Posted: February 18, 2025 | Last updated: July 12, 2025 Step into a world of oddly satisfying discoveries as the most incredible and gross toys are uncovered.

In a Montessori classroom, gross motor activities come in the form of free play on the playground and are worked in throughout learning activities. In Montessori homes, however, parents and ...

"It is kind of gross," Las Vegan Tina Maloney says of "Animal Grossology" while her daughter Ava, who's almost 2, scampers between displays. It's their second visit to the exhibit and "even me, I ...

Gross-out toys are nothing new. Gooey Louie, the snot-based game, came out in the '90s. Garbage Pail Kids came out in 1985. Before that, kids made their own fun, answering "What's grosser than gross?" ...

She explains, "Gross stuff is a taboo in our society. If little kids see animal poop, they want to look at it." When parents discourage this, kids' curiosity only increases.

The toy was labeled as a "soothing, microwavable aromatherapy" product, filled with wheat and lavender. If you heat the animal in the microwave, it emits an aroma of lavender and retains warmth.

Animatronic animals do the talking -- or, in the case of a cow, belching -- so that kids and adults can learn the scientific side to all things gross in the animal kingdom, Bailey said.