Fresh after a visit to the current Takashi Murakami retrospective exhibit at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art, my daughter is a budding kawaii (that's "cute stuff" in Japanese) lover. We'd have to be gazillionaires to afford her favorite pieces — a cluster of over-sized tall, candy-colored anthropomorphic toadstools. This DIY paper village playset by Fantastic Toys is more in line with our budget (not to mention a little more G-rated than some of the...shall we say...anatomically-correct statues included in the collection). Kids ages six and up can use scissors, tape and glue to assemble a crew of bug-eyed deer, bear cubs and gnomes, along with their bubblegum toadstool home and outhouse.
$20, Mahar Drygoods.
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