When it comes to small plastic toys, my children - second only to my vacuum cleaner - can't seem to get enough.
I'm not proud, but my six and eight-year old darlings have subsisted on a steady diet of craptastic plastic for several years; namely, signature lines of toys falling into the Littlest Polly-Transformer-Barbie-Power-Pet-Ranger-Shop variety.
That familiar thlunk I hear while vacuuming never ceases to remind me that somewhere, some toy company executive just got his wings (a.k.a. a new private jet).
I don't feel good about throwing money away on insignificant plastic, but plastic with significance? Well, that's another story.
Noah's Pals is a collection of plastic figurines representing Noah, his famous ark, and forty different pairs of animals - from "endangered" snow leopards to "vulnerable" giraffes to "common" kinkajous, aardvarks, and jackals.
Each male/female animal pair comes with its own "credit card" containing personal identifying information such as names (both scientific and personal -e.g., Aidan and Autumn for the antelopes), size (height, length, weight), geographic location, and habitat.
These informative snapshots also bear a scratch off identification code that allows children access to the company website where they can register their toys and keep track of their collection on a "boarding list." Collectors who gather all forty animal pairs receive the special incentive of a "Caboodle" - a box full of exclusive rewards from Noah's Pals. (I don't know what this might include, but they do offer other stuff in their online shop such as t-shirts, an umbrella, and a backpack.)
Whether you believe the fantastical story of Noah's ark or not, this collection of toys can provide parents the opportunity to educate their children about a legendary biblical story in a fun way.
In my case, I did just that - that is, before my children absconded with the box containing Noah and some of his animals and proceeded to engage in imaginative play for at least an hour. Both of my kids loved everything about these little plastic animals, and they somehow felt legitimized by registering them online. Of course, naturally, they immediately felt that familiar, consumer-driven hunger for MORE, for the entire collection, for the Caboodle...
You can check out Noah's Pals HERE. And if you're interested, my friends at Parent Bloggers report that the entire Noah's Pals set is available on Amazon for $269.
I applaud the nice folks at Noah's Pals for developing plastic toys of significance, ones my vacuum cleaner can only dream of ingesting.
Educational, meaningful, interesting plastic: now that's my kind of toy.
I'm not proud, but my six and eight-year old darlings have subsisted on a steady diet of craptastic plastic for several years; namely, signature lines of toys falling into the Littlest Polly-Transformer-Barbie-Power-Pet-Ranger-Shop variety.
That familiar thlunk I hear while vacuuming never ceases to remind me that somewhere, some toy company executive just got his wings (a.k.a. a new private jet).
I don't feel good about throwing money away on insignificant plastic, but plastic with significance? Well, that's another story.
Noah's Pals is a collection of plastic figurines representing Noah, his famous ark, and forty different pairs of animals - from "endangered" snow leopards to "vulnerable" giraffes to "common" kinkajous, aardvarks, and jackals.
Each male/female animal pair comes with its own "credit card" containing personal identifying information such as names (both scientific and personal -e.g., Aidan and Autumn for the antelopes), size (height, length, weight), geographic location, and habitat.
These informative snapshots also bear a scratch off identification code that allows children access to the company website where they can register their toys and keep track of their collection on a "boarding list." Collectors who gather all forty animal pairs receive the special incentive of a "Caboodle" - a box full of exclusive rewards from Noah's Pals. (I don't know what this might include, but they do offer other stuff in their online shop such as t-shirts, an umbrella, and a backpack.)
Whether you believe the fantastical story of Noah's ark or not, this collection of toys can provide parents the opportunity to educate their children about a legendary biblical story in a fun way.
In my case, I did just that - that is, before my children absconded with the box containing Noah and some of his animals and proceeded to engage in imaginative play for at least an hour. Both of my kids loved everything about these little plastic animals, and they somehow felt legitimized by registering them online. Of course, naturally, they immediately felt that familiar, consumer-driven hunger for MORE, for the entire collection, for the Caboodle...
You can check out Noah's Pals HERE. And if you're interested, my friends at Parent Bloggers report that the entire Noah's Pals set is available on Amazon for $269.
I applaud the nice folks at Noah's Pals for developing plastic toys of significance, ones my vacuum cleaner can only dream of ingesting.
Educational, meaningful, interesting plastic: now that's my kind of toy.
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My twins are always receiving Noah's ark stuff for their birthdays from people (you know, because they are a pair?) and this sounds like something I actually wouldn't mind and they might like. Great review!
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