Holiday Gift Guide for Tweens and Teens 2009

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Say Please believes words are important, especially positive words.  The tween and teen years can be difficult, and Lunchbox Love cards from Say Please make it easy to tell your child you are sorry, tell them how much you care about them, share love and encouragement.  I’m especially thrilled to find their Lunchbox Love for Teens & Tweens... [Read more of this review]

Eric Yaverbaum and Mark DiMassimo had an idea-start a campaign and website to educate people about the environmental impact of bottled water. They called it Tappening,  and to finance the campaign, they created a line of BPA-free, reusable water bottles.  Their first production run of 39,000 reusable bottles sold out in 36 hours after they launched... [Read more of this review]

Combine a warm winter cap with a built-in pair of headphones and you’ve got the perfect winter accessory for tweens and teens! Tooks Hats combine stylish designs in a variety of colors and patterns with a pair of headphones attached on the inside with Velcro. The cord runs out a small hole in the back and then plugs into a standard MP3 player.... [Read more of this review]

Blurt! would make a great gift for a tween or to give as a family gift!  In this fast-paced game of word recall, players take turns rolling a die and reading the definition to a word from a card (for example, what word means “a partially dried grape?”)  All players blurt out their word guesses, the first player to blurt out the correct... [Read more of this review]

You’ve Been Sentenced! by McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds is the first game to take cards with words on them and turn it into a funny, challenging game for players of all ages!  Using a deck of pentagon-shaped cards with conjugations of words, famous names, familiar places, and wild cards, players race to form real sentences from the words... [Read more of this review]