Dolls.. I loved dolls as a girl.. mostly Barbies .. which was pretty much all we had way back when! Ha! Now there are so many options, and these Boxy Girls are by far my favorite.
We were lucky enough to see these Boxy Girls in New York at Sweet Suite. We have since posted 2 videos on them. We were recently contacted by Boxy Girls about reviewing some new products! Oh MY Gosh, I was so tickled and felt honored that they asked.. oh and of course I said yes!
They are releasing a Big Box with two new limited edition full sized dolls: Stevie & Everly. This HUGE big box also comes with 28 boxes to unbox, so roughly 33 surprises!
Here is Brooklyn! The first Boxy Girl that we received! They are just super cute. I love the shapes of their faces, the way you open and unbox each item.. ah its just so super cute.
You can check out more about Brooklyn & the other surprise box we received from Boxy Girls in our video reviews:
So we opened up Stevie in our most recent video on the Boxy Girls! We did just one! So you will have to wait to see what the other Boxy Girl Everly looks like 😉
Just LOOK at Stevie:
Look at those green eyes! Eek! OH and they came with a little towel/robe wrapped around them. I LOVE this because you can create their own style. Just LOVE that idea.
Isn’t she the cutest?! Ah! I am soo in love with these dolls.. and those SHOES! I need a pair like that haha.. I so wish I had these as a little girl growing up!
We got so many surprises with Stevie! Watch our full review here:
Also check out Boxy Girls on Youtube! Here is their video on the new Big Box:
You can purchase the original dolls at Walmart or Walmart.com for around $15, they each come with 4 surprise shipping boxes. You can also purchase a surprise pack for $10 that comes with 6 surprise shipping boxes.
Surprises include: clothes, shoes, hair accessories, pretend makeup, purses, jewelry and more! These sure are some awesome fashionistas!
This Big Box will be released on September 23rd, 2018, not sure what it will retail for, but will add that information as soon as I find out.
I seen patterns for these a few years back and I am so excited to see someone making and selling these!
First of all, these are on sale right now, and the play food and pans are on sale as well. Oh My Wow.. the quality of everything is out of this world.
Super easy to assemble and the play food is made out of nice materials AND the best part.. the food is squishy! They have some weight to them, which I love, it seems to make it easier for the kids to hold onto.
Each of the accessories sets come with 12 pieces. They have a few different food sets, pots and pans and a costume. Pst.. the pans are food grade too! Wow!
See! The pretend foods are soft and squishy! I just love the overall feel of them!
These pots, pans and utensils are so cute. They are stainless steel, which is just awesome in itself, and they are the perfect size for little hands.
The counter top set is so so cute! You can put pretend food in the blender and in the toaster and you can set items on the shelf towards the top.
Love the veggies! Love the soft colors too, kind of gives it an organic feel.
This set is the same! Soft and squishy!
The stove it totally my favorite. I did, however, have a little trouble getting the flat plastic piece to go into one of the sleeves, I think the size might have been off, but I did eventually get it to fit, with a little Mom power 😉
The oven and microwave both open and close with magnetic tabs and you can place the pretend food into the clear pockets.
And this! Ahh.. so sweet! It was a bit big for my almost 3 year old, but perfect for my almost 5 year old!
Love the details of the food..
Definitely my favorite play food that I have seen. Love the squishy feel and with squishes being so popular, it take it right to the playing field!
Pot and pants are super cute as well. One of the pans are plastic, the others are stainless steal. The over mitts are so cute, I just love anything smaller than normal! Ha!
One of the sets comes with a cookie sheet too! I think there are donuts, cookies and .. maybe a cheesecake? I love cheesecake, so we will call it that!
The finished set up stove/oven/microwave! The material is a heavy type of canvas I believe, with the finishes being a felt and other materials. Super durable and easy to clean.
Here is another write up:
“If you have little ones who love helping in the kitchen, the Pop-Oh-Ver Kitchen DeluxeSet($29.95) is a must-get imagination playset,” begins one of two glowing review by The National Parenting Center for the cleverest line of indoor play this year. The National Parenting Center joins six other toy industry influencers who were overjoyed with Pop-Oh-Ver’s endless possibilities for imaginative play that’s put away… until next time. Rare is a review that instructs parents of a “must-get” toy!
The centerpieces of Pop-Oh-Ver’s appeal are the now-you-see-it/now-you-don’t Stove and Kitchen Counter Sets ($39.95). The National Parenting Center called them ingenious! This is from a nationwide parent advocacy organization that has seen and tested every possible toy on the market, for decades! Pop-Oh-Ver has already won eight additional industry awards for its great design this year.
“This 12-piece toy kitchen accessory set includes all the pots and pans your little cooks will need,” continues the rave review that won a Seal of Approval Winner Fall 2018 from The National Parenting Center, “to become fabulous pretend chefs. Most of the pieces are made of sturdy stainless steel so you can wash in the sink or stick them in the top rack of the dishwasher. The kick here is that you can use all the parts with real food. Yes, they are food grade!”
A second Seal of Approval Winner went to the Pop-Oh-Ver Stove & Kitchen Counter Set. The gushing review begins, “The Pop-Oh-Ver Stove & Kitchen Counter Sets are an ingenious idea for people who do not have space for a traditional kitchen set. The set consists of one thick canvas fabric piece that fits over a flat backed chair. It is basically a slipcover for an armless chair which allows a child to play in a kitchen setting for a time and then the whole thing can be taken off, folded up and put away. It inspires and encourages role play while keeping set up and mess to a minimum.”
Pop-Oh-Ver has also received these awards this year: Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award, Tillywig Best Creative Fun Toy Award, Mom’s Choice Gold Award, Family Review Center Gold Award, PAL Award, Hot Diggity Award, Creative Child Product of the Year Award and Academics’ Choice Brain Toy Award.
Write up by Pop Oh Ver.
Needless to say, Aaron (from the Dream Team) loved this set!
Not Parent Approved! Ha! I would DEFINITELY approve! This is a super fun card game that allows kids to choose silly answers to silly questions!
Parents now have permission to let kids behave inappropriately with the hilarious family card game Not Parent Approved. While unexpected burps and farts can be considered bad manners, they do create laughter, hence the basis of this unconventional Family Night of fun.
Who would think being naughty, on occasion, would be a good idea? Two corporate marketing moms created the card game after being exasperated by what they were witnessing in their neighborhoods. Stacy Katz and Maximina Revis discovered in their research that the average 8-to-10-year-old spends nearly eight hours a day with a variety of different media, and older children and teenagers spend more than 11 hours per day, according to a 2013 policy statement on Children, Adolescents, and the Media,” the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The 455 cards (105 questions and 350 answers) involve cultural references from Taylor Swift to wedgies. Best of all, it’s offline requiring no plugs, cords, earbuds or charging. Kids must look at each other and interact in conversation. Imagine that!
When the kids are bored or you need to wait 20 minutes for a restaurant table, open up this card game and watch their eyes light up! It’s 100% family-friendly despite the awkward name. Two mompreneurs designed the card deck to reintroduce a love of tabletop games for a screen-obsessed generation. It is certainly attention-grabbing while quick, simple play for every tween, teen and college kid in the household. 455 cards, for 4-10 players. Game play takes 6-60 minutes at each other and interact in conversation. Imagine that!
Since making a splash in the toy world, Not Parent Approved ($24.99) has won the approval of many toy judges and award accolades fromDr. Toy 100 Best Children’s Products, National Parenting Product Awards 2016 Winner, Scholastic Parent & Child Gold Star Toy and Tillywig Toy Awards’ Best Family Fun Award Winner.
Even the Wall Street Journal gave a thumbs up when reviewing the game. “Game On” columnist and neuroscientist Christopher Chabris wrote,” for players who aren’t old enough for some of the more adult humor, there is Not Parent Approved, with cards that appeal to preteen sensibilities: ‘Boys remind me of…’ might be completed with ‘unidentifiable cafeteria food.’ In any version, this kind of game will stretch your mind, and your social skills, in unusual directions.”
It’s not just hard-to-please toy industry experts and neuroscientists but amazon-buying parents who squeal at the antics of this card game! I hope you’ll be interested to give this game a whirl and write a review! This game would be perfect to suggest for finicky, impossible-to-buy for tweens and teens for holiday gifts!
Write up by Not Parent Approved
We also received the #1 & #2 Expansion Packs! Not only can kids have fun with this, but also adults as well. A great alternative to screen time and an awesome way to bond and have some much needed silly but fun family time!
For more information you can visit there site here.
Check out our review on our Thomas channel:
Who won this game?? Watch to find out and to see how fun this game really is!
I have kids under the age of 5, we all team up on this game since the boys can’t read it and it’s still a whole lot of fun!!
We have started a toy carnival series on our channel and I just LOVE picking out all of these different toys for it! In this video we used Doorables and Num Noms Snow Cone.
Look at how cute and fun they are!
We got Elsa! Isn’t she sooo cute! Look at her eyes!!
And.. Goofy!! Ahh his face! These are definitely adorbs.. and they are flying off the shelves at every store we have been too! Hope we can get our hands on some more.
They have small blind boxes that come with two characters ( we got that one), bigger packs and even playsets!
The small pack we got was right around $4 at Walmart. I LOVE that we can get toys for under $5.
Ok, so the Num Nom Snackables Snow Cone.. SUPER messy.. but so so fun! We did this outside so the cleanup was easy! Princess Toy Review gave us some advice and mentioned when doing these inside to place a place underneath.. GREAT idea! Cleanup was a breeze! (We did a few more after the video inside because the boys loved them so much!)
Diversity. It’s what makes up the world, am I right? It should always be a good thing, sometimes the world makes it a bad thing.. but the Mom’s behind these dolls are making sure it’s a great thing!
Could a little girl named Selma change the way people think about others who may look different from them? Her mother, Valerie Alva-Ruiz, created Selma’s Dolls ($39.99) in partnership with fellow mom Courtney Stillwagon to mirror the beauty within every religion, culture and physical and mental disability.
The debut collection of Selma’s Dolls features ragdolls Annie, Lola and Ameena. The dolls are made for children ages 2 and up as a way to introduce the beauty of differences through play. Via the storybook, parents can teach their children that differences are special and lead to friendship and understanding. And ultimately those differences lead to wonder and acceptance.
The mompreneurs behind Selma’s Dolls were corporate colleagues in Atlanta, GA. As they chatted about work and children, “we realized our little girls’ ragdolls didn’t reflect the world around them,” explained Stillwagon. Recognizing a gap in the marketplace, they decided to start their own company (while keeping their day jobs!) with the mission of teaching children to love, appreciate and embrace differences. They worked quickly, hiring plush industrial designers to create a prototype and working through several iterations to perfect color, texture, size and safety specifications.
The charming results are Annie who wears a blue and yellow butterfly dress pattern to represent awareness for people with Down syndrome. Lola wears a Mexican-inspired print that’s a nod to Alva-Ruiz’s heritage. And lovely Ameena wears the color green, as green has a number of traditional associations and meanings in Islam.
Write up by Selma Dolls.
I love what these dolls stand for and the details they have.
They are super cuddly and soft, super easy to clean and just the right size for small hands.
Each doll comes with a book about Selma starting her first day at school. She is worried about being different but comes to see that everyone is different but that our differences are what makes us..US!
You can purchase these sweet dolls on Amazon via their website.
You can check out our full review here from on our Thomas channel:
I’m hoping they come out with the Selma doll and some more story books!
Mad Mattr! Eek! We seen this at Sweet Suite.. LOVE this stuff. My boys love it and I love it, we just can’t seem to be able to put it down!
It’s really like magic sand! Moldable, yet soft!
They have huge packs, brick makers, and even travel sized pods! We used cookie cutters and blunt knives for even more play fun (I used a sharp one, but not the boys!), we also found molds like a circle and a gummy bear.
This is something that is definitely great for sensory type play! All of my boys are hands on!
We were finished filming, but the boys just didn’t want to stop playing! I LOVE the pods though, you can throw it in a purse or backpack.
It is kinda messy, but does clean up really easily. So keep that in mind if you want to travel with it somewhere.
Ah.. the brick maker.. this was so fun and the bricks actually stack on each other! They are pretty simple to make, once we figured it out.. ha! The instructions are on the back of one of the pieces.
Looks like these vary in price, which ranges from around $10-$20. You can find these at most retailers.
S-t-r-e-t-c-h your creativity to the max with Mad Mattr – an amazing, super-soft modeling compound that molds and builds easily. Let your kid’s imagination run wild with this Mad Mattr modeling compound. It is stretchable and can be easily molded to create different shapes and structures. Kids will have hours of fun with this Doh-like compound that flows through your fingers.
Details:
Available in multiple colors
10 oz. (283 g)
Reusable
Never dries out
For ages 3 and up
Watch our full review here, just in case you aren’t sold yet ;):
This song rings through my head a lot, especially here lately! Spin Master, YES SPIN MASTER, sent us this awesome PAWtastic set up..and AHH.. just look …!
My son was SOO excited about it! LOOK at this firetruck and LOOK at the pop up garage! The garage is soo fun, not sure how long it will last being that it’s cardboard, but so far so good!
The Ultimate Fire Truck is super huge. It comes with Marshall and a smaller vehicle that he can sit in. The fire truck has a pull out grabber, pull out hose and even a small ladder. It also has stabilizers on each side that pull out, just like a real fire truck! Makes sounds and has lights and even shoots out water balls (plastic ones) on two sides and the ladder on the very top extends out pretty far! You can fit 6 pups on this awesome truck.
We found some smaller pups at the dollar tree to use as a game in our video, so keep in mind those do not come with the fire truck.
The ultimate garage is cool, not only can Baby A fit under and in it, but the huge fire truck can be stored in there as well.
Aww.. and our Skye! ( Yes, her real name is Skye!) She was part of this video as well. She did soo good! She saved the day in our video 😉
Just the scale of this truck is amazing.
My son really does love this truck. So does my 4 and 5 year old!
The Ultimate Fire Truck retails for about $60 at Amazon and other stores. As for the pop up garage, I am not sure if this is something that’s going to be available for purchase. I sure hope so! If you are interested in knowing, comment below and I will get in touch with Spin Master to find out.
Check out more about the Ultimate Fire Truck here.
To see our full video review you can watch it here:
Did you know that the Slinky has been around for 75 years! It started out as metal, then plastic, now all kinds of colors and even light up ones!
We were so excited to be able to join in on the fun for Slinky Day..Thanks to Alex Toys!
Look how fun this package was! Check out Alex Toys here! They have SO many slinky’s, even HUGE ones! They also have tons of other toys too! I love their products, they have so many hands one creative things.
The boys had a lot of fun with these! Slinky’s are such a fun thing!
LJ was trying to stretch it out as far as he could! We only have a few steps on our porch, so we really couldn’t get the real feel for it! ha!
Alex Toys was SUPER nice and sent us some slinky’s when we first started YouTube (2 years ago!) and we added that footage in our new video! Check it out:
Slinky’s just seem to be the staple of toys! Or at least they seem to be the start of what toys were!
Ok, so I thought that I would NEVER say this, but slime is SO in right now.. Well it has been.. but add the word poop and Unicorn.. and BAM.. GOLDEN!
These Poopsie Slime Surprises are my favorite right now! We have opened a total of 3 and have two more, PLUS they have a HUGE one with a magically looking Unicorn! ( Yes, I got one!)
The container alone is so intriguing! I need to open up the huge one soon! I am super excited about it!
There are over 12 of these to collect I believe, in series 1.. or as they call it.. drop 1 lol! You can even get a super rare slime with unicorn sparkles…
..which we got!! The slime was super easy to do and it sets up within 10 mins. It is, however, quite sticky and the simmer powder does stain your hands a bit… but it’s sooo much fun! (A little washing of the hands will take care of it though!) I LOVE the packaging and how each item is wrapped up.
See how cute! They container is used to mix the slime up, then you have the little Poopsie were you store it in. It has a clip in it so you can put it on a backpack or hang it somewhere.
Oh and the scents you can add! I think the boys got starwberry. I just LOVE these though.. they are a bit pricey.. about $10 each but super fun! MGA Entertainment makes these, (they make the LOL Surprises too) so no wonder why these are so awesome!
You can check out our full review here:
Yes.. we are trying something a bit new.. a toy carnival theme to see if we can ramp up our views! Let me know what you think!
So I have never been the best at reading to my boys.. I did when they were younger, but now since I work from home part time, YouTube, Blog and parenting 3 crazy boys.. it’s hard to find time..
I have been on the search for something that will assist with this.. so when we seen this at Sweet Suite.. the boys AND I were hooked!
The boys stood at this booth for a super long time. They listened to a whole story! It was about 7 mins long.
Ahh.. this is my favorite photo of them from Sweet Suite, not to mention the ladies that ran this booth/run Lunii were the most sweetest and friendliest group I have met!
They seen that the boys were really intrigued and gave us one to take home! It’s super awesome! Not only does it charge, but you can pick a character, theme and object. It’s screenless and the buttons are not overwhelming to figure out, the whole feel of the storyteller is really nice. Super simple for kids to use on their own.
There are 48 stories that come downloaded on the storyteller and you can even download more on their website! We JUST downloaded the bedtime stories and THAT is what the boys have been listening to at night! They have really enjoyed it.
I honestly can’t wait for more downloads to be available!
There is also a head phone jack so you can use the Storyteller with or without head phones. This would also be great for car rides or waiting for a doctor appointment. The My Fabulous Storyteller retails on their site for around $70.00.
For our full review (and skit) check out our video:
The boy’s (and I) had fun filming this video. Their giggles towards the end of the skit were so perfect that I didn’t have to edit anything in! They were actually listening to the stories when I “looked inside the room”! We didn’t have to act any of that out!
– A story telling Mommy B (Ok, not really, My Fabulous Storyteller does that ;))
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