Movers, Shakers & Growers

Behold our version of the gravity-fed sliding woodpecker. Ours is a 1-3/4" standard black woodpecker, not counting his cute red plume, slowly pecking his way down a 16-1/2" tall metal rod. His super-rapid, lifelike pecking action is strangely compelling...

If Werner Von Braun had used these, London would have just gotten wet. Have some good clean fun with this Hydrotech "Aquazone" rocket set. You get (2) 5-3/4" tall water rockets and (1) 8-3/4" rocket, plus (2) filling funnels and a piston pump for power...

Even if you're not a female flamingo yourself, you can still hatch an adorable hot pink flamingo. You’ll get an equally hot pink, 4-1/4" egg, which you immerse in water and wait a couple-three days while it hatches and grows to 8”+ tall. But...

Halloween's not complete without a pumpkin race! These wind-up walking pumpkins are the perfect way to add some spooky fun to your party. Just wind them up and watch them waddle their way across the finish line. It's a hilarious and festive activity...

Shoot one of these little plastic arrow-helicopter-rotor gismos straight up with the included rubber band launcher and watch it soar as far as 300 feet! A fun outdoor toy that grows in sophistication as you learn how to adjust the arrowcopter for wind...

From France comes this fun mechanical plastic bird that really flies by flapping its wings. Officially known as an ornithopter, it's humbly called Tim by it's friends. It is about 8" long and has a wingspan of 16" tip to tip. Snap the wings in place,...

Does anyone really need to be told what a Slinky® is?? Okay, it is a very slack spring, 2-7/8" dia x 2-1/2" long, compressed. It will stretch out to about 5 or 6 feet long without deforming. That's the boring part. The interesting part is that it...

Hold the bottom onion-shaped bulb of this 4" glass toy in your hand and watch the liquid (green, red, blue or purple, we'll pick) magically bubble up into the top chamber and keep on bubbling like the dickens, as your grandmother used to say. The magic...

Spin this spindle and watch it turn in perpetuity!!  Well, for a long time anyway.  Inside the 5-1/2" long colored plastic spindle are magnets which are repelled by magnets in the 5" x 3" black plastic base.  The variously colored spindle...

Soldiers always get stretched thin, but they got nothing on this guy, who starts off 6” tall and can stretch to more than 2 feet! That’s right, this half-foot-long brown rubber soldier, filled with sand for a satisfying squeeze, more than...

Meet mini floppy! (AKA wacky waver) You know floppy. You see his larger family members all over the place, promoting sales and events of all kinds. Floppy measures a mini 12" tall, has a battery operated fan in the base, and operates on a single 9-volt...

Just stick these 2-3/4" long rubber feet on your fingers and patter away. They’re puppet feet that have lost their puppets, and are super-accurate, with toenails, ankle bones and that little vein on the arch. You get (2) right feet, and (2) left...

Go fly a kite. We highly recommend this rainbow-colored nylon parafoil version, measures 20" x 23" at its widest with a 14-foot tail (over three times longer than a tiger's) on a spindle with a couple hundred feet of string. Includes a carrying pouch,...

Introducing the Aeromax 2000. This update of the classic parachute toy has mesh under the canopy instead of lines, so it's tangle-free. Big 20" chute floats the little 3-1/2" tall trooper gently to the ground. In assorted colors, which we'll pick because...