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Toys that teach; Cowesett coupons; Daffodil Days in Wickford

01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, April 6, 2008

A new educational toy store has opened in Warwick called Learn All About It. The Cowesett Corners store offers educational toys, games, puzzles, arts and crafts, and creative play items such as dress-up clothes (for that child who wants to look like, say, a chef).

Cumberland resident Jeff Dronzek, a longtime retailer who opened the store with his wife, Jennifer, a speech therapist, said the shop offers an unusually large range of audio, video and software products for kids and the whole family, as well as books for young children and parenting books.

A popular item is the Kidzmocks art smock, made in Massachusetts, that kids wear to keep their clothes clean while painting; the smocks have themes such as construction worker or cheerleader. The store offers storytime every Thursday at 10:30 and on some Saturdays. The first free arts and crafts class for toddlers and preschoolers will be Tuesday at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and it will be about stamping. The store, which offers free gift wrapping, is at 300 Quaker Lane, Warwick; call (401) 921-5951.

In discovering Learn All About It, we also discovered the Cowesett Corners shopping center Web site, which offers lots of coupons for those shopping at its stores. The stores offering coupons range from Dwyer’s Dollhouse and Winthrop’s Hallmark to a Cinnamon Café and Applebee’s restaurant; even Enterprise Rent-a-Car has a 50-percent off coupon for weekend rentals. See www.cowesettcorners.com.

Wickford village continues its sixth annual Daffodil Days today, with wandering minstrels, historic walking tours at 1:30 from the First Baptist Church on Main Street, a dog parade at noon, Old Narragansett Church tours from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., live music, face painting and story hours. The unique shops of the village, of course, will welcome shoppers.

This column rounds up local news involving stores, services and products. Send items three weeks in advance to What’s In Store, Sunday Lifebeat, 75 Fountain St., Providence, RI 02902.

— PAM THOMAS