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One of the best toys ever made is the Etch A Sketch, by the Ohio Art Company. It can provide endless fun and some frustration. Most people can make some nice drawings, but check out the gallery at the Etch A Sketch website — amazing work there.

The Tips and Tricks section has some good tips, and a three year …

King’s Big Bucket of Dinosaurs is a large bin of dinosaur related playthings that any small child interested in dinosaurs would love. It comes with 10 large dinosaurs, several plastic rocks and trees, a playmat (it looks like a map), and two large volcanoes. It all comes in a sturdy bin with…

The History Channel has a fun site on the history of toys and games, “from chess and checkers to Barbie and Atari.” Follow the toy timeline from the forerunners of chess and checkers circa 4000 B.C. all the way to Nintendo, Pictionary, and Beanie Babies. Learn some interesting trivia, like who invented Lincoln Logs, or …

What are the best movies about toys? Here’s our list. Check them out.

1. Big – 5 stars. A little boy, Josh, eats a magic bean and turns into Tom Hanks who then gets a job playing with toys and Elizabeth Perkins. Okay, maybe it involves a carnival wish machine and Robert Loggia. Either way, it’s a great movie with an innocence that’s sorely lacking in most of today’s horror movies.

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Science Toys is an incredible site for kids and adults alike. It covers a wide array of fun, science-oriented toys to build. From the site: Make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles. To make it easier to build some of the toys described …