Can't Come to Wingdoodle? - Online Shopping, of a sort

Are you pouting because you keep seeing the really great specials I keep sending out as secret coupons (click here to sign up for YOUR own coupons)... you don't live anywhere near New Hampshire or you just can't seem to make it up to the store? Yeah, that's really tough! But I am trying to clear out the inventory in the next few weeks, so I could really use your help - and you could probably still use a bunch of holiday gifts, right? Or use this chance to get all your birthday gifts for the year too.

I can't set up an instant online store, but I did the next-best-lazy-person thing... I took photos of all the shelves and walls around the store! I'll post the pictures in a few blog posts with some descriptions. If you see something you would like, send an email to: info@wingdoodle.com and be sure to put "Blog Sale" in the Title. List the items you would like and we'll get back to you with prices. You can apply any of the coupons you have received and everything else (w/o coupon) is 20% off. I will raise the discount as we get closer to closing, but many items are selling out, so there won't be as much choice. The only items that don't get a discount are Zentangle products and my books. (There will be a shipping charge as well).

Sound good? Let's get started - there's a lot of stuff to clear out!

GIFTS

Hats, mittens, scarves

Collector dolls - Kermit, Miss Piggy, Kathe Kruse angels, Anderson minis

more collector dolls... Dorothy, Glinda, Elfaba (Wicked Witch)

Bananagrams, cool kitchen things, key-caps

Putumayo and other kids' music CD's (Boynton, Dan Zanes...)

Bracelets and necklaces for charms (french fries, hearts...)

More charms (cupcakes, s'mores, sneakers...)

GAMES

Tangoes tangrams

Puzzles

 

 

Lots of Games! Haba, Gamewright...

TOYS

Stuffed bears, armadillos, baby toys, Bonz

Puppets by Folkmanis, Fraggle Rock, Manhattan toy... yes! that IS a frog -in-a-spaceship puppet!

lenticular action books, balls, wooden dolls' fire station, and doll house furniture, and a stuffed stack of pancakes (they are light and fluffy!)

Stuffed body parts (organs, actually) and blind-box toys (not many left - Nightmare Before Xmas!)

Automoblox  (very cool wooden racing cars), mini-Blythe dolls, SmartMax building toys...

Ugly Dolls! Big, little, wind-up, ceramic...

Fairy Finery

Wingdoodle is getting ready for Spring into Warner with Fairy Dust, Fairy Tea Sets, Brownie Bowling sets and some really cute and colorful feathered boas that Lilah so graciously agreed to model.  The boas are made in the United States by a company in Minnesota.  It comes in yellow, 2 different pinks, lilac and purple.  We also have fairy  and wand charms for Charm It!, magical kits from Klutz and stamps with images of fairies, princesses and castles.  And last but not least Fairie magazine. 

Bunnies, Ducks and Lambs

Easter is around the corner and Wingdoodle is well stocked with bunnies, lambs and ducks from Folkmanis. Looking for something a little different for an Easter basket these soft and cuddly puppets are just the thing. We also have lamb and bunny finger puppets and plush toys from Jelly Cat.

Japanese Erasers

 Japanese Puzzle Erasers have arrived at Wingdoodle.  These cute and colorful erasers are lead free, there are no phthalate nor latex, no paint, no PVC and are non-toxic.  Authentic Japanese erasers are made in Japan with strict Japanese quality control in environmentally friendly factories and energy saving production.  Not only are the erasers made with recyclable materials, but the packaging is recyclable as well.

These erasers marked 87.7% in erase tests, every corner of the eraser can be used as a real eraser.  They are also puzzles (small parts, not for children under 8 years old.)  The Japanese erasers are hand assembled one by one in Japan, parts of different colors can be taken apart and put back together, it is a fun way to train children's finger skills, association and relationship of various objects and shapes.

We have airplanes, helicopters, various cakes, desserts, fast foods and animals.  Makes a great gift when you put several in one of their little clear plastic boxes or great as  party favors.

Koonin Family Creations

New to the store, meet the Blabbos! These cute little one-of-a-kind plush guys will blab on and on with their big mouth and colorful patterns that scream How Cute am I?! Each Blabbo stands 1.5 inches tall and are made with different fabrics, eyes and accessories so that no two are ever the same. Hang them from your keychain, backpack or anywhere you see fit and you'll always have a little buddy to blab with.

Another new addition are the Freak-O-Bags. Everyday is Earth Day when you have your own Freak-O-Bag. Handmade and designed by the Koonin Family in Thailand or NC artist Julie Armbruste, these fair trade, colorful creatures open up to reveal a sturdy 16"x16" tote bag that can be used again and again. When you're done with the bag, simply stuff it back into the attached pet and clip it onto anything so it's always there when you need it. How cool (and eco-friendly) is that?!

Then we have the tried and true Koonin Family Pets and the String Doll Gang. The Koonin Family Pets are looking for new owners to take care of them. Like the Blabbos these are one-of-a-kind pets that will follow you everywhere. The tag that accompanies each pet gives its birthday, motto and a spot to write your new friends name. The Koonin Family Pets are 2.5" x 3" and come in 9 different kinds of pets, all of which come in several different shapes.
The String Doll Gang are a band of Kooky characters. Each String Doll has his or her own special power that is always positive and helpful, they are fun for the whole family.

The Blabbas, Freak-O-Bags, Koonin Family Pets and String Dolls make a perfect gifts for any occasion.

eeBoo

It's hard to find fun games and puzzles for very young children. Wingdoodle carries eeBoo learning games, flash cards and puzzles which are great for the 3 and up crowd.

Alphabet & Numbers is a puzzle and game in one. Match pictures to letters and dots to numbers to make simple puzzle pairs! Develops letter and number recognition.

Read to Me Pictures and Words is a pre-reading activity puzzle and game. "Read to Me" is not designed to teach reading, but to give a child familiarity with the concepts that will facilitate learning to read, while enjoying a shared activity with a parent that introduces, review, or expands upon a knowledge of the characteristics of familiar things. Match familiar objects with simple texts.

Simple Words is another pre-reading activity game. Your child will learn to match pictures to words, link simple sounds to letters of the alphabet and become familiar with consonant and vowel combinations.

Animal Spelling Puzzles contains 10 animal spelling puzzles. Put head and tail on either end, and you will make a puzzle friend. But there's more to this pre-reading game: the puzzle also spells its name!

Rhyming Words encourages vocabulary development and enhances fine motor skills. Match the pictures showing words that rhyme to make interlocking puzzle pairs.

Opposites is a game and puzzle where pictures showing opposites are matched to make interlocking puzzle pairs.

Alphabet Flash Cards include 45 colorful cards that introduce children letter sounds and simple phonics.

Spanish and French Flash Cards include 56 flash cards and pronunciation guides. Beautiful pictures teach basic French or Spanish vocabulary. Along with the flash cards we also have Spanish and French Bingo.

New Games and Puzzles

Wingdoodle has a wonderful selection of games and puzzles for ages 3 year to 99 just in time for the coming winter months. Games that will stimulate the imagination, help with numbers and words and are just plain fun to play.

This Big! is a very fishy card game for 2-6 players, ages 8 and up. Get hooked on this card game of big fish and even bigger fish tales. Cast a lure card fr0m your tackle box, then pick from your opponents' fish cards in hopes of landing the big one. Will you be able to see through their bluffs or will you get stuck with a soggy old boot? Reel in the most fish and you're the master angler. But catch only junk and you'll be left telling a story about the one that got away. This game helps with counting and decision making.

Too Many Monkeys is a totally bananas card game for 2-6 players, ages 6 and up. Primo the monkey was fast asleep until his friends swung by for a surprise pajama party! Help Primo chase away the primate pranksters by flipping and swapping cards in numerical order. Watch out for elephants and giraffes who want to crash in on the fun. And if you're lucky, draw a wild monkey card to clear out the room in one clean sweep! The first player to stop the monkey mayhem and get Primo back to bed wins.

Frog Juice is a clever card game of spells and concoctions for 2-4 players, ages 8 and up. Cast spells, brew concoctions, melt witches...Use a smidgen of math and a pinch of probability. Capture cards by matching or adding cards from your hand, then count the ingredients and measure the powers. A splash of strategy, and the potion is magic! The player with the most points wins.

We also have a wide variety of puzzles, everything from 3 piece puzzles for small children to 1000 piece puzzles for those long winter days. We have 3D collectible dog puzzles and Can You See What I See? puzzles, dinosaur puzzles and glow in the dark puzzles. Come by and check out all our great puzzles and games. Remember Christmas is just around the corner.

Fruit Salad Bananagram Style

First there was Bananagrams now there is Appleletters and Pairs in Pears. It's a fruit salad of word games.

The fast moving word game Bananagrams consists of 144 ivory-like little tiles in a funny zipped banana pouch. Players place tiles face down on the table and randomly select 21 tiles. The players turn their letters right-side up simultaneously and proceed to form as many intersecting and interconnecting words as possible from their own letters, which can be rearranged as many times as desired throughout the game.

Appleletters come in an apple-shaped pouch with a soft, zip-closed top that includes 110 tiles with red capital letters that maybe used to play three different games. In Appleletters, for two to six players ages 5 and up, players alternately add tiles to the first or last letters of the word in the middle of the table creating a continuous "snake" of new words. Apple Turnover, 2 to 4 players ages 7 and up, is similar to Appletter. However each player begins with 21 letters instead of nine, and may actually replace an opponents word with a longer word. The goal is to be the first player to get rid of tiles. In Applescore for 2 to 4 players ages 7 and up, players build words as long as possible in crossword-like fashion and get bonus points for length, palindromes and going out first.

Pairs in Pears come complete with capital tiles featuring various designs (dots, lines, blank and solid) this comes packaged in a zip-open pear-shaped pouch with a hanging rope (stem) at the top. It is designed to help kids work on cognitive skills and memory as well as the order of the alphabet, vocabulary and rhyming as they practice forming words.

Viking Toys

Viking Toys is a 25 year old Swedish company that manufactures high quality vehicles made of soft, pliable plastic. The cars, trucks and planes have no sharp edges and nothing that can break or pull off. All Viking Toys vehicles are in primary colors, dishwasher safe and meet the highest American toy safety standards. These toys are the perfect first vehicles for children 12 months and up, all sized just right for little hands. Their smooth and soft edges are safe for teething toddlers and their chubby wheels will not mark furniture.

Viking Toys Mobile Mats

Mobile mats by Viking Toys are the perfect companion to any diaper bag. Each box contains 10 park placemats and 10 roadway placemats as well as the chubbies vehicle. Every placemat has 4 adhesive strips along the back that stick to any surface while the roadway and vehicle provide fun for little ones -the perfect companion for eating out with young children. The mat measures18" across by 12" deep. They are made of a thin flexible plastic but are difficult to tear and can hold up to rougher play. They can be recycled so when your child is done playing with them be sure to mention that to the person cleaning the table. Vehicles are assorted. Mobile mats create a fun play environment to keep your child entertained and provide a sanitary surface for meal time. Ages 1 and up.

Klutz Foxtail Sonic

Looking for a great summer toy for the kids to play with outside in this wonderful sunny weather?
Come by Wingdoodle and pick up a Foxtail Sonic from Klutz. This Foxtail breaks the sound barrier every time you throw it. Whistles lodged in the leather covered soft sponge ball shriek as it whizzes through the air.
For ages 3 and up.

 

GAMES

Looking for a birthday present or something different the kids can play on those rainy days during summer vacation. We have lots and lots of games. Every week I will try and post different games we carry in the store.

Cuckoo Zoo is a crazy animal matching card game for ages 6 and up and 2 to 6 players. Get ready for a roaring good time in this off-the-wall card game. Try to be the first player out of cards by matching animals or colors. The trick is that every time you play a card, you must make the matching animal sound. But don't make a peep if the animal is red or else you collect cards! Colorful animals, crazy rules.... crazy fun!

Luck of the Draw is a game for the artistically challenged for ages 10 to adult and 4 to 8 players. Think you're the next Picasso! Can't draw a stick figure to save our life? No matter the answer, you will have a blast playing this off-the-wall party game where you don't have to be the best artist to win. First, pick a card and scramble to scribble the chosen subject in 45 seconds. Then vote on whose drawing best fits one of over 100 creative categories. Will your picture be the squiggliest? The ugliest? The most likely to hang on a refrigerator? Win the most votes and you've got the Luck of the Draw!

Hit or Miss is the game where great minds think alike for ages 10 to adult and 3 to 8 players.

Sharpen your pencils - and your intuition - for this quick - playing "think-in-sync"party game. Draw a category card and in 45 seconds, list as many related words that come to mind. When the timer runs out, roll the die - if it lands on HIT, pick a word that you think everyone wrote; if it lands on MISS, pick one that only you wrote. Choose wisely and score big points. The player with the highest score wins. HIT or MISS - the can't MISS game that will turn your next party into a HIT!

Sleeping Queens is a royally rousing card game for ages 8 and up and 2 to 5 players. Rise and shine! The Pancake Queen, the Ladybug Queen, and ten of their closest friends have fallen under a sleeping spell and it's your job to wake them up. Use strategy, quick thinking and a little luck to rouse these napping nobles from their royal slumbers. Play a knight to steal a queen or take a chance on a juggling jester. But watch out for wicked potions and dastardly dragons! The player who wakes the most queens wins.

The Scrambled States of America Game is a whimsical, mad-dashing, geography game for ages 8 and up and 2 to 4 players. Quick! Find a state that ends with the letter A. Now locate one that borders Tennessee. Have fun learning about the United States in this madcap game of observation and quick reflexes. collect cards by matching states to a Scramble card. Or "Go the Distance" and find a state's closest neighbor. Whoever scrambles to collect the most state card wins.

Aunt Millie's Millions is the frenzied game of family fortune for ages 10 to adult and 3 to 6 players. Dear Aunt Millie left behind an estate worth millions. Are you on of her lucky heirs? In this hilarious party game, play the role of one of the colorful characters out to get Aunt Millie's fortune. Use speed, strategy and persuasion to collect the most coveted valuables. Will you get her vintage jukebox or get stuck with a rusty toilet? Claim the same item as another payer and you must give the best sob story to convince the judge that you deserve it more! Whoever ends up with the most riches wins the game. Heir-splitting fun!

Granny Apples is the quick counting apple dice game for ages 8 and up and 2-6 players. Roll them apples! In this fast-action dice game, race against your opponents to count the exact number of apples scattered in play. Watch out for birds, worms and apple pies that take away from the total. Count as quickly as you can and be the first to shout out the answer, but don't make a mistake or else you lose half you apples! The player with the most apples when Granny's basket is full wins.

GAMES

Games, games everywhere, Wingdoodle has a wonderful selection of creative and fun games for the whole family. One of our new games is called Can You See What I See? for ages 4 and up. Each game averages about 10 minutes of playing time and you can have 2-6 players. No reading is required and there are rules included for older players.

Then Kay's favorite game is Captain Clueless Lost in the Caribbean. Set a course for high seas hilarity aboard this party game that puts you behind the rose-colored sunglasses of Captain R. U. Clueless-the world's most oblivious cruise ship captain. While blindfolded, try to navigate a clear route to your chosen Caribbean port without running into land or running out of time. Your teammates can help guide you but may only give a limited number of clues! The first team to reach it's final destination wins. This is a great game for 4-8 players age 8+.

Match of the Penguins is a fun flipping card game. Think all penguins look alike? Better think again in this fast-playing game of colorful confusion. This game helps kids visual identification and hand-eye coordination. 2-6 players 6 and up.

Then there is PandaMonium the musical mimicking card game for ages 6 and up for 2-6 players. Got quick reflexes and a good memory? Test your skills in this fast action card game of musical mayhem.

What a brain teaser try On The Dot. See spots like never before! In this amazing brain teaser, try to arrange four transparent squares so they perfectly line up to match the dots shown on the pattern card. The challenge is to figure out how they all fit together. Play by yourself or race against others in a Dot-to-Dot dash. Over 60 different puzzles for hours of brain-boosting fun! You can have 1-4 players ages 10 to adult.

If you like puzzles we have the ultimate puzzle twist. Engage your brain with this multi-layer visual challenge that will have you seeing double! Separate the 16 puzzle tiles, mix them up, and try to recombine them in the right order. Straight-forward enough... but the twist is that there's no obvious starting point and each tile has a pair of images that morphs from one into another. It is an Optillusion puzzle for ages 8 and up.