What I’d Buy at Mini Boden’s Sitewide Sale and 30 More Kids’ Deals
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At this point, you’re playing with fire if you order a Halloween costume online, but I still found a few fun, low-stakes accessories for this weekend’s spooky festivities, including face paint, temporary tattoos, and glow sticks. In other sales news, Boden and Gap are both throwing sitewide sales right now, with plenty of seasonally appropriate jackets, sweaters, and jeans marked down. I also found a fair number of Melissa & Doug toys currently discounted anywhere between 40 to 50 percent.
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Deals I personally think are the best
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One hundred classic wooden blocks to build all sorts of structures — now half-off.
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Glow sticks are great for Halloween, or really any time you want to create a party vibe.
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Adorable kids' rain boots adorned with a daisy.
Toys and books
Lots of Melissa & Doug toys are between 40 and 50 percent off on Amazon, including a sensory fish toy for babies, a kid-friendly makeup kit, and a plastic-free tea set.
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This curved woodenrainbow, often found in Montessori and Waldorf classrooms, allows for more experimentation and creativity than regular square blocks.
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Not your typical ghost story, this tale of a disobedient ghost who haunts a little girl named Aggie is less spooky and more heartwarming.
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Kelly diPucchio’s Gaston and Antoinette both feature a poodle named Ooh-la-la, which makes for delightful reading aloud.
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This joyful book features an alligator who loves watermelon and inadvertently swallows a seed. “My children are now 8 and 11, and I still know this book by heart,” says Emma Straub, author and owner of the Brooklyn-based bookstore Books Are Magic.
Halloween
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It’s a bit late to be ordering Halloween costumes online at this point, but there’s still time to pick up accessories and other accoutrements for upgrading your look, like this colorful palette of face and body paint.
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These glow sticks will liven up trick-or-treating or your Halloween party.
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Some very fun designs in this set of Halloween-themed temporary tattoos, like black cats and one-eyed monsters.
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If all else fails, pop on a pair of cat ears, draw on some whiskers, and call it a day.
Clothing
From now until November 2, Gap is throwing a Closet Refresh sale and offering 50 percent off your purchase.
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Boden is currently running a sitewide sale, offering 25 percent off from now until Thursday, 15 percent off Friday and Saturday, and 10 percent off on Sunday — so we recommend checking out sooner rather than later.
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Some nice-looking kids’ shoes are currently marked down at Nordstrom, including these daisy-adorned jelly rain boots.
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More rain boots with a floral sensibility.
School and art supplies
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Canson Artist Series Cream Drawing Pad - 14" x 17"
A sturdy wire-bound drawing pad that’s ideal for pen, ink, and graphite drawings.
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Mod Podge is the star of the craft closet — it glues, it stiffens, it seals, and it somehow makes every project look like you knew what you were doing all along.
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Colorful, nostalgic markers that smell like everything from mint to cherry to licorice.
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Opposite Wall Kids Art Frame - 8.5 x 11 inches
These frames allow you to easily hang and store paintings and school projects, with each frame able to hold up to 100 pieces of paper.
Baby gear
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One of our favorite gifts for a 6-month-old, this roaming crab toy encourages babies to start crawling. It also lights up and plays music.
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You can’t ever have too many burp cloths. These ones from Comfy Cubs are discounted in lots of nice colors.
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Our best all-in-one convertible high chair comes with eight different modes and works from age 6 months to 5 years. It starts as a high chair, then turns into a booster seat to a toddler stool, then comes apart into a desk and seat.
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