
Nice, if odd, plush marionettes. All (3) are appropriately patterned and good sized. They're about (2) feet nose to tail, and have a goofy, gangly charm, as marionettes so often do, bless their little strings. The odd part is that the zebra and elephant both have small bodies, long legs and really, really long necks-imagine an entire zoo designed by the giraffe. Cute, though, and right at home in a child's imaginative mind.
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36561 ELEPHANT MARIONETTE | |
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36560 GIRAFFE MARIONETTE | |
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36559 ZEBRA MARIONETTE |
Or they should be. Yours will last years, unto the 20th generation if you use our lignin- and acid-free craft papers. Our each is a dozen 12" square sheets in assorted colors, with (8) printed in assorted geometric patterns and (4) in solid colors.
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36705 SCRAPBOOK PAPER |
You can't start them too young on visual fantasies. Get this cute pair of small (5-7/8" long x 1-3/4" dia) plastic kaleidoscopes with cartoon animals on the outside and brightly colored geometric shapes making happy patterns on the inside. For age two and up.
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36762 KALEIDOSCOPE |
How you gonna keep the rugrats occupied when they're off the grid? Try these old-fashioned time fillers, promotional "Sysco Kids Adventures" (ages 3 and up) from the Sysco Food products people. (No, we have no idea why either.) The Jigaw set is a squared-off jigsaw-like puzzle plus (3) activity sheets with mazes and puzzles and a 4-pack of crayons. The Maze set includes a small, 31-page booklet of puzzles, coloring sheets and a 4-pack of crayons, and mazes with a BB maze on the cover. The Door Hangers set has (3) activity sheets with puzzles and mazes, a 4-pack of crayons, and (4) motel-style reusable door hangers so your kids can leave their breakfast order for you before they go to sleep.
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36950 DOOR HANGERS | |
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36948 JIGSAW | |
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36949 MAZE |
Dull outlook? Dreary prospects? Put a little edge on things with this pair of cardboard (think movie 3-D) Prizm® glasses that have (1) clear frame and (1) with slight diffracting properties to give brightly colored pictures a pop and a semi-, sort-of, 3-D effect. Interesting for classroom demonstrations. They measure 5-3/4" across with approx 5" temples. And yes, we know how to spell prism; blame the manufacturer.
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36896 PRIZM GLASSES |
They don't? Oh, right, they're mammals. Nonetheless, our sea life critter puzzles, which include orcas, come packed in handy little egg-like containers. We'll pick one with a clever rubber puzzle inside, either a 9-piece orca or an 8-piece dolphin. They're both 3-5/8" long model critters when assembled, cute, and nicely detailed.
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37138 SEA LIFE PUZZLE |
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 complete without one, but Louis Armstrong also played one on his Hot Five recordings, and Ravel even required one in an opera score. In assorted plastic colors with a steel slide, 6-7/8" long x 1/2" dia.
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93011 SLIDE WHISTLE |
Or an effective child-silencing puzzle, anyway. This clever thingy is a 10-1/4" long x 3-1/2" dia clear plastic tube full of plastic sprinkles (Jimmies, for those of you on the East Coast) with (47) slightly larger trinkets (a bell, pearl, baseball, penny, etc.) lost among them. The silent child sits in the back seat and turns the tube around and around while trying to find them and checking them off the enclosed list (you'll get a 50-sheet pad of them) and the next thing you know you're there yet. And yes, the octagonal ends are securely glued on so they can't open it and dump the sprinkles all over, the diabolical little rugrats. Also strangely compelling for fully grown adults. At least around here.
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93014 FIND IT |
They're full-color, punch-out models that start out looking like credit cards and end up standing up by themselves. The appeal? They're small, entertaining, dirt cheap, and there are a whole lot of them. Kidlets age 6 and up will be tied up for hours assembling and playing with these packs of (9) different pirate ships, dinosaurs or tropical fish, all approx 2" long, or the slightly smaller (approx 1-1/2" when assembled) packs of (14) transformer bots or spaceships and alien creatures.
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37130 3-D DINOSAURS | |
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37125 3-D PIRATE SAILS | |
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37126 3-D SPACE WARS | |
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37129 3-D TRANSFORMERS | |
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37127 3-D TROPICAL FISH |
Nothing quite says pure Bavarian goofiness like a nice pair of hopping lederhosen. There's no actual Bavarian inside, you understand, just the (literally) stand-alone, peripatetic pants. Wind them up, watch them hop around the desk or the brauhaus tabletop. The "happy sort of short trouser" stands 3-1/2" tall, with suspenders. Unterhalten, ya?
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93035 HOPPING LEDERHOSEN |
This very deceptive little pocket-sized 8X spy telescope has a pocket clip and measures just under 6" long x 5/8" dia. Nobody will ever know you're an undercover agent unless they see the white "SPY SCOPE" lettering on the side, but you can cover it up with your special spy's electrical tape. You can also pull the barrel out and use it as a 20X microscope if you choose to accept this assignment.
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93034 POCKET SPY |
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