Museum Tour (A+ selection of museum-inspired toys)

Disclosure: I received the following two products to help facilitate the review. All opinions stated however, are genuine and my own.

Toys inspired by a trip to the museum? Isn't that a great concept?  That's exactly what you'll get when you shop Museum Tour's catalog and/or online store.  They have a very large selection, which is great, and they categorize things nicely on their website so you're not overwhelmed by too many options at once. I did a search by category, and I did one by age, and both were simple and effective.

With many award-winning toys geared towards both fun and learning, I knew it was going to be difficult to decide what to get, but finally opted on the Target Toss and the Ultimate Volcano Science Kit.

Inflatable Target Toss
Hang it on the wall, take it camping, or taking it in the pool!

The Target Toss I got purely for fun. It's not a normal Target Toss, it's inflatable and can go with you in the swimming pool (for those of you lucky enough to live in a warm state this time of year), camping, or you hang it on the wall!

Painting his volcano kit from Museum Tour
We took this project to the basement in case it got messy, but it wasn't too bad!

The Ultimate Volcano Science Kit was meant to be a learning experience too, and boy, was it!! We have four children, and have always wanted a volcano kit, this was our first one, and man, it was fun!  The first thing we did was go to the basement to unpack it. We didn't know how messy it was going to be (hence the basement precaution), but it really ended up not being too bad!  Once we were situated, and the product was unpacked, little man got right to work on the paint. The kit comes with everything you need including the paint, eruption powder, and coloring to make the 'lava' red.

The Young Scientist Busy at Work

You may have already heard of Museum Tour, they currently have a Fall catalog that is distributed to 2 million homes.  Whether you have, or haven't, it is such a good place to go shopping! Well known for their educational products that allow you to bring a piece of the museum home, this would be a great place to shop if you still have some holiday gifts to buy (or if you haven't yet started!).

Created by a former museum director, the Museum Tour catalog and website offer an amazing array of interesting and fun items.  Once you get started, it's hard to stop looking around, and a lot of your shopping can just be done from home. That means, if you live in a cold state like I do, that you don't even have to look at the snow (unless you're doing it through your window), much less trek out in it (my favorite thing about online shopping). :)  The two items we received were top-notch in quality, and I would recommend them to anyone.

If you want to learn more, you can take a look at the Museum Tour website here: Museum Tour Website

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Museum Tour also has a giveaway going on right now, and you can find that here: 

First Prize: $500 Gift Certificate (1 awarded)

2nd Prize: $250 Gift Certificate (1 awarded)

3rd Prize: $100 Gift Certificate (1 awarded)

4th Prize: $50 Gift Certificate (10 awarded)

Contest runs from 12/3/2013-12/15/2013. All prizes awarded Dec. 16, 2013.