Foam Gliders

Here is something fun; the price of bacon goes up with these novelty foam pig gliders! These silly grinning pigs have grown wings and can glide in order to escape their fate. 

Pink bodies, grunting faces, a tail and feathery wings complete the flying pigs with the plastic weight ensuring that they glide the distance required. These are fun, novelty toys that provide an alternative to the more standard aircraft that is normal with these toys.

When I was young I loved dinosaurs; what little boy does not? In fact I used to want to be a paleontologist! I was lucky enough to have all manner of other gliding toys, planes, birds, noses and suchlike but these dinosaurs would have been my favorite.

These dinosaur gliders make cheap, disposable party favors and little kids will love them! These dinosaurs come in a pack of twelve.

I have been an active birdwatcher since the age of 7 so bird gliders were something that my mother used to buy for me to play with, particularly when we went on holiday. 

This assortment of bird gliders contains a variety of quite realistic looking birds which can be assembled easily and played with anywhere.

Bird gliders are a very cheap gift for a variety of ages.

I have written more extensively on these toys here - Bird Gliders.

Assembling foam gliders is easy enough for children of most ages to do themselves, follwoing the instructions on the packaging. 

If you are required to assist, this should help you;

• Remove the pieces from the packet; a body, a wing and a tail and a plastic nose weight.
• Gently punch out the slot in the body to create an opening and slide the wing piece into this slot. If it does not slide easily into the slot don't force it. Instead widen the slot as needed with some scissors or a knife. If the slot is a little wide, then some glue will fix it.
• Slide the tail piece into the slot at the back of the body. 
• Slide the plastic nose weight over the front end, be careful not to crush the nose.
• Throw the toy foam glider as you would a paper airplane and watch it glide.

If you or your children like butterflies then this set of butterfly gliders are nice. This pack of twelve foam gliders come a variety of different designs and sizes, to reflect the diversity of butterfly life.

How Well Do They Fly?

Judging from experience of playing with these types of gliders, but never having actually used these butterflies, it seems that it could be quite hard to actually get them to fly. However, they make a nice, inexpensive display item.

These cartoon-like insect gliders look like fun. As with the butterflies, these insects may take some adjustments to actually get them to glide, but they make fun toys just the same and can be used to make a hanging display.

This pack of twelve come in a variety of insect species, all brightly colored and with funny faces.

If you were looking for favors for Halloween parties then these are fun and original. These Halloween foam gliders come in a variety of designs including a witch, Frankenstein's Monster and Dracula.

This pack of 48 gliders makes sure there are plenty to give out and replacements as they get broken after boisterous Halloween play.

By popular demand I tracked down these Christmas-themed foam gliders to add to this page. Although the gliders are still in the shape of airplanes the printing on the side is of;

1. Snowman
2. Santa Claus
3. Santa's Elf
4. "Christmas" Penguin

I am not entirely sure what the penguin has to do with Christmas but presumably it is easier to print on the side of these foam gliders than a reindeer.

A bit of fun for Christmas and a great stocking-filler.