‘Tis the season! On Friday, November 15, our friends at Yelp Cleveland are hosting Yelp’s Holiday Hop, a free, family-friendly event featuring 35+ local businesses serving up complimentary bites, drinks, artist/maker activities and more.
Taking place at the Northside Marketplace in Akron, meet new local businesses while shopping local for the holidays. In addition, the event 100% benefits W.A.G.S. 4 KIDS, a local non-profit providing service dogs to children with disabilities in Northeast Ohio. To RSVP for free now to the event, click here.
From delicious quarter pound cookies to tiny pocket arcades, check out Yelp’s local picks for one of-a-kind holiday presents to find at the Holiday Hop:
Wood Thingamajigs is a female veteran-owned business producing beautiful wood workings ranging from custom furniture and home décor to yard games and pet novelties.
Yelp Gift Pick: Its awesome Connect Four game is a BIG win for a stellar present (literally and figuratively). This backyard game is 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide when fully assembled. You can choose your paint/stain colors for the game board and the pieces. There is a trap door on the bottom to release the pieces at the end of the game.
Bonus tip: Purchase the company’s craft cutouts as a template for a DIY project for your child!
2.) The Cuddle Cult
The Cuddle Cult creates huggable, cute and collectible pop culture-inspired plush toys. From The Goonies to Ghostbusters and Game of Thrones, these plush friends make a perfect gift for pre-teens who are too-cool-for-school but still embrace their youth. Every design is 100% unique and embraces past and present pop culture.
Yelp Gift Pick: We can’t get enough of the Harry Potter plush dolls for your favorite aspiring Hogwarts student.
Bonus tip: If you have your eye set on a particular plush, preorder it so it does not sell out around the holidays!
3.) Tiny Circuits
Tiny Circuits is exactly what it sounds like: a maker of tiny open-source electronics that allows creators to carry out their own projects. From tiny pianos to tiny light sabers, their products will make a mini engineer out of your little one while still being incredibly fun.
Yelp Gift Pick: We love the Pocket Arcade that offers hours of non-stop game play. Your kiddo can enjoy classic video games wherever and whenever you want. The Pocket Arcade is easy to use and can be built within minutes of opening the box.
Bonus tip: For older kids and adults to work together, we love the Tinyscreen Smart Watch Kit that lets you build and customize your own SmartWatch that can connect with your Android or Apple device.
4.) Fat T’s Cookies
Fat T’s has the most iconic cookies in Northeast Ohio — perfect for stocking stuffers. Each cookie, like the signature OG and chocolate peanut butter flavors, is hand-weighed to ensure that it is a quarter pound.
Yelp Gift Pick: The Cookie’s Favorite Cookie is a fan-favorite — a cookie within a cookie, with chunks of cookie throughout the cookie. Say that 10 times fast. Don’t miss out on this bestseller to weight your stockings.
Bonus tip: The cream pie by Fat T’s is a limited release made specifically for Northside Marketplace! Order a pie for pickup and be the star of your holiday party.
5.) Dippity & Snark
Dippity & Snark is a handmade shop offering cards, stationery and illustrated goods with a sassy sense of humor. From stationery to art, each design is hand-drawn with hilarious puns to accompany it. Note: some items contain adult-oriented puns.
Yelp Gift Pick: We love the hand-drawn fox print illustration and the bird and flowers art print. Both make the perfect room décor for kids of any age.
Bonus tip: The cat cappuccino sticker makes the purrfect stocking stuffer!
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