We have another short and sweet Roundup of Mom’s Choice Award winners featuring STEM kits by Smithsonian, adorable Fuzzy Wubbles for your little ones and an inspirational book on nurturing your spirit for our adults. Be sure to scroll through the entire list so you don’t miss any of our new award-winners! All the items you see below won a Mom’s Choice Award during September 30 2018 to October 6, 2018.

Every week companies, inventors, and publishers from around the world send us their products for evaluation. Only the best earn our designation.

SMITHSONIAN ROCK AND GEM DIG

Put on your safety goggles and chisel away at your sand block as you excavate 6 different rocks and minerals and 5 real gemstones. Learn how different types of rocks form and the difference between rocks and minerals. Use the magnifying glass to inspect your samples. Then learn how to identify minerals based on hardness, cleavage, color, streak and luster.

Educational Products:
Ages 9 to 12

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SMITHSONIAN ROBO SPIDER

Build your own motorized robot spider with eight multi-jointed legs that duplicate the walking movements of real spiders. This engaging introduction to robots and gears allows you to study the way spiders actually crawl. Assemble the gears and wire the terminals, then attach the legs and pop in batteries to make your Robo Spider move. Experiment with different length legs to see how they change your robot’s stride. Cut and fit rubber tubing to the legs, and watch you spider climb gentle slopes.

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Ages 9 to 12

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FUZZY WUBBLE

Fuzzy Wubbles are Wubbles on the inside and adorable stuffed animals on the outside. They’re the softest, squishiest, most huggable Wubbles ever! Available in six characters: Pixie the Unicorn, Lulu the Panda, Daisy the Pig, Roxy the Husky, Ollie the Monkey and Bee Bee the Cat. Ages 4+

Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Ages 9 to 12

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Fruit Flies in Our Faith: Nurturing and Sharing the Fruit of the Spirit
Written by Annie Paden

“The Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” Galatians 5:22-23

As Christians, we are each blessed with the Fruit of the Spirit. What happens when we let our fruit sit unused? Spiritual Fruit Flies! Using stories filled with transparency and splashes of humor, Annie Paden examines the spiritual fruit flies which can distract us from nurturing and sharing the Fruit of the Spirit. Worry, temptations, impatience, bad habits…the list is long and we can spend our time swatting at spiritual fruit flies instead of living out the unique fruit God has given us. This valuable guide helps us deepen our awareness of the Fruit of the Spirit. As we learn to nurture the Spirit’s fruit in our everyday lives, we are able to eliminate those pesky fruit flies. We can begin sharing fruit with our families, our church and the greater world around us.

Adult Books:
Inspirational / Motivational

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