Unleash creativity and inspire bold, empowered designs with 20 all-PINK magnetic tiles in our Pink Charity Pack. Bringing together a great selection of shapes, this limited-edition pack is the ultimate gift to share the magic of open-ended play and give something truly special to loved ones – a symbol of hope, support, and solidarity in building a future free of breast cancer. Entirely compatible with existing collections, combine this pack to add a fun pop of colour and creativity to your builds.

Evaluation comments:

“I really like these magnetic tiles. The magnets are fully encased for safety, and they have some ridges adding a bit of interesting texture to the tiles.”

“I love the many different sizes that are included in this pack. There are some really long pieces that I have not seen in other sets.”

“There are enough pieces to create some fun and interesting structures. The magnets are strong and the pieces hold together well. They are also compatible with other brands.”

“I actually really love that all the pieces are the same color. This sounds a bit odd, but there is something soothing about the uniform color instead of the chaos of the multicolor builds.”

“Both my daughter and son love the vivid pink color.”

“We love building things with these tiles, and we are really enjoying the unique shapes that we have not seen before in other magnetic tiles sets.”

“A portion of every purchase goes towards breast cancer research. What a wonderful idea.”

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Reading Stars is an engaging app that helps kids build reading skills through interactive stories, vocabulary games, and fun activities. Featuring over 3000 award-winning books aligned with Lexile® levels, it offers a rich variety of educational content. With daily reading missions and gamified rewards, the app fosters a love of reading while improving comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. Perfect for kids aged 3-10, it provides an exciting way to develop essential reading skills.

Evaluation comments:

“This app includes a library of stories that children can read on their own or follow along with as a narrator reads and the words are highlighted.”

“I like that there is an activity section in which the children read the book, take a comprehension review and then play games related to the story.”

“Great for kids to develop reading habits, learn phonics and vocabulary.”

“I like the variety of reading materials in the library such as stories, poems, comics, and article. And a variety of topics such as family, nature, science and many more. There are funny stories, holiday stories, and stories for early readers to experienced readers.”

“I like this reading app—stories are interesting, entertaining, and engaging.”

“The narration is easy to listen to and the illustrations in the books are varied and fun.”

“This is educational, colorful and encourages the love of reading and learning.”

“The app was easy to download and to use.”

“This is a great app for children—it is not a mindless game, children are entertained and learning at the same time.”

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Created by teachers, admissions directors, educational consultants, specialists, and parents, the Purposeful Play Kindergarten Prep Box gives families an easy, trusted way to build essential early learning skills in just 15 minutes a day. With only about half of children entering Kindergarten fully prepared, parents need support they can rely on. Each box includes 55+ hands-on, play-based activities that strengthen early literacy, language, math, motor skills, social–emotional development, and independence—making learning at home simple, joyful, and effective.

Evaluation comments:

“I love the purpose of this box. It is full of simple activities that build essential skills so your child is prepared for Kindergarten.”

“The box Is colorful and large, so the kids were really eager to see what was inside.”

“There are so many different activities inside that both my son and daughter each grabbed what was calling to them and there was no fighting.”

“I thought it was funny that my daughter immediately grabbed the blow-up beach ball. My son went straight for the scissors. It really shows me that they really do enjoy the simple things.”

“This entire box is comprised of high-quality, age appropriate and thoughtful pieces.”

“The mats feel durable, the markers are bold, the game pieces feel sturdy, etc.”

“There are 14 distinct activities that promote language, literacy, math, fine and gross motor skills, social-emotional learning, and independence. There is an instruction booklet that describes each activity and even offers ideas for further play and exploration.”

“The activities are simple such as stringing beads, playing catch and toss, talking about feelings and ideas. I really appreciate this. After the year we had, it is really nice to slow down and just enjoy the simple things.”

“It’s a wonderful learning box.”

“This is super useful! It’s such an easy way to spend time and play with my kids in a way that is beneficial to them in different ways.”

“We have plenty of toys that work on one or a few of these skills, but to have them all together in a box like this is really smart and convenient.”

“I like the simplicity of these activities. It reminds me that getting back to the basics is effective.

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Number Hunter is a board game that makes early math effortless. Kids travel four parts of the world, practicing addition, subtraction, and even/odd numbers as they race to the finish line. Fast turns, beautiful illustrations, and fun challenges keep engagement high—at home, in class, or on the go. It feels like an adventure, not homework—so they play more and learn more without even noticing.

Evaluation comments:

“This activity is set up like a typical board game with a board, player game pieces, dice, and some action cards. The game tests addition, subtraction, and knowledge of even and odd numbers.”

“The rules are simple to understand and teach.”

“There are 3 dice–2 number dice and 1 with addition and subtraction operation symbols.”

“When it’s your turn, you roll are three dice and either add or subtract the numbers you roll depending on the operation symbol rolled. The answer is how many spaces you advance along the board.”

“The board also has spaces in which a player has to draw cards and perform some kind of act or math problem in order to advance even further.”

“This is a fun activity that incorporates math.”

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Doliwish Dinosaur Visual Timer helps kids manage time with a fun LED countdown, silent operation, and colorful progress bar. Rechargeable and easy to use, it’s perfect for study, play, or classroom use. Made with safe materials for kids 3+.

Evaluation comments:

“It’s smaller than I expected, but I actually love the size. It’s lightweight with smooth edges and it looks adorable.”

“This dino timer is great. It’s compact and lightweight, so it’s easy to take it from one room to another or even on-the-go.”

“There are just a few buttons on it, so it takes a minute to figure out the functionality, but once you do, it is really easy to use. It’s pretty intuitive to figure out. There are buttons to increase and decrease the brightness. Buttons to turn the timer on/off and pause, which are the same buttons that adjust minutes and seconds, and then a dial to adjust the time and volume.”

“The screen on the dinosaur’s belly shows the numbers counting down and there is a lit up colorful ring made up of dots around the numbers that disappear as the timer counts down so it’s easy for kids to “read” the timer that way too.”

“Overall, it’s a clever little timer and it works with my kids! I also find it handy to use in the kitchen!”

“Great to keep the kids on track when we need to pivot from one activity to the next. We don’t have anything like it.”

“I love how cute it is.”

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Make Music Count is a math experience taught through playing your favorite songs on the piano. In our lessons kids solve real math equations where the answers are musical notes to play on a virtual piano in our app or on a physical piano keyboard in our kits. The Math Maestro kit includes the Addition and Subtraction workbooks, a 49 key piano keyboard, and the option to download the Make Music Count app for free to also play your answers. Through this experience kids are able to increase their engagement, confidence, and performance in math while also learning how to play their favorite songs on the piano immediately even if they’ve never played the piano before. With Make Music Count if you can count, you can play!

Evaluation comments:

“Wow, this is pretty genius.”

“The keys on the keyboard basically become a number line. Moving to the right–the direction Americans normally read–is adding and moving to the left of the keyboard is subtracting on the number line.”

“So the workbooks set you up with simple equations that ask you to move a certain number of keys to the left or right, i.e. adding or subtracting.”

“The notes play popular, mainstream songs that kids know and love. This makes it really fun for my daughter.”

“There are 6 workbooks which include subtraction, addition, multiplication, division, fractions, and algebra.”

“The quality of the materials is really good both in content and actual materials. The keyboard works as it’s intended with good soun and the workbooks are easy to follow.”

“This is a really smart way to teach math.”

“Math can be really frustrating for kids to learn, and this teaches it in a fun and very innovative way. I haven’t seen another system like it.”

“I like that it teaches math in a new and enjoyable way.”

“This is different than anything I have ever seen or tried before.”

“Pairing math with music is an amazing way to encourage students to learn math skills.”

“Being able to play along with popular songs is very motivating.”

“The keyboard is light and easy to use and has demo music included. The sound is clear, and the notes are easy to follow once you learn them in the app.”

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Ready to elevate your brain game? Introducing SmartGames IQ Deluxe: Circle, the latest and most refined addition to the award-winning IQ series. Designed for ages 14 to adult, IQ Deluxe: Circle offers 120 logic challenges that gradually increase in difficulty—from easy warm-ups to brain-bending expert puzzles. This edition features an elegant circular twist on classic IQ gameplay, all housed in a premium, large-format travel case for a more sophisticated, satisfying experience.

Evaluation comments:

“Great quality puzzle game came nicely packaged in box with hard cover challenge book that includes 120 challenges and solutions.”

“Nice range of easy to complicated puzzle solving. This puzzle has five raised dividers that limit which pieces can fit alongside them, the dividers are not uniform which limits which pieces can be used in certain areas. The game becomes more challenging in the harder levels as the” challenge book” stops including the dividers for setup and you will then need to figure out where the starter pieces need to go in addition to solving the puzzle.”

“Great quality puzzle game that would be great for a long flight.”

“Adults, teens will love this too!”

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Learning Resources Lock & Key Clubhouse helps toddlers reach developmental milestones through hands-on play. This engaging toy encourages independence while strengthening cognitive and motor skills. Kids build coordination and practice their pincer grasp as they match keys and twist open locks to discover five friendly animal figures. Playing hide-and-seek with animal friends teaches counting, colors, shapes, and memory skills. This clubhouse is ideal for preschool learning activities and games, such as hide-and-seek, peekaboo, and more.

Evaluation comments:

“The toy is great quality.”

“The colors are vibrant and matched the toy inside each compartment. The lock turned easily, and each door opened as it should. Nothing chipped and no colors have faded.”

“So innovative. I loved how the key is attached to the toy so it will never get lost and it has a lot of educational aspects to it. It helped my daughter learn colors and strengthen her small motor skills by trying to open each locked door.”

“I liked that there is no assembly, no batteries. And most of all, my daughter really enjoys this toy.”

“My child was playing with just this toy for 30 minutes. Any toddler mom would tell you that is a lot of time for 1 toy! I also liked that it created teaching moments with colors and matching.”

“Both fun and educational and doesn’t make a ton of noise so it can be used in a restaurant as well as an airplane.”

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The all-new ABCmouse 2 is a reimagining of the award-winning early learning program loved by 45+ million families and trusted by over 600,000 teachers. Designed for ages 2–8, it features 5,000+ standards-aligned activities, games, immersive worlds like Safari Park, and partner content from icons like Major League Baseball and San Diego Zoo and Safari Park. ABCmouse 2 makes learning fun, effective, and safe—building critical thinking, confidence, and school readiness anytime, anywhere.

Evaluation comments:

“This app is educational and fun for toddlers.”

“I like that the app grows with the child. Hundreds of games are available in reading, math, science, art, and music categories.”

“The games are entertaining and educational, and children are motivated with tickets and rewards.”

“Math includes games in number recognition, shapes, patterns, addition, and subtraction are paired with fun characters and voices. The arts and colors section has drawing and painting games that help children explore shapes, colors, line, and creativity.”

“There are also more than 400 books in their library to encourage the enjoyment of literacy while learning letter sounds, math skills and science. There are also original music and classic songs about all the topics.”

“The app also has printables to encourage children offline.”

“I like the fact that the program tracks the progress of the child. It displays the number of activities that the child completed in all areas (how many books were read, songs were listened to, games were played etc.).”

“The games loaded quickly and there were no disruptions as they were played. The rewards, tickets get the child motivated to earn them so they can “buy” virtual items.”

“The app seems never-ending with its games, interactive zoo, aquarium and farm, books, games etc.”

“I like the bright colors, the educational aspect, the printables so that the child can continue learning away from the app.”

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Practice animal sounds, colors and learning songs with Ms. Rachel’s Spin Along Learning Wheel. Narrated by Ms. Rachel herself, this toy is thoughtfully designed to support early developmental milestones like color and sound recognition. Encourage fine motor skills as littles turn the wheel with 3 different modes. Tap the center for learning prompts and touch up the windows for numerous songs, sounds and prompts. A volume control feature lets you switch between two volume levels (2 AAA batteries included).

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