Chester Creek Technologies is making every effort to meet both the current and future needs of children, with a line of color-coded, large- and standard-key keyboards and colorful, small mice at affordable prices.

Once of Chester Creek’s products “The KinderBoard” has one inch oversized keys and large, bold, easy-to-read numbers and letters. Voted “Best Pick of 2007″ by Scholastic Teacher’s Instructor Magazine, the KinderBoard features color-coded consonants, vowels, numbers and punctuation marks to help pre-school children learn their character sets. The KinderBoard also features two USB 2.0 side ports and F-keys.

To see the array of keyboards and mice available, please visit ChesterCreek.com.

Rubik’s Junior Cube is the little brother of the world’s best selling original, Rubik’s Cube. It’s not only the little brother, it’s a puzzle that almost anyone can solve.

Rubik’s Junior Cube offers the same geometric and logical skills building as its larger sibling. However, because it has 4 sides of solid pink, one side of green and one side with a monkey picture, the complexity to solve it is much easier.

Recommended price $6.99 at Rubiks.com.

Houston, we have a problem. Ok, you only have a problem if you don’t own this awesome Jr. Astronaut Helmet!

Simply place the Jr. Astronaut Helmet on your child’s head and let him/her experience the countdown sounds. 5… 4, 3, 2, 1, Blastoff! Your little junior will be truly able to explore the space around them in this super fun helmet. Make sure your child closes the spring-loaded retractable visor with the push-button. He/she can then use the mock boom microphone to relay messages back to mission control and even get an audible “‘All systems are go” message (amongst others). For ages 5 and up.

Recommended price $39.99 at ThinkGeek.com.

Want to keep your kids entertained on a long car trip or on an airplane ride? Then check out the Audiovox Kids 6.2″ Portable DVD Player with Photo Viewer!

It is a single-disc player that plays DVDs, CDs, and JPEGs. Video features include progressive scan, sharp picture quality, Dolby Digital sound, multi-angle selection and disc menu support. Also features volume control, progressive scan and a parental lock.

The play, stop, forward, back, menu and other buttons are located in the top of the DVD player and kids can use them easily.

Recommended price $99.99 at Target.com.

Now this is one psychedelic, super cool toy!!

Put together the gears and watch the kid-powered colorful and decorative gears and plates move. The set has 52 pieces, including 3 different-size meshing gears and interlocking plates. No batteries required. For ages 3 years and up.

Recommended price $25.00 at Amazon.com.

I saw this item in Target and my daughter absolutely fell in love with it. Every time we go back to the store, she wants to visit it. It seriously seems real and it is so adorable!

The WowWee Alive™ Panda Cub is a huggable and life-like plush cub who needs to be adopted and taken home. When you give him love and attention, he comes “alive”!

Stroke his back, pat his head or cradle him in your arms and he responds with blinking eyes, an animated mouth and cub sounds! And he even purrs to let you know when he’s falling asleep! The WowWee Alive Cub is the perfect childhood companion - great for daytime play and for night-time cuddling.

Pandas are very playful when they are cubs. They usually live in mountainous areas in Central China, but the WowWee Alive Panda Cub wants you to take him home so he can play with you!!

Recommended price $49.99 at the WowWee Store. And also visit WowWee.com for other WowWee Alive™ Cubs. There is also a white tiger cub, lion cub and polar bear cub.

Wow - the mixture of the holidays and raising a two year make it very difficult to keep up with websites! I am officially back from hiatus and am looking forward to adding lots of new and interesting kid gizmos. Sorry I was gone so long. It’s good to be back!!!!