The Red Balloon Toyshop
158 Craig Street V9L 1V9 Duncan, BC, Canada

Schleich Advent Calendars We just received our shipment of Schleich Advent Calendars. A bit late, but for those that want them, please contact us. We also have a variety of Playmobil and Lego Advent Calendars, although they are selling quickly. And for the Back to the Future fans, Playmobil created an advent Calendar for that too!!!

Lotsa Lego Challenge This year The Red Balloon Toyshop is sponsoring The Lotsa Lego school challenge with awesome prizes! There is less than one week left to register at the page linked below, which will tell you how to enter, and how you can participate even if you don't own Lego yourself. You can take this opportunity to have fun, be creative, and possibly even win prizes doing so! #yyjart #LEGO #cowichanvalleyartist https://cowichanvalleyartscouncil.ca/lotsa-lego-show-2020/

With September just around the corner, here at The Red Balloon Toyshop, we're ready to help you with back to school supplies or kits and games great for homeschooling! From miniature historical inventions you can build yourself and learn about, projects that teach green science such as solar energy, to games that encourage learning with fun play, there's lots to choose from!

Update: Darcie is now the new owner of the awesome cardboard box. She intends to make it part of her haunted house Halloween extravaganza. Awesome Cardboard Box - FREE We have a large sturdy cardboard box that would be great for making a play fort or some other cool play structure. (I'm thinking Rocket Ship). 183cm x 79cm x 59cm (72' x 31' x 23') ... First come - first take away!!! Brought to you by - The Toymaster!

Have a birthday coming up? We just got some more birthday cards in, along with some cute stand up animals to make receiving the card they hold extra special!

A shipment of Cobble Hill puzzles has arrived! Our shelves have been restocked with over 140 varieties to choose from between 500 pieces, 1000 pieces, Canadian Artist Series, Family Pieces, and Easy Handling! Have you been doing many puzzles lately? Which are your favourite?

39 Days of July The Red Balloon Toyshop is pleased to be a 39 Days of July supporter. When they couldn’t hold this magical music festival outdoors as in previous years, performers were asked to perform at the Duncan Showroom and their performances have been live streamed through the Facebook Page www.facebook.com/39daysofjuly and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/chann/UCOB6M-yslopZpLIWU32KF5w/live and on their website www.39daysofjuly.ca. They are asking for Donations to help this "one of a kind" festival survive. No donation is too small. You can donate on the website using the donate/tip jar button or through e-transfer at [email protected] #fullstreamahead

Are you ready to camp? Playmobil is! Just in time to kick off summer, Playmobil Family Fun camping sets have arrived! Along with the tents and RVs, there are plenty of fun outdoor activities to go along with them. Mini golf, biking, boats, tubing, and more! What is your favourite camping activity? Let us know in a comment or in-store and you can enter a draw for everything in the window display! A winner will be picked at the end of July.

Royal Langnickel art kits have arrived! Fabulous paint by numbers kits for kids and adults in two sizes and a variety of themes, learn to sketch kits as well as artist packs of pencils, colours and paints! Too many choices to post them all!!!

We are thrilled to announce that we will be inviting customers into the shop in limited numbers beginning on Tuesday May 19th! We will be asking everyone to use hand sanitizer on their way in. Our aisles are quite narrow so we will be limiting numbers significantly to start. Please be patient with us while we work out the kinks in our new systems! We will still be doing virtual personal shopping (by Facebook, email, or telephone) and contactless pickup for those who prefer not to enter the shop.

We had a happy surprise today - the Cobble Hill puzzle order arrived earlier than expected!!!! While we didn’t get everything we asked for we did get a great selection of family puzzles and some very colourful new pictures!!!

Rare event!!!! Our Eurographics puzzle order arrived today!!! With backorders and limited availability we only received 100 puzzles but they’re all awesome!!!!

Lots of new games and brain stretchers in to support learning and fun at home!

Breaking News! Settlers of Catan base game back in stock! limited quantity...Breaking News! Settlers of Catan base game back in stock! limited quantity...

Spring is here... and it feels like summer is on it's way! We're unpacking a shipment and discovering some awesome summer fun just waiting to be had :) From digging to building to water-play - we've got you covered! Please feel free to send us a direct message here for your virtual personal shopping experience!

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