Get birthday gifts wrapped while you're in music class or painting a picture with your child in Messy Art...

We've expanded our retail store, and we have many favorites from Plan Toys--like their Green Dollhouse, Eco Home, stackers & pull toys, Musical Band, vehicles & Plan City sets, and much more.

As always, we also have great wooden toys from Melissa & Doug, like their newly designed Parking Garage, Fold-n-Go Barn, the Learn-to-Play Piano, the Medieval Castle, the Mini-Castle, and a huge selection of wooden puzzles and classic toys. We also carry M&D's Deluxe Standing Easel (a great, adjustable easel that we use in Messy Art), the Furnished Doll House, the Deluxe Kitchen, and the wildly popular Ice Cream Parlor set.

Wear the cricket. PLAY t-shirts are available in sizes 2/4/6. The shirts are American Apparel; athletic grey tri-blend (with blue PLAY), or lemon fine jersey (with pink PLAY). $20+tax.

*New: Adult PLAY t-shirts

women's S,M & L and men's M,L & XL. $22+tax

Get yours at Play or by phone: 323.988.1189

Big on our play list lately are Peter Himmelman's new one, My Trampoline; Ziggy Marley's compilation, Family Time; Loquat Rooftop from Play-friend Randy Kaplan; the all-Español Dan Zanes, Nueva York; and It's A Bam Bam Diddly! from Father Goose (of Dan Zanes and Friends fame). We've also got great titles from Putumayo, including Sesame Street Playground, African Dreamland, Brazilian Playground, and Animal Playground, and lots of other all-ages music and kids instruments by REMO, First Note, Hohner, and Woodstock.