Divisoria is the perfect place to find new and hot selling items for kids. What's even great is that you don't need to spend too much; it's very cheap yet very entertaining to kids. One of the reasons is the presence of foreign business owners who introduce new products from their countries at very affordable prices. During our stay with my family in Manila for Holy Week, I saw from...

My daughter loves to watch CSI, all of them and is loves science so I thought this would be a great gift for her. In all honesty this is something I would have loved to have had when I was her age. The CSI facial reconstruction kit comes with a head form, plastic eyes, a form for a nose, a form for ears, 2 pounds of clay, sculpting tools, spacers, a rolling pin and a thing to roll the clay...

I found this tow at the gift shop at Crackle Barrel Restaurant.  My kids love dinasours so when I saw this I knew I had to get it for them.  It is an egg that is about the size of a large orange, but shaped like an egg.  The direction say to complete submerge it in water and watch it for the next 12 to 72 hours.  After about 12 hours the egg starts to crack and continue...

My son loves the Cartoon Network show Ben 10. All he wanted for his birthday last year was the Ben 10: Alien Laboratory so being the great parents (suckers) we are, we purchased it for him. If you were to ask him to review it he would give it A's across the board. But since I am the one actually doing the review, my opinion of it is not as high as his.The Ben 10 Alien Laboratory is a r...

My family loves to go to Divisoria Mall. It is the best place to buy stuff not only at affordable prices but really at its cheapest. There are many Koreans and Chinese business owners there who introduce different products from their county at low prices. This place is also the best choice to buy not only toys for kids but also it is where new toys being introduced to the market.A stuff that ca...

Ok, so for Easter, my husband and I were looking for easy basket stuffers for my nephew. We were putting together our own basket and having a real hard time figuring out what could go in it. While at Walmart, I found these really cool capsules in either dinosaurs or cars. All they are is capsules that look like gel pills. All you do is drop them in warm water and watch them take shape. They are...

I had high hopes for this when I bought it. I have a 13 year old who loves science and shows like CSI and said she wanted a microscope and a 6 year old who saw an ad for this on TV and wanted it so I thought it was a good buy. The EyeClops Bionic Eye is a hand held device that plugs into your TV and acts like a microscope by magnifying objects up to 200 times thier regular size. It has a built ...

Although the home school laws in my state do not require science to be taught, my son loves science. Plus, science is really important in our everyday lives, so I require it.One problem that I was not sure how I was going to handle was Chemistry. There are quite an array of Chemistry books available for home schooling, however the actual experimentation equipment and supplies are another story....

Ferrofluid is a magnetic colloidal mixture made out of extremely small ferromagnetic particles  that have been suspended into a carrier fluid, which in this case is water or another natural solvent like oil. (Therefore because of it's extremely small size remains as a liquid). It is usually composed of extremely small nano sized iron containing substances such as magnetite and hematite...

Chia Pets are terracotta figures of various shapes which are sold with seeds, which after soaking in water will adhere to the grooves in the figure and then germinate and become hairlike sprouts (over a period of a few days).  The Chia Seeds provided with the pet are 'Salvia Hispanica' of the Salvia genus (in the Mint Family). These seeds do not have the hallucinogenic properties o...

           Time to find presents for birthday. I chose a Fisher Price gift, the view-master. I remember having a view-master as a child. I always liked looking through the viewfinder at cartoons like the flintstones. I enjoyed mine very much. Nowadays the children's toys are so technical nothing like the past.  The binoculars & 3D V...

Way back when i first saw this item for sale i thought to myself 'Thats the mos awesome thing ever'. This was 3 years ago and I still believe it is one of the coolest things I own.The lightsabre itself comes in a wonderfully stylish box adored with star wars text. Upon opening the first thing you notice is how damn shiny the thing is. Then you get it out of the packaging and find some b...

This is again one of the many science toys I have bought for my science club to let children experience the fun of learning science. It is basically a microscope that comes with a software to be connected to the USB port and seeing all the wonderful specimens on our computer monitors!! Gone are the days when the poor kids have to squint their eyes through that eyepiece struggling to see the mag...

This is a secret. It is a hard to find toy, but very fun for young school wizards that want to out-smart their schoolmates in the science room. It was worth the search to find this toy through Inland Octopus, in Walla Walla.The ‘Diving Sub' is a toy that originally was found in cereal boxes in the 1950's. Made for children 6 and up, this little baking powder fueled sub will dive a...

What can I say?  Snap Circuits by Elenco Electronics are awsome!  They offer kits from very basic (Snap Circuits Jr...which my son started with) to advanced (Snap Circuits Extreme....which offers solar, electromagnetism, computer interfacing, etc for $129).As I said, my son started with the most basic "Jr." kit this past Christmas.  And loved it (see the review).  ...

My youngest, just had a birthday a few weeks ago and one of the things she got was sea monkeys.I have never heard of a sea money until then.  There was a few people there that were talking about these thing being in the back of magazines.  One lady said, she never bought any because she was afraid it was fake and they would just steal her money.Well, we open the package and it sa...

Even though it says fun through play while learning science but this toy is a great dispapointment to me and my students while thinking that it will be a great teaching aid to stir my younger students' interest in chemistry experiments. Despite of supervising them in the science club activity to try out this science toy, the results did not turn out as they are supposed to be!! The toy...

Tried this at one of the playschool nearby. It comes with 4 test tubes, a test tube holder, tub tints, petri dishes, a pipette, plastic cups, plastic bags, a small bag of sunflower seeds, some dry peas, lots of colourful jelly crystals and even vegetable oil. Basically it is teaching younger kids how to grow plants without soil, by using those colourful jellies. Besides teaching growth in ...

My son received this as a birthday gift from his grandparents. The reason they brought it was because my son is into science and he likes to do experiments. They thought this kit would be a lot of fun for him. According to the front of the kit, this is suppose to be "science fun" with step by step illustrations. I have to say this kit is really a disappointment. My son wanted to make ...

It is always a challenge trying to appease two sons, that are two years apart. When I get one son something, the other just as to have something too. Otherwise, I am not being fair?I helped my oldest son purchase a product at RadioShack, online. My youngest boy was off at a friend's house, down the block, so I order something for him too. I got Matt, the Solar Project Fun Kit, by RadioShack...