What if MoMA took over Staples? What if kids decided what office supplies should look like? That’s what this page is all about. If your kids are anything like mine, they love to get their hands on all kinds of note pads, clips and cool pens and things. Here are some great finds that are sure to please. One part school supplies, one part office supplies – all totally cool no matter what your age!

Animal Crayons, $12
An adorable 12-pack of crayons, each topped with a beautifully detailed animal head. These are plastic crayons, which are cleaner and easier to use that traditional wax crayons. Great for smooth, rich colors on paper and clean on hands.

50/50 Colored Pencils, $12
Twelve full size pencils, but each one is double-ended so there are 24 colors. All contained in a handy dandy tin to keep them all well organized and portable.

Six Color Pen, $3.50
Yes, it's the fabulous six-colors-in-one-pen pen! I had one of these when I was a kid and I think it was my most prized possession for quite some time. Now I have one at my desk and I'm still pretty thrilled with it.

Tube Toy Car, $16
An ingenious little kit to transform a sturdy tube into a push-along toy car. The tube is precision cut with slots and holes to place axles, wheels, cabs and accessories. The tube contains all the components plus stickers. Tube size 6.5"x3".

Tube Toy Train, $16
An ingenious little kit to transform a sturdy tube into a push-along toy train. The tube is precision cut with slots and holes to place axles, wheels, cabs and accessories. The tube contains all the components plus stickers. Tube size 6.5"x3".

Dinosaurs Finger Printing Art Set, $12
Fun art at your fingertips! This kit will keep kids occupied for hours by turning their own unique fingerprints into friendly and ferocious dinosaurs. Add faces and features with rubber stamps and pencil crayons. Perfect for greeting cards, little works of art and just plain fun. Each tin contains 10 rubber stamps, 10 coloring pencils and three colored ink pads.

Safari Finger Printing Art Set, $12
Fun art at your fingertips! This kit will keep kids occupied for hours by turning their own unique fingerprints into all the animals of the African jungle. Add faces and features with rubber stamps and pencil crayons. Perfect for greeting cards, little works of art and just plain fun. Each tin contains 10 rubber stamps, 10 coloring pencils and three colored ink pads.

Fairy Tales Finger Printing Art Set, $12
Fun art at your fingertips! This kit will keep kids occupied for hours by turning their own unique fingerprints into creative characters from their favorite fairy tales. Add faces and features with rubber stamps and pencil crayons. Perfect for greeting cards, little works of art and just plain fun. Each tin contains 10 rubber stamps, 10 coloring pencils and three colored ink pads.

Fluorescent Flower Marker Wheel, $5
Each petal is a different colored fluorescent marker. Measures 4”x4”

Rubber Band Ball, $6
Kids seem to be mesmerized and utterly obsessed with these. You can grow it, shrink it, bounce it or just use it as a paperweight. Made from hundreds of multicolored rubber bands and is about the size of a tennis ball.

3D Drawing Pad, $8
Just the thought of 3D glasses has my kids in a tizzy so you can imagine how psyched they are about this 3D drawing pad – giving them more excuses than ever to wear 3D glasses!

Hypotrochoid Art Set, $9
Hypotrochoid is the mathematical term for a line traced by a fixed point in a circle rolling around in a bigger circle, and if you were born in the 70s like I was then this will bring about a major flashback! My kids can play with this set for hours and are blown-away by the beautiful flowing curves and wildly differing patterns they can create. The 11 piece set comes in a tin with instructions.

Facebox, $10
Creative face building. This kit can create over 100,000 different faces. First choose a head shape, then add hairstyles, features, sunglasses or hats. Each tin contains three colored pens and three stencils.

Robobox, $10
Create 10,000 different robot heads by choosing a head shape and then adding droid features, antennae, aerials and other robotic communications devices. Each tin contains stencils and three fibre-tip pens.

Hungry Animals Stencil Set, $7
The whale that ate the elephant, which ate the hippo, which ate a turtle, which had eaten a bird. This drawing set is super fun and creative for young kids. The set includes four stencils, packed in a zip-top pouch.

Balloon Animals, $9
Heaps of balloon-twisting fun with instructions for making 10 animals. These are high quality modelling balloons. Kit includes pump for speedy inflation, 24 balloons instructions and one sheet of stick-on eyes.

Rubber Grub Eraser Set, $3.50
'Takeaway' mistakes with this eraser set containing a burger, shake and fries.

Animated Origami, $12
Action packed paper folding! Birds with flapping wings, frogs that hop, teeth that chatter and more. Set contains 120 sheets of brightly coloured origami paper and a full-color 24 page book with detailed folding instructions for 10 models.

Flying Origami, $9
Paper folding takes to the air with this collection of flying origami models. Each of the 8 designs has a unique flying quality from aerobatic stunt planes to classic gliders. The set includes a detailed color instruction book plus 30 sheets of brightly colored origami paper.

Smencils Set of 10, $15
These pencils are made from recycled newspapers rolled around a graphite writing core. They sharpen just like regular pencils, but smell so much better. Each pack contains one each of the 10 Smencil flavors in a zippered bag, including: bubble gum, cinnamon, orange, cherry, grape, root beer, watermelon, very berry, tropical blast and cotton candy.

Colored Smencils (pencil crayons) Set of 10, $15
Made from recycled newspapers rolled around a colored graphite writing core. They sharpen just like regular colored pencils, but smell so much better. Each pack contains one each of the 10 Smencil flavors in a zippered bag, including: bubble gum, cinnamon, orange, cherry, grape, root beer, watermelon, very berry, tropical blast and cotton candy.

Fluorescent Pencil Set of 6, $7
Great for highlighting or just sketching, these six pencils are big and bright.

Eco Star Crayon Set of 10, $10
Fun shape and easy for little ones to grip. Made from 100% recycled crayons, these crayons are good for the environment and good for kids.
Can you put these two images together so they appear like one?

Quad Uno Journal, $5
Journal with bookcloth binding and 120 lined, perforated interior pages. Measures 5 3/8”w x 8 1/2”h. Available in Dots Offset or Hootie

Clipit Paper Clips, $4
Putting papers together was never so much fun. Each package contains 20 clips in assorted colors. Available in Airplane, Elephant or Duckie.

Globe Sharpener, $8
Metal globe sharpens pencils to perfection while teaching geography at the same time. Available with yellow or pink base.