Mills' Reading Nook, 3656 Ruby Drive, New Carlisle, OH (2026)

02/11/2023

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Squish Human Body💀💩🦶🦷👂🧠

It's time for a gut check!

There’s a reason Squishy Human Body has been the best-selling anatomy toy for over 10 years — it’s Squishy! This 12-inch-tall interactive model features nine removable squishy organs that feel like the real thing. Kids can squeeze the squishy heart and lungs, remove the squishy brain, and even uncoil the squishy intestines! Featuring 21 removable organs, bones, and muscles in a clear plastic shell, Squishy Human Body allows young doctors-in-training to dissect and rebuild the human body, again and again, using forceps and tweezers.

The handy organ-izer sheet keeps all the removable parts together for easy assembly. The stand allows kids to proudly display their assembled model on a shelf or desktop. The illustrated 24-page book takes a light-hearted approach to anatomy by following a slice of pizza as it travels through the body and interacts with different organs. The book features photos of real organs, engaging illustrations, and answers to common body function questions — even the gross ones!

**Includes two-piece clear plastic human body model with a stand, 9 removable squishy organs, 12 removable hard plastic bones & muscles, forceps, tweezers, body part Organ-Izer sheet, instructions sheet, and a 24-page illustrated Anatomy Book.
Although the book is written for slightly older children, this best-selling anatomy toy is appropriate for children ages 5 and up.

02/10/2023

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: All-Natural Lib Balm Boutique👄💄

Whip up natural skin-care products at home!

This 29-piece chemistry kit includes beeswax and custom molds. By mixing the beeswax with a little vegetable oil from the kitchen, kids can create their own luscious lip balms and moisturizing lotion bars! The fun starts when kids learn how to customize their lip balms using cocoa butter, chocolate chips, flavored oils, and candy melts. The illustrated fold-out sheet features 20 recipes for boutique lip balms, lush lotion bars, and sugary lip scrubs. Because the recipes require handling hot wax, the All-Natural Lip Balm Boutique is a perfect parent-child activity.

**Includes six candy-colored lip balm pods, plastic lip-balm mold, enough natural beeswax pastilles to make dozens of lip balms, lotion bar molds, sticker sheet, 6 lotion bar gift bags, and an illustrated fold-out activity sheet with recipes and scientific explanations.

**Adult supervision is required when making lip balms and lotion bars. Beeswax pastilles must be mixed with vegetable oil to melt. Oil is not included. Recipes require household ingredients not included in the kit. You can find the entire list of ingredients used inside the book.

02/08/2023

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Storm Watcher Weather Lab⛈☀️🌪☔️❄️

Keep your eyes on the skies with this all-in-one weather station.

This 16-piece weather monitoring kit is perfect for the budding meteorologist in your family. Children will measure rainfall and temperature, gauge windspeed and wind direction, test for acid rain, and demonstrate how soil filters rainwater. The 32-page illustrated book gives kids a thorough understanding of how high-and-low-pressure areas affect local weather.

***Kids will learn about climate zones around the world and discover the causes and effects of extreme weather, lightning, tornadoes, and hurricanes. A cloud identification chart and weather tracker ideas will have them challenging their local weathercaster for the most accurate predictions!

**Includes base station, rain gauge, weathervane, compass, anemometer, thermometer, hygrometer, condensation test tube, and a 32-page illustrated book.

02/06/2023

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Tiny Gardening!🌿🌱🌾

Hoe, hoe, hoe! It’s time to make a garden grow!

With this 34-piece kit, budding botanists build a teeny greenhouse and use itty-bitty garden tools to plant seeds in tiny pots. They can label their sprouts with tiny garden markers and decorate the greenhouse with full-color removable clings. When all the experimenting is over, kids can transplant their seedlings into the garden and start over. We give this itty-bitty botany lab two green thumbs up!

**Includes 8-piece miniature greenhouse, 3 tiny pots, 3 tiny test tubes, tiny hand shovel, tiny hand fork, tiny beaker, 3 tiny garden markers, illustrated greenhouse roof and wall panels, string for hydroponic watering, a tiny ruler to measure your plants as they grow, petri dish, green and blue filters, decorative clings, marker stickers, and an illustrated 48-page book with 20 science experiments and explanations.

**To ensure quality, children will supply their own garden soil and beans or seeds. The types of beans and seeds that work best are listed inside the book. Two experiments use isopropyl alcohol. Always have an adult handle the rubbing alcohol.

02/04/2023

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Tiny Robots!⚙️

Gear up for fun with this adorable, motorized robotics kit!

This 26-piece introduction to mini machines includes everything needed to build over 15 different robot configurations. The components let kids mix and match axles, wheels, arms, legs, and gears to create itty-bitty bots that walk, roll, crawl, spin, and more! Budding engineers will learn basic mechanical engineering skills as they experiment with gears, axles, movement, and balance. The transparent gearbox allows children to watch the movements of the gears as their little machines work. And because the gearbox doubles as a storage case, Tiny Robots travels easily for after-school activities.

Includes a motor and gearbox, robot head, 5 gears, 3 axles, 5 wheels, 2 arms with grippers, 2 elbows, 2 legs, center roller, chassis, and a foldout instruction manual featuring over 15 builds, information, and inspiration.
Tiny Robots requires three 1.5-volt button cell batteries, which are included in the kit. If battery replacement is needed, it must always be done by an adult.

02/03/2023

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Tiny Solar System!🪐💫🌟🌞🌕

Bring the wonder of the universe to your child's room!

This 20-piece miniature solar system model with a light-up sun gives young astronomers an out-of-this world experience! The separate Earth-and-Moon model demonstrates day and night, the phases of the moon, Earth’s seasons, and solar and lunar eclipses. Ten interactive activities include mapping out a scale model of the solar system, making impact meteors, demonstrating eclipses, and creating art using the Sun’s UV rays. A colorful mega-mini poster brings the solar system to your bedroom wall!

**Includes solar system base with on/off switch and timer for light, LED sun, 8 planets on transparent arms, Earth-and-Moon model, 8 clear planet name stickers, full-color sticker sheet, 26-inch x 4-inch two-sided solar system poster, and an illustrated foldout packed with solar system facts and 10 science activities.
Tiny Solar System requires three 1.5-volt button cell batteries, which are included in the kit. Battery replacement, if needed, must always be done by an adult.

02/01/2023

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Tiny Art!🎨

Be a mini-Michelangelo!

Channel your inner artist with this adorable 41-piece art set that delivers the paints, tools, and techniques young artists need to make miniature masterpieces! The artist-quality components respect a child’s inner artist, and stencils and metallic paint make it easy to create works they'll want to share. They'll even frame and display their work on a teensy artist’s easel!

The illustrated foldout demonstrates 9 watercolor pencil techniques, explains basic color theory, and suggests 10 activities. As they draw and paint, children will learn the history of watercolor paints — from cave art to medieval manuscripts to Beatrix Potter. They'll also learn what pigments are and how to make their own paints from natural ingredients.

**Includes eight watercolor pencils, mini mixing palette and water pipette, metallic gold watercolor paint, artist quality round paintbrush, artist-quality flat paintbrush, 20 sheets of artist-quality watercolor paper, 2 stencil sheets, 4 punch-out frames, miniature wood display easel, and a foldout illustrated manual with art techniques, science, history, and activities.

01/30/2023

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Tiny Baking!👨‍🍳👩‍🍳

Got an appetite for science??!

With miniature culinary tools and easy-to-follow recipes, this 17-piece kit taps into two growing trends: child chefs and the fascination with creating tiny food. The immediate appeal of this kit is the tiny kitchen tools. With them, young kitchen chemists will measure ingredients with the custom wee-spoons, whip up batters in the mini mixing bowl, roll out dough with the teeny rolling pin, and more! The 48-page illustrated book features 20 recipes for both sweet and savory dishes.

Includes storage tin, 3 wee-spoons, silicone cake and cupcake pan, aluminum cookie sheet, aluminum pie pan, pie server, mixing bowl, mixing spoon, knife, pizza cutter, rolling pin, silicone finger mitts, and a 48-page illustrated recipe book.

*Ingredients are not included in the kit. You can find a complete list of ingredients used in the recipes inside the book. Adult assistance is required when using the oven.

01/27/2023

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Tiny Science!👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬

How small is the tiniest ball of slime you can make???!

This 24-piece miniature science lab features precision science instruments tucked inside a compact storage tin. Young chemists will mix up experiments in itty-bitty beakers, test tubes, and flasks as they make a density rainbow, stretchy slime, invisible ink, a bubbling volcano, and other scientific creations. The kit contents store back inside the tiny tin, and its grab-and-go size makes it perfect for sleepovers or after-school science adventures.

Includes metal storage tin, 3 test tubes, test tube stand, beaker, Erlenmeyer flask, graduated cylinder, funnel, petri dish with lid, balance scale and 3 1-gram weights, magnifier, stainless steel ruler, pipette, measuring scoop, and illustrated 48-page book with 20 science experiments and explanations.

*Ingredients are not included in this kit. Most of the experiments use common household ingredients such as baking soap, dish soap, vinegar, and salt. With all science experiments, adult supervision is suggested.

01/25/2023

Organic Science Lab🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬

This 21-piece science kit lets kids perform over 30 organic chemistry experiments using environmentally friendly science tools! The test tubes and beakers are made so that natural microorganisms can break them down more quickly than regular plastics. And when you're done experimenting, the kit packaging is compostable! The illustrated 40-page book lets young eco-heroes perform experiments that demonstrate organic processes at work. Activities include making paper, cooking up four types of bioplastics, extracting DNA from plants, brewing natural watercolor paints, and even popping a balloon using an orange peel!

Includes a graduated cylinder, 120 mL beaker, Erlenmeyer flask, test tubes and test tube stand, papermaking deckle and frame, large and small bioplastic-forming trays, spatula, shape molds, pipette, 4 Latex Balloons, 100 mL of glycerin for making bioplastics, funnel, and paintbrush.

***Adult supervision is required for several of the activities. Experiments require household ingredients not included in the kit. You can find a complete list of ingredients used in the recipes inside the book.

01/23/2023

Introducing Smart Lab Toys! 👋🎉

SmartLab Toys are proof that learning can be fun! Each toy comes with a kid-friendly learning guide with real-world science and fun facts that not only educate, but promote exploration and discovery. The concepts presented are based on established scientific principles and fact-checked by experts.

Starting this month, you can add these kits to your cart when you visit my PaperPie website.

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