OOZ & OZ creates educational toys that nurture play and development in children. Elementary school learning toys and interactive games that children take into their hearts and minds! Unique children's party entertainment, children's arts and crafts and unique science toys that surprise and delight and teach and challenge children, just enough.
This has been our mission since 1989, when founder Myrna Hoffman invented an unusual coloring and drawing activity for her daughter's seventh birthday party. The idea was based on an ancient Chinese optical illusion amusement device - the "anamorphoscope" - that had fascinated her for decades. It uses curved mirrors to magically re-form specially morphed drawings into normal reflections - like a reverse fun house where the person is warped, but his reflection appears right.
Party guests, too, were so enchanted by the brain-tickling fun that parents urged Ms. Hoffman to create more mirror art educational toys and games. 
The following summer Hoffman produced her ingenious Mirror-aculous Art Activities Kit, immediately winning a Parents' Choice Gold Doing & Learning Award. The Kit now has earned eighteen top national toy honors.
In addition, Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Media TV named Ms. Hoffman a 2001 national winner of its "Build Your Own Business" Contest. And in May 2004, Ms. Hoffman earned the SBA's Entrepreneurial Success Award for Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan District.
A born artist, inventor, and entrepreneur, Myrna Hoffman was organizing neighborhood carnivals for charity and earning the first of her many creative awards before the age of 11. She now resides near her daughter in Seattle, Washington, where she is growing her line of brilliant family fun products.
Honors for the Art Activities Kit now include:
The Toy Man Editors Choice Award ("The Brass Ring") 2008-2009
The Toy Man Seal of Approval 2008-2009
Major Fun Award 2008
Mr. Dad Seal of Excellence 2007
2004 Best New Product of the Year - Advanta/Stevie Awards
National Association for Gifted Children 2004
Dr. Toy Best Smart Play/Smart Toy Product for 2004
HomeSchool.com "Voted No. 1" 2004
Dr. Toy 10 Best Creative Products 2003
Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products 2003
Parents' Choice Gold "Doing & Learning" Award
The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval 2003
Toy Tips Trusted Mark of Excellence 2003
Great American Toy Test 2003 - Best of the Rest - Arts & Crafts
Creative Child Magazine's Seal of Excellence 2003
The 2004 Official Guide to the Right Toys
World's Top Ten Activity Toys - Fun and Games Magazine
Canadian Toy Testing Council - 3 Stars (highest rating) 2003
"World's Top Ten Activity Toys" by Fun & Games Magazine
OOZ & OZ's line of sure-to-be-classic toys and games also includes
Mirror-aculous Party Fun Packs, Table Top Activities - Stock Morphs, Pack It! Packets, Morph Club, Fundraisers, and Custom Morphing.
