Are we THERE YET????? I'm BORED Bored bored bored bored.... still bored..... more bored.... maximum bored.... extreme boredness.... over-bored.... bored.... really bored. There's Nothing to DO! Can we go home now? Summer's here and whether your kids are home for the duration, off to camp, visiting relatives or on the summer vacation circuit with the whole family, there are special requirements for keeping them occupied, happy, and exercising those mind muscles (as well as their run-play-swim-bike muscles.) Here are some of our best ideas for road trips, plane rides, camp-outs, sleepovers, family fun nights, and rainy afternoons. Roadtrip Toys & Amazing Time Passers! What does it take to keep the troups smiling on a 5 hour drive to Chattanooga? A 3 hour plane trip to Orlando? A 9 hour train ride across the Sierra Nevadas? Compact, entertaining, magnetic if possible, with something new every 13 minutes. Impossible? READ ON! MAGNETIC AND TRAVEL GAMES Klutz: Magnetic Magic Book Klutz BUCK Book -- Tricks, Folds & Amazements! Klutz Stop the Watch! Book with Stopwatch!!! Create Your Own Story Paper in a Pad by ALEX Klutz: BLANK JOURNAL & PEN Kid's Travel: A Backseat Survival Kit by Klutz The Amazing Backseat Book-a-ma-thing by Klutz The Only Activity BookYou'll Ever Need -by Klutz Drawbreakers by Klutz -- Drawings They Start & You Finish! Klutz Etch-a-Sketch Book! The Fabulous Book of Paper Dolls by Klutz --21st Century Version Lap Doodle Board to Go by Alex Art Show to Go by Alex Tic Tac Toe To Go -with Multi-color Crayons by Alex Crayon Puzzle Car by Alex Magnetic Games on the Move by Alex The Fantastic Foam Book by Klutz City Cousins Roadster w/ Finger Puppets from Folkmanis Country Cousins' Truck with Finger Puppets from Folkmanis! Klutz: Pipe Cleaners Gone Crazy! Klutz: Wax String Art! It's a Whole New Twist on Art! Klutz: Googly Eyes! Making Laughs Appear Wherever You Are! Klutz Board Game Book Vacationing Baby How do you take a baby on vacation?  Very carefully, right?   Besides the things on this page, check out our "JUST FOR BABY & TODDLER" section (button on the left) where you'll find lots more ideas for portable play -- especially the "toy-within-toy" section of sorting and stacking toys where the outside becomes the suitcase for all the smaller insides!. Best suggestions:  small stuff, variety, washable, with lots of concentration potential.  Here are some of our best ideas for baby's next big adventure! Soft Playtime & Activity Books for Baby Peek-a-boo Monkey Puppet Play Cube from Folkmanis Rattles & Squeakers & Teethers & Loveys Meant to be Chewed! Whoozit Activity Galaxy from Manhattan Toys Summer Camps, Camp Outs, & Sleepovers There are some things best done AWAY from home. Outdoors. Away from carpet, sleeping babies, napping parents, and small dogs and cats. Like learning to play the blues harmonica. --Or painting faces, hands, knees and feet with bright and interesting designs. Here are a few ideas for those care packages, back packs, and sleepover sleeping bags..... Beginner's Face Painting Kit: 6 Colors & Book! by Snazaroo! Face Painting Rubber Stamp Kit featuring SNAZAROO Paints! Klutz: MY LIFE ACCORDING TO ME -- JOURNAL & PEN Klutz Card Games Book! Bead Ring Book and Kit by Klutz Beaded Bobby-Pin Book by Klutz Hemp Bracelets Book (+ Supplies) by Klutz Nail Art Book (+ Supplies!) by Klutz Eat This Book! by Klutz Just Veggie Sticks --Freeze Dried Snacks (1 ft. of FLAVOR!) My Anytime Anywhere Autograph Book -- from Klutz! Bubble Thing Toy Sold Separately by Klutz Flame Thrower Flying Torpedo from Hog Wild Rainy Afternoons & Days Inside Oh, those long, wet days indoors -- all the chores are done, the television is just tooooo obnoxious to take anymore. The dog is even tired of chasing his ball.... What to do. Best advice? MAKE SOMETHING NEAT! We've got great watercolors, art supplies, toy-maker kits and such in our arts section here at Purciful's -- and here are even more ideas to learn something, make something, draw something and DO SOMETHING creative! Klutz Book of Coin Magic -- with a Double-Headed Quarter ! Klutz Book of Magic -- Abracadabra, Y'all! Klutz Juggling (with Juggling Balls!!!!) Klutz Kids Cooking Book -- How to Make A Mess & Eat It Too!!!! Klutz Watercolor for the Artistically Undiscovered Klutz Drawing for the Artistically Undiscovered Klutz ArtRAGEOUS Art Book Box of 10 Blank Watercolor Greeting Cards to Paint Vinyl Magnet Sheets to Make Your Own Magnets 4"x6" Fridge Art Magnet Craft Kit by Dowling Decorate Your Own Magnet Photo Frames! + Pen! Create Your Own Magnet Word Bubbles for Fridge & File Cabinet Pics! Write Your Own Magnetic Poetry! Blank Word Tiles + Pen The Shrinky-Dinks Book by Klutz! Create Anything With Clay Book (& Clay!!) by Klutz The Incredible Clay Book (& Clay!) by Klutz The Sun Paint Book by Klutz Making Mini-Books -by Klutz The Solar Car Book -- You Build It! by Klutz The Fantastic Foam Book by Klutz Painted Rocks by Klutz Set of 5 Unpainted (blank) Russian Nesting Dolls (6 inch) Set of 7 Blank Russian Nesting Dolls for Painting (8 inches) Set of 10 Blank Russian Nesting Dolls for Painting (10 inch) Buy All 3 "Kids In the Kitchen" Books by Klutz -- & Save! Curiosity Kits: Never Ending Calander Angel Doll Mini-Kit by Curiosity Kits The Klutz Guide to Simple Sewing! Brain Surgury in a Box from Hog Wild! Potholders and Other Loopy Projects from Klutz! Klutz Origami! Fold On! Klutz: Spiral Draw Book! A New Spin on Classic Drawing! Klutz: Pipe Cleaners Gone Crazy! Klutz: Simple Embroidery - Everything you need to embroider anything you want! Klutz: Wax String Art! It's a Whole New Twist on Art! Super Slappies: Make Your Own Bracelets by Klutz Klutz: BATTERY SCIENCE for kids to "TURN ON" to Science! Klutz: VELVET ART! Klutz Window Art - Clifford the Big Red Dog! Toys for When You Have to Sit Still & Quiet (Yik!) Looking for things to keep you from going batty at those places where STILL and QUIET are the most important atributes? Cousin Martha's wedding? The library? The doctor's office waiting room while somebody else gets a shot? Church? (did we say that? -- yes....) The movie theater when there's a half hour before the show starts? Here are compact, portable, fairly solitary, temptingly quiet, yet infinately better than twiddling thumbs-type toys..... Klutz Books presents: Cat's Cradle & Other String Games! TableTop Football Book (& Leather "Football") from Klutz! Draw the Marvel Comics Super Heroes -by Klutz Klutz BUCK Book -- Tricks, Folds & Amazements! Klutz Etch-a-Sketch Book! Drawbreakers by Klutz -- Drawings They Start & You Finish! Draw Thumb! Animals, People, or Things Kits from Klutz Klutz: String Games from Around the World Book Klutz: Wax String Art! It's a Whole New Twist on Art! Friendship Wheel! Bracelet Making in a Whole New Way! by Alex BACK TO SCHOOL! Treats, Necessities, and Treasures! 4-ALL-AGES! Whether it's the first trip on the big yellow bus, or the first trip down the senior hi halls with the band high-steppers and local star athletes, there are a few pocket or notebook sized necessities to get through the lunch room doldrums, boring playground re-runs, study hall eternities, and classroom yawns... Here are Purciful's picks for the best back to school treats for the students in your house.... Klutz Decorate Your Locker Book of Ideas & Tools Klutz: Me and My Friends! - A Friendship Celebration! TableTop Football Book (& Leather "Football") from Klutz! Klutz Jump Rope Book !! The Cootie Catcher Book by Klutz Klutz Books presents: Cat's Cradle & Other String Games! Baby Gund Activity Playset: School Bus The Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes Klutz Chinese Jump Rope Book with Jump Ropes Eat This Book! by Klutz Klutz: String Games from Around the World Book Kids at Home ALL SUMMER LONG.... Have you got a family night going? Gutter Golf on Two-fer Tuesdays? Little League and a picnic at the local ball field? Friday night rent-a-flick? Saturdays at the closest family theme park? When you run out of ideas, break out some of these! 1.) A family face painting session (and back, and arm, and foot and shoulder....). Everybody paint somebody else -- but no peeking until the artworks are done! (go to our FACE PAINT & PRETEND section!) 2.) A building project -- use some of our really great building sets like Anchor Archetectural Blocks, Zolo (wild!), Teifoc Bricks, TC Timber Blocks.... Make your plans together -- give out project assignments -- then BUILD! (Go to our CONSTRUCTION TOYS section!) 3.) Write and perform your own puppet play -- All great television and film comedies are written by imaginative teams of writers -- here's your chance to produce and direct all your family performers in your own great show! (go to our PUPPETS & STORY FRIENDS section!) 4.) Everybody slip into their swimsuits and beat the heat with splash or aqua bombs, splash sea animals and sea squirts at the sprinkler, in the pool, at the beach.... Take along Bendoes Bath water Action Adventure Sets for races and water sports! (go to our BATH, WATER, OUTDOOR TOY section). 5.) Learn and play and new game together -- the choices this year are terrific with lots of fresh ideas (and great oldies brought back in exciting ways!) Dice, Cards, Board Games, Mind Games, Memory Games, Marble Games, Trivia Games, Imagination Games, Acting Drawing Miming Games.... You get the idea! (Go to our GAMES & CARDS section!) 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