Sticky Mosaics Heart Box

Sticky Mosaics Heart Box by The Orb Factory Limited Products is the winner of the ASTRA Best Toys for Kids 20101 award in the Creative Arts Play category.

The Sticky Mosaics Heart Box offers easy kids crafts for young decorators. This kit uses a decorate-by-numbers system to allow enjoyable kids craft projects to take place while producing very special self-made treasure boxes.

The heart box with a mirror is a perfect place to store jewelry and the great memories produced while decorating it. This DIY toy box uses over 500 sparkling stickers with jewelry motives.

The top rated toys of the Sticky Mosaic line are great gifts for girls and will delight them regardless of their ages and skill levels.

Age 5+

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1. The award winning toys selected by The American Specialty Toy Retailing Association (ASTRA), are chosen because they are considered to be engaging, unique, open-ended, fun and safe. For more information visit Astra’s official website at www.astratoy.org.

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Automata Chinese Dragon

Automata Chinese Dragon

Automata are traditional mechanical toys; they offer great opportunities to engage in fascinating DIY toy projects for older children and adults who enjoy mechanisms and assembling machine toys.

Automata are entertaining challenging machines with intricate designs on wood or paper that move with cranks, levers and wooden sticks engineered to produce motion.

The Chinese Dragon snaps its jaws and twists its body when the crank is turned. This toy kit displays how mechanics works and stimulates curiosity for science and technology.

This creative toy kit is packaged with four 8 1/2x 12 cards printed with the model parts, wooden sticks, and complete instructions. Assembly requires tools such as: glue, scissors, craft knife, needle and thread.

The Automata Chinese Dragon is a design by Walter Ruffler, one of Europe’s most accomplished automata designers.

Age 12+

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A Creative Toy for Artist Kids, the Designer Toy

QEE DIY 8 inches Monkey

Half toys half kids art projects, the designer toys are a fantastic way to introduce kids craft projects with fun themes. We are not talking about make your own toys building kind of projects here, the blank toys are more like a paint your own doll.

DIY toys associated with vinyl toy concept are very popular among urban artist and toy collectors alike. But blank toys are not reserved to them exclusively. This can be the source of easy projects for kids with an artistic touch everybody in the family can enjoy. And at the end you have a unique toy and an art piece, the pure expression of creative children.

Designer toys are modern toys, they just appeared in the 1990s created by designers and artist. Illustration and graphic design are important aspects of their origins and relevance.

One important characteristic blank toys have is the limited edition factor. Although the common material it’s been traditionally vinyl, due to environmental implication other materials are gaining popularity, such as clear vinyl, resin, wood, metal and plush among others.

Some toy kits can be expensive, it’s not like giving your children a piece of paper and crayons, but there are different choices for beginners, and this is definitely a good activity to encourage if you have interest in offering your children a creative artistic outlet, and who wouldn’t?

Maybe some serious hobby can come out of the DIY toy – designer toy exploration. Design toys can become a passion, I can spend hours just looking at the galleries online. A finished collectible toy can be sold for a lot of money. Who knows? Maybe one day someone will be searching for your own kids vinyl figures.

So, dolls collectible items taken serious as modern art expression, who would of thought so? Isn’t it great? Another aspect of creative toys making a difference in children’s lives.

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