Classic Toys

He was born Marion Walter Jacobs, and in his sweet home Chicago he changed the way the harmonica was played. They called him Little Walter, and his blues harps were standard size, but oh, how he would have loved this Little Harmonica from the folks at...

With the help of these (12) beautifully illustrated instructional cards from the 1859 bestselling book Hand Shadows by Henry Bursill, you’ll amuse and amaze your friends with your newfound hand-puppet artistry. The walls will come alive, we say!...

This is a travel-sized version of that classic wooden game of skill and lucky dice commonly known as Shut The Box. Measures 5-1/4" x 3-1/4" x 1"—perfect for road trips, airplanes and campers—with hinged wooden tiles numbered on the top and...

You know what that means? This game doesn’t stink! And that’s why it’s so great for traveling, along with the fact that the included instructions, deck of cards and folding wooden score board with metal pegs fit easily into your pocket...

We’re talking to you, rubber ducky, and all your friends, too. These assorted rubber duckies measure 2-1/4" dia x 1-3/4" tall, and come in a variety of themes, including sports (basketball, baseball, soccer and football), medical (nurse in blue...

These 2-3/4" Alien puppets are modeled after real alien hands. No Joke. They even glow in the dark just like real aliens. Your get a set of (4), one for each finger on one hand. Buy two for all your fingers! (Sorry thumb lovers)  

This excellent STEM Explorers™ Geomakers™ 3D building challenge kit/puzzle from Learning Resources® reminds us of tinkerer’s toys from days past. Allows kids to connect (58) pieces in many configurations, learning about 2D and 3D...

We love when science and play come together, and this precision gyroscope is our latest obsession in that department. Constructed mainly out of durable plastic with rubberized tips, this Cyclone Gyroscope® was designed by TEDCO® ...

This erector-type robot kit has (144) mostly metal pieces, and when your kid puts it together with the included tools and instructions, it’ll stand on its own. Looks really cool—kind of simplistic but also shiny and mysterious, with big red...

Compress your own air, then let this emergency air horn rip. Why pay for cans of compressed (it’s air, for Pete’s sake) that will probably be empty when you need them anyway. This 5-1/4” tall x 2-3/16” dia pump mates with a red...

Nothing says compact fun like rubber finger puppets. We recommend these for adding a touch of whimsy to parental or grandparental reading of bedtime stories. You pick a quartet of rubber cats or squirrels, in four different colors/breeds, all approx...

Excellent spinners, these 2-1/4” dia tin tops. Painted in assorted pretty geometric patterns that become equally pretty color circles when spinning, which they’ll do for a very long time. Kids could have contests. Adults could, too...

Nothing says compact fun like rubber finger puppets. We recommend these for adding a touch of whimsy to parental or grandparental reading of bedtime stories. You pick a quartet of rubber cats or squirrels, in four different colors/breeds, all approx...

That’s what it says on the package of our Thunder Shaker, and that’s what we’ve been doing since we busted it out. It’s a metal tube that measures 6" tall x 2" dia with a 16” long metal spring coming out of the bottom. Shake...

You can’t cut your hair, or anything, with this switchblade-like device because when the “blade” flips out, West Side Story-like, it’s actually a comb. Measures 9” overall when the comb is out, 4-1/2” when folded...

The real deal. 2-1/2" long red egg-shaped container with a blob of Silly PuttyTM inside. Does anyone need me to explain all the fun you'll have with Silly Putty? I thought not. Just get some today!

More fun than a canned ham, this flip-top storage tin has a train set inside, with a plastic steam engine, tender, boxcar and caboose, as well as a 12-piece track that forms a 10" x 22" oval. Tin and train car colors may vary. You add a "AA" battery and...

THE American classic novelty item (even ahead of the whoopee cushion and rubber vomit, we think) is a set of chattering choppers. Auto-dentures. Invented by Eddy Goldfarb in 1949, a man who made the Toy Industry Hall of Fame ahead of Milton Bradley,...

2" flywheel in a well-made metal frame. The trick is the same as it has been for 100 years. Wind the string through the spindle, pull it firmly to set the flywheel spinning, and perform effortless balancing magic on pencil tips, string tightropes, and...

A gallimaufry of gags, the prankster's pantheon. Our seven-day selection of sophomoric stupidity includes a joy buzzer, a fake ketchup spill that is perfect for a laptop or tablet, wrapped candy thats more bug than treat, a pack of gum with a mousetrap...

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 Rosetta window fans, and...

It could have been called an Alabama Buzzer after Alabama Vest, the man who invented it. Or a Clegghorn, after Thaddeus Von Clegg, the clock master who fabricated the first one. But the hand-crafted 4-3/4" long steel instrument was a simple amusement,...

This goldenesque rubber chicken can talk! Actually, squawk. Known as the Shrilling Chicken, it’s 11” long, in chicken-skin goldish color, complete with goose bumps, a squish me tag and don't forget the gaping mouth. Squeeze it for hours of...

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...

You may well have wondered where the boneless chicken breasts in your local supermarket come from. The answer is from boneless chickens. And we have some life sized rubber models of the birds to prove it. Modeled from life, they are shown plucked and as...

Us too, but then who doesn’t kazoo? These 5" long classic steel kazoos have 1-1/8” resonators, and you'll get (1) out of a possible (16) festive patterns. They come in sealed blind-box packaging so even our warehouse elves don't know which...

Or the Swanee whistle. Whatever you call it, this little slide whistle (just consider it the smallest trombone in the universe) has an outsized musical history. No elevator has ever fallen in a cartoon without its accompaniment, and no jug band is...

The original Joy Buzzer was called the Joke Buzzer (1932 U.S. patent #1845735, Soren Adams) and it replaced the more dangerous Zapper, which is lost to time, more's the pity. Our standard wind-up model is a 1-3/8" dia circle of perennial vibrating fun,...

Yes, we have The Amazing Live Sea Monkey® aquarium kit, just like the ones from the comic books. The (9) piece ocean zoo includes brine shrimp eggs, growth food, water purifier, plus an official plastic feeding spoon, 32-page handbook, life insurance...

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...

Or Five? They're supposed to be finger puppets, but they could be hands in search of a mini mannequin. Wherever they came from, they're 2-5/8" long in a variety of lighter and darker toned flexible rubber, and remarkably life-like in a ready-to-shake...

A tiny touch of whimsy from your local scientific and surplus monger. You get a trio of 1-3/4" dia x approx 2-5/8" tall plastic tops in assorted colors, with the American Science & Surplus logo on the disc. The tops of the tops have a vaguely...

Here's a little music box to crank. These are really cute, with a very nice sound, and they're in clear acrylic cases so you, or impressionable youngsters, can watch them work. They measure 2-1/4"x 2" x 1-1/4" with a 7/8" crank. We'll pick one that plays...

is best done with the sacred mother of all novelty items, the original Whoopee Cushion. Marlon Brando owned one. Of course he did, they're both American classics, except the cushion was born in Toronto. Ours is the classic 8" version.

Back in the days when technology was a good guy, and cereal boxes came with real toys, kids got diving submarines that they charged with baking powder and played with in the bath tub. Now kids can have the same fun again. We have found a (gray!)...

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...

You're buying the drinks and this wacky, yet debonair, bird with a top hat and plastic base (7" tall OA) can't get his fill of water. Get him started, and he dips his beak into your glass repeatedly. How? Fluid inside his glass body condenses from the...

And we say that with a history of silly that’s virtually unmatched. You slip on this pair of lens-less glasses with the tiny bucket and ball on a string attached, and try, while looking like a demented chipmunk, to swing the little ball on its cord...

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...