, playful way.

Each character comes with 3 small “Kimochis™” – or feelings inside a special pocket. The small Kimochis have  feeling (happy, sad, silly,brave…) printed on one side, and a corresponding facial expression on the other. Each one also comes with a How-To Use Kimochis™ Feel Guide with easy fun lessons developed by nationally renowned child communication expert Ellen Pritchard Dodge …read more

Yesterday I told you about the new DVD out this Christmas, Curious George A Very Monkey Christmas, and I promised you a giveaway was coming soon. I have a great Christmas giveaway for you today!

On behalf of Universal Home Entertainment I have a Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas DVD prize pack to giveaway here at Play Library. The prize pack will includes the DVD , “Curious George Christmas Countdown” book, CD soundtrack, and a “Curious George Live” ticket voucher. The prize pack would make a wonderful holiday gift!
Here’s a fun little song from the new Curious George DVD.
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Curious George, every child’s favorite monkey now has his very first holiday movie. So how much trouble can a curious monkey get in during the holidays?
George and the Man In The Yellow Hat are on a search for the perfect Christmas gift for each other. You know everything with Curious George is an adventure, and Christmas is no exception.
I have a soft spot for holiday movies, so I can see this one getting added to my collection. You can find the new DVD at most major retailers and online at Amazon.com.
In conjunction with the DVD release, Universal is running an …read more

Our myWallaby Doll Carrier giveaway is over, and we have a winner! I want to thank everyone who submitted who participated in the contest. It was great fun reading what everyone had to say. If you aren’t the winner, but still want one of these cute bags myWallaby is still offering free shipping to Play Library readers for a couple more days. Just add the promo code “PLAYSHIP” when you’re ready to check out. Just hop over to myWallaby.com.
I want to say a huge thank you to myWallaby for sponsoring the contest, and for letting me review such a fun …read more

You know sometimes this job is really tough, testing out kids toys, checking out fun kids movies. Yeah, real tough. Today I got to check out The Dog Who Saved Christmas. I love Christmas movies and dogs, so I was really excited to check out this movie.
It turned out to be a really cute family movie. It’s a little bit like the movie Home Alone, only the dog is the one home alone. The movie is a little silly funny at times, but kids will love it!

Zeus (voiced by Mario Lopez) is a former police dog who lost his bark. …read more