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Smart Paper 'n Pencil Toys
Pencil and paper games and toys are great for quiet times and travel, but
these are fun for more than just that. Check them all out, and don't miss
the Klutz Books - pencil and paper projects with
all the "stuff" right in the book, and Hot Topics
Reading List: Puzzle Books - great puzzle books in logic, analogies, math,
and much more!
Offering many terrific toys our kids love,
Toys
at Amazon.com,
MindWareOnline,
Discovery Store,
Zome!,
and many more - links to your left -
are all Hoagies' Gifted Education Page associates.
For each purchase from Hoagies' Page links, these stores give a small
percentage of your purchase price to Hoagies' Gifted Education Page, at no cost
to you -- Thanks!
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Art
Fraud Detective: Spot the Difference, Solve the Crime by Anna Nilsen (or
from
Amazon), ages 9-13
- Neat puzzle book / mystery game, that doubles as a fine-quality art book!
Use the magnifying glass (attached) to spot subtle differences between the
real paintings and the counterfeits...
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Art
Auction Mystery: Find the Fakes, Save the Sale by Anna Nilsen, ages 9-13
- Another challenging puzzle book / mystery game, that doubles as a
fine-quality art book! Learn about famous masterpieces as you search
for the forgeries before they're sold!
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BrainQuest
by University Games
(click left for MindWare, or click below for Amazon links) (or from
MindWare UK)
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K - 7, with extra decks on America, Black History and more. Each deck is packed with
hundreds of intriguing questions on one side and answers kids can’t wait to
discover on the other...
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My First,
For Threes,
Pre-School,
Kindergarten,
Bedtime (ages 3-5)
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1st Grade,
1st Grade Math,
1st Grade Reading,
2nd Grade,
2nd Grade Math,
2nd Grade Reading
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3rd Grade,
3rd Grade Reading,
3rd Grade Math,
4th Grade.
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade
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America,
Hispanic America.
For the Car,
Black History,
Presidents (all ages 8-12)
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Canada (ages 8-12)
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 Bella's
Mystery Decks (or from
MindWare UK)
- 13-year-old sleuth Bella is back! Fun illustrations and fascinating
characters will keep kids busy for hours, through 50 different mysteries,
one on each card. Solutions printed in mirror-image, mirror card
provided
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 Calligraphy:
A Complete Lettering Kit
- Lettering in a whole new way. Kit includes a cartridge calligraphy
pen, 3 nibs, 8 colored ink cartridges, a felt-tip calligraphy pen, calligraphy
paper, practice pad and guideline sheet. Good fun, and great for reluctant
writers.
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Left-Handed
Calligraphy
- Generously illustrated text offering full coverage of the art of calligraphy
from the left-handed writer’s point of view, presenting every facet of the
subject, from correct hand, pen and nib positions to composition and page layout...
It's easy to find a calligraphy book, but this one is for our left-handed kids
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Coloring
Books
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 Not your average coloring books, but so much more!
 | Transformations Hidden,
Mirror,
Nature,
Scenic (or from
MindWare UK) |
| Mosaics
Aboriginal,
Aztec,
Celtic,
Classic (or from
MindWare UK) |
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Threads (or from
MindWare UK) |
| Creative Camouflage
Hidden Feathers,
Hidden Fur,
Hidden Scales & Shells,
Hidden Exoskeletons (or from
MindWare UK) |
| Babies
Forest & Grasslands,
Desert & Savannah,
Ocean & Wetlands,
Rainforest & Tropical (or from
MindWare UK) |
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GeoDesigns,
MicroDesigns,
OptiDesigns,
PrismDesigns,
UltraDesigns,
DecoDesigns (or from
MindWare UK) |
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ArchiScapes,
EnviroScapes,
DesignScapes,
MasterScapes |
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AnimaLights,
EcoLights,
EuroLights,
OpticalLights,
SpinLights,
TesseLights with translucent vellum pages (or from
MindWare UK) |
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Modern
Patterns in Molecular, Optical, Linear, Illusions, Botanical, and Circular, inspired by modern design (or from
MindWare UK) |
| And a great set of
24 Fineline Markers,
or free with purchase of 4 coloring books! (or from
MindWare UK)
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IlluStory
(or from
Amazon)
Write and publish your own, illustrated book...
Ivan
Moscovich's Mastermind Collection
Diabolical puzzles from the undisputed king of recreational mathematics.
Leonardo's Mirror, Hinged Square, Shoelace Problem, Monty Hall Problem,
Fiendishly Frustrating Brain-Twisting Puzzles, and Deviously Difficult
Mind-Bending Puzzles. Get one title or all six! Or order them all from Amazon,
Knotty Number Problems,
Leonardo's Mirror,
Perplexing Pattern Problems,
Perplexing Pattern Problems,
The Hinged Square,
Tough Topology Problems,
Peerless Probability Problems,
Brain-Flexing Balance Problems,
Cunning Combination Problems,
The Shoelace Problem,
The Monty Hall Problem, and
Loopy Logic Problems
Kids'
Paper Airplane Book and
World Record Paper Airplane Book and for a little more
Pocket Flyers Paper Airplane Book. For serious modelers, don't
miss Aviation
Legends Paper Airplane Book
All the materials and information kids need to make and fly great paper
airplanes...
Kakuro
Challenge 1 & 2 (or from
MindWare UK)
or from Amazon...
Kakuro Challenge 1 and
Kakuro Challenge 2 by Alastair Chisholm
More challenging than Sudoku (also called Cross Sums), Kakuro are a
mathematics crossword puzzle!
 Klutz
Books
From paper airplanes to Legos, marbles and jacks, from juggling to peg
solitaire to desktop football, from knitting and sewing to watercolor art to
thumbprint art... There are so many of these great books, they get their own
Hoagies page!
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Tissue Paper Flowers incredibly beautiful, yet incredibly simple, tissue
paper flowers, no watering required
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The Most Incredible, Outrageous, Packed-To-The-Gills Bulging-At-The-Seams
Sticker Book You've Ever Seen filled with stickers, stickers, stickers,
stickers, stickers and stickers
My Life According to Me A journal for girls, with inspiring little
questions, fun quizzes, drawing and writing ideas, and plenty of blank
space, all on jet-black paper. Comes with a silver pen
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A Book of Artrageous Projects amazing collaboration with the venerable
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, comes with all the supplies needed for
a hands-on artistic experience
Draw Thumb People (Fine Art at Your Fingertips) transform plan
thumbprints into pictures of people of all kinds
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Watercolor for the Artistically Undiscovered Complete with a palette of
artist-quality watercolors, and the inspiration and encouragement...
Spiral Draw Book with dials and pens, and lots of white space (should I
admit I got this for my birthday, and I still love it?)
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...and more! Click on
Klutz
Books to investigate them all
 The
Learning Calendar 2008 (or
The Learning Calendar 2008 from MindWare)
Learn something new every day!
Gets kids excited about
history, world cultures, art and more with fascinating stories, photos and
illustrations. Each day features a person, place or event related to that date
in history. Themes for 2008: artists, holidays around the world and “History
Now!”
Magic
Arrow Tile Puzzles by Ivan Moscovich
Ivan Moscovich knows better than anyone how to create conundrums that are
irresistibly attractive to puzzle lovers—and just like magic, these tricky games
will have you hooked...
Martin
Gardner's Mathematical Games
The entire collection of his Scientific American columns on one CD.
"Mathematical Games" column ran in Scientific American from 1956 to 1986. Here
Gardner introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the delights of
mathematics and of puzzles and problem solving. His column broke such stories as
Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman on public-key cryptography, Mandelbrot on fractals,
Conway on Life, and Penrose on tilings. He enlivened classic geometry and number
theory and introduced readers to new areas such as combinatorics and graph
theory...
Mastermind
Puzzle Collection by Ivan Moscovich
hundreds of diabolical puzzles and mathematical conundrums in this
collection from the undisputed king of recreational mathematics. Ivan
Moscovich offers his favorite puzzles in six volumes, including fascinating
reading thanks to facts and historical anecdotes interspersed among the
problems. Answers include explanations of the underlying theoretical
principles
Mathematics
Calendar 2008 by Theoni Pappas (or
Mathematics
Calendar 2008 from MindWare)
A problem a day, all year long! Plus facts, curiosities, and
challenging problems...
 Maze:
Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle by Christopher Manson (or from
Amazon or
MindWare UK)
Each page is a room, with doors leading to other rooms... use your logic and
problem solving skills to find your way from one end to the other and back!
Noodlers
Each puzzle contains a field of shapes; your job is to separate each icon
into its own area using the wooden sticks. The catch? The instructions tell
you how many—or how few—sticks you get to use. Challenging and addictive!
Beginner Think A Grams,
Intermediate Think
A Grams,
Advanced Think
A Grams (or buy all 6, savings Set of Think
A Grams), and
Word
Winks (or from
MindWare UK)Find the common phrase in the word/picture...
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bachelors
masters
PhD
Answer below...
WhoDunIts
and
More WhoDunIts, assorted, including author Jim Sukach and illustrator
Lucy Carvino (ages 10+)
My favorite puzzles as a kid, WhoDunIts are short and sweet mysteries,
that take careful reading and attention to detail. Can you solve them
all?
Think A Gram answer: three degrees below zero!
Last updated
April 09, 2008
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