The Peek-A-Boo Bag
by Phoebe Assenza
Handy boredom buster has toddlers squishing for buried treasures
The next time you’re stuck at the airport with your grand-toddler, you’ll need an easy cure for the inevitable whining, fidgeting, or flat-out shrieking children use to express their distaste for such boring adult places. With scenarios like this in mind, Marcella Shumway and Teresa Hammond invented the Peek-A-Boo bag, a portable scavenger hunt to keep their own young children entertained. The soft corduroy beanbag has a see-through vinyl window, so kids can find its tiny hidden treasures among the bag’s beads. The boy version of the bag contains an airplane, football, and dinosaur, among other stereotypically boyish trinkets. The girl version has a ballerina, lipstick, and a castle, but the real thrill lies in the hunt, so it doesn’t matter which gender grandchild gets which bag. The handmade 6.5-inch-square allows tiny hands to squish their way through the beads and find each bauble listed on the attached cloth tag, keeping your grandchild adequately absorbed while you catch up with what’s on your Kindle.
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Price: $15
For all ages
Available at: Peekaboostuff.com
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