NOVELTIES

Here’s a fidget toy you can fidget with while you’re fidgeting! This bright, multi-colored ring expands and retracts, from 5" dia to just under 10”, and works well as a flying disc or halo-like headpiece. Its shapes, colors and movements will keep active minds and hands occupied for hours. Easy to store or slip into a bag, at about 1/2” thick.

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 and drop it into the cup. With the classic styled black glasses, blue basket and orange ball, you will be filmed on a smart phone, it will be put on social media, and you will be famous for it for the rest of your life. Best to order a couple so you’re not alone.

Newtonian demonstrator for science teachers. Mindless play for the rest of us. These are shiny, nicely balanced, high-performance examples of the classic Newton's Cradle - a ball on one end of a row of (5) suspended, barely touching balls swings into the others, and the ball at the opposite end reacts to the collision. The 11/16" dia balls in the all-metal frame 6-1/2" high x 4" x 4-1/4" will collide about 30 times. Awesome. Even more awesome that we paid someone to count the bounces just for you! (Unpacking note: Less awesome if you just yank it out by the suspension lines and pull a couple of balls loose. Be gentle.)

Imagine the family competitions you could have with this floating ball game. Hours of fun, minutes at a time! The wooden pipe is approx 6” long, and the 1-3/8” Styrofoam balls are yours to levitate through the magic of steady breath and balance. Oh, the wonders! Ages 4+.

Never miss the ball with your paddle again. These jumbo ping pong balls are just the thing for the table tennis challenged. At 2-1/2" they are a little tough to bounce into those red cups you all love to play games with but we know you will try. Our each is a box of (3).

Jarvis Says: Not yet available in our retail stores. 

You could be, and you don’t even need electricity. These extremely old-school pinball games use just (6) little steel balls and gravity, which is pretty much everywhere, as we’ve discovered. Measure 9-7/8" x 5-1/4" under clear plastic with a spring-loaded plunger and 15 ways to score. No electricity means no TILT light, so you can tilt to your heart’s content if things aren’t bouncing your way. You pick the Hi-Score traditional game or the Treasure Hunt game with undersea creatures.

You guessed it—in our hands! You’ll have it, too, when we send you this 2-1/4” dia foam squeeze ball of Planet Earth. Looks like a classic classroom globe with oceans and countries in vibrant colors. Decent details for its size, too. Squeeze your stress away.

We went to a Mystery Gift Ball once and it was nothing like Eyes Wide Shut. This ball isn’t, either. It’s made of paper, and looks like an old cartoon “BOOM” bomb, black and 5” dia. It’s filled with (5) toys, like a mini pinata, but you don’t whack the crap out of this one. You peel it open to reveal the gifts. Then again, you could probably whack the crap out of it if you wanted to. ! WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD–Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

This sleeve of (6) orange table tennis-like balls is actually labeled for the campus-inspired game that involves some of the things associated with Ping-Pong, but not the net or paddles. You don’t even really need the green table, come to think of it. We wouldn’t use these balls for actual table tennis, but for the other game with red cups and foamy beverages, they’re perfect. Not that we condone that sort of behavior, unless we’re invited.

Funny that the nicknames we gave the McGill brothers at the end of the alley would become standard procedure in volleyball. We haven’t talked to Bump or Spike in years, but we’ve played a lot of pool volleyball. You too? Then it must be time for a new ball. This one’s a beauty—standard size (APPROX 8"), covered in soft fabric with an orange and green beach pattern, and specifically designed for water. Won't saturate so it weighs 8 ls. Which must be why Target calls it the Water Volleyball. Ages 5+

You serious about table tennis? If so, and you’re not into standard white, here’s a sleeve of (6) orange Shield 101 balls, regulation size, 40mm (a touch over 1-1/2”) dia, manufactured in Shanghai since 1928. Also great for another table game with red cups, but we don’t condone that sort of thing, unless we’re invited. ! WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD–Small Parts and Contains a Ball. Not for children under 3 yrs.

Technically, these balls aren’t Super Balls, just like all tissue isn’t Kleenex. But they’re super in our eyes. With cool, colorful marbleized designs, they measure approx 1-1/16” dia each, or 27mm for Canadian kids. We’ll send you an assorted package of either (12) or (72) depending on how super you want your order to be.

JARVIS SAYS: Oops! We made a mistake in the catalog pricing of the (72) pack of these balls. The correct price is $24.95. Sorry for any confusion.

Show your friends and neighbors what appears to be a spherical fossil and then bounce it off the floor or wall and watch their jaws drop. This 2-1/2” dia, soft, squeezable Fossil Ball is a textured reddish-brown with tan highlights. Looks a little like a frosted ginger cookie—except it’s a ball. Study the dino bones on the surface, and then bounce it again. Ages 3+.

These 2-1/4” foam cubes are for squeezing when you've crapped out once too often. Just like their non-squeezable cousins, they have slightly rounded corners to encourage the roll. These soft dice are missing the 1 dot, though. What can we say—surplus! On the other hand, you’ll know the blank side is always 1, or you could add a dot, or (and we like this option best) you could invent a game where the blank side is wild and you get to pick any number you want. Bonus: every time you lose, you’ll be able to squeeze your stress away.

Not quite super-ball category, but plenty bouncy. We’ll send you (2) different orbs ranging from see-through with a bunch of glittery, multicolored stars inside to covered with swirled colors reminiscent of Munch’s The Scream or pink and yellow like a tropical sunset. All of which are super by themselves. Measures 1-3/8" dia.

If so, don’t worry. We have pouches full of ’em, all made in Mexico, where marbles come from. You pick from (6) varieties: the themed sets that include: (1) 25mm shooter and (24) 16mm player marbles, either in Cat's Eye (transparent with bright color swirls); Sea Turtle (transparent blue-green with yellow swirls); Moon Glow (glowing (shooter) with pale green player marbles); or Ice Queen (transparent with icy blue and white swirls); OR the Pound of Rounds, assorted marbles (more than 60), mostly 9/16” but up to 1-5/16” in various colors and styles; OR the (10) marble Solar System set, in a net bag, including (1) 35mm boulder for the sun, (9) 25mm shooter marbles for the planets, and (10) display rings to keep them in place on your desk or shelf. Ages 5+. ! WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD–Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

Relax—you look like a big ball of stress! Channel it into a small ball of stress. Nee Doh is a deeply satisfying, squishy stress ball with a colored slime-like center. Feels just like the spleen of your boss, landlord or (insert nemesis here). Goopy interior changes color as you squeeze for a soothing, powerful feeling, no matter how ineffectual you actually were this week. Comes in assorted colors.