The Kindi Kids Dress Up Magic set is an exciting and imaginative toy for young children. It allows them to dress up their Kindi Kid dolls in a variety of magical costumes and create their own imaginative stories and adventures. The set includes several accessories and costumes that can be mixed and matched to create different looks. Each costume has unique details and features that make it stand out. The set also comes with a brush and a comb for styling the doll's hair. What makes this toy special is the interactive features.

Halloween Art Project: Corpse Witch

Art project inspired from Tim Burton’s animated movie The Corpse Bride.

Includes two pages of complete description and 16 pages of images that can you can display on an interactive whiteboard or print out.

Materials are very simple. All you will need are washable felt markers and glossy paper!

Evaluation rubric and example of a witch included.

It is interesting to do the following workshops before doing this project.

• Grade 5 and 6
• High School

• Drawing
• Painting (Dilution of the felt makers with water and brushes)

• Warm and cold colours

• Washable felt markers
• Water and brushes
• Digital paper (glossy) 11 x 17

This document includes:

• A step-by-step description with explanatory photos
• An evaluation rubric
• An example of a sorcerer, to enhance diversity in the creations.

Takes about 4 periods

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The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse

Welcome to 21st century Atlanta. During your stay, depending on your tastes, you can cruise gay midtown (I hear that the Inquisition Health Club has introduced manacles and chains to the aerobics class) or check out the Reverend-Senator Stonewall's headquarters at Freedom Plaza (watch out for the Christian Militia guarding it, though) or attend a sky-clad Wiccan sabbat (by invitation only). Avoid the courthouse, where the Cherokee have turned out in full war-paint to renegotiate a nineteenth-century land deal. Also stay away from all cemeteries, at least until the police find out why someone is disinterring and crucifying corpses.

As you can tell, this is a lively novel, full of intricate plotting and engaging off-beat characters. Among the latter are a gay detective, a Wiccan family, an ambitious televangelist with an eye on the White House, an artist whose medium is flesh and blood, a Cherokee drag queen--and then there's poor Benji, who would just like to make it to his fifteenth birthday, assuming the MIBS don't get him first or his Baptist parents don't ground him for life because his new girlfriend is a witch.

Genres FantasyMysteryScience FictionLGBTUrban FantasyFictionGay

432 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 1999

About the author

Keith Hartman grew up in Huntsville Alabama, where he was a weird little boy who didn't fit in. He went to Princeton University, where he was supposed to study economics and instead blew all his time on theater courses. He then started a PhD in Finance at Duke, before realizing that he just couldn't spend the rest of his life teaching MBA's how to screw each other. So he ran away to be a writer.

His parents were thrilled.

He sold his first short story to a tiny magazine that went out of business, and his first book to Rutgers University, which did not.

He moved to Los Angeles a few years ago to direct low budget movies. It turns out that everyone in Hollywood is stark raving mad.

And Keith fits right in.

What makes this toy special is the interactive features. The costumes and accessories are designed to be easily attached and detached from the dolls, allowing children to change their outfits and create different looks. Additionally, some of the costumes have special features, such as glowing lights or sound effects, which add to the magical element of the play experience.

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This book has won a plethora of awards. "Different", barely begins to describe it. but not a "bad" different. just an interesting, enticing "different" that only causes you want to read more because you need to see what type characters are going to appear next. The book was written in 1999. I'm reading it in 2023. Not that I doubt that everyone has the ability to deduce that that is a 24-year difference. you may have forgotten that in those 24 years, a lot of the things wrote about here, have changed. yet some elements of the story seem a bit too close to the happenings of today. that is in no way a positive testament. Hartman delves into the Satanic Panic craze of the 80s and 90s that managed to produce a society that is segregated by the self-appointed religious crusaders whose mantra is “ONE Nation Under God” (the emphasis on "One" is the author’s), and everyone else is labeled blasphemers and occultists and devil worshipers. Oh. and the term "gay", for which it seems that there were even genetic tests for. is applied to random groups that I won't mention here. Schools, neighborhoods and almost everything else is regulated and segregated by religious/spiritual practices. A person that is running for the office of the presidency is willing to incite a "holy war," using his Christian Militia to achieve his goals. and of course there are some people who would not only like, but are more than willing, to take him down by whatever means. After we wade through all this, we now find that we have a missing person that has connections to the Gumshoe, the Witch. of the book title. The greater mystery, however, involves the other title character. the corpse. The exhumation and occult-style desecration of the corpse, and a subsequent series of murders with ritualistic elements that leads both the public and the police to deem them satanic in nature. All that, and now we have the question of how a fourteen-year-old boy fits into it all? The Gumshoe, the Witch who by the way. is a transgender Native American Shaman, the Police, the Senator. who is also a preacher. and a host of other characters are in on various parts of this cat-and-mouse race to find the killer, which is where the story gets more interesting. As you have probably figured out if you have plowed through this far, is that it takes every ounce of patience and perseverance to get there. but as I finished, I was glad I stuck with it until the end. otherwise, I would have always wondered. The main things I found hard to deal with had nothing to do with the author's writing abilities or the story. It was the editing. or lack of said editing. was subpar at best. Twenty-four years and NOBODY corrected it. The second factor is that for the first quarter of the book, I really had no idea what I was reading. I actually had to go back and read the blurb. I hope the author's version of "near-future" is only in his head and has no hope of becoming yours and my reality. The entire idea is nightmare producing. especially as our society comes closer and closer to making this work of fiction, non-fiction.

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Liked this a great deal. Well written, clever, fast-paced, a real nail-biter at times. There are moments of genuine darkness, and moments of profound emotion. The very complicated plot could be off-putting if you don't like that sort of thing - as could the multiple first-person POVs. But I was captivated and grew to like all the characters, except for one, who was hateful all the way through.

Set in the future, but not too far in the future, we see an America not unlike what we know today, but more frighteningly polarized and fascinatingly higher tech than now. If there is a central character, it is Drew Parker, a gay detective (whose being gay is treated incidentally, which rather disappointed me), a Wiccan mother of two; a power-hungry Baptist senator; a sleep-deprived cop; an elderly Cherokee shaman; and a skittish fourteen year old named Benji.

If you're an obsessive reader (as I can be sometimes) and try to keep every plot thread separate, you'll be frustrated or dizzy. Just go with the flow and let Hartman's smart narrative keep you on your toes. (Ignore the iffy editing and the sometime inability to use the pronouns "me" and "I" correctly, which seems to be universal now. these are but blips in a really good read.)

The Witch Is Dead

You are a magical woodland creature, and your beautiful witch mistress has been killed, and you are about to set out on a murder-revenge adventure in the human lands.

THE WITCH IS DEAD is a murder revenge fantasy in which you are one of a group of foul-mouthed intelligent animals with magical powers.

Except – you’re not that intelligent. You only know what the witch taught you about the human world. You don’t have opposable thumbs. The magic spells you’ve learned are intended for light housekeeping duties, not brutal revenge killings on armed witch hunters. But you’ve got a job to do. Time to kill.

The Witch Is Dead contains very strong language, but also a murder-revenge adventure and some eye-ripping, so maybe think about that before showing it to your kids.

This toy is perfect for encouraging imaginative play and storytelling. Children can come up with their own magical adventures and create different roles for their Kindi Kid dolls. They can also involve their friends or siblings in the play and come up with collaborative stories. Furthermore, this toy helps develop fine motor skills as children dress up their dolls and play with the accessories. It also encourages creativity and problem-solving as they mix and match outfits and come up with different combinations. In conclusion, the Kindi Kids Dress Up Magic set is an exciting and imaginative toy that allows children to create their own magical stories and adventures. It promotes imaginative play, creativity, and fine motor skills development. It is a great addition to any child's toy collection..

Reviews for "Explore a World of Enchantment with Kindi Kids Dress Up Magic"

1. Amanda - 1/5 stars - I was really disappointed with the Kindi Kids Dress Up Magic set. The quality of the clothes is extremely poor and feels cheaply made. The dress doesn't fit properly and comes apart easily. Additionally, the accessories included are flimsy and constantly fall off. Overall, I do not recommend this product as it does not live up to its advertised quality.

2. John - 2/5 stars - While the idea behind the Kindi Kids Dress Up Magic set is great, the execution falls short. The clothing options are limited and not very versatile. The fabric of the clothes is also quite thin and doesn't hold up well after a few uses. I also found that the accessories are difficult to attach and repeatedly fall off, which is frustrating for children and parents alike. Overall, there are better dress-up sets on the market that offer more value for the money.

3. Lisa - 2/5 stars - I purchased the Kindi Kids Dress Up Magic set for my daughter, and she was initially excited. However, after playing with it for a short while, we both became disappointed. The clothes are poorly made and do not fit the Kindi Kids dolls properly. The accessories are also low quality and do not stay in place. We ended up returning the set and purchasing a different dress-up option that provided a better experience. I would not recommend this product.

4. Mark - 1/5 stars - I do not recommend the Kindi Kids Dress Up Magic set at all. The clothes are not only cheaply made, but they are also extremely difficult to put on and take off the dolls. The accessories are flimsy and easily break, making it frustrating for children to play with. Additionally, the clothes do not stay in place once they are on the dolls. Overall, this set was a waste of money and only caused frustration for both me and my child.

Dress Up and Create Your Own Kindi Kids Magic Adventure