This week’s Roundup of Mom’s Choice Award winners features games, craft sets, STEM/STEAM tools + more! 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 October 20, 2019 to October 26, 2019.
Every week companies, inventors, and publishers from around the world send us their products for evaluation. Only the best earn our designation.
MagPlate Magnetic Baseplates
Removable? Check. Magnetic? Check. LEGO-clutch-fit guaranteed? Check. MagPlates check all the boxes! With a powerful magnetic backing, MagPlates instantly adhere and create a building space on any magnetic surface. Whether you use just one or build a whole wall, the construction-grade magnet ensures that the MagPlate won’t slip and slide as kids build.
Completely removeable and reusable, MagPlates are the ideal solution for non-permanent makerspaces. No Glue Required, simply find a magnetic surface (white boards, filing cabinets, refrigerators, etc.) and start playing … the options are unlimited!
Encourages STEM/STEAM learning, vertical play and creative, play based learning for children aged 5-12+
Educational Products:
Ages 5 to 8
Latice Hawaii Strategy Board Game
LATICE HAWAII combines simple rules with evolving complexity for a unique game that’s easy to learn, quick to play, with strategic potential to last a lifetime. Be the first to play all of your tiles. Play faster by matching tiles on two or more sides, landing on sun squares or using wind tiles to shift tiles on the board. Advanced players will play both offensively and defensively based on their knowledge of remaining tiles. 3 minutes to learn, 20 minutes to play, a lifetime to master.
Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Young Adults
I Know It
I Know It provides math practice activities for kids in Kindergarten through 5th grade. Kids love the animated characters, graphical hints, and easy-to-understand explanations. Parents and teachers love the detailed progress reports. IKI has over 500 math topics to choose from and is a terrific supplement to almost any math curriculum. Perfect for iPads, Chromebooks, Interactive whiteboards, laptops, or desktop computers.
Online Resources (Websites, eMagazines and Blogs):
Children
Glitter Dots Sparkle Station
With Crayola Glitter Dots, kids can create with glitter in a whole new way, without all the mess! Just squish each dot to create glitter-infused outputs. Each dot contains a special coating so the glitter stays in the dot and not on your hands! Glitter dots are easy to use and versatile for any type of craft or project – they can be used on a variety of surfaces including paper, wood, craft foam, felt and more. The Glitter Dots Sparkle Station comes with 84 dots and gives kids all the tools they need to squish, roll, and cut custom glitter dot creations that can be applied to a variety of surfaces.
Arts, Crafts & Hobbies:
Ages 9 to 12
Edges
Written by Wynter Sommers
The easy-reading nine-book political-mystery-adventure bundle EDGES grabs you by the soul as it exposes what life would be like in a corporatocracy, a city governed by a corporation. It comes with a 10th book, Conversation Station, to stimulate and develop conversational skills by asking insightful questions about the topics raised in the books
Edges reveals what America will be like in the year 2030. Why does the character Bjorn Esterday, investigative reporter, take such immense risks? Why does Sarah Paradise, determined school teacher, insist on finding out the truth even if it may cost her life?
Wynter Sommers explained, “Edges confronts us with what will happen when the nation complacently stands by as we become corporatized, shifting America’s Mission Statement to supporting corporate demands at the expense of our citizen’s needs and rights. An earnest desire for objective truth could threaten leadership. Would you be ruled by Jack Courtly or Skipper, his brother? What would you accept and what would it take to get you to fight?”
The Edges Bundle Set is made of 10 (ten) separate books. Nine books are each separate novels recounting the adventures of Bjorn Esterday, investigative reporter along with Sarah Paradise, determined school teacher.
Young Adult Books:
Crayola Sprinkle Art Shaker
With the brand new Crayola Sprinkle Art Shaker, kids can create art using glue and colorful sprinkles – with less mess! Using the enclosed case, kids can outline content with glue, insert the sprinkles, and then shake until the sprinkles stick. Shake again for the remaining sprinkles to roll back into the inserted sprinkle tubes for virtually no clean up and can be used again and again. Kids can decorate the included food-themed content pages or can use their imagination to create any design they choose on their own paper!
Arts, Crafts & Hobbies:
Ages 5 to 8
Crayola Spin and Spiral Art Station
With the Crayola Spin and Spiral Art Station, kids can create spiralized art and spin art in a 2-in-1 kid-powered station. To create spiral art, kids can create endless combinations of colors and spiral outputs using Crayola markers in the included art gears. On the other side of the station, use the kid-powered pump to create splatter art with ink and paper discs. The station includes the Spiral Art Station unit, three spiral “gears” for tracing, six pipsqueak markers, three ink bottles and 15 paper discs.
Arts, Crafts & Hobbies:
Ages 5 to 8
Crayola Sparkle Crayon Melter
With the Crayola Sparkle Crayon Melter, kids can create liquefied crayon designs on a variety of unique surfaces including chalk, wood, glass, canvas and more using metallic Crayola crayons for extra shimmer. Using three simple steps, kids can create amazing art in less than a minute. Simply, insert a crayon, plug in and start embellishing virtually any surface. The sleek, compact design is safe, easy to use and has a low-heat tip for worry-free creativity and a whole new way to embellish your designs with sparkly Crayola effects.The set includes a sparkly Melter unit and eight Crayola metallic crayons.
Arts, Crafts & Hobbies:
Ages 9 to 12
Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Safari Oasis
Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Safari Oasis includes adorable, colorable and washable pet figures that kids can customize with color, wash in the kid-powered Oasis Tub, and color again. Following the popularity of Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Pets, Safari Oasis features all new safari-themed pets that kids can color customize with the six included Scribble Scrubbie Ultra Clean Washable Markers. When they are ready for a color change, they can brush their Safari pets clean in the kid-powered Oasis Tub, dry them off and start over. In addition to the four safari pets included, there are additional expansion packs (sold separately) for a total of 12 adorable safari animals that kids can collect and customize again and again. The set includes four all new safari pets including a monkey, an elephant, giraffe and lion, kid-powered hand-pump Oasis Tub with a fun slide attachment, a scrub brush and six Scribble Scrubbie Washable markers.
Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Preschoolers
