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15 Best Toys for Easy Summer Armchair Travel

Cultures, For Families, For Stores, For Teachers, Multicultural, Play, Tips, Toys, Travel, World Food

Travel toys! This is a guest post I wrote for Ann Belle over at Kids Travel Books: Today I have a special guest post from Laura Barta of Whole Wide World Toys. Before I turn this over to her, I just want to take a moment to say how much I love what Laura is […]

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Travel toys! This is a guest post I wrote for Ann Belle over at Kids Travel Books: Today I have a special guest post from Laura Barta of Whole Wide World Toys. Before I turn this over to her, I just want to take a moment to say how much I love what Laura is

Pennsylvania Is Odd and So Is Wherever You Live

Cultures, For Families, For Stores, For Teachers, Multicultural, Tips

Pretzels and Pennsylvania Pennsylvanians eat 12 times more pretzels than the rest of the country. This fun fact comes to you from an interview with Andrea Slonecker, author of Pretzel Making at Home, on the podcast The Splendid Table. Although travel and technology make it easier to learn about fascinating cultural differences around the world, there

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Pretzels and Pennsylvania Pennsylvanians eat 12 times more pretzels than the rest of the country. This fun fact comes to you from an interview with Andrea Slonecker, author of Pretzel Making at Home, on the podcast The Splendid Table. Although travel and technology make it easier to learn about fascinating cultural differences around the world, there

The Ultimate List of Stocking Stuffers

For Families, For Stores, For Teachers, Multicultural, Play, Tips, World Holidays

This list is gold. It’s taken me years to get here.  I not only fill my kids’ stockings, but I also fill an advent calendar for each day of December.  I have a braided yarn with 25 children’s mittens hanging from it for each child. Every day there’s a teeny, tiny little gift in one

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This list is gold. It’s taken me years to get here.  I not only fill my kids’ stockings, but I also fill an advent calendar for each day of December.  I have a braided yarn with 25 children’s mittens hanging from it for each child. Every day there’s a teeny, tiny little gift in one

10 Ways to Be British for a Day

Cultures, For Families, For Teachers, Multicultural, Play, Tips, World Food

Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch of the U.K., surpassing her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.  The United Kingdom includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Take a day, or any day, with your kids or students to enjoy British culture.  Here are a few ideas to get you started. 1.  First, wear a crown.

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Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch of the U.K., surpassing her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.  The United Kingdom includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Take a day, or any day, with your kids or students to enjoy British culture.  Here are a few ideas to get you started. 1.  First, wear a crown.

Creative New Ways to Play With Old Toys

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Toys are expensive and can take over your house.  Here are some tips to help you breathe new life into old toys so that you don’t need to buy new ones. [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Here at Whole Wide World Toys” _builder_version=”3.19.14″] Here at Whole Wide World Toys, we’re all about creative play and promoting toys that can be

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Toys are expensive and can take over your house.  Here are some tips to help you breathe new life into old toys so that you don’t need to buy new ones. [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Here at Whole Wide World Toys” _builder_version=”3.19.14″] Here at Whole Wide World Toys, we’re all about creative play and promoting toys that can be

7 Things I Learned at Art on Chocolate

Cultures, For Families, For Stores, For Teachers, Multicultural, Play

I had a booth at a local art fair called Art on Chocolate in Hershey, Pennsylvania.  It’s the first time I’ve personally sold World Village Playsets to the general public since it’s arrival a couple of weeks ago. 1.  Kids can spot a good toy from a mile away. We were about three booths from

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I had a booth at a local art fair called Art on Chocolate in Hershey, Pennsylvania.  It’s the first time I’ve personally sold World Village Playsets to the general public since it’s arrival a couple of weeks ago. 1.  Kids can spot a good toy from a mile away. We were about three booths from

Liberia

Liberia – Wear White to Celebrate!

Cultures, For Families, For Teachers, Multicultural, The Bright Side

Remember how you hoped your kids wouldn’t overhear the heartbreaking news about the ebola virus?  It was just too awful.  So many died.  People couldn’t touch or comfort the sick because then they could get sick. Well, today you can join Liberians in wearing white to celebrate the official news that Liberia is ebola-free.  People

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Remember how you hoped your kids wouldn’t overhear the heartbreaking news about the ebola virus?  It was just too awful.  So many died.  People couldn’t touch or comfort the sick because then they could get sick. Well, today you can join Liberians in wearing white to celebrate the official news that Liberia is ebola-free.  People

The Bright Side of Nepal – for Kids

Cultures, For Families, For Teachers, Multicultural, The Bright Side

I’m in the habit of writing something good about places in crisis so that you have something good to tell your kids when they’re hearing about devastation in the news.  The news about the earthquake in Nepal is getting worse every day as help is arriving and reporting what they see. Nepal is one of my

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I’m in the habit of writing something good about places in crisis so that you have something good to tell your kids when they’re hearing about devastation in the news.  The news about the earthquake in Nepal is getting worse every day as help is arriving and reporting what they see. Nepal is one of my

Why Make Multicultural Toys?

For Families, For Stores, For Teachers, Multicultural, Raising Global Kids, Toys

In the toy business even the rubber bands are fun. When I got a box of product samples in the mail recently, I started scrutinizing them for quality parameters.  It wasn’t until I saw that the rubber bands holding the story cards together were silly bands, that I took a moment to realize how lucky I

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In the toy business even the rubber bands are fun. When I got a box of product samples in the mail recently, I started scrutinizing them for quality parameters.  It wasn’t until I saw that the rubber bands holding the story cards together were silly bands, that I took a moment to realize how lucky I

Bonsai Mums (Not Banzai Moms)

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Banzai Moms:  a Japanese cheer or war cry called out by mothers of children who need something to do. Bonsai Mums:  a potted chrysanthemum dwarfed and trained to an artistic shape. If you are the former, then you may need the latter. I went to a spectacularly large garden today with a conservatory, a meadow and

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Banzai Moms:  a Japanese cheer or war cry called out by mothers of children who need something to do. Bonsai Mums:  a potted chrysanthemum dwarfed and trained to an artistic shape. If you are the former, then you may need the latter. I went to a spectacularly large garden today with a conservatory, a meadow and

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