Set out the targets to build your course. The Hyper Voice calls out commands. Players must race the course, tagging the targets with the Hyper Dash unit. Fastest time wins!

Hyper Dash, a fast-paced electronic game from Wild Planet, allows you to play anywhere. Whether you play indoors or out, by yourself or in teams, Hyper Dash challenges both body and mind with entertaining and engaging game play.

Hyper Dash consists of one electronic tagger and five different colored and numbered targets. The tagger plays pre-recorded music and calls out which targets you need to strike. It tracks the amount of time taken to complete each course. The tagger uses radio frequency identification (RFID) to recognize the targets, which can be set up side-by-side, or spread out across the length of a football field. There’s no limit to the distance between targets. Farther targets result in more running and exercise. Hyper Dash can be played indoors or outdoors; solo, in pairs, or in teams. Parents vs. Kids is an entertaining option. Cooperative siblings can work together to beat their best time, while more competitive kids prefer the head-to-head mode. As your speed, skill and agility improve, the series of commands becomes longer and more challenging. Level one calls out the colors you need to tag, level two includes numbers, level three adds special commands (Double Strike, Triple Strike, Reverse, Double Reverse) and level four features Compu-Strike (addition/subtraction problems in which you tag the sum or difference of the numbers called out). Other play modes include the memory game of Micro Dash and multi-player relay races that promote teamwork. For a game of Hide ‘n Dash, let your opponent hide the targets before you begin. Every game has encouraging cheers and upbeat music to keep kids on their feet, expending energy and having fun.

We made a special trip to Target today while out of town to get this for our kids since some friends raved about it. I heard it was great for getting kids active inside in our cold winters and that it was durable and lots of fun. My kids couldn’t wait to play it for the 1 1/2 hour drive home and loved it– for the entire 3 1/2 minutes it worked.

There is a variety of game play options suitable for one to eight players. Hyper-Dash is aimed at players aged 6+ years. Four levels of play are available from easy (level 1) to hard (level 4). The Hyper-Dash unit requires 3 AA (LR03) batteries.

If you have ever sat at a scrabble game and wondered when the other players were going to finally finish their turns so you could get around to your play, then you will find Bananagrams an imminently satisfying game. You are playing, making words from letter tiles, for the entire game.

A Scrabble-like game without the board — much like Pick Two!. Using a selection of letter tiles, each player works independently to create their own ‘crossword’. When a player uses up all their letters, all players take a new tile from the pool. When all the tiles are gone, the first player to use up all the tiles in their hand wins.

the game Bananagrams grew from a passionate love of word games. Obsessed by all the word games that could be found, we all hankered after something a bit more fluid than the classics we all love and wanted a game that the family could play together – ALL ages at the same time. We sought something portable, that we could take with us on our various travels and simple enough (with no superfluous pieces or packaging) that we could play in restaurants while waiting for our food. We love that one hand can be played in as little as five minutes, but as it’s so addictive, it’s often hard to put away!

There are 144 lettered tiles, each player picks a quantity from the pile; then play begins as soon as someone declares “split”! This is a fun, fast paced word game, playable, with simple rules. Yet the game is complex enough to hold the interest of the deepest word-game fanatic.

Blokus was born out of the imagination of a mathematician who is very keen on games. Starting from the “Four colour theorem” (a premise known to cartographers since the XV century) and by associating this with the idea of using polyminos as pieces, he reached the principle of Blokus. It was a great find! Thanks to the simplicity of its rules, Blokus is a delight for both young and old. And its depth captivates even the most eminent scientists! Blokus has already been compared to great classics such as the game of Go, which has a history of more than 2,000 years.

Purpose of the game :
The purpose of the game is for each player to place his/her 21 pieces on the board (or at least the maximum number of pieces).

Your children will behave forever if you get them Blokus Classic for Christmas! You will be the greatest mommy and daddy in the world… for sure! Not only is Board
Game Blokus Classic one of the most beautiful games to be found, it is also a tremendous two to four player strategy game. Topped for a Christmas
top 10 2008 bestseller Blokus Classic is a strategy board game that challenges spatial thinking. Blokus encourages creative thinking and has received a Mensa award for promoting healthy brain activity. The goal of this game is for players to fit all of their pieces onto the board. Another great thing about Blokus Strategy Game is that it is a lot of fun for both kids and adults.

Not only is Board Game Blokus Classic one of the most beautiful games to be found, it is also a tremendous two to four player strategy game. There are literally only two rules, allowing the game to be accessible to even the most casual of players; and games can end in ten minutes! Players take turns laying down twenty-one pieces of different shapes on a grid, attempting to block their opponents and make more room for themselves. The player who places the most translucent plastic pieces is the winner, as players seek to expand their own territory in this clever little game.

Get the good times rolling with this Waterwheel Play Table. Falling water action encourages your children to creatively explore. They’ll get their feet wet in “cause and effect” learning as they witness the kinetic energy of the water. A four-piece accessory set and molded sections in the table add to their play experience.

Splish! Splash! Little ones who love the water will love playing with the Step2 Waterwheel Play Table. Designed to keep water at toddler level and away from the ground and dirt, the WaterWheel Activity Play Table offers kids hours of fun and entertainment. The water table includes cups which can be filled and poured into the water wheel tower. Two sailboats are included for exploring the molded-in waterways. The Step2 WaterWheel Activity Play Table is bound to make a big splash with your little one!

This activity set has a mini-waterfall, two little sailboats, a water tower, canals, and motes that engage toddlers for hours. Splashing around is a novelty for your grandchildren, but the play table’s height decreases the chance of muddying your lawn. *Also recommended for grandchildren with special needs.

This is a great water table. I purchased this product for my 18 month old to use in the backyard. It is the perfect size for her, and would easily accommodate play with 1 or 2 other kids. You can put a good amount of water in it. Now she can splash all she wants! I will have to use some caution because she is a climber, and she has the urge to get in it, which obviously is not appropriate for this product. Overall, very pleased!

With two large outdoor dogs my grandson does not have as much pool time as we would like. Having the water wheel play table he can have fun in the sun with his water toys and not have to share a pool with the dogs. The quantity of water is perfect and can easily be filled with warm water for those cool day. I would recommend this to all my grandmother friends.

In Settlers of Catan, players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players collect these resources to build up their civilizations to get to 10 victory points and win the game. Multi-award-winning and one of the most popular games in recent history due to its amazing ability to appeal to non-gamers and gamers alike.

The Settlers of Catan (1995), quite simply, is one of the most influential board games of the last several decades. It was one of the first really big board game hits in Germany, and it was one of the first German board games to be a hit in the United States too.

Although innovative and influential, Settlers (1995) remains part of an ongoing stream of game design. You can backtrack the idea of random hexes in a game to Magic Realm (1978) and the pre-game setup of an island shaped collection of hexes to Kings & Things (1986), the latter even including a lot of familiar terrains–including forests, plains, mountains, deserts, and the sea. Likewise you could track other systems to influential games like Civilization (1981) and a number of others. What Settlers does is integrate all of these in an innovative new way that’s simple, yet allows for strategic depth.

Looking at games released more recently, Settlers has been hugely influential. There are games like Roads and Boats (1999), Morisi (2000), and Cannes (2002) that literally look like they were prototyped with the pieces from a Settlers of Catan game. Some recent hits like Puerto Rico (2002) and Age of Mythology (2003) were clearly influenced by Settler’s ideas of resource management. We’re even starting to see a second-generation of German games like Nautilus (2002) where the designers were brought into the hobby through Settlers.

Besides dramatically changing the shape of strategic gaming, Settlers has also spawned a number of more direct heirs. There are two full expansions for the game: The Seafarers of Catan (1997), which adds exploration of the seas; and The Cities & Knights of Catan (2000), which dramatically increases the strategic complexity of the game through limited technology trees, knights, and barbarians. Each of these three games (including Settlers itself) also has an expansion allowing 5 or 6 players to play.

There are also a whole slew of historical supplements, licensed products, card games, and other Catan-mechanic games. Rather than making this review intimidating through a long listing, I simply point to this list of Catan game reviews. The most notable other games are a number of truly independent games which adopt some of the Catan mechanics to widely different milleus. They are: The Settlers of Nurnberg (1999), The Starfarers of Catan (2001), and The Settlers of the Stone Age (2003).

Before closing out it’s worth noting that Catan was originally pitched as a combination exploration/settlement/warfare game. Catan only developed the settlement aspect. Teuber later wrote an exploration game called Entdecker (1996/2001) and a warfare game called Domaine (1997/2003), sort of completing the trilogy (though all the games use entirely independent mechanics).

Though there are a lot of games related to Catan, you can play the core game just fine on its own, and get many hours of enjoyment out of it. If you really like it, however, there’s room for expansion. In my opinion, that’s the best of both worlds.

Live Butterfly Kit Section - Butterfly Kits are  FUN PROJECTS! Witness the wonder of the butterfly life cycle with these child-and-insect friendly habitats. See the caterpillar’s transition as it grows, changes into a chrysalis, and finally emerges as a Painted Lady butterfly! It takes 3 weeks to go from caterpillar to butterfly. Keep adults indoors or release outside.

Watch a miracle of nature as caterpillars turn into beautiful Painted Lady butterflies. Study the caterpillar’s transition as it matures, changes into a chrysalis and emerges as a butterfly. Butterfly Garden measures 1′ tall and comes with a mail-in certificate for 5 caterpillars and food, as well as feeding instructions and fact guide.

Raise 5 Painted Lady butterflies while learning all about metamorphosis.  Watch the caterpillars’ transformation as it matures, turns into a chrysalis, then emerges as an adult butterfly. Butterflies are perfectly safe to release into the environment.