Adolescence
Adolescents tend to ask questions of themselves more than others. They want to discover their own answers. They dream, appreciate humour, and enjoy challenges. They also can work on long-term projects.
Appropriate toys for this age include:
- educational and adventure books, especially those with characters like themselves.
- society and strategy games, including those that encourage long-range planning.
- assembling kits, especially mechanical based or electrically powered machines.
- challenging jigsaw puzzles are appropriate as well.
Canadian Trivia
Canadian Trivia is a brand-new 10th anniversary game from Outset Media’s David Manga, who visited Gullivers, well, it must be ten years ago now, when he was introducing his very first edition of this game. Still very popular, totally renewed and revised questions, this game will be popular with families who like to learn things as they play, or show off how much they already know about our country.
Puzzles
We are proud to carry a series of puzzles with illustrations from Canadian artists. The one shown is a Krieghoff painting, showing an old inn and a horse and sleigh at the ready.
We have a large assortment of puzzles with 1000 pieces with art scenes, travel scenes, and other interesting images. We also have some family puzzles with larger pieces in one section to encourage younger children to participate in the puzzle-making. We are awaiting the arrival of the Canadian artist series featuring Quebec artists’ charming winter scenes from Ravensburger.
Blokus Trigon
$39.99
A chip of the 'ole Blokus, you can now challenge others with a new hexagonal playing board and triangular shaped pieces. A new level of difficult for puzzle fanatics everywhere. Also available are the Original Blokus and Blokus Duo. Plenty of choice with this sure to become classic game.
Space Age Crystal Growing Kit
$8.99
Grow your own sparkling Crystal Cluster of up to 10 centimetres in diameter. Discover the laws of nature that create crystals deep within the Earth. This kit contains everything you need to grow your crystals, minus the water of course. Start the process and within hours you will see crystals beginning to form, 48 hours later and you have created your own crystal structure. Choose from citrine, aquamarie, amethyst, emerald, diamond, ruby, rose, and topaz.
Rumis
$39.95
There will be no stone left unturned in this challenging strategy game. Inspired by Incan architecture, Rumis (meaning stones) sharpens spatial awareness and critical thinking skills as players strategize to outwit their opponents while reconstructing historical Incan structures. The player with the most visible pieces at the end of construction wins!
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