The Culture Brats Holiday Gift Guide: You Know, For Kids!

For day three of the Culture Brats gift guide we look at ways to teach your kids about the awesomeness of the 1980s. And if some of these gifts end up with your name on them "by accident" we surely won't tell!

Item: Strawberry Shortcake Berry Cafe

Where to Buy: Toys 'R' Us

Description: The bitch is back! Strawberry Shortcake and all her scented friends are back, updated, and ready to play with your kids. There's a whole slew of Strawberry products now.

Who It's For: Girls who like pink.


Item: Hungry Hungry Hippos

Where to Buy: Toys 'R' Us

Description: A classic game of marble chomping hippo fighting.

Who It's For: Kids of all ages


Item: Wham! Upcycled Notebook

Where to Buy: Etsy

Description: Send your kids to school in style. Check out this Etsy shop for tons of retro albums recycled into notebook covers.

Who It's For: Cool kids who understand good music. Or their parents.


Item: New Playskool Alphie

Where to Buy: Amazon.com

Description: Remember the old Playskool Alphie? It was a little educational toy robot with cards that you loaded in to learn stuff. Well Alphie 2.0 is out for you to get for the kids of today.

Who It's For: Your smartie smart kids


Item: Trapper Keeper

Where to Buy: Amazon

Description: Granted, it's not nearly as awesome as the Trapper Keepers that we grew up with, but it is a Trapper Keeper. They're great for school kids to get organized. And hey, teach your kids how to use puffy paint and stickers to 80s this thing up.

Who It's For: Organized kids


Item: Lisa Frank sticker book

Where to Buy: Walgreens

Description: Lisa Frank, the designer of many collections of popular stickers sets of the '80s is back with an all new super collection of brightly colored stickers.

Who It's For: Sassy girls who like bright colors


Item: Fischer-Price Record Player

Where to Buy: Urban Outfitters

Description: Remember this? It plays plastic records with old children's tunes like "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "London Bridge." Your kids will probably be confused because it doesn't have a touchscreen.

Who It's For: Kids who like music


Item: Stay Puft Gourmet Caffeinated Marshmallows

Where to Buy: ThinkGeek

Description: Collectible box. Marshmallows. Ghostbusters. CAFFEINE. Why haven't you bought these yet?

Who It's For: Someone with a sweet tooth. Anyone who works nights. Kids big and small.


Item: Monchhichi

Where to Buy: Amazon

Description: Is it a monkey? Is it a vague hominid? Is it a creature who should probably get those freckles checked by a dermatologist? Who cares! It's cute and cuddly and sucks its thumb. 'Nuff said.

Who It's For: For those who love to snuggle


Item: Rubik's Revolution

Where to Buy: Toys 'R' Us

Description: The Rubik's Cube updated to incorporate 6 electronic games that test your speed and smarts. As if the original wasn't frustrating enough.

Who It's For: Kids that are totally not impressed by your mad original Rubik's Cube skills


Item: Topps Garbage Pail Kids Flashback Stickers

Where to Buy: Topps Online Store

Description: The original Garbage Pail kids reissued to titillate a whole new generation of kids and irritate today's teachers.

Who It's For: Kids who like the gross out factor


Item: 80's Candy Decade Box

Where to Buy: Hometown Favorites

Description: Includes Candy Necklace, Mike & Ike Originals, Zero Bar, Wonka Bottlecaps, Cry Baby Tears , Smarties Big Roll and over 20 more... oh my god!

Who It's For: Parents. (Kids don't need all that sugar anyway.)


Item: Creepy Crawlers Bugmaker

Where to Buy: Amazon

Description: It's like an easy bake oven for bugs, sans the calories.

Who It's For: Aspiring mad scientists or pastry chefs.


Item: Bonnie Bell Lip Smackers Coca Cola Stocking

Where to Buy: Amazon

Description: OK, there's so much going on here I almost don't know what to say. You've got lip smackers, Coke (as always branding itself to high heaven with Christmas), and a Christmas stocking decorated with snowflakes and cola bottles. The only thing that's missing is a picture of that polar bear slathering on gloss all over his super smooth kisser. (Like that's not disturbing.)

Who It's For: Kids who don't like the chapping

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