Foam Gliders are fun, inexpensive toys that have been popular with children for decades. These models are easy for children to construct alone or with a little help and are wonderful for encouraging play alone, in groups, indoors or outdoors. Playing with foam gliders is a great opportunity for parents to interact with their kids.
These toys make great party or Halloween favors or make inexpensive gifts for a variety of occasions.
These gliders are great for playing with in the garden, although on windy days flight will be erratic - a different kind of fun!
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I had not thought of that movie as a possible connection. Maybe they just got their geography wrong though and equated Penguins with the north pole?
Thank you! These foam gliders, especially the Christmas additions, are so crowd-pleasing!
The weather thus far is quite mild so I see that the bird foam gliders would work too. (Now if only there were box elder bug [Boisea trivittata] and brown marmorated bug [Halyomorpha halys] insect foam gliders since they're the only visible insects since fireflies left the first week of November...Just joking ;-D).
The Christmas penguin surfaces here quite a bit. Perhaps it would be connected with quite a popular film, Mr. Popper's Penguins, based upon the same-named book from 1938 by Richard and Florence Atwater; released in 2011; and still quite visible in Blu-ray and DVD purchases and in bookstore and library displays every holiday season since then.
DerdriuMarriner - Thanks for that, I have tracked down some Christmas-themed foamed gliders and added them to the page.
In particular, I like the bird, butterfly and insect gliders. In fact, I wish that I had read this wizzley before October-November since everything here would have been so crowd-pleasing for Halloween and Thanksgiving celebrations.
Would there be any Christmas-themed foam gliders?
My boys used to love playing with these simple and inexpensive gliders. I remember buying a huge foam one once and it was such fun.