Looking for creative gifts this holiday season can be challenging. Gifts that can be enjoyed playing alone or with family members top the shopping lists for sure. Let’s talk about some of our favorite creative gifts your family would enjoy this holiday season.
About Hog Wild Toys
Located in Porkland, Oregon, Hog Wild was founded in 1996. We live by these simple rules: We sell innovative novelty products typically geared to older kids (over 8) and that cross over to adults. We try to be different and dance to our own beat when developing toys and gifts. We’re not the brightest bulbs in the warehouse but we do try and often own up to our stupid mistakes. We like things simple because it’s easier for us to understand.
Pizza Party Throwdown Game
This game has players tossing pizza toppings through the air! Each round players have 30 seconds to toss their toppings onto the rotating pizza game board. What makes this game so much fun is trying to land your color coded topping on the correct spot on the pizza. But to make it even more challenge, the pizza is spinning! Using the pizza chef launcher, you fling your topping up on the pizza… or completely off the table! This is a great multi age age. There are three different challenges to vary the levels of difficulty.
Atomic Power Popper
Shoot balls up to 20 feet with this classic power popper! Battles will be epic with this gun. This Atomic Power Popper includes 12 balls and 3 targets. No batteries required either. Simply pump up the power and fire away!
Yeti Holiday Poppers
This Yeti Holiday Popper is one of the poppers available in the series. Others include Big Foot, Shark, Narwhat, Unicorn, T-Rex and Dragon. These poppers are single shot but simply to use. Simply insert the ball into the popper mouth, aim, and POP! Squeeze the Yeti Popper to shoot a soft foam ball up to 20 feet! The harder you squeeze, the faster and farther it shoots. Set includes 6 foam balls.
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About Vango Toys
Vango is an award winning toys and games company based in Oregon. We started Vango with the goal of bringing joy to kids’ lives and putting an end to boredom once and for all! To ensure that every toy and game we make achieves this goal, we enlist a team of the most experienced play experts available to test our products…. KIDS! If these play experts don’t rate the product a 10 out of 10 on our fun scale, it doesn’t make it out our doors!
The #UpsideDownChallenge Game
How well would you complete tasks if everything was upside down? This game does just that. It literally flips your world upside down! Each player wears a pair of goggle that flip their vision. While wearing the goggles, you attempt to compete seemingly easy challenges like writing your name and connecting dots. While this may sound easy, it’s not. It is a challenge game that will have you laughing out loud at yourself and other players.
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About Chalk of the Town
Wendy and sister Sondra have always been crafty, so when they noticed chalkboard surfaces trending in interior design they thought ‘imagine if we could put a chalkboard on a shirt to create a new shirt everyday!’. The sisters were determined to create a chalkboard-like surface that could accept chalk markers, not only smudgy traditional limestone chalk. As mothers themselves, Sondra and Wendy also felt the shirts had to be durable, machine washable and re-useable. After much research and a bit of product testing help from their school aged children, voila! Chalk of the Town t-shirts were born.
Chalk of the Town is a line of chalkboard products ranging from T-Shirt and Long Sleeve Kits to Tote Bags to Patches, allowing both kids and adults to create and design their own wearable fashion using Chalkboard markers. PLUS they’re both erasable and reusable so you can design again, again and again!
Some of our favorite Chalk of the Town products:
Tote Bags
These tote bags are made with 100% cotton canvas and are 14.5 inch width, 15 inch height, and 1 inch gusset. The handles are 22 inch which allow for easy carrying. Create your own custom tote based on your feelings or interest for the day. Use the included chalk markers to draw a picture or write your favorite quote. Once the chalkboard paint has dried is won’t smudge. When a new creative urge arrives, wipe the current design away with a damp cloth. T-Shirt kits includes a canvas tote bag, 2 chalk markers, and a washcloth.
Reusable Chalkboard Patch
This patch can be applied to just about any surface. Using the included chalk paint markers, create a drawing or write a quote to encourage someone. Once the chalk paint is dry, the design won’t smudge or bleed. When ready to change, simply wipe it away with a damp washcloth before creating a new design. The patch kit includes a 3.5 inch round fabric patch and 2 water based chalk markers.
T-Shirts
Chalk of the Town has t-shirts for all ages. They are available in a wide variety of colors and come with a chalkboard on the chest area. Using chalkboard markers, create a drawing or mini billboard to express yourself. When ready to change the design, simply wipe the chalkboard clean with a damp wash cloth. Kits include a 100% cotton t-shirt, a seasonal stencil, 3 water based chalk markers, and a wash cloth.
Stencils
Stencils are templates to get your designs started. Use them to create a drawing or add a design to your chalkboard. They can be used on any chalkboard surface. Once they dry, your design won’t smudge until wiped with a damp wash cloth. Stencils measure 3.5″ b y 5″ and can be used over and over.
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About PLAYMOBIL® Toys
Since 1974, PLAYMOBIL® toys, created by Hans Beck, have become a classic throughout children’s playrooms, with play themes ranging from a pirate ship to a children‘s hospital. Approximately 3 billion of the beloved play figures with the iconic smile have been produced since then, sparking imaginative play for children all over the world. Around 30 different play themes are distributed in approx. 100 countries worldwide. Both parents and educators recognize PLAYMOBIL®’s award-winning toys as a benchmark for high-value, quality play products.
Comic World Surprise Set
The Comic World EverDreamerz squad is back! There are 12 extraordinary characters from the candy world to collect. In Comic World, exciting new things can be created simply by drawing them, but they can also be erased just as simply. Collect all twelve magical characters from Comic World. Inside each mystery box find a surprise character, a character-specific charm, trading card, sticker and accessories.
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My Thoughts
Like most families, we have spent far more time home and isolated this year than ever before. It has been tough on everyone. Personally, the lack of having friends over has been tough on my little ones. And when they all had to school remotely, squabbling between them stepped up to a whole new level.
While looking for creative gifts to keep them occupied, we were fortunate to enjoy the above products. Any of these items are great ways to keep your crew active and lessen the “I’m bored” faces. Make sure to check these items out and add them to your holiday shopping list.
We’ve added these great brands to our Magical Merry Christmas Gift Guide #MegaChristmas20
Check it out here!