Kazoo Toys Blog

Join us for fun arts & crafts and science “Kidshop Classes” in our Cherry Creek location!  We have exciting classes for kids of all ages!

Wednesday June 6

Class Times: 1:00pm, 1:30pm, and 2:00pm     Cost: $12.00

ENCHANTED GARDEN STONE (Ages 3-12)

Make your garden special with a one-of-a-kind stepping stone which will make a great gift for Father’s Day!

Friday June 8

Class Times: 1:00-2:00pm     Cost: $10.00

BOBBLE-HEAD DIVA PUPPIES (Ages 5-12)

Pamper pooches with paint, sequins, flowers, ribbons, fur, boas and tutus!

Wednesday June 13

Class Times: 1:00-1:45pm     Cost: $9.00

POP STICK ART (Ages 3-5)

Using colored popsicle sticks and fun stickers, kids can make animal puppets to take home!

Friday June 15

Class Times: 1:00-1:45pm     Cost: $12.00

MAKE A WIND CHIME (Ages 5-12)

Everyone loves wind chimes and now you can make your very own with flower pots!  Fun to paint and easy to assemble!

Wednesday June 20

Class Times: 1:00-1:45pm     Cost: $9.00

MAKE A BLING OWL (Ages 5-12)

Decorate and bling out a cute owl with sticky mosaic tiles and gems.

Friday June 22

Class Times: 1:00-2:00pm     Cost: $12.00

BUILD A BIRDHOUSE (Ages 5-12)

We have everything you need to build and paint a house for your feathered friends!

Wednesday June 27

Class Times: 1:00-1:45pm     Cost: $9.00

STUNT SQUADRON (Ages 5-12)

Customize a fleet of three foam planes with color-in stickers, markers and metallic accents.  We’ll have a contest to see whose plane flies the highest!

Wednesday June 27

Class Times: 2:00-2:45pm     Cost: $9.00

GIANT FUZZY POM POM PETS (Ages 4-6)

Turn super-sized pom-poms and cute animal cut outs into fuzzy pets you can take home!

Friday June 29

Class Times: 1:00-2:00pm (Ages 3-5) and 2:00-3:00pm (Ages 6-12)     Cost: $10.00

TIE DYE PARTY

Bring a T-shirt and we’ll show you how to turn it into a one-of-a-kind fashion!

Wednesday July 11

Class Times: 1:00-2:00pm (Ages 4-6), 2:00-3:00pm (Ages 7-12)     Cost: $9.00

MAKE A POP-UP BOOK

Make your very own mini pop-up book by adding drawings, photographs and using your imagination to a blank book.

Friday July 13

Class Time: 1:00-1:45pm     Cost: $10.00

BUBBLE GUM SCIENCE (Ages 6-12)

Make real homemade bubble gum!  Mix it, taste it, chew it!

You can register for all classes by phone (303-322-0973) or in our store located at 2930 E. 2nd Avenue.  Space can be reserved by cash, check or credit card.

We are throwing our annual “Wild About You!” customer appreciation sale!  From May 17-May 20, 2012, come into our Denver location (2930 E. 2nd Avenue in Cherry Creek North) for 20% off everything in store!

We’ve got tons of new products and everything you need for summer fun, so be sure to come in and take advantage of this sale.  Without customers like you, we couldn’t have been in business for 32 years and this is our way of saying thank you for making us the successful, established local business that we’ve become!

We look forward to seeing you soon at Kazoo Toys!

There’s a lot going on at Kazoo & Co. these days!  We are thrilled to announce our re-designed website that is easier to navigate, leading you quickly to the perfect toys and gifts you’re looking for.  With many new images and new product categories to browse through, you’re sure to find the ideal game, puzzle or play toy for the little ones in your life.  Our newly redesigned website’s look and feel exemplifies our unique, creative energy, and offers an intuitive and easy way for parents, teachers, and kids to shop for hundreds of creative and educational learning toys, games, musical instruments, and arts and craft items.  We are thrilled to present this new site to you and hope you enjoy exploring everything we have to offer!

If you need help, however, remember that we also have a fantastic customer service staff which you can reach M-F at 1-800-257-0008.  We receive frequent praise for our customer service, and customers agree that Kazoo Toys is an exceptional place to locate unusual children’s educational toys that they have seen nowhere else.  Customer feedback is overwhelmingly positive and we regularly receive customer comments like this one:

“Old fashioned friendly service. When I called to check the delivery date of a little piano I had ordered for my grandson I was actually speaking to a person that was friendly, polite, courteous and just delightful. I will continue to buy from this company. They have a real interest in giving top quality service. It has been a most enjoyable experience.”

We are proud of the service we provide and strive to make every experience that our customers have with us positive and enjoyable!

In addition to working to provide the best product selection, an easy-to-navigate website, affordable prices and excellent customer service, we also love to partner with organizations in our community.  Recently, we were selected as one of two stores in the country to receive hundreds of brand new toys from makers such as Schoenhut, Mindware and Hape to donate to the charities of our choice.  We selected the Starlight Children’s Foundation of Colorado and the Ronald McDonald House.  At a recent event hosted by Denver University, we gave out over 100 toys to ailing children and their siblings at a fun-filled carnival!  A great time was had by all and we are proud to have been a part of this special day!

With all that’s new going on at Kazoo, be sure to drop by (either in person or online!) to check out all that we offer!  With our amazing selection of products, free in-store gift wrapping and excellent customer service, you’ll have a great time shopping for the young ones (or those who are just young at heart) in your life!  We look forward to being your toy store of choice now and long into the future!

Earlier this year, Kazoo & Company was chosen by TD Monthly as one of two winners of 100 toys by manufacturers such as Shoenhut, Hape and MagicForest, just to name a few!  We have the opportunity to donate these toys to the charities of our choice and to give away a few of the toys to a few lucky winners in-store!

The charities we have chosen are the Ronald McDonald House of Denver and the Starlight Children’s Foundation.  Each of these charities will receive their brand new toys on April 20th and we anticipate that they will bring much-needed smiles to children that are suffering and in poor health.

We are so pleased to have been selected for this program and cannot thank TDMonthly enough for this amazing opportunity!  We look forward to contributing to children within our community and to partnering with other organizations in the future.

Kazoo & Company offers many different, week-long camps throughout the summer.  Most of our camps are great for those ages 6-12, though we do run a camp in July that is perfect for 4-6 year olds!  Our camps run Mon-Friday and you have your choice of either a half or full-day program.  Here are the options:

June 18-22, 2012 “Fizz”ical Phenomenon and Crazy Che-Mystery (Ages 6-12)

Take a walk on the wild side as we explore molecular madness, crazy chemistry and all kinds of radical reactions.  Whip up potions, find out how different chemicals react when mixed together and use your skills as a chemist to discover the answers to secrets you’ve always wondered about.

Half Day (9am-12pm) – $189.00  or Full Day (9am-4pm) – $289.00

July 9-13, 2012    “Mad Science Engineering Academy” (Ages 6-12)

Do you love to build, design and fix things?  Put on your engineer’s hat for this exciting week of science activities!  We’ll build catapults, bridges and domes.  We’ll study how the human body is engineered to compete in sports.  On the last day, you’ll get to experiment with all you have learned and build your own mad science creation!

Half Day (9am-12pm) – $189.00  or Full Day (9am-4pm) – $289.00

July 16-20    “My First Lab” (Ages 4-6, Half Day only)

It’s Mad Science 101! Snatch up your coat and meet at the lab–it’s time for science fun!  Flasks, beakers and balance beams are some of the equipment your junior scientist will experiment with.  We’ll even do a little mixing to shake things up!

Half Day (9am-12pm) – $189.00

August 6-10, 2012    “Super Duper Science Sampler” (Ages 6-12)

Explore five cool topics as you begin your journey to becoming a certified Junior Mad Scientist!  How about Biology, Forensic Science, Engineering, Photography and Chemistry?  We’ll explore the miracle that is the human body, we’ll investigate why dry ice is dry.  We’ll construct a geodesic dome as you explore engineering and maybe take a photo of your super structure as we delve into old fashioned photography.  It’s a camp so great, it’s Super Duper!

Half Day (9am-12pm) – $189.00  or Full Day (9am-4pm) – $289.00

We are thrilled to be hosting the 25th Annual Kids Clothesline Art Show!  This show has been a tradition of ours for almost three decades now and we are so excited to see what this year’s crop of artists turns out!

We are currently accepting submissions for the show from now until March 31st.  We accept all flat, mounted artwork as well as jewelry, masks and wearable art.  We will hang up all submissions and have them on display in our store in Cherry Creek.   

DETAILS:

• Artwork will be accepted from March 1 – March 31 2012.
• An ARTIST’S RECEPTION will be had for all those contributing to the show on Sunday April 15 from 2:00-4:00pm
• Art may be picked up from Kazoo between May 11-May 27 2012 (Kazoo and Company cannot be responsible for any artwork left after May 27th)
• Entry Information:  The show is open to all artists age 3-18.  Only one entry per child, please.  Print child’s name, address, phone number and age on the back of the art.

Each child that places a piece of his or her artwork on display will receive a blue ribbon.  It is the philosophy of Kazoo and Company to celebrate the talents of all children.  At our art show, every child can say that he has had his very own artwork on display.  Kazoo and Company will select several entries to join 50 others in our permanant art collection which is on display in our store all year long!  Each of the artists selected for this honor will receive a $25.00 Kazoo gift card!

Please join us in celebrating the creativity of kids by sharing this information with your local schools, art studios and parents!  We can’t wait to see all of the wonderful artwork that has been created by the children in our area and to showcase their talents!

Here is a list of Free Days at upcoming museums and locations throughout the year!

The new selection of Ravensburger Puzzles have arrived at Kazoo & Company!  We are thrilled to have these back in stock after the holiday rush and wanted to be sure that our loyal blog followers were the first to know!

If you’re not yet familiar with the amazing puzzles that Ravensburger creates, it’s time you check them out!  Ravensburger puzzles come in varieties which are appropriate for puzzle enthusiasts from age 3 to 93.  With a puzzle piece count of 24 for the younger ones to up to 5000 pieces for more skilled puzzlers, there is truly something to amaze, engage and delight anyone.

You can check out our extensive collection of Ravensburger puzzles on our website, or come into our store to see the products for yourself.  We’re sure that these will be some of the best puzzles you’ve ever seen!  You’ll definitely want to pick one up for anyone on your gift list or just as a special treat for you or your family.

We want to know what you think!

Have you ever purchased or put together one of the Ravensburger puzzles?  Which is your favorite and why?