We’ve purchased or been given a variety of items for our pretend kitchen and restaurant adventures over the past few years. All of it plastic, all of it bendable, breakable and generally cheap junk that soon lost it’s use as a toy. But on a trip to Helen, Georgia we went into a small, locally [...]

Props & Pans is giving away an Eco-Kids goody bag filled with all natural art supplies including: Eco-Dough, finger paints, a bamboo rolling pin and either finger paint or a paint brush to a lucky reader. You can read our review here.
Enter by leaving a comment HERE. Visit the Eco-Kids and tell us what you [...]

Recently, the Props and Pans team was asked to review an all natural product developed by Eco-Kids called Eco-Dough. Their goal is to provide kids with non-toxic, non-staining and easily washable art supplies. Continue reading below to see what each of the reviewers has to say about using Eco-Dough with their children.

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My children were recently given a selection of puzzles from the Great American Puzzle Factory, which is part of Fundex Games. Imagine our delight when we opened the boxes of the Make’em Move puzzles to find that they have wheels that turn as well as other pieces of each scene that move. On the [...]

Welcome to Must Have Monday’s. Every Monday our reviewers will let you have a sneak peak into what we use in our homes and our lives. Here we will tell you about the things we can’t live without. If you have a “must have” item to pass along please e-mail us. We welcome contributions from [...]

Props & Pans is giving one lucky reader a new K’Nex Dueling Racers set. Read our review and enter to win by leaving a comment HERE by Thursday, May 1, 2008.
You can receive a second entry by blogging about the contest (linking to it) or adding us to your blogroll. Just e-mail us with [...]

No toy I have ever bought has kept our son more entertained than K’Nex. Sounds amazing I know, but it’s true. For his third birthday (almost 2 1/2 years ago) a friend purchased a small set of fishy animals for him and it was love at first sight. Once I realized this was the peace [...]

Three of my children have a favorite pastime of listening to my phone conversations. So when I got a call to review Littlest Pet Shop toys they heard me say I had never heard of them. Immediately they were across the room, yelling at the top of their combined lung power about what [...]

While walking through the mall when my son was just an infant, I came upon an educational toy store and in there was a a fairly ugly and pretty large, bright yellow rubber horse cow dog donkey Rody. It is supposed to be a horse, but really has a very distinctive look. Being the [...]

Welcome to Must Have Monday’s. Every Monday our reviewers will let you have a sneak peak into what we use in our homes and our lives. Here we will tell you about the things we can’t live without. If you have a “must have” item to pass along please e-mail us. We welcome contributions from [...]

If you have young children like I do, chances are you have a love/hate relationship with crayons, markers and pens. I love that my kids enjoy drawing and coloring but I really hate finding marks from the aforementioned implements, both accidental and intentional, all over my house. We won’t even discuss the amounts of paper [...]

Picture this — a toy car that plays six different car sounds, has light up headlamps and has super bright “night blasting” LED lights AND it doesn’t use any batteries. EVER!
I know. I could hardly believe it either but it’s true. No batteries are required for the SEE Toys Dynacar to perform all of the [...]

If you have a Thomas the Tank Engine fan at your house and you have not yet received a copy of the Smith-Thompson RR Gifts catalog, then run, don’t walk - to their website at RRgifts.com. Their website is very functional but not really enough to inspire the sort of JOY that their catalog brings [...]

It looks as if Hasbro is trying to keep up with the times as they recently released a Monopoly Electronic Banking edition that includes Visa debit cards instead of paper money.
Yes, it sounds interesting but is it really necessary?
We recently purchased Monopoly Junior to play with our five year old. Both my husband and I [...]

Whether or not you buy the clothes in Chasing Fireflies is irrelevant (of course the owners probably do not share this opinion), but this review suggests that you order the catalog (1-800-700-9474) and take a mental vacation browsing their beautiful children’s clothing and accessories.
Since my daughter only wears sports uniforms and hideous clothes that look [...]