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| Treasure
Box Toys™
is committed to provide unique, quality toys, musicial instruments
and art supplies to support children in achieving their greatest
potential.
We feel that our products will help children by stimulating
their senses, encouraging them to develop their natural curiosity,
activating their creativity, awakening their artistic imagination,
enticing them to explore their surroundings, teaching them
to nurture the environment, celebrating diversity, developing
a love for stories and best of all letting their imaginations
run wild! read
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| Special
Picks of the Month |
| Grownup's
Pick |
Kid's
Pick |
Our
Pick |
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| This
Sand
Pail from Holland is sturdier than any
other pail you have owned. On recent camping trips it has
survived unscathed ...Read
the review |
Our
Shell
Bag from Kathe Kruse is the perfect for gathering
treasure off the beach. The mesh allows for air circulation
..Read the review
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When
the day is tired and ready to close, we follow the sunset
by illuminating A
Little Light from Camden Rose. It is a time of
togetherness, ...Read
the review
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| Featured
Manufacturer |
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Camden
Rose is a collective voice of designers, artists, teachers,
musicians, craftspeople, and parents who choose to bring
about a better future for our children. They design and
manufacture simple, elegant, unique wooden and textile
toys.
Many
of their toys are hand-carved by Amish hand, thus creating
a one-of-a-kind heirloom treasure.
Natural
materials,
USA, "green", and Fair Trade manufacturing highlight
their ”leave no footprint philosophy.
The
appeal of organic design is only partially visual; the
true experience is primarily tactile. True organic design
is always in touch with its surroundings. Our studio is
situated in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just a few miles from
the Huron River. Some forms typical to this life-sphere
are:
the
lively currents of the water,
the rhythmical forms of the sand on the beach,
the fluid lines of a waving river,
and, the dense comfort of the tree canopy.
Starting
with the foundational design of the grown-up world and
then miniaturizing to the scale of a child’s world,
our items assist in the creativity of the imaginations
– a place where free-thinkers are born.
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more about Camden Rose
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| Featured
Articles |
Treasures Out of Sand
Have you ever been to the beach and wished that you could
bring your castle home with you? Here is a way to make sand
creations that you can keep!
This project is rated EASY to do.
What You Need:
• 3 cups of sand (If you don't have "beach sand,"
you can buy "play sand" at a hardware store.)
• 1- 1/2 cup of cornstarch
• 1- 1/2 cup of water
• Newspaper
• Old cooking pot
• Large spoon
How To Make It
1. Mix the ingredients together in the pot.
2. The next two steps require a grownup. The grownup should
cook the mixture over low heat, stirring constantly.
3. When it gets thick, take it off of the stove and let
it cool.
4. Once it is cool, use the spoon to turn it out on the
newspaper.
5. Now you can make it into any shape you like, let it dry,
and keep your creation forever!
Tips:
If the corn starch and the sand are mixed first, it keeps
the corn starch from clumping up when the water is added.
Also, a quick spray of Pam or other lubricating spray helps
the sand pop right out of the sandcastle molds. A hole poked
into the top of the sandcastle mold also seemed to help.
To make the sandcastles pop out perfectly, the trick seemed
to be packing the sand mixture into the molds tightly and
leaving an air space at the open end of the mold and slamming
the mold down hard onto the plate....the extra air helps pop
the sand right out.
Decorate your castle with round glass stones (the ones really
used for vases for flowers) some little colored shells, and
little flag like castles of old (use a toothpick for the pole
and glue or tape a flag your child has made to the pole.)
Tips & Warnings
• Extremely wet sand is easiest to work with. Use a
spray bottle to wet down the sand if your castle begins to
dry and crumble during construction.
• Be sure to jiggle the sand while building, as pounding,
beating or pushing the sand might destroy your castle. Another
popular method is the drip method, where you squeeze a fistful
of extremely wet sand and let it drip out of your hand into
piles.
  
These
are examples of more skilled creations!
Click on any one to go to Sand
Castle Central and see more examples of possibilities!
Have fun!
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will be publishing articles regularly and archiving them.
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If there is anything you would like to see here please email
me at: kcrews@treasureboxtoys.com |
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| We
happily support Homeschools, Montessori, Reggio Emilio, and
Waldorf Schools
If you would like to see us carry something for your school
or child please email us:
kcrews@treasureboxtoys.com
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| Can't
find a toy from one of our manufacturers?
Ask us about placing a
SPECIAL
ORDER
it for you. |
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| Due
to time constraints in shipping and
to avoid disappointment,
Special Orders for most Kathe Kruse Items
cannot be accepted between
Nov. 22 and Mar.30
(for Heirloom Dolls it is Oct. 1, and even then it might be
too late)
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Special Orders for all other manufacturers can not taken between
Dec 23 and Mar. 30
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We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
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If you have any questions please email me at:
kcrews@treasureboxtoys.com
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Treasure Box Toys™, it is
our goal to help you in whatever way we can. We would like
your experience with us to be enjoyable and
stress free, so we encourage you to email
or call us with any suggestions you can offer to improve our
store for you, or if you have any questions about our products
and services. If you prefer not to use our checkout to place
an order, you may also email or call us.
We are a small family owned business on the West Coast and
we pride ourselves in offering a personal human touch, so
contact us and experience the difference of shopping with:
Treasure Box Toys
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All orders for In Stock Items are only $6.95 shipping,
(48 contiguous states only)
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Please call us for shipping amounts on Drop Ship Items
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Aug.
Monthly Special
10%
OFF ALL
In Stock
Camden Rose Products
discount
will be reflected on invoice shipped with purchase.
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Does
not apply to items on Sale, Special Order, Drop
Ship or
Multiple Priced Offers
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Treasure
Box Toys™ also offers:
GIFT WRAP!
Silver
Snowflake Winter
or
Gold
Akita Foil Wrap.
and a
Gift
Card.
August
- Elizabeth Maua Taylor
"August rushes by
like desert rainfall,
A flood of frenzied upheaval,
Expected,
But still catching me unprepared.
Like a matchflame
Bursting on the scene,
Heat and haze of crimson sunsets.
Like a dream
Of moon and dark barely recalled,
A moment,
Shadows caught in a blink.
Like a quick kiss;
One wishes for more
But it suddenly turns to leave,
Dragging summer away."
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