HABA Ice-Cream Cone Sand Toys
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The unofficial start of summer occurred yesterday – Memorial Day. While some will argue that “officially” it does not occur for several more weeks, I would argue that with all the backyard BBQ’s and outdoor fun-in-the-sun activities, it certainly felt like the start of a wonderful summer season.
My family and I celebrated the holiday with a veteran’s memorial program and a day at the beach. This provided an excellent occasion for the children to review Haba’s latest sand toy – ice cream cones and scoops. I have to say that they were definitely a hit!
The concept of these sand toys is fairly straightforward. It is basically an ice cream cone and scoop made of durable plastic in an assortment of colors. This is a fun concept as kids love to be independent and serve themselves. This toy encourages pretend play by giving kids the opportunity to act out making their own food, which my 2 year old could have done for hours. My 6 year old also had lots of fun making what he called “sand cream cones”. Ice cream certainly goes hand in hand with summer fun and this is a great way to play with it in the summer sun.
Children have great imaginations. Sand provides them an excellent opportunity to come up with ideas much more creative than any adult could have dreamt up. Sometimes it is a sand castle with an accompanying store but often it is using toys in unique ways. This is what happened with these toys as well. Would you have thought to use an ice cream cone to make teeth for your sand shark? Or use the ice cream scoop to fling sand, lacrosse-style into the incoming waves.
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Enter to win a set of HABA ice-cream cone sand toys and scoops. This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and will end on June 14, 2010.
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I also like the HABA game Animal upon animal.
My daughter would love this!
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We love Haba toys! I think these would be a great addition to anyones beach toys! Thanks for the chance to win.
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So cute…wonder if my 3 year old might try to eat a sand cone. Hmmmm…
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My kids would really love this.
What an interesting toy, thanks for the chance!
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We love HABA toys and games in our house, but this is the first time I’ve seen these. They’re so cute!
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My nephew would enjoy these
my kids love to play in their sandbox!
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we literally live at the beach since it is right down the road…these are super cute
We have another set of haba sand toys that are like cake pans and my daughter loves them. This would be a perfect compliment to those! crayolaswap at hotmail dot com
My daughter would love this!! She loves Haba toys. They are made so well.
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Cute idea! My 4-year-old grandson would love these at the lake or in his sandbox.
My little guy would have a blast with these. THanks for the chance.
This looks like so much fun. Haba makes great stuff.
these are so neat!!!
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These look so fun! My son would love them. Thanks for the chance. 🙂
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This toy would be great for helping develop motor skills…the scooping and stacking isn’t easy! Looks like a perfect outdoor toy.
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My daughter would think these were cool. She loves to “cook.”
This would be so much fun at the beach this summer!
My son just got a sandbox. These would be so fun for him!
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so cute! My daughter would love these
perfect for our upcoming trip to the beach!
My daughter just discovered sand yesterday and I would love to win these for her.
Thank you! These look like fun!
enter me please!!! I wanna win this my daughter would love it!!!!
we live at the beach in the summer this would be great for the girls to make sand castles with!
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I would like to win this for my daughter. She will love this.
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My girls would love these!
My son would have a blast with these!
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What a cute idea! This would be fun to take to the beach with our granchildren this summer!
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I would love to win these for my daughter!
My daughter would have fun playing with these.
These are super cute…my little boy would love to play with these this summer!
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These are a cute idea and a great addition to our outdoor play toys. My sister and I were just commenting on how we need more sand play toys for our kids. Thanks for the giveaway.
So cute! Perfect for beach season : )
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What a clever idea! These would be so much fun around the yard and at the beach.
These are so cool! I love Haba toys.
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This is a really cute idea. My kids love to play in their play kitchen, and they love to play in the sand, so great way to combine the two!
This is great. I was looking for something for my kids to play with in the sandbox besides the standard shovel and pails. Thanks!
My daughter would love these! I know I would have growing up. We live on the coast, so they’ll definitely get used a lot!!
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How fun & creative…this would be wonderful for my nieces!
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These are so cute. Beach toys are always needed!
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that looks realy cute
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This would be so fun for my daughter to play with at the beach!
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Thanks for the chance my kids would love it
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I loved playing in the sand as a kid. This is such a neat concept for a toy!
The perfect summertime fun toy.
I would love to win this for my kids. We are thinking of putting in a sand box in the backyard and this would be a perfect toy for them.
How neat! This would make a greay beach toy!
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What a novel idea for playing in the sand 🙂
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Those are so cute – thanks for the giveaway!
What a cool idea for a toy. I know my 4yo would love them! I would only worry about my 1yo trying to eat the sand, but he does that anyway. 🙂
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I love that these are not your typical sand toy and I think my kids would love them
my 4 kids would love these. we live within walking distance to the beach on lake erie so they’d get a lot of use!
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I was at the beach with my son this week, and he spent a lot of time digging holes
and burying things in the sand. He would love these.
Awww…my grandson would love these!
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Please enter me to win. My kids would go crazy over these. My daughter makes ice cream cones out of everything. Her latest was with my measuring tape. lol
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our nephews would love to play with these
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These would keep the kids entertained for quite some time. Looks like fun.
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I love EVERYTHING by Haba and these cute cones are no exception. We’re going to San Diego next month and I would love to take these to the beach for my 18MO and our friends’ 9MO to play with!
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Great for the imagination, I love it!
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