Little worlds to dig through. Every bin is built around a theme and filled by hand — real textures, things to find, nothing that feels like a toy aisle. They come with every Picnic Party, and each one keeps three or four kids busy at once.
A friendlier way to meet a spider up close.
3D-printed in-house and spray painted with a rough, sandy texture
Turquoise, coral, tiger’s eye, mixed right into the rice — string one into a necklace to take home.
Scattered through for sorting. Not for eating, despite looking the part.
A dig site with treasure in it. Dyed rice and shredded kraft for the dirt, a dinosaur skeleton buried somewhere underneath, beetles and worms and spiders scattered through, and real stone beads — turquoise, coral, tiger’s eye — mixed in with the river rocks. Kids dig for bones, sort the bugs, and string the beads they find into a necklace to take home. Ages 4 and up. The wiggly worms look like the real thing but aren’t for eating, and the beads are small.
Houses, bridges, animals, buildings — a whole little world to arrange and rearrange.
Painted with an array of colors
Not just a bin — a landscape kids build the town around.
Bees, ladybugs, and more, tucked into the grass to find.
A backyard, shrunk. Turf, butterflies, beetles, a ladybug or two, and a tray of tiny people and creatures to set loose in it. Kids build the scene, hide things in the grass, and rearrange it every four minutes. Ages 3 and up — the grass is painted pasta, and the creatures are small.
Float across the surface, move with a finger.
Hand-painted by me, one by one.
Sits wherever it’s placed. No correct spot.
Stand-in for water. Pour it, stack it, sort it by color.
The quiet one. Flat glass marbles for water, felt lily pads, a frog, a few mushrooms, and a wooden pond to sit it all in. Kids pour, stack, sink, and sort the marbles by color. Ages 4 and up — the marbles are small, so this one’s for kids past the everything-in-the-mouth stage.
An ice kingdom. A dinosaur island. A demon-hunting girl group. A bakery, a construction site, the bottom of the sea. Whatever the birthday kid is watching on repeat or can’t stop talking about, we’ll build a bin around it — same way, by hand, with real textures and things to find. Tell us the obsession. Challenge accepted.
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