Shop Listener 2025: WNYC Listener-Sourced Holiday Gifts for Kids

Shop Listener 2025: Kids' Holiday Gifts

• 🎁 This edition of Shop Listener focuses on WNYC listeners who sell holiday gifts for children.
• 💡 The goal is to help small businesses and individual sellers compete with larger retailers by providing publicity.
• 🌐 All featured products and businesses can be found on the online guide at wnyc.org/shoplistener.

Featured Children's Products and Businesses

• 🥪 As You Witch is a card game about building sandwiches, designed to spark fun arguments without real-world conflict. Available at asyowitch.co.
• 🎶 Music exploration classes are offered by Michael Dante Galinari, providing private lessons for children and families with a unique, intuitive approach. Find him at michaeldantemusic.com.
• 🌲 Eagle Peak Wear offers outdoor and nature-themed hats and apparel for kids and adults, encouraging outdoor experiences. Available at eaglepeakwear.com.
• 🎵 Crotin Harmon Music Academy provides music lessons, composition, and music production classes for all ages, including specialized Lego animation classes. Located in Croton-on-Hudson.
• ♻️ Funny Goose NYC is a children's consignment store in Ridgewood, Queens, focusing on sustainable clothing and toys. Gift cards are available via Instagram.
• 📚 Stories Served features children's books by author Antoinete (Antoinette), including the picture book "Famous Seaweed Soup" and the middle-grade series "Becoming America's Stories." Available at stories-served.com/books-by-me.
• 🎭 Naomi Machado creates and sells beautiful puppets at makers markets, viewable on Instagram at no.csceramics38.
• 📚 Home Buddy Books in Nyack, NY, specializes in new, used, and vintage children's books, classic toys, and art supplies. Located at Six Park Street.
• 🎲 Big Food Adventure is a screen-free game for children aged 3+ designed to encourage trying new foods and finishing meals. Available at bigfoodadventure.com.
• 🎭 A live performance of The Charlie Brown Christmas Special is offered in Brooklyn, with all proceeds going to Feeding America. Tickets at shapeshifterplus.org.
• 📖 Little Mina and the Big Swim is a bilingual book by first-time author/illustrator Lorna, focusing on overcoming bullying and greed through solidarity. Available through Hard Ball Press, Social Justice Books, and Amazon.

Upcoming Shop Listener Themes

• 🗓️ Next week's Shop Listener will focus on experiences that listeners are selling.
• 🗓️ Subsequent editions will continue until the Tuesday before Christmas, covering various gift categories.