Novelty Toys and Gifts

Classic Toys and Gifts

• In the early 2000s, classic novelty gifts such as silly putty and whoopee cushions remain popular. Other classics include springs, candy cigarettes, paddle balls, pinballs, tops and items that grow in water. Celebration novelties include noisemakers such as kazoos, maracas and hand-clappers.

Sticky and Slimy

• The sticky and slimy genre of novelty toys and gifts is well-known for squishy, icky fun. Examples are putty-like galaxy slime, bloody slime, spotted stretchy spiders, sticky monster feet, jumbo sticky hands, sticky brains, insect slime, stretchy butterflies and tumbling monkeys.

For the Home and Office

• Novelty toy and gift manufacturers have designed wacky items for the home and office: absinthe soap and mints, bacon air freshener, bacon bandages, cupcake toothpaste and black cotton swabs are amusing gag gifts for under the Christmas tree. For the office, novelty items include a black cat wastebasket, a backwards time-telling clock, emergency toilet-seat covers, and emergency underpants.

Eclectic Novelties

• Candy cigarettes, garlic mints, and a Bigfoot statue are among the many eclectic, strange items in the world of novelty toys and gifts. Coneheads masks, bad attitude wristbands, geek glasses, giant chess sets, shredsors, finger monkeys, a creepy hand candy bowl, brain-freeze ice cube trays, finger tentacles, and corn-dog lip balm are also often selected as gifts.