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Twister

Twister is the game that ties you up in knots. Spin the dial and move a hand or foot to the colored circle on the floor mat. Can you get there’ dont touch the mat with anything but a hand or foot. It is for 2 or 4 players. It includes a spinner, a mat and instructions. Instructions are available in English and Spanish.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars a classic
Twister is great for people of all ages, as long as they don’t have any physical ailments.

4 Stars More than just a game
I purchased this game as an educational toy for my toddlers; what better way to learn their colors. The mat is very large and “waterproof” so it’s great for them to eat snacks on. They use it as a dance mat too.

5 Stars Classic!
This is just like I remember it! Spinner spins the arrow and around it goes…Great for young and old. We play this game at just about every birthday party and the grown ups love to have a turn!

Has some great educational value. This game has helped my DD’s learn colors and lefts and rights. Though they are small and can’t reach all the spots across the board. They have a blast! For adults you need to think about how you move. Because it could effect your next move.

Durable: So far so good! Even with 3 young kids who use it for other purposes. Cape…dance mat…house

5 Stars Parents in a twist
Although my 3 year old grandson knows his shapes and colors, he was not tall or long enough to reach the spots. He adapted the game so that he was in charge of the spinner and his parents did the “twisting”. He was thouroughly entertained and felt powerful in getting his parents into a twist. As he grows he will be all the more eager to play the game according to the real rules.

5 Stars fun!
Was at a party last weekend and saw this on the bookshelf. Somebody suggested getting it out, so we did! Lots more fun than we though and absolutely great for adults, especially those who want to get to know each other a little better.

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Melissa and Doug Children of the World Floor 48 Piece Floor Puzzle

Kids will love putting this puzzle together over and over again. The wonderfully illustrated circular floor puzzle introduces children to various cultures and helps them understand their world, and people from different ethnicities. This unique, multi-cultural puzzle measures 32″ across. Colorful and made of durable cardboard.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Another great Melissa & Doug toy
Our 3 1/2 year old daughter loves this puzzle. It’s a nice large size with large pieces that fit together easily. This adds to our daughter’s sense of accomplishment, and she enjoys the new challenge of a large round puzzle. Now she puts it together by herself and when she’s done, we then discuss the different cultures of the children holding hands. This really adds more value and more time spent using this verses other puzzles.

5 Stars Grandsons delight
I bought this for my 3 year old grandson who loves puzzles. This one has a duel purpose, its a great puzzle and it teaches him the world. He has put it together many times since I gave it to him.

5 Stars Christmas Present
My four year old grandson was beside himself, when he opened this floor puzzle and two other Melissa and Doug Floor Puzzles, at our Christmas gathering. They were definitly a hit.

5 Stars Another great idea from Melissa & Doug
Gave it to my nephew for b-day present. He loves it. Not sure about durabilty, but for the great price–worth the educational value!

5 Stars My 3-year-old daughter is a fan
My daughter really enjoys this puzzle, which we gave her for her 3rd birthday. It’s exciting to hear her tell us all the countries she wants to visit someday.

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The Game of Life Twists and Turns

The Game of Life: Twists and Turns puts a new and modern spin on Hasbro’s classic family board game. It is a game of choices, where players can “test drive” different lifestyles, take their chances and experience the twists and turns of real life. Jobs, money, marriage, children and all sorts of unexpected events — just like real life, it’s all here! Recommended for ages 8 and up, there are a thousand different ways to play this game, and no two games will ever be the same.

Updating a Classic
Like the classic version of the Game of Life, the Game of Life: Twists and Turns is based around real-life events. You’ll choose a profession at the beginning of the game, and roll the dice to progress along the board. As you progress, you’ll encounter all sorts of real-life events (injected with a hefty dose of humor, of course), including marriage, houses, cars and family matters. You’ll essentially live real life and make life-defining decisions, but without having to live with the consequences.

However, Twists and Turns has a number of updates in store. Not only does it offer far more choices and possibilities than the original, it also has a number of new technical features that both longtime fans and newly-introduced players will appreciate greatly. The game now features a “LIFEPod,” which helps players keep track of time and manage their careers, houses, cars and families with the touch of the button. The high-tech interface adds loads of fun to the game. The innovations don’t stop there: each player now gets their very own Visa credit card, which they can use to spend. This not only puts a fresh modern twist on the game, but it also could possibly teach younger players about credit card responsibility at an early age. This gives educational value to an already quirky and fun game.

An updated classic game, this version of Life features a LIFEPod to help keep track of players’ careers, houses, cars, and families.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars College Bound!
My college bound daughter played this game her senior year in high school and loved it. I thought this was the perfect gift to take to college. She plans Life Twists and Turns tournaments in the dorm! I have to say it was fun to play and I am not a board game type person.

1 Star Too many directions
Growing up I loved the game of Life. My kids got this game for a gift and we were excited to try it out. We were all very frustrated that every time you landed on a space you had to read directions. Nothing in this game is self explanatory. We’ve tried to played it twice and have stopped before finishing both times. This may be a good game to play with teens or adults but for an 8 and 10 year old, it is just too complicated. I’m contemplating buying the original Life game for their next gift.

1 Star Don’t waste your life….
Please, if you are looking for good family games, please step away from Life. It is monotonous, it does not require any real decision making skills from you or your children. Games should be fun, thought provoking and change from game to game. This does not. There are so many great family games out there that everyone in the family will enjoy. [...]

5 Stars Life
I like this game. It is a classic, and still fun every time I play it. Fun for all ages! I also like that it doesn’t take too long to play, and is not too complicated.

5 Stars Educational
I used this game in my Bus. Math class as an end-of-the-year wrap-up. It was great!

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Melissa and Doug USA Map 51 Piece Floor Puzzle

Geography comes to life in this jumbo-sized floor puzzle, featuring 51 shape-cut pieces of the states. Heavy-grade cardboard pieces are coated on both sides for added durability. Kids will have fun learning the states on this colorful, informative map puzzle.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Melissa & Doug USA Map
I think this is a great puzzle. It is a good learning tool and also fun to put together! I bought it for my 2 1/2 year old grandson….

5 Stars Learning experience
The puzzle was a birthday gift for my 3 year old granddaughter. It has bright colors and I love the fact that the pieces are in the shapes of the states. She has learned several states already. It also helps her visualize which states her cousins live in.

1 Star Don’t buy this puzzle!!!! At least not for educational value.
You have got to be kidding me right? They are selling this product as educational??? I am from Michigan and once again Michigan is not represented correctly. I don’t know what the yellow blob is suppose to be, but it is part of Michigan. It is called the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and this map only has the lower peninsula blocked off as Michigan. Please don’t buy this puzzle.

5 Stars Fun for adults too
It’s a good puzzle to teach kids where the states are, especially since the pieces aren’t interlocking like a normal puzzle. It’s fun and educational.

5 Stars My son loves it.
My 3 year old son loves this puzzle, but does get frustrated sometimes because the state pieces are mostly all separated at the state line. I actually prefer that the state pieces are separated at the state line.

He loves flying and loves to show with a model plane where he has been on the puzzle. I think my son at 3 has flown more than I did till I was 30.

My son loves all the Melissa & Doug floor puzzles.

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Childrens Trumpet

Your little one will be leading the charge with this classic Trumpet! Color-coded keys make it easier for little ones to remember the notes. Pretend you’re in a marching band with this shiny trumpet. Crafted out of high-quality plastic. Measures approx. 15″. Ages 3 & up.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Great trumpet!
My 3 year old daughter has been asking for a trumpet since Christmas and we finally got her one…she loves it! it is very durable (for some reason, she likes standing on it when she isn’t playing it..haha) and plays well. I would recommend this toy and buy it again!

5 Stars Popular gift for my grandson
I bought this for my 3 year old grandson for Christmas. His father is an instrumental music teacher, and gave high approval to the toy. It is very realistic in appearance and requires blowing and fingering to make sound. The sound is toy-like and realistic enough for a small child. It seems to be sturdy at this point. I would highly recommend it. If our son-in-law band teacher approves, it must be good.

1 Star If u r lucky play music otherwise place it in showcase
I bought this toy for my 5 years old son as he wished to have one after watching cartoon, he was very happy once we received the packet.

He felt hard to blow to get sound coming out, I tried to help him to teach, but I too became literally tired as the buttons doesn’t function well to pass air to give music. One of the button is not working & almost it is a dead one.

He hardly played with that for 30 minutes, then it went to toy dump in our home.

Appearance is quite good, plastic seems to be good, but not sure about the life of steel finish/coating as we used lesser than 30 minutes.

I guess it is a luck to get one which is working properly, but it disappoints children exception which I don’t like with this type of product.

If you get good one,it is your luck otherwise it is a good showcase toy.

This toy has good educational value so I need to give 5 star.

I called Amazon and explained the problem, their service was quite good and they refunded me.

4 Stars Is great so far
We got this a couple of months ago, after one of the keys broke off my 4 year olds last toy trumpet (another brand). I bought this one instead because even though it is a bit more expensive than his old one, the reviews sounded good. One thing I like about this one is that the whole mouthpiece is plastic. On his old one, sometimes he would put his lips around the mouthpiece when he would play, and some of the paint scraped off from his teeth, probably into his mouth. Not good.

This one is still plastic, and relatively inexpensive, but I think it is the way to go until he is ready for a real trumpet.

1 Star Disapointed
Firstly, I’m not a parent. I bought this Early Learning Centre (UK) toy to examine its potential as an educational tool. Of all the inexpensive toy instruments I’ve bought so far, I am most disappointed in this one. Many toy instruments are simply cheaper versions of real instruments capable of teaching children or even adults the gross basics of playing them. This is not the case here as this isn’t even a trumpet but a four-note melodica shaped like a trumpet. It can play E5-A5-C#6-E6. Mine is surprisingly well tuned, off by at most 5Hz with A880 off by only 0.2Hz (2.5 cents)!

Its construction seams rugged and design suitable for a three-year-old but I foresee kids age 6 and over getting board with it quickly. I haven’t had problems with the valves yet and it makes sound easily with little effort. Judging from other reviews I may have gotten lucky. The body appears to be chrome plated ABS while the mouthpiece, buttons and valve covers are cheaper polystyrene(colors differ from the picture). The valve covers are glued with industrial adhesive so it can’t be disassembled without breaking it. Mine is not yet broken so I can only assume the reeds are brass and the valves are plastic with steel springs and poly foam seals. Condensation must be air-dried. There are two finger rings for gripping with the non-playing hand.

Comparison:

The Schylling Toys Piano Horn (ASIN: B000RC2XB0) is 3 times more useful and 1/4 the price, and also has superior valve design. For school-aged children (6 and up) I can recommend the Hohner 32 Note Melodica Key Board (ASIN: B000BD5O5M); $5 more expensive but concert quality and useful unto adulthood. It seams a real quality toy trumpet costing less than $30.00 has yet to be invented. The most affordable real trumpets of any worth are over $100.00 new. The Noteworthy Bb Student Trumpet (ASIN: B001RLMBPI) or Conductor Bb Student Trumpet (ASIN: B000BUX3BC) are your best bet but because of their size, weight and complexity are probably best suited for children ages 9 and up.

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