If you have never heard of a Slider before, come in and ask for a Demonstration of any of our fireworks! Sliders are a cool new sparkling stick that you slide with your shoes, and they sparkle and zip and zazz around! SO FUN!

We also have wedding-appropriate sparklers! Highly Photogenic, long lasting and beautiful.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Terra Toys announces its 15th annual
~~~FAIRY TEA PARTY!~~~
    Sunday, June 12th 2011   
Design and create your own magical fairy!
Supplies and refreshments provided

You must have a ticket to attend!
FREE Tickets are now available
at Terra Toys and kidOshoe
Located at 2438 West Anderson Lane

Get your free tickets before they are gone!
Tickets available starting May 7th

Remember:
*Everyone needs a ticket to attend the party
*Get your free tickets at Terra toys or kidOshoe
*Each attending adult may bring up to three children

On November 23rd, Terra Toys will be hosting a FREE Duncan YoYo event from 3pm to 5pm. Two very experienced Duncan YoYo representatives will be there to demonstrate and teach new, cool and classic YoYo tricks! There will also be free yoyo door prizes from Terra Toys, as well as demonstrations of our coolest YoYos available!

This is a FREE event, so bring your favorite YoYo to show off your tricks, or come ready to learn!

Call 512-445-4489 for details. 

November 5th is Diwali, the Indian holiday honoring light.

Diwali is an official holiday of India, known as the Festival of Lights. During this holiday, families gather and share sweets as well as all forms of light, including fireworks, candles and sparklers!

Even if you don’t know anything about Diwali, come learn! We carry books about Diwali and other cultural holidays.

Join Terra Toys in a sparkler-filled evening! All sparklers and fireworks are CITY LEGAL, and are appropriate for almost all ages. 

AND…This is a FREE event!

Come to Terra Toys on November 5th from 6pm to 8pm, try out some sparklers, and watch the magical power of light.

Call 512-445-4489 for questions

Come see our FABULOUS shoelace selection! Round, flat, wide, narrow, solid, stripe, camouflage, and guitar print. Find them all on our walls. Prices from at $1 to $4. And if you like those prices, come see our super-cool kids’ belts from $2 to $4.

Terra Toys is currently under construction to become the largest locally owned toy store in Texas! We will be increasing our novelty and candy section as well as arts and science! Woohoo!

In addition to our increased inventory, you can also be excited to experience our wavy stairs, fun ramp AND lots  more room to run around and play!!

The new expanded space is expected to be open by November, so come by to see this monumental change to every one’s favorite toy store.

(Below is a picture of the stairs before the concrete pour)

(Below is a picture of the new wavy stairs After the pour!)

The Moon is not made of cheese. The Big Dipper holds no water. And yes, Martians are preparing to invade. You’d know all of these things if only you owned a telescope. Embarrassed? Of course you are. Don’t worry though, Terra Toys has you covered. With our wide range of telescopes from Italian optical experts, KONUS, the night sky is yours to explore.

Aurora Naturally is Aurora’s recent line of plush animals made from eco-friendly, hypoallergenic fibers. Nowadays, most plush is manufactured with man-made fibers like polyester that are meant to imitate the look and feel of traditional (but more expensive) mohair. Aurora has found a happy medium between mohair and plastic fiber.

Their Eco Animals have "lockwasher eyes and a fabric nose for safety and durability. Aurora ‘Naturally’ plush is made from 100% soy fiber. The stuffing is 100% Kapok, a golden silky fiber known for its hypoallergenic softness. Kapok is a sustainable rainforest crop that comes from the seed pod of the Kapok tree. All Aurora ‘Naturally’ is handmade in Indonesia and come with a recycled paper hang tag and a sewn cotton label."

These guys are soft and cuddly, and surprisingly not priced much higher than similarly-sized bears made of synthetic materials – and they’re not even made in China. Dreamy!

But now Gumball Gizmo is back in action! Come see for yourself. It’s still only 25 cents to see the gum show. Kudos to Steve and Dale in Salt Lake for helping us get the thing up and running again.

The Other Side by Istvan Banyai (2005) is a title that presses readers to explore how its images are connected from beginning to end.  There are no words and no express plot – these are left for the imagination to dream up. 

From the very first page, the illustrations on each following page are somehow related to those on the previous page.  In many cases this is a point-of-view reversal, but in some cases the relation shatters an illusion.  What seemed to be a cat is a child in costume.  What seemed to be an upside-down painting is in fact a shadow cast by the world outside into the house which is upside-down.

Toward the end of the book, the pages seem to be unrelated, the thread broken up into chunks.  But look closer!  There’s something that connects each idea to the next.

Istvan Banyai is a gifted artist, creator of the children’s books Zoom and Re-Zoom, and well-known for editorial illustrations in publications such as The New Yorker.

Prices and availability may change – call the store for current info.