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Top 10 Kid-Approved Toys for 2011

Top 10 Kid-Approved Toys for 2011

Each fall, The Children’s Museum store in Indianapolis invites kids to test the newest toys, then vote on their favourites for the upcoming holiday season. Here, just released, is the Top Ten list of Kid-Approved Toys for 2011.

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Angry Birds Plush Toys (also, Pigs!)

Angry Birds Plush Toys (also, Pigs!)

Angry Birds were all the rage at SXSW this year, I hear, with oodles of hip geeks spotted in the venue with an armload of plush toy characters from the popular (and highly addictive) game app. A few lucky friends who got to go to SXSW (which I did not, pout!) came away without their [...]

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Hannah Montana Singing Doll

Hannah Montana Singing Doll

Apparently, batteries actually are included, too! But don’t let that fool you — this toy has genuine potential to ruin a parent’s holiday. Because this Hannah Montana doll only knows one tune — she’ll sing “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” until every adult in the house wants to smash the doll with a case of Tylenol bottles.

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MOMA Whimsy

MOMA Whimsy

You’d think that the Museum of Modern Art’s online shop (MOMA) would be all tasteful leather desk accessories and reprints of Old Masters, right? Not so! Clockwise from top left: Curved glasses in a rainbow of colours. Maybe not the best thing for your restorative orange juice on New Year’s Day morning, but a cheery [...]

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Sew Your Own Tux Linux Penguin

Sew Your Own Tux Linux Penguin

Is there a more adorable mascot anywhere in the computer world than the goofy, cuddley, splay-footed penguin named Tux, who flies the Linux banner? We think not. And a plushie Tux can be yours… Grab the free Tux sewing pattern from Free-Penguin.org, see the creative penguins that others have made, and haul out your sewing [...]

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Romping Animals

Romping Animals

Furniture for kids… or ride-on toys? Danish design firm bObles does geometric animal forms in child-safe firm foam, suitable for children’s furniture but “designed for creative play” in happy colours and friendly sturdy shapes to climb and roll and romp all over. Easy to see how those Romping Animals give free rein to a child’s [...]

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