I hope you are preparing for a lovely Thanksgiving celebration with family and friends, and gearing up for all those crazy Black Friday sales! Here are some of our top picks for 2011 to help you out! And just to make it a little better, these have all been approved by Teeny Tot, Tinkerbell, Turbo and Strawberry shortcake themselves! (Although I did have to remind them that I run an educational blog a few times! LOL!)
Stocking Stuffers:
- Pick and Draw
- Why Do They Call it Christmas? DVD
- Smencils
- The Night Before Christmas Recordable Book (My parents did this for our children, and they LOVE it! It will be a wonderful keepsake for years to come.)
Kids Gifts:
- Stack & Match Magnet Rings
- Magnetic Mosaic Design Board
- Alligator Uppercase Puzzle
- Bead Sequencing Kit
- Wedgits
- Zoob Building Set
- Dino Digs (Seriously a huge hit in our house!
- PlayFoam
- KaBam
- Kanoodle
- GeoSafari® Talking Electron Microscope™
- GeoSafari® Tuff Cam
- Blurt!®
- Math Slam™
- Buck, Buck, Moose!™ Game
- Melissa & Doug See & Spell
- Melissa & Doug Beginner Pattern Blocks
- MindWare Imaginets
- ThinkFun Zingo (My kids LOVE this game!)
- ThinkFun What’s Gnu
- Pop for Sight Words by Learning Resources
- Pop for Letters Game by Learning Resources
- Goodie Games – ABC Cookies by Learning Resources
What our kids REALLY want this year…(Currently accepting donations…;o) just kidding hee hee!)
- Legos (Anything Star Wars!)
- American Girl
Click here to see my 2010 Christmas Gift List of ideas!
Happy shopping! And make sure to stop by Starbucks on your way so you don’t get too cranky waiting in line ;o) (I highly recommend the Grande White Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino! I didn’t say to get it skinny, because I figured you’d need the extra calories to endure all of the shoppers!)
Great ideas Erica!
PS- Congratulations on the best blog design award!
I simply love your blog…
Thanks for the suggestions! Happy Thanksgiving Day!! :o)
Happy Thanksgiving Day!!!
This is THE BEST gift/idea list I’ve seen all year! Thank you so much!
you’re so creative! i get so many inspiring ideas from you and your webiste! keep up the great work, i mean ministry! thank you for using your gifts to serve other homeschooling moms! 3 BIG cheers for you!
great list. Thanks! Lots of creative play opportunities 🙂
I’ve never heard of this game before seeing it on your web site. We do “wacky wednesday” in preschool and cut out different face parts and glue them on to a paper plate to make a “wacky” face! How wonderful it would be to take this to the next level and explore their creative side even more with this game. Thanks for introducing it to me.