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Tonka Workshop CD-ROM Playset

Tonka Workshop CD-ROM Playset

1999 Software
Ages: 5 - 7 yrs.
Manufacturer: Hasbro Interactive
Price: $39.95
Review:
A fun-and-games merger of low-tech and high tech play time, the program includes a plastic workshop that straps on top of your rectangular keyboard (not Microsoft Naturals). Kids use workshop tools--hammer, drill, saw, screwdriver, sander and sprayer--to build on-screen projects in the virtual barn, storage shed, tree house, etc. Creative handikids head for the cellar to make up their own designs. It's a hands-on perspective on computers for younger kids.
Don Oldenburg   ©1999 Parents' Choice
A former writer and consumer columnist at The Washington Post for 22 years, Don Oldenburg is a freelance writer, editorial consultant and coauthor of "The Washington DC-Baltimore Dog Lovers Companion" (Avalon Travel). The father of three sons, he lives with them and wife, Ann, a writer at USA Today, in McLean, VA.

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