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If you're looking for a fun new project to try with your kids as well as a creative way to teach them about recycling and the environment, then it may rest right here with this paper making kit. With this kit you and your children can try your hands at craft paper making and recycling.

The kit's manual talks about the history of paper making as well as showing how create different textures and colors. The kit lets you make paper in different shapes, and will even let you add things like flowers or feathers to the paper.

Kit Includes:    
"* Manual paper blender
    * Plastic tray
    * Paper presser    
* Mesh screen    
* 6 design deckles    
* 2 cleaning cloths    
* Instruction manual"

Check price and availability at Discovery Store.

Did you know that since 2004 Hello Kitty has had her own pet cat? The cat's name is Charmy Kitty and she looks a lot like Hello Kitty, but has features that are more cat-like.

This pink and white CD Boombox features the classic Hello Kitty logo and is perfect for any little girls room or would make a great addition to a Hello Kitty fan's collection.

* Front loading CD player with 20 track programmable memory
* CD-R/RW compatible
* Repeat one or all - skip, search forward/back
* Cassette recorder/player
* AM/FM stereo radio
* Multi-informational LCD display
* Full range, 3.5" dynamic speakers
* Stereo headphone jack
* AC/DC power operation

Check price and availability at Amazon.

If your son or daughter is fascinated by outer space, then this Junior Astronaut Space Suit will be the perfect compliment to all their imaginary lift offs.

The suit is made from strong polyester so it can stand up to some serious space adventures. It has official-looking NASA patches, and comes with a official embroidered NASA cap. Best of all, it's machine washable. There's also a Space Helmet sold separately that "talks" your child through their mission and features "blast-off" sounds thanks to a built-in sound chip.

"Kids can journey wherever their imagination takes them in this NASA-inspired spacesuit."

Check price and availability at Discovery Store.

 

The live action film Speed Racer is an adaptation of the 1960s Japanese anime series by the same name. The film cost a reported $120,000,000. You can throw you kids a Speed Racer themed party for considerably less than that. 

The Speed Racer Deluxe Pack includes 8 dinner plates, cups, forks, spoons, activity placemats, 16 napkins, tablecover, mylar balloon, 24 balloons in 2 colors, crepe paper rolls in 2 colors, curling ribbon in 2 colors, confetti and cake candles.

If you really want to spoil them rotten, get the Speedster Favor Boxes too. Each box comes with a wheel yo-yo, whistle, mini trophy, assorted pull-back race car, and Speed Racer mask, and sticker sheet.

Check price and availability at Celebrate Express.

Give your kids a water safari in your backyard. Forget the local water park, your house is sure to be fun central this summer!

The Pipeline Twist Aqua Park has a heavy duty Dura-Tech construction for maximum durability. Kids will love the two massive slides and shooting each other (and you) with the water cannons.

"Two huge slides and a giant pool! Climb up the first stage of the climbing wall and take a ride into the splash pool. Climb up the second stage of the climbing wall and ride the banked curve all the way down."

Check price and availability at Amazon.

Bring the wonders of nature up close with This 70mm, refracting, short barrel telescope is the perfect way to introduce your kids to the stars or nature watching. The wide, 70mm aperture gives you the ability to view moon craters, the rings of Saturn, and even distant quasars and nebulae.

The telescope comes with an aluminum tripod that extends to a viewing height of 55", and then the whole thing collapses to fit into a padded shoulder bag so you can throw it over your shoulder and start exploring. 

Check price and availability at Discovery Store.

This Eco Dome Kit allows you and your kids to create your own mini micro-system and learn how our planet lives.

The dome's embossed metric rulers monitor seedling growth, water levels, and soil ingredients While the two strip thermometers monitor temperatures at different altitudes. The kit comes with a list of recommended plant types for different biomes.

Check price and availability at Discovery Store.

  If you need a bit of happiness in your day then just project yourself a rainbow. Perfect for a child's room or even in the office ti brighten your day, this motion activated projector shines a brilliant rainbow across your wall and ceiling.

Place the projector on your nightstand or desk, or you child’s nightstand. Now you can always find the end of the rainbow. We don’t think this gadget comes with a pot of gold though.

Check price and availability at Discovery Store.

The hungrier Gobble the Money Monster Bank the more he demands you feed him money! Gobble's ears move, his eyes light up, and he speaks while he munches down on your change and bills. When Gobble's appetite is satiated, he calms down, and goes to sleep. But  motion detector wakes him up again.

While begging for "food" Gobble says the following things:

* "Feed me I'm starving!"
* "Don't empty my belly!"
* "Oooh paper money makes Gobble very happy!"
* "I'm still hungry"
* "Money monster is your friend!"
* "Money, money, money in my tummy"
* "Burp!"
Check price and availability at Perpetual Kid.

Here at Surfilicious, we all consider ourselves to be quite the fashionistas, and maybe you've got someone in your life who fancies them self a fashion designer in training too. Let that young man or lady (or maybe yourself) tap into their creative side with this Fashion Design Studio.

The kit comes with a 3-D dressmaker from, a step-by-step guide to fashion illustration, a sketchbook and swatch book for brainstorming, and all the other tools needed to create miniature masterpieces for New York Fashion Week.

Check price and availability at Discovery Channel Store.

you can choose from a variety of Big Brother or Big Sister messages, or customize this sweatshirt with your child's special nickname.

You can even choose from different hair colors, hair types, and messages so that the shirt is perfectly representative of your child.

Check price and availability at Artistic Sensations.

Kids love doing stuff like setting up their own lemonade stand, so give them hours of fun (and treat the neighbours) by giving them this Mini Lemonade Stand Kit.

Each Kit comes with Lemonade mix, a paper hat, lemonade stand banner, a price sheet, cookie cutter, lemon cookie mix, and a wood spoon. The Kits also comes with their own clear, vinyl zippered tote to keep things from getting lost.

Check price and availability at Cybercucina.

Whose going to be the hero when you present the kids with Mickey Mouse shaped waffles for a weekend breakfast? You are!

This is a must have if you know kids who love Disney, or if you're a collector of Disney memorabilia. The Waffle Maker produces 6-inch waffles, and thankfully has a non-stick interior.

Check price and availability at DealYard.

Want your baby to be the most stylish on the block? Well here's a good way to claim that title for your little one. This custom made Nollie Replacement Cover is made from the finest fabrics with extra-thick padding to be soft and cozy, as well as incredibly cute.

The cover is machine washable and dryer safe, as all things for baby should be, and is made for the following car seats: 

* Britax Companion- 2005 and 2006
* Combi-Centre/Cosmo
* Chicco Infant
* Peg Perego Primo Viaggio- 2002-2005
* Peg Perego Primo Viaggio SIP 2006
* Graco-Snugride and Safe Seat
* Evenflo, Babytrends and similar carseats

Where to Buy: Pink Taffy Designs

Probably not. Here's some stuff we discovered:

Don't think you're done if you've cut off that roach's head:

A cockroach can live a week without its head. The roach only dies because without a mouth, it can't drink water and dies of thirst.

And who hasn't asked themselves that ultimate question:

What are boogers?

Boogers are dried up snot and dirty nose debris. They can be small, slimy lumps or big dry brown lumps. Either way, boogers are filled with the junk that's in the air you breathe.

Oh, great. We really really needed to know that. Really.

Well, don't say we didn't warn you: The Yuckiest Site on the Internet.

The last we looked, one entire section of our "library" was devoted to Garfield comics. We are, to say the least, huge fans.

There's just something so lovable - and heartwarmingly snarky - about that huge round orange ball of fur. He's simply irresistable.

Now we're able to indulge ourselves to the utmost, with the Garfield Comic Creator.  You know all those things you've always thought would be perfect coming out of Garfield's mouth? Well, now you can create your own Garfield strip and have Garfield saying even snarkier things than he normally does.

The Garfield Comic Creator comes with the entire cast of characters: Garfield, Odie, Nermal, Jon and yes, even Arlene. (You're imagining some interesting scenarios right now even as you read, aren't you?)

When you're done, you can even print out your creation in all its creative glory.

Hey, what better way to while away a few hours?

You know the phrase, "kids say the darndest things"? Well, how about "kids believe the darndest things"?

We just came across a site that collects all the things grown-ups used to believe as kids.

One thing's for sure. Adults and older sibs are responsible for a lot of really strange beliefs. Parents, in particular, are pretty good at creating really outrageous tales in order to get their kids to behave.

We noticed a common thread when it comes to beliefs about the radio. It seems that growing up, we're prone to believing that:

(1) the songs you hear are being sung live ... over and over again, by those poor singers, or else (2) people/bands/whatever live in the radio and crank out those tunes.

After sifting through quite a few beliefs, it dawned on us that, aside from some truly irrational beliefs, kids, on the whole, are actually very logical.

Up for knee surgery? Or maybe you've always had dreams of becoming a doctor. (We never did. But anyway.)

Check out the virtual knee surgery at Edheads.org, where you get to play the role of surgeon (we know you've always wanted to) and perform knee surgery on a 74 year old man. Very detailed (to us, anyway, but hey, we're not in the medical profession.)

Great place to send kids who want to grow up to be doctors.

One of us is a bit squeamish, and the other one couldn't lay hands on a few moments without the squeamish one around, so we never got around to checking out the actual surgery pictures. Don't let that stop you, though.

Crammed with all sorts of stuff about our infrared universe, if you've got kids into this kind of stuff, let them loose here. We thought the games were kind of lame, but then again we're not kids. The Splitzer in the Space Place was kind of cool, though.

One of us has fond memories of a love affair with mazes way back when. This maze site would have hit the spot back then - we could have printed out mazes and amused ourselves for hours on end ...

(Yes, the phrase "get a life" is on the tip of the tongue but We Value This Relationship, Really We Do.)

Great site for the kidlets, though. Especially on those rainy summer days, about two seconds after they've screamed "School's out for the summer" (hum along now). You know, when you're thinking you'll go bald if you can't get yourself to stop pulling your hair out.