December Contest 2: Granville Island Toy Company
Filed Under Contests | December 8, 2008
This contest is now closed.
Here’s our second sponsored contest for December, and thanks to the Granville Island Toy Company it’s a good one.
This month the Granville Island Toy Company is giving away two gift certificates, one valued at $100 and the other at $50. Why “click and hope” when you can touch, feel and try before you buy? For 25 years they’ve provided great personal service and good, quality educational toys. Right now you’ll find a great selection of toys from eco-friendly Sprig and Green Toys to Automoblox, Melissa and Doug, Calico Critters, Quercetti, Meccano, Lego, Alex, heaps of Playmobil and much more including fun games and puzzles for all ages. Over the holidays you can shop their Main Street location until 9 pm Mondays through Saturdays and 10 am to 5 pm on Sundays and it’s Mom’s Night Out on Mondays until 9pm at their Kids Market store on December 8th, 15th and 22nd.
So how can you win? It’s easy – just become a toycompany member at www.toycompany.ca and enter “yoyomama” in the comment field, use the comment functionality on this contest on the yoyomama site to let us know what you’d buy if you won, forward our emails to your friends who you think would enjoy yoyomama or do all three, it’ll triple your chances of winning! But you’ve got to do it by midnight on December 31st.
It’s easy to comment on any of our articles, but you need to do it on yoyomama.ca not in our daily emails. Just add your comment at the bottom of the contest after the share and enjoy buttons. It’s also easy to forward our emails to your friends, you’ll see the handy dandy “share yoyomama with your friends” link at the bottom of each day’s email. Please note: To be eligible for this contest you must use a valid email address as this is how we’ll contact the winner. And you’re more than welcome to tell us all the great products you love, but your name will only be entered one time for each email address.
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I would buy dress up clothing for my daughter. If she’s anything like me when she’s older she will love to wear costumes, to dress up and be creative.
We’d stock up on Playmobil!
The “Green” teaset and cookware set.
I like the dress up stuff too! My daughter also loves the Calico Critters.
I love the sprig toys, I’d love to give one of those trucks to my son.
I would stock up on arts and crafts supplies, and a corolle doll :)
More Playmobil sets for my son !
I’d buy my 2 year old daughter a Thomas the Train set (glad to see the Main street location carries Thomas!)
BANANAGRAMS LOOKS LIKE FUN!
I would buy the sprig toys and playmobil!
i would love to get the bananagrams game,, ive played ot before, its great! think we’d get some crafty bits and maybe some dressup gear.
I’d get anything by Plan Toys, the cookware set by Green Toys and a Sprig Toys truck. :0)
I would buy any of the Sprig toys or the eco cookware & tea set
We would like Melissa and Doug “first years” play toys and a sprig toy:)
we would like the wooden railway or parts of it , the cars, cookware set, tea set, , music instruments .. actually anything from Toy company, our daughter (3yrs) loves this store!
I would buy a Sprig toy for my son.
Sprig toys of course! They are awesome
I would buy Sprig toys because not only do they look like a lot of fun but because I can feel good about my son playing with them, even if he decides to see how they “taste”
I have a little girl, and I definitely want to buy her “boy type” toys like the sprig vehicles.. and knowing that they are made from safe materials is reassuring. The gardening set is also very sweet. I love everything at GITC, and there is a store on Main street, which is very close to me:)
I would love to buy the Green tea set and a Corolle baby doll for my daughter who loves to play with dolls.
Definitely Playmobil – can never have too much!
Would love the set of water flutes for the bath by Alex, and the Sprig toys look like fun too!
Definitely the Automoblox – I’ve been eyeing them for a while now for my car-crazy daughter. Also the Green Toys tea set, and maybe Bananagrams for when she’s a bit older!
My 3.5 year old is crazy about puzzels so I’d stock up on them and Thomas train.
One of the amazing LEGO sets would be a big hit at our house, and dress up clothes and accessories are a big thing for my 4 1/2 year old daughter.
Eco cookware for my 3year old kitchen helper.
Thomas, Thomas, Thomas… of course.
I absolutely would buy my son a train set and table. He goes crazy every time he sees one in a store; I’d love to get him one for home!
I’d buy a Sprig toy for my daughter – they look awesome! And I’d donate the rest of the gift certificate to charity.
We would probably add to our playmobile collection
Anything Melissa & Doug – their wooden toys are just right.
I’d love the Green Toys Cookware Set!
I would buy anything Mellisa and Doug.
Pretty much anything by Playmobil goes over great with my boys! And I love it too — it’s so fun and interactive!
The Bananagram was also intriguing.
Then there’s the Lego, the Arts & Crafts stuff, the games….just so much to choose from!
I would definitely buy a Sprig truck for my son Thomas, and of course, add to this Thomas the Train collection!
Plan Toys, Melissa & Doug, or Sprig stuff
I would buy my son the Melissa & Doug magic set, plus add to his playmobil collection.
I would buy some Thomas and Melissa & Doug and Playmobil action for my son.
We need a tea set, was interested to see the Green Toys now available. We love Plan Toys already!
I would buy as much lego as I can. My kids love lego!
I love the sprig toys, my son turns one in the new year and I have my eye on those. Also green toys cookwear for my daughter. She has fun with the costumes whenever we go there too.
coincidence – i’m headed there today to check out their bath toys. we need to make our bath and bedtime something to look forward to and my girlfriend was talking about a cool toy that granville co might have! anything alex or melissa and doug – I love their stuff!
so much to choose from i’d definitely have to shop around to know for sure! i love that they have the sprig toys, melissa and doug and plan toys!
Sprig cars… LOVE THEM.. Would buy the rest of the set.
The Green cookware set or anything by Plan Toys, my little boy would love.
the automoblox cars are super cool — i already checked them out at the store a few weeks back, just having a hard time deciding on which one though.
I would definately buy playmobile!!! We love playmobile in our household and spend many hours playing with it and looking through the catalogs. I used to play with it when I was young, so getting to play with it again with my kids is lots of fun. I love the granville island toy company too!
I have recently discovered the granville island store. I just love it!! I have hard time buying only a few items…Next time I go I’ll buy some echo friendly toys!
Hmm … that’s a hard one because GITC carries such a diverse bunch of toys that you can feel confident about purchasing! I would lean towards the green toy line as my 4 year old daughter is so into dramatic play and role play. She, on the other hand, would likely go for the calico critters and webkinz, both of which she collects and loves!
I would buy my son the “PlanToys” wooden toy garage pictured on the Granville Island Toy company website. Bath toys would also be a hit…or puzzles…or…
I would love to buy my son Melissa and Doug food that he can ‘cook’ and have fun pretending! Also, the dinosaur playmobile set would be a huge hit….I could go on and on, GITC has it all!
Anything related to Thomas the Train would be a hit with my son!
The eco-friendly toys are a big hit in our household. My daughter would love getting a chance to pick out some Plan Toys to take home.
playmobil and Sprig!
Lots to choose from I would say Plan Toys, Haba
Thomas and Playmobil.
These days I am looking for more imaginative play toys and toxic free!
Have a great Holiday everyone.
I have already bought the Baja Buggy Sprig toy for my nephew and would like to get him one of the push sprigs so that he can hear the story…
Trains, trains and more trains! My toddler is so excited by trains, anything that even looks like a train elicits an excited “CHOO CHOO”!
My kids (4&2) have just started to really dig playmobil. I would definitely expand their little collection! Thanks for another great contest!
I like the look of the Sprig toys, especially since they’re made in Canada. I’d definitely buy ones of those for my little boy, and also check out their selection of Plan Toys. We LOVE plan toys in our house.
I’d get more Lego and princess dresses for my kids.
As others have noted, I would stock up on Playmobil for our 4.5 year old son. And maybe some of the cool Rathenburger puzzles, like Astreix’s family tree. Great to have a second location in the ‘hood (on Main Street!).
My son in already getting the Spring toy from my parents (lucky guy!!), but I would love to add to his collection of Playmobil. Lovely toys!
My daughter is collecting sets for the plan toy doll house so we’d probably collect some more and we would get any of the environmental, educational toys for our little friends.
I would buy the Melissa and Doug table and chairs so my daughter could have a place to colour and draw
My son would like the sprig toys and we could always use more Playmobil!!
I would get either Playmobil or the Sprig discovery rig.
The playmobil pirate ship and the plan toys doll house are two highly coveted items in our house.
Puppets!
We were so happy to see the Main Street location open up! We’d definitely get the green toys eco tea set… and probably some Thomas stuff too :)
I would buy the crocodile from Plan Toys and/or the tea set!!!
The O-ball, and Sprig toys.
I would buy any Melissa and Doug art craft.
Lego is always popular, so I would get more Lego
we love the Plan Toys and all the other green toys! I want the green tea set for myself!
We would get Calico Critters, and/or add to our Playmobile collection, and get something for someone who can’t afford much.
Love the Parking Garage by plan toys, Sprig toys and melissa and doug puzzles…
I would buy my daughter dress up clothes!
Hmm – I would definitely love to check out the Sprig toys for my boy, but Lego, Melissa & Doug, Plan Toys, Schleich are all also hits with our family!
I would buy dress up clothes, too. And my kids love the Playmobile vehicles.
We would add to our son’s Plan Toys collection, he has the garage and absolutely loves it.
I’d get some Green Toys items or some cooperative games. Thanks!
Eco-friendly toys and lego!
I would buy trains and more trains and train tracks. That’s our favorite toy nowadays.
I would start with a bunch of Playmobile, but really, there’s so much that we’d want :)
Sprig toys and anything from Thomas & Friends (my son loves cars & trains).