MindWare Toys, Games & Novelties

Enjoy this Award-Winning Collection of Educational Games for Kids!

Being a fan of Oriental Trading means you get to enjoy award-winning games and activities for kids from our sister company, MindWare! At MindWare, you'll find award-winning creative toys and games for kids of all ages, including family games, fun brain teasers, building toys, arts and crafts, as well as science kits and active games for kids. MindWare takes great pride in giving you award-winning creative toys you can proudly put in the hands of your children and in your classroom. And you'll know the fun is never ending with this great collection of games, creative toys and challenges that have received awards from the Parents' Choice Foundation, Dr. Toy, the Oppenheim Toy Portfolios, Mensa and more. Get inspired and prepare for fun with popular games from Mindware!

First on this list of fun is the award winning Qwirkle, a combination of Scrabble and Dominoes requiring tactical thinking and strategy. It's easy to learn and addictive for both kids and adults. Next, is our hilarious game PicWits which strengthens creativity and language, while keeping gamers of all ages engaged. PicWits is so much fun it was featured on the TODAY show! The Q-bitz Extreme Puzzle Game offers three levels of visual challenges for kids of all ages and is the perfect game to engage multiple playing styles. Fast moving and fun, Q-bitz will capture the attention of kids and adults alike. All three of these educational games for kids are great for teachers looking to make their classrooms a little more fun, or parents looking for the ultimate Christmas gift this holiday season!

Make sure and check out the unique and popular game for kids, Q-Ba-Maze 2.0! Q-Ba-Maze is a system of colorful cubes that interlock to form an amazing marble maze with a huge difference. Q-Ba-Maze 2.0 lets kids create marble maze sculptures in almost any design, including buildings, extreme mazes, and even animals. Best of all, Q-Ba-Maze is unpredictable because the steel balls can travel in any direction since each cube opens on two sides, creating a live demonstration of probability, physics and art all in one.

If your students or kids are big science fans, then you're sure to find the Science Academy: Slime Lab super interesting! Get ready for ooey, gooey, slime-splatting polymer science with this great science game for kids. Our bodies make slime, animals make slime, even plants are great at creating gooey ooze. This entertaining kit makes it fun, easy and safe to make a variety of slimes and learn about the chemistry that occurs behind the scenes. You will grow gruesome rat gizzards, generate creepy floating eyeballs, extrude tadpoles and leeches and even explore special effects like in the movies! This hands-on kit includes: lab station, alginate, calcium chloride, face mask, goggles, beakers, stirring sticks, specimen tubes, and much more! The full-color experiment booklet includes easy-to-follow step-by step instructions. The science of goo is waiting for you.