2009 Hot Toy List

The Zhu Zhu Pets Hamster is this year's hot toy for the holidays! So, what exactly is a Zhu Zhu Pets Hamster? Well, it is a cute, cuddly, soft, furry,  little battery operated hamster that gives kids all the hamster pet fun without all the hamster pet mess. There are four Zhu Zhu Pets Hamsters to choose from. Chunk is a white colored laid back hamster surfer dude who loves to hang out and hang ten. Pipsqueak is a beautiful yellow powerhouse who's not afraid of anything! Squiggles is a lovely brown hamster who's been there and done that and seen it all. Finally, NumsNums is a friendly little ...

Board games have always been popular. People enjoy the camaraderie of gathering around a table with friends for a little friendly competition and a couple of laughs. The giants in the board game world have always been the twin titans, Monopoly and Risk. Both games are great, but a new challenger has been slowly growing in popularity. This challenger, a board game called The Settlers of Catan, is one of the hottest gifts this holiday season. Developed in Germany by a lover of board games, The Settlers of Catan is a unique board game experience in part because the mechanics of the game or simple and easy to learn ...

The first five years in a child's life are the most important for their intellectual and emotional development. During these first years, a child is like a little sponge, soaking up every experience. Each sight, sound, taste, touch and feeling that the child encounters is that much more intense, that much more important, that much more resonant. Every parent knows how important it is to expose their little ones to the proper learning environment during these critical first five years. It is good news then that one of the most popular toys this holiday season is the Playskool Busy Ball Popper. Playskool has long had a reputation for providing toys ...

The Nerf brand is one of the most well-known names in toys. Everyone, at one time or another, has tossed around a Nerf football or sunk a few free throws using a Nerf basketball. Nerf is also behind one of the hottest toy lines this holiday season - The Nerf N-Strike, a collection of some of the baddest and most powerful foam dart blasters and accessories around. Nerf N-Strike foam dart blasters allow you and you friends to be a mean lean Nerf fighting machine. Best of all there's a whole bunch of Nerf N-Strike blasters that you can choose from, each one able to unleash a whole lot of N-Strike wallop on the bad guys! Check these out. ...

Telekinesis is the ability to move physical objects using only the power of your mind. For years, the very existence of telekinesis has been debated. People such as Uri Geller have demonstrated the power of the human mind over the physical wold by bending spoons and stopping watches without touching them. The mainstream scientific community, on the other hand has derided telekinesis and lumped it with other so called "psychic" powers such as extrasensory perception and telepathy. Each side believed they were right. Each side refused to listen to the other. So matters have stood for years. Now however, a revolutionary toy has arrived that will amaze and delight believers and non-believers. Meet the Mindflex Game. ...

The visual arts are a great way to stimulate creativity in a child. When a child is encouraged to draw or paint, they are learning to reinterpret the world around them in new and wonderful ways. Painting and drawing teaches a child to look more carefully at the world they inhabit and to transmute what they are seeing into unique expressions of their inner world. Like all of the visual arts, painting and drawing allow what's inside the child artist to be examined and contrasted with how the child views the world he or she inhabits. No product currently on the market is better at stimulating creativity in a child than the Melissa and Doug Deluxe Standing Easel. Like all ...

Among the most important decisions a parent can make is what toys to get for their young child. Young children, especially babies, need toys that are educational and interactive. Ideally, the toy should be helping the young child achieve an important developmental milestone, appropriate for his or her age group. There are so many different children's toys on the market today, each making different claims in regard to a child's well being, that it may be difficult for apparent to decide what toys are appropriate for their child. Luckily, Fisher-Price has made this decision an easy one with their Brilliant Basics line of children's toys. The idea behind Brilliant Basics is to provide a child with simple, classic interactive toys ...

What kid hasn't wanted to be able to see in the dark? Now with EyeClops Night Vision stealth goggles, your kids can! Let your children be amazed by real night vision technology with EyeClops Night Vision stealth goggles! Any kids aged eight and older can now see in absolute darkness using the EyeClops Night Vision's super stealth infrared illumination.  Now they can explore the dark landscape around them, just like the police and military! Imagine the hours of fun your kids can have using the EyeClops Night Vision during sleep-overs or camp-outs. EyeClops Night Vision stealth goggles are very easy to use. All you do is insert five AA batteries into the battery pack at the back of the goggles, adjust ...

One childhood memory we all share is playing the board game Candy Land. Who among us doesn't remember the excitement of getting moved forward to the Candy Cane Forest or the frustration of getting stuck on a licorice spot for a few turns while our friends raced ahead. Candy Land is probably the first board game most of us ever played. Well, guess what? Candy Land is alive and well and is one of the most popular toys this holiday season! Candy Land has been around for over sixty years. It was the first board game developed especially for younger children who couldn't yet read. As everyone knows, the object of the game is to be the first one ...

Do you love games? Do you love word games in particular? Do you know someone who loves word games? Then you have to run, not walk, to your nearest store and pick up this year's hottest game, Bananagrams. What is Bananagrams? Bananagrams is nothing less than a full fledged game phenomena that's sweeping through  the game world like a wildfire! Stores in Europe and North America are watching asBananagrams flies off the shelves. Perhaps the biggest game sensation since Trivial  Pursuit, Banangrams is a must have on any of this holiday season's hottest gift lists. Bananagrams was invented by family who absolutely loved games in general and word games in particular. They were looking for a game that ...