Need To Fidget? Try Thumb Chucks. Read More
Need to Fidget? Try Thumb Chucks
Petsies Will Delight Your Kids and Alarm Your Pets
Make a custom version of your pet for National Pet Week! Read More
The Dynamic Duo Reviews K’Nex ‘Might Makers Inventor’s Clubhouse’
The Dynamic Duo reviews K’Nex ‘Might Makers Inventor’s Clubhouse’ as much for their own entertainment as for yours. Read More
ICYMI: GeekMom Goes Toy Fair Live at 23 Booths
GeekMom Karen takes you through a categorized listing, complete with Facebook Live videos, of 23 cool booths from Toy Fair 2017. Read More
Toy Fair Video: Playmobil, ‘Ghostbusters,’ History, and ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Sets
GeekMom Karen gets a look behind the scenes at Playmobil during Toy Fair 2017 and brings it right into your home with video coverage. Read More
Toy Fair 2017: LEGO Away! All the Non-embargoed LEGO for the Upcoming Year
GeekMoms Karen and Jackie get a look behind the scenes at LEGO during Toy Fair 2017 and bring it right into your home with video coverage. Read More
New ‘Roblox’ Toys Inspire Creativity Online and Offline
If YouTube Let’s Play videos are any indication, ‘Roblox’ is currently giving ‘Minecraft’ a run for its money with kids looking for games to flex their creative muscles. Read More
bionicTOYS Flex-Bricks: Because Nature Is Flexible
Nature is flexible which is why you should check out these LEGO compatible flex bricks now on Kickstarter. bionicTOYS are great for construction-based play. Your children will learn physics as they play! Read More
Turn Your Kids’ Drawings into Plush Dolls with Budsies
Want to give your young artists something awesome? Let them design their own plush doll with Budsies. Read More
‘PJ Masks’ Toys Are Here to Save the Day
‘PJ Masks’ toys are (finally) here, and they’re awesome. Give the gift of pajama superheroes this holiday season. Read More
Kickstarter Alert — Think Ink Pens: Fidget for Focus
A fidget multi-tool, you say? Read More
GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #1: Toys
Welcome to the start of this year’s holiday gift guides! The GeekMom guides will run each week on Tuesday mornings. We start it off this year with Toys, with a few of the GeekMom writers’ favorites. Read More
SBrick Plus: Programmable Interlocking Bricks You Want
When educators asked for better programmable interlocking bricks that were compatible with LEGO, SBrick Plus answered the call. Check out their fully funded Kickstarter before Monday, November 7. Read More
LEGO and ‘DC Super Hero Girls’ Team Up for Super New Sets This January
This morning LEGO and DC Super Hero Girls announced even more sets coming this January to a toy store near you! Read More
6 Things Parents Should Know About the Sphero Force Band
The Force has never felt more real, thanks to the new Force Band coming September 30 from Sphero. Read More
The 10 Most Annoying Toys of All Time
These are the toys that, as parents, we wish we could make disappear forever into the black hole of nothingness–the ones that make us instantly wince and wonder “will the kid notice if this just happens to break?” Read More
Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: ‘DragonStone Mine’
An engaging game for people of all ages; comes with three game modes for prereaders up through adults. Mine some gems and test your luck of the draw with the spell cards in this two to four player game. Five-year-old tested and approved. Read More
Edo Blocks: These Are the Blocks You Were Looking For
Edo blocks are the toy that will cause your kid to ignore Phineas & Ferb. ‘Nuff said. Read More
Stikbot: Engaging the Creative, Willful Child
Stikbots little poseable bots engage kids in creative storytelling and digital media making, even for the most recalcitrant little people. Read More
K’nex Builds Interest In STEM
K’nex sets presented at Toy Fair have some issues, but earn a thumbs up from both mom and kids. Read More
How Four Kids LEGO of Self-Doubt and (MIND)STORMed the Castle
You know how I don’t like to spend Saturday? Watching kids play with Lego bricks. Especially if I’m not allowed to play with them myself. So how I found myself driving three sixth grade Montessori boys (one of them my own spawn) and offering to spend the entire day in an auditorium watching nineteen teams… Read More
Disney, You Lost Money On My-Four-Year Old Daughter
In this household, gender marketing results in flower wand lightsabers, big imaginations, and workarounds to toys not made or sold. Read More
An Inviting Children’s Section For All, Fred Meyer
Is the secret to making an inclusive gender-neutral children’s toy section simply to include toys of all genders in all sections? And is this really so hard to do? Read More
From Collecting to Constructing: Shopkins Kinstructions
The new Shopkins Kinstructions are build-it-yourself kits that make perfect playsets for the collectible figures. Read More
Holiday Peace, Thanks to the Lego Advent Calendar
As parents, we find peace where we can. And I am thankful for a certain advent calendar for bringing that to my household, even temporarily. Read More
In It for the Laughs: A ‘Schmovie’ Review
Galactic Sneeze’s new game promotes both creative thinking and quite a few chuckles. Read More
Build & Imagine: STEAM-Powered Dollhouses
The Build & Imagine sets encourage girls ages 4+ to be both builders and storytellers. Read More
So Your Kid Wants a Hoverboard
What if, while the idea of having a hoverboard in your home sounds Totally Tubular to the 80’s kid in you, the adult in you thinks it might be kinda dangerous, expensive, or otherwise a bad idea? What do you do then? Read More
CloudPets – A Message You Can Hug
Dakster’s cloud pet has been helping her with reducing her anxiety. Read More
Hail to the Paper Chief: the Hillary Rodham Clinton Presidential Playset
In these days of apps, games and show-streaming, it’s unusual to amuse yourself with something as analog as paper dolls. Leave it to Quirk Books to come up with a fun, pop culture-friendly take with the Hillary Rodham Clinton Presidential Playset. Illustrated by Caitlin Kuhwald, the paper doll set imagines Hillary as the first woman… Read More
Four Creative Ways To Give Lego Gifts
Giving Lego sets this holiday season? Why just wrap them in colorful paper when you could be far more creative? Read More
GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #4: Toys and Lego!
Now that we’re in the second half of November, I know I’m not the only one starting to really flesh out my holiday shopping lists. Toys are almost always on kids’ wish lists (and many adults’ lists, as well!), so here are some of our favorite toys that we (or our kids) are wanting this year. Read More
