Optical Toys & Illusions

Here Comes The Sun... These 5-5/8" wide cardboard solar viewing glasses filter out 99.999 percent of visible light, and 100 percent of harmful UV and IR light, which means they’re safe for direct solar viewing (and your sunglasses aren’t). A...

Satchel Paige said never look back, something might be gaining on you, but he was a pitcher, not a spy. We recommend checking behind you with these stylish spy sunglasses with rear-view mirrors at the edges of both lenses. The flexible frame means one...

Lucy In The Sky With Acrylic Gemstones Picture yourself on a boat in a river: tangerine trees, marmalade skies, the whole deal. Sound good? Now give that view to a child with the Dabble Lab™ Rainbow Prism Kaleidoscope kit. Lucy wishes she had this...

The Classic View This reincarnation of the classic View-Master® is called (wait for it) the View-Master Classic®. As much fun as ever, and still battery-free. Comes with (3) reels with (21) 3-D images, including Age of Dinosaurs, Safari Adventure...

Renaissance Kaleidoscope Forget that the 6-3/4" long body is festooned with Latin phrases and old maps. The stones/beads/glass inside the tube would make designing windows in cathedrals a snap. And hey, that's good work if you can get it. A nice gift for...

Spirographic Madness It's the classic Spirograph®, which is a lot of intricate round mandala-like designs floating around out there. Celebrate with one of our spirographic specials. You pick: the Travel Spirograph® in a flip-lid case with a...

Neon strip cardboard spectacles with diffraction gratings as the lenses. (AKA Fireworks Glasses!) You can see the regular world, but all light sources and bright objects appear in multiple rainbow hued images. Smaller lights, think holiday ones, give you...

Ever wonder what that mystery gloop is on the bathroom floor or behind the garage? If only gloop could speak! Now it sort of can, with this STEAM kit for budding young scientists. The Dabble Lab™ Magic Reveal SlimyGloop™ kit includes a...

3-D Mirascope You've seen everybody's favorite desk toy. The one that makes you swear you can pick up the coin that's right inside it. Too bad it's really a hologram you're looking at! Now you can own this petite version of the popular "illusion" toy...

New Gen X Fun Gen Xers will remember hours of fun spent with the original Like-Brite before the Millennials ruined everything. Well, it’s back and like the cereals you used to eat, it’s New and Improved, with LEDs behind the 8-3/4” x...

Teleidoscope The world is your kaleidoscope with a teleidoscope, which is to say that instead of a bunch of little pieces of glass and beads in a rotating case, there's a lens at the other end, in this case a big, clear glass marble making lovely...