If you’re a Super Soaker fan, you’ll be glad to know this hear is the 20th anniversary of the Super Soaker. To celebrate  Hasbro is reintroducing  the Super Soaker 50. The updated version is due out this Spring and features a retro style, with a modern high powered performance.
The retro Super Soaker fits in great with the fun summer toys I featured the other day. This cool water toy holds up to 25 ounces of water, and blasts it up to 35 feet. My son will tell you that’s summer fun!
Image via Hasbro

It’s not quite summer yet, but it’s going to be 80` here today and tomorrow, so I sure am thinking about those warm summer days ahead. Those days when you need a little water in the mix to cool yourself off. So I went on a mission to find some fun water entertainment ideas.
I didn’t have to look far, SwimWays® has several backyard and water toys that will help keep your kids cool this summer.
The Splunk a Dunk game lets your kids use the backyard hose to make a fun toss game. Kids take turns tossing bean bags at a …read more

One of my favorite things to do when I was a kid was playing games in the pool.  My brother, sisters and I and our friends would spend hours and hours in our pool making up elaborate games and races, but we’d also spend a lot of time simply throwing rings or coins in the pool then finding them.  When I saw the Swimways Spring Hoops Pirate Treasure Set, I immediately remembered those games I played as a kid and thought this toy rolled them all up into one.

From the “what were they thinking?” files comes a story of the possible dangers of a pool toy like the one pictured at the left and other similar pool toys. Do you really need a study to realize that a toy for the pool that looks like it could trap your kids inside could possibly be dangerous? I’d think that was a no-brainer. Apparently, I’d be wrong.
News station KGO-TV/DT features a video wherein Good Housekeeping tested a few of these toys, including the Erupting Volcano Island, Cool Castle, and UFO Habitat (pictured above) to see what incidents …read more

Do you love a visit to the dollar store? I do. And I love to share the experience with others.
Just a couple of months ago, I was with a family member who had never been in a dollar store of any type. I took her to a Dollar Tree. All she could say was, “And this? This is a dollar, too? What about this? Surely this isn’t a dollar?”
And I’ll I kept saying was, “Yep. That’s a dollar, too.”
No, you’re not going to find the latest, coolest, most expensive toys out …read more