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Trunk show with Stella & Dot, Wed. 5/1

Shop for Mother's Day!

On Wed, May 1st from 4:30-6:30pm at LittleBits Natick, we will be having a trunk show with personal stylist, Kristen Weiss for Stella & Dot, beautiful jewelry and accessories–just in time for Mother’s Day! Enter a raffle to WIN $50 of accessories!

Come with the kids or bring a friend. Swing by for style and fun! Wine and cheese will be served. Pick out your own Mother’s Day gift or get your Mother’s Day, graduation or first communion shopping done!

Stella & Dot creates flexible entrepreneurial opportunities for women. Their merchandise is only available through in-home (and in-store) trunk shows and online.

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Posted in community, events, holiday, seven to nine, ten and up, win! | April 29th, 2013 No Comments

The Easter bunny is coming…

Easter baskets! $4.99

Easter is this weekend and we can help you put together a basket! We have goodies for the insides and we can wrap it all up for you with beautiful tulle, ribbon, plastic, and an included reusable basket or box for $4.99. Here’s a few tips for what you can stuff it with: plush toys, dessert themed erasers, candy, lego minifigures, pencils, sitcky mosaics, jewelry kits, glitter body tattoos, Easter stickers, puzzles, stomp rockets, bunny books, kids’ CDs and so much more!

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Posted in family, five to six, holiday, plush, seven to nine, ten and up, three to four, twos | March 26th, 2013 No Comments

Family Game Night this Friday

3/22

Join us this Friday, 3/22 from 6-8pm for Family Game Night at the Natick store! As always, we have some new games to try out… so bring yourselves and your kids for a night of fun and then take 20% off any one game!

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Posted in activities, community, discounts/sales, events, family, five to six, FREE, games, seven to nine, ten and up | March 18th, 2013 No Comments

Earth Day 2013

Calling young artists!

We will be participating in the Natick Kid’s Art Walk to recognize Earth Day 2013! Starting Monday (3/10), we will have markers and paper available in our Natick store for kids (grades 1-4) to create artwork on an ongoing basis that shows what they love about our planet. The drawings will be displayed in stores around Natick Center for two weeks in April leading up to Natick’s Earth Day Festival, and then will be showcased at the festival on the Common on Sun. April 21, 11am to 3pm, where there will be food, music, kids activities, and more!

So in all the color you can inspire, draw us some pictures of why you love Earth: plants, animals, water, food, natural resources, nature parks… or what we could do better to care for Earth: recycling, limiting pollution, using less energy, caring for endangered species. Part of our window will be used to display the artwork made by children, and on Wed. 3/27 we will have a special Earth Day workshop from 3:30 to 4:30pm. We hope you join us!

 

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Posted in activities, arts & crafts, community, events, family, five to six, for the environment, FREE, holiday, seven to nine, ten and up | March 10th, 2013 No Comments

Toy Fair Highlights 2013

Tenzi $14.99

As usual we were overwhelmed at Toy Fair 2013. We saw a ton! We are starting to bring in our favorites already… more to follow as the year rolls out. Here are some games we liked the most:

Tenzi, $14.99
Ages 3+, 2-4 players 

Each player holds a set of dice. Players hold all ten dice in their hands. Someone shouts “go!” and everyone rolls at the same time. Be the first player to get 10 of your dice to show the same number. So simple, so fun! And almost anyone can play and win.

 

 

 

This one is new from one of our favorite companies, Educational Insights:

Raccoon RumpusRaccoon Rumpus, $14.99
Ages 3+, 2-4 players

We welcome new games, especially for this age group. Raccoons have raided your closet and now they’re having a party! Help these masked bandits get dressed; the critter that collects the most costumes wins! A crazy, fun game of memory and matching.

 

 

And for those of you who like to bend your brains…

Kyro 5, $14.99
Ages 7+, 2 players

This game was created by games inventor Joe Weatherall. ”Joe infused his love of Egyptian artifacts and ancient civilizations into KYRO5™—he also loves the contrast of its simple set up and the advanced ‘over time’ strategy of the game. One of the industry’s most prolific inventors, Joe has recently logged his 1,000th invention—including toys and games like KYRO5 and Scrabble® Slam.” (from the Educational Insights site).

First choose a color and collect your pyramids. Players then take turns placing one pyramid at a time, each touching another pyramid on at least one side or corner. Once all pyramids are placed, remove and relocate played pyramids, one at a time. The first players to line up five pyramids in a row wins the game! This game would make a great gift for kids studying Egypt!


Trifacta–two new math games:


Trifacta Addition/Subtraction, $16.99
Ages 6+, 2-4 players

Make addition and subtraction fun! This math fact game builds fluency like never before. Pass out the numbered playing cards then take turns filling in the mising spots to complete fact families. Be the first player to play all your cards and call out “tri-Facta!”

Trifacta Multiplication/Division, $19.99
Ages 8+, 2-4 players

A fun way to make multiplication and division make sense. Plays the same way as the addition/subtraction version.

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Posted in family, five to six, games, school, seven to nine, ten and up, three to four | March 3rd, 2013 No Comments

Let your kiddos craft their valentines at LittleBits

Valentines workshop 2/9-2/10

Let’s get pasting! There’s nothing more romantic than hand-made valentines right? Let your kiddos craft their own at LittleBits in Natick this coming weekend. Stop by Sat. 2/9 from 2-3 pm or Sun. 2/10 from 2-3 pm for an hour of creating some sweetness. We’ll provide all the necessary supplies, but if you run out of time bring some home to finish up the job: we’ve got glue sticks, construction paper, glitter glue, stickers, and more! Ask for tips.

If glue isn’t your child’s favorite tool, we’ve got pre-packs of valentines as well. Smell something sweet? Check out our Scratch n’ Sniff valentines from Peaceable Kingdom. Pre-packs run from $6.99 to $11.99. Stop in to see what we’ve got! Happy Valentine’s!

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Posted in activities, arts & crafts, events, family, five to six, FREE, holiday, school, seven to nine, ten and up, three to four | February 3rd, 2013 No Comments

Come try our new games!

Game night 1/25


It’s Game Night again (this Friday) and we have a bunch of new ones to try.
We’ll also be trading Panini Sports stickers: NFL, NHL, and NBA. So bring your books and your stickers!

Take 20% off any one game at the event.

Stop by and have some fun!
January 25th: 6-8pm at the NATICK store.

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Posted in community, events, family, five to six, FREE, games, seven to nine, sports, ten and up | January 24th, 2013 No Comments

New games are rolling in!

Stenzzles Thinkfun

Who says January is dull?
All the new products are rolling in – it’s a very exciting time of year for us. One of our all time favorite companies, Thinkfun, who brought us Rush Hour and Zingo, consistently launches fresh and innovative brain products every year. They also have a special needs section on their website where you can see which games help develop important skills such as: focus & attention, speech & language, social play, and visual.

 

Here are a few new ones that we’ve got:

 

Stenzzles™
Artistic Layering Puzzle
This innovative puzzle challenges players to replicate a colorful image by layering the 8 Stenzzles cards together in the correct order and orientation. To play, select one of 8 challenges and flip, rotate and layer the cards until your stack exactly matches the challenge image. As stylish as it is clever, Stenzzles makes a great gift for adults and kids alike. Collect the family of Stenzzles styles!
• Ages 8 to adult

 

 

ShapeOmetry™
Combine Different Pieces to Create Equal Shapes
ShapeOmetry™ is a fun way to develop spatial, abstract, and quantitative reasoning skills. To solve the puzzle challenges, stack green pieces on top of blue pieces, or vice versa, to create identical shapes. Through hands-on play,

students build key skills, strategies and mathematical understandings, such as part-to-whole relationships.
• Grades 2-8
• Individual or Partner Play
and congratulations to Thinkfun for their nominations for Toy of the Year Awards for Swish (one of our favorites, too), Zingo Sightwords and Roll and Play

 

 

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Posted in family, five to six, games, seven to nine, ten and up, three to four, twos | January 18th, 2013 No Comments

Go Pats!

OYO Sportstoy $12.99

To our hometown team from your hometown toy store: Congrats, Pats!

Check out these OYO Sportstoys–licensed minifigures that look like your favorite players! Being from Acton, MA, OYO has a special place in their hearts for the PATRIOTS <3. OYO minifigures feature rotating forearms, bending knees, and the ability to hold a bat, glove and ball, all of which come in a special package that can be used to display your collection. Compatible with brand name building toys, OYOs come with stands that let you pose the minifigures for display. Every OYO also has its own unique identification code, called a DNA number, that sets it apart from the other figures in each new product release.

They’re all here, some come get ‘em! We have reason to be proud:

“The New England Patriots have the third most Super Bowl appearances (7) in the NFL resulting in three victories. The Pats hold the record for wins in a decade with 126 and also boast the longest consecutive game wining streak with 21 games.” (OYO Sportstoys website).

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Posted in buildable, collectibles, seven to nine, sports, ten and up | January 14th, 2013 No Comments

The fairies are coming!

Tassie fairies

Coming soon! Tassie is a company with 100% original designs implemented by artisans who have many years of experience. The brother and sister, who own the company, inherited it from their parents. They originally assembled beautiful silk flowers until they could not compete with the lower wages in China. Together they embarked on a new endeavor developing fairies. The brother focuses on running the company and the sister on the designs.

Tassie Design is a cottage industry. Most of the fairy assembly takes place in Phrae, one of the most ancient provinces in Thailand. The workers start at $10 a day (their days are eight hours and they typically work 5-6 days a week). Tassie supports their workers in gaining more advanced skills to earn as much as 2 ½ times the minimum wage. The employees work in a safe environment (no accidents in the 20 years they have been in business) and have the option to assemble fairies in their own homes.

We can’t wait to get these beautiful creatures into the stores. What a great companion to go in your child’s bedroom.

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Posted in collectibles, five to six, holiday, plush, seven to nine, ten and up | November 13th, 2012 No Comments