Licensing fever hotter than ever at SHOPA: full-featured products big in '95 - School and Home Office Products Association show, 1994 - includes related article on new products being introduced at the show

Discount Store News, Dec 5, 1994 by Shari Sanders

Arts & crafts products

* Creative Works' line of child development products includes the new Create-A-Work Activity Kits that come in six versions: a space shuttle, animal farm, river boat, carousel, giant puzzle and candy cottage. Each is made of durable cardboard and is about 1-ft. to 1 1/2 ft. square.

* Eagle Affiliates is showing its KidStor Activity Storage system, which includes a variety of stackable organizing units in bright colors. The units have no sharp edges and their handles make them portable.

* International Rotex is offering the Memories & More calendar kit for the true DIY person. The kit comes with everything needed to create a personalized calendar. Customers choose their own pictures and special dates, mail the kit to the company, and receive the finished product within three weeks.

* Spumco Cartoon Paint Sets were designed by the creator of the Ren & Stimpy cartoon, John Kricfalusi, and are targeted to Nickelodeon viewers, ages four to 12. Manufactured by Palmer Paint Products, the sets come in various types of washable poster paints, such as glitter, pearlescent, fluorescent and glow-in-the-dark, or in face and body paints.

* Ready-to-use stamp kits from the Rubber Stamp Factory feature graphics from The Lion King and Snow White. The kits have a washable black ink pad, felt markers and stamping sheets preprinted with backgrounds.