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Encourage your child's imagination through play with this shake set from Play-Doh. It features spoons, a shake machine, a sculpting tool and beverage containers, so your child has everything needed to make you an after-dinner snack.

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Play Doh

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 3 Years and Up
• Includes: Doll, Bicycle Figure
• Material: Plastic

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Barbie

Your child will love riding on the large-wheeled Big Flyer by Radio Flyer. This three-wheeler features a three-position adjustable seat that can be altered as your child grows. A safety pendant on the back makes your kids visible while playing.

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Radio Flyer

Your little one will have hours of fun with a LeapPad2 Explorer from LeapFrog. Hand-held device has a large touchscreen that's easy for little fingers to operate. Your child can create videos and capture memories at home with the 2 handy cameras on the front and back of the portable game. Compatible with over 300 cartridges and apps, LeapPad2 encourages discovery, creativity and learning.

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LeapFrog

The Discover n' Grow chime giraffe by Fisher-Price is the perfect toy to stimulate your little one. Bright colors and accessories on the chime are great for rattling. This toy helps your child learn shapes and colors. Ideal for younger babies and children. Wipes clean whenever it becomes dirty from play.

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Fisher-Price

This City Park Café building set is part of the LEGO Friends collection. It's the perfect place in Heartlake City for all of the LEGO Friends to meet for milkshakes and burgers, or to chill and have fun. Help Andrea bake goodies in the café's kitchen, then serve it up in style. Or help a customer order a sweet snack and pay for it with LEGO money bricks. This 222-piece set includes Andrea and Marie mini-doll figures.

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LEGO

The NERF N-Force Vendetta from Hasbro is a double-edged sword that'll provide you hours of fun. Designed with foam, the Vendetta is perfect for battling it out with your friends in your backyard. Foam sword can be split in two, giving you double the protection in the middle of an all-out NERF war with your pals.

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Nerf

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 5 Years and Up
• Includes: Toy Building Components
• Number of Pieces: 70
• Material: Plastic
• Educational Focus: Creative Thinking
• Dimensions: 1.77 " H x 5.55 " W x 6.18 " L
• Product Weight: 0.24 Lb.
• Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean With a Dry Cloth

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LEGO

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 3 Years and Up
• Includes: Wings
• Number of Pieces: 1

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Winx

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 6 Years and Up
• Includes: Toy Building Components
• Number of Pieces: 198
• Material: Plastic
• Educational Focus: Creative Thinking
• Languages: French, English, Spanish
• Dimensions: 1.81 " H x 7.52 " W x 10.3 " L
• Product Weight: 0.64 Lb.
• Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean With a Dry Cloth

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LEGO

Your kids can build colorful cars, houses, and planes with these large DUPLO bricks by LEGO. This kit features 71 pieces and comes with 10 building ideas to inspire active minds. Putting these blocks together helps kids build motor skills and learn to share.

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 12-18 Months
• Includes: Toy Building Components
• Number of Pieces: 71
• Material: Plastic
• Educational Focus: Creative Thinking
• Languages: English, French, Spanish
• Dimensions: 8.66 " H x 7.55 " W x 14.84 " L
• Product Weight: 2.44 Lb.
• Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean With a Dry Cloth

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Duplo

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 3 Years and Up
• Features: Eyes Open and Close
• Fabric Decorative Details: Hook and Loop Closure
• Fits Doll Size: 18 Inches
• Material: Polyester, Plastic
• Textile Material: 80 % Plastic, 17 % Poly-Cotton
• Languages: English
• Number of Pieces: 40
• Dimensions: 19.0 " H x 8.5 " W x 13.0 " L
• Weight: 8.0 Lb.

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Our Generation

Your little adventurer will love this fun Honda Utility ATV Ride On toy. It features a realistic revving throttle with ATV sounds and a spiffy camouflage design. Authentic Honda detailing even has a light-up front scoop.

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Tek Nek

The mini Lalaloopsy Silly Pet Parade motorized train will provide your child with hours of interactive play, which will help to encourage and develop your child's imagination. The set comes complete with a miniature Lalaloopsy figurine, so it makes a perfect birthday or holiday gift for any Lalaloopsy lover. The train requires batteries to propel it forward, and can be wiped clean with a damp cloth when dirty.

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Lalaloopsy

Olivia's Tree House is part of the LEGO Friends collection. Meet Olivia in this treetop retreat to play games and camp out under the stars. Climb the folding ladders to watch the ladybirds, catch butterflies and feed the cat. Watch the ocean waves or wish on stars through the telescope. There is even a secret compartment to hide your treasures in. This 191-piece set includes an Olivia mini-doll figure.

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LEGO

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 8 Years and Up
• Includes: Toy Building Components
• Number of Pieces: 493
• Material: Plastic
• Educational Focus: Creative Thinking
• Languages: French, English, Spanish
• Dimensions: 2.22 " H x 10.31 " W x 15.04 " L
• Product Weight: 1.32 Lb.
• Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean With a Dry Cloth

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LEGO

Bring the world of classical music composition to your baby. The Baby Einstein Baby Neptune Ocean Orchestra is an engaging way for your little one to interact with the classics. It features 2 stages for your growing baby: A symphony mode for younger listeners to hear different instrumentations from Mozart, Beethoven and Vivaldi, and a composer mode for older tots to combine up to 8 melodies. Its easy to use, and it lights up when instrument sounds are activated.

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Baby Einstein

Enjoy hours of spooky fashion fun with Clawdeen from Monster High. This stylish teenaged werewolf looks lovely in a classic Little Red Riding Hood costume, complete with basket and a hairbrush.

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Monster High

A Hello Kitty Drivin' Diner is a cute and detailed food truck that's sure to provide your child with hours of fun. The truck comes with Hello Kitty and Jodi figures as well as a table, chair and food for your next make-believe meal. It also has sound effects and a pop-out door that expands the truck, so you have more room to play.

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Hello Kitty

This Barbie musical light-up castle will inspire hours of imaginative play. Inspired by the movie "The Princess & the Popstar," the three-story castle comes furnished with beds, chairs, a kitchen table, a bathtub and more. The two included mini-dolls can visit the Diamond Fairies, who spin from the ceiling to protect the diamond flower garden. Lots of fun lights and sounds add to the fun.

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Barbie

Construct your favorite cars, machines and equipment with a set of interchangeable blocks from MAXIM. You change the base, wheels and equipment for each vehicle to create cars, tractors and more. These wooden toys offer countless hours of fun for toy car and truck enthusiasts. Plus, kids get multiple assembly options that give them many ways to express themselves creatively through building.

Sleep Sheep is the perfect night-time companion to help soothe children to sleep in a safe, calming and effortless way. A sound box tucked safely inside Sleep Sheep lulls one to sleep with pleasant white noise - soft sounds from nature and the reassuring sound of a mother's heartbeat. Sleep Sheep's soothing sounds work as an audio pacifier to help calm even the fussiest babies to sleep. When babies sleep better, parents sleep better.

Sleep Sheep Features:
Four Soothing Sounds: Mother's Heartbeat, Spring Showers, Ocean Waves and Whale Songs
Simple push-button sound selection with volume and on/off controls
Two sleep timer options: 23 and 45 minutes
Velco tab to secure Sleep Sheep to the outside of a crib
The Sleep Sheep story & numbered adoption certificate
Two AA batteries included
Ideal for newborns and up

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Cloud B

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 5 Years and Up
• Includes: Toy Building Components
• Number of Pieces: 51
• Material: Plastic
• Educational Focus: Creative Thinking
• Languages: Spanish, French, English
• Dimensions: 2.3 " H x 3.58 " W x 4.8 " L
• Product Weight: 0.16 Lb.
• Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean With a Dry Cloth

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LEGO

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 6 Years and Up
• Includes: Toy Building Components
• Number of Pieces: 368
• Material: Plastic
• Educational Focus: Creative Thinking
• Languages: Spanish, French, English
• Dimensions: 2.22 " H x 10.3 " W x 15.0 " L
• Product Weight: 1.33 Lb.
• Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean With a Dry Cloth

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LEGO

Enjoy hours of spooky fashion fun with Draculaura from Monster High. This stylish vampire comes with high-heeled shoes that perfectly match her dress and purse. She even has her own brush, so you can fix up her long black and pink tresses for school, dates or any other activity she'd like to sink her teeth into.

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Monster High

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 5 Years and Up
• Includes: Toy Building Components
• Number of Pieces: 80
• Material: Plastic
• Educational Focus: Creative Thinking
• Languages: Spanish, English, French
• Dimensions: 1.77 " H x 5.55 " W x 6.18 " L
• Product Weight: 0.28 Lb.
• Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean With a Dry Cloth

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LEGO

Make this convenient 6-deck card shuffler a part of game night. It can accommodate both poker and bridge-sized cards and this battery-operated device will save a lot of time between games. Batteries sold separately.

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Trademark Poker

Kids who dream of working with animals when they grow up will love playing with the I Can Be Zoo Doctor Barbie from Mattel. This fun and inspirational doll comes with 2 zoo babies, a koala, and a monkey that she can treat using the included zoo veterinarian equipment. Playing with this toy can give kids a glimpse into the life of a real veterinarian. Your kids will improve their social skills and creative thinking abilities as they act out scenarios a zoo vet might encounter.

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Barbie

BabyCenter® Review


What you’ll love: Make playtime that much more cozy and fun with this roomy, cuddly gym. The plush fabric makes tummy time more comfortable and there are plenty of teething rings and jingly things, plus charming monkeys your little one can grab for. Features a musical mobile overhead, with three spinning monkeys, flashing lights, and music your baby will love that won't drive you crazy. Parents praise the fact that each of the seven toys is on a detachable ring, which makes it easy to clean as well as to take with you on the road.

What to watch out for: The mat's soft, pastel colors are soothing, but some parents may favor brighter hues to give even more visual stimulation.

The bottom line: A fantastic combo of a plush play mat with a sweet musical mobile.
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Keep your little one entertained with a SnugaMonkey gym by Fisher-Price. It has 7 brightly colored detachable toys that keep small hands busy. The toys are repositionable for variety. The gym comes with a plush roomy mat, so your baby can relax while watching the overhead mobile rotate and flash lights. Plus, it's easily portable.

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Fisher-Price

With 24 three-ounce cans of Play-Doh, there's almost no limit to what your little ones will imagine and create. With so many bright colors to play with, you can keep all the cans or split them up as gifts. The possibilities are endless.

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Play Doh

Star Wars fans will have a ball building and role-playing with an Elite Clone Trooper & Commando Droid battle pack. 98-piece set offers plenty of challenge and building fun. Comes with artillery cannon with an elevating turret and flick missile. So cool! 4 minifigures add to the creative play possibility: ARC Trooper, ARF Trooper, and 2 Commando Droids.

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LEGO

The Maxim wooden kitchen center is a fantastic role play toy for preschool children. This attractive unit features oven, sink, burners and microwave; encouraging children's motor and social skills. The play kitchen has a stylish blue, gray and natural color scheme with gingham curtain.

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Maxim

This Heartlake Vet building set is part of the LEGO Friends collection. Help Mia and Veterinarian Sophie nurse the animals back to health. Examine them on the examination table, check their temperatures, listen to their heartbeats, apply the ice pack and administer medicine. Use the scale and X-ray machine, and decorate the patients' cages. This 343-piece set includes Mia, Veterinarian Sophie and three animal mini-figures.

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LEGO

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 5 Years and Up
• Includes: Toy Building Components
• Number of Pieces: 40
• Material: Plastic
• Educational Focus: Creative Thinking
• Languages: English, Spanish, French
• Dimensions: 2.3 " H x 3.58 " W x 4.8 " L
• Product Weight: 0.16 Lb.
• Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean With a Dry Cloth

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LEGO

Unleash your little one's musical side with this Discover & Play Piano from Baby Einstein. Your baby will love touching its soft, responsive keys and discovering its three fun play modes. In instrument mode, choose the drum, violin or horn to hear the keyboard make those sounds. In numbers mode, hear the piano say numbers in English, Spanish or French. And in animals mode, hear the piano mimic dog, cat and duck sounds. This vibrant piano toy includes more than 20 classical melodies and fun sounds, and the instrument buttons light and flash while the melodies play.

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Baby Einstein

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 8 Years and Up
• Includes: Toy Building Components
• Number of Pieces: 210
• Material: Plastic
• Educational Focus: Creative Thinking
• Languages: French, Spanish, English
• Dimensions: 2.4 " H x 7.52 " W x 10.3 " L
• Product Weight: 0.75 Lb.
• Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean With a Dry Cloth

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LEGO

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 6 Years and Up
• Includes: Toy Building Components
• Number of Pieces: 63
• Material: Plastic
• Educational Focus: Creative Thinking
• Languages: French, Spanish, English
• Dimensions: 1.77 " H x 5.55 " W x 6.18 " L
• Product Weight: 0.22 Lb.
• Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean With a Dry Cloth

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LEGO

Battle against your enemies with a Hail-Fire blaster by NERF. Its high-capacity ammunition rack includes 4 reloadable clips capable of holding 6 darts each, so you'll have ammo when you need it. The blaster features an acceleration trigger for semi-automatic fire power, allowing you to make an extended attack with little effort. Since it can reach targets up to 75' away, your enemies don't stand a chance of escape.

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Nerf

Designed for use from birth up to five months, the Fisher-Price Precious Planet Two-in-One Projection Mobile is unique among mobiles, because it combines music, plush animal figurines, and movement with a soft projection of light. Both entertaining and soothing, the Projection Mobile is perfect for playtime and rest time. Customize your baby's experience and match his or her mood by choosing from classical lullabies from Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart, nature and ocean sounds, or heartbeat and white noise womb sounds. The delicate canopy over baby keeps the images close, making it easy for young babies to focus. As the baby grows, the mobile can be removed, and the projection can be shown directly on teh ceiling with music or sounds playing along. It includes a remote control and requires two "AAA" for the remote and four "D" batteries for the music/mobile.

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Fisher-Price

Foster your child's creativity and imagination with a LEGO Friends Mia's Bedroom set. 85-piece set comes with everything he or she needs to build a dream bedroom with its own cool drum set. Instructions to help your child put the pieces together with ease. A tiny Mia doll fits perfectly inside the completed bedroom.

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LEGO

Say hello to Stephanie and her cool purple convertible. First, build the car with this 130-piece set, then help Stephanie wash it with the included car wash kit. Part of the LEGO Friends collection, this fun set includes a Stephanie mini-doll figure, dog Coco and loads of accessories, including an MP3 player, purse and hair accessory pack.

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LEGO

Recreate the action and adventure of the Star Wars movies with the Death Star building set from LEGO. This amazingly detailed battle station features an incredible array of minifigure-scale scenes on its multiple decks. Features include a control room, rotating turbolaser turrets, a hangar bay, a firing laser cannon and much more.

It's time to head out into the wilderness with a LEGO Friends adventure camper kit. 325-piece LEGO kit helps your child create a camper with attached trailer. Once it's built, the top of the camper opens up to allow full access to the camper interior for playtime. Comes with all the accessories your child needs for a campsite adventure. Minifigures Olivia and Nicole are included to add to the fun.

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LEGO

Even the youngest Transformers fan can enjoy this Bumblebee Rescue Bot from Playskool. In just one easy step, your little one can convert the Bumblebee figure from robot to sports car and back again. In robot mode, the figure wields a jackhammer, and in vehicle mode, the jackhammer attaches to the hood.

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Transformers

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 8 Years and Up
• Includes: Toy Building Components
• Number of Pieces: 339
• Material: Plastic
• Educational Focus: Creative Thinking
• Languages: Spanish, French, English
• Dimensions: 2.22 " H x 10.31 " W x 15.04 " L
• Product Weight: 1.48 Lb.
• Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean With a Dry Cloth

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LEGO

Lull your baby to sleep with this waterfall soother from Fisher-Price, featuring a colorful jungle design to attract your baby's attention. Designed to calm your baby with soft lights and mesmerizing waterfall motions, this waterfall soother provides 18 minutes of soothing lullabies and nature sounds.

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Fisher-Price

Bright Moon Fairies love to play with the Littlest Pet Shop pets. This set includes Blythe the fairy and her moon fairy pet. Blythe and the pet both feature designs that glow in the dark, making them wonderful to play with at any time of day. The included comb lets you style Blythe's hair. Her magical pet's coloring and markings perfectly match her outfit.

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Littlest Pet Shop

Chock full of fun things to press, pull, spin and feel -- the Move & Crawl Ball introduces shapes, numbers, animals, and animal sounds to your happy baby. Busy babies will have a ball with this fun, interactive electronic learning toy. Play songs, give the ladybug a spin or press the flashing light. The Move & Crawl Ball even has satin ribbons for tactile stimulation. Plus, with its sensor, the Move & Crawl Ball wobbles and wiggles with baby's every giggle!

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VTech

OK to Wake! Alarm Clock glows a soft yellow in the evening and turns green in the morning at the time parents' specify. Kids take pride in waiting for the green light before coming to visit mom and dad with the knowledge of a job well-done. OK to Wake! is a life-saver for sleep-deprived parents for whom every extra moment of sleep is a luxury.

Kid-friendly shape, parent-friendly design - kids love pressing the fun "toe" buttons which invoke funny facial animations on the LCD. The cleverly concealed parental control panel provides access to clock settings and instructions.

Other useful features abound. A handy nap timer allows parents to put kids down for a nap without disrupting other settings. Naps conclude with a silent green light, an audible tone or both. For older kids who want to get up "on their own", OK to Wake! is also an alarm clock with Snooze function - just like mom and dad's.

Comes with both green bug and pink flower faceplates, for a boy or a girl. Operates on four AA batteries (not included), no power adapter needed. Easy to set up and use.

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 6 Years and Up
• Includes: Toy Building Components
• Number of Pieces: 124
• Material: Plastic
• Educational Focus: Creative Thinking
• Languages: French, Spanish, English
• Dimensions: 1.77 " H x 5.55 " W x 6.18 " L
• Product Weight: 0.28 Lb.
• Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean With a Dry Cloth

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LEGO