While your radio is softly playing in the background take a moment and listen to how your kids are playing. You will find opportunities to gently guide your children as they are playing with their toddler learning toys.
Children who have open-ended learning toys will have opportunities for creative learning fun and as you listen to them “plan” and “work” together you will notice that their social skills are developing. When you take a moment to “tune into” their play you will be able to provide guidance in their social development when and where needed.
While children are playing with such toys as cardboard blocks and building towers and other structures you will notice which children take leadership in the planning. You will begin to notice if there is a child being bossy or how he accepts suggestions as another child offers his own ideas.
Toy cardboard blocks, such as a set of CityBlocks by Smart Monkey Toys, is a fun toddler learning toy and provides your children an opportunity for creative play and work that builds important social skills they will need all through their lives.
Children playing together are not only creating reality in play, they are also adapting to new realities, work, and therefore it is important to allow children many opportunities for unstructured playtime every day.
Lord
May I settle it once and for all
That I am dealing directly with You.
You need never apologize
For any plan You ordain for me
Since nothing but good
Can come from Your hand.
You are sufficient
For every changing circumstance
In my God-planned life-
For every unchanging circumstance as well.
To fulfill the needs of all the animals, Noah carefully built the Ark to Gods specifications. The Ark did indeed have room for all the animals that God brought to Noah before the Flood.
Noah did not have to go out and find the correct animals – God brought each one to him and this probably included a young pair of each main type of dinosaur. God may have just brought Noah the basic types of dinosaurs He first created.
Young dinosaurs would be smaller than full grown adult dinosaurs and easier to care for. You probably already figured out that the younger dinosaurs would also eat less food and would require a much smaller room.
It is said that dinosaurs lived for a few centuries, at least, after the Flood, but probably not in the great numbers that there once had been before the Flood. It is not exactly known when dinosaurs finally died out, according to the article I read.
To help teach kids about many different dinosaurs they will enjoy playing with wooden kids toys and playsets that include brightly colored, chunky pieces. Our Dinosaur puzzle play set is a safe children’s wooden toy that doubles as a 3d wooden puzzle. Each puzzle piece is a unique dinosaur and makes a separate toy by itself.
Did you know many of the animals on Noah’s Ark may have slept most of the time?
Noah’s Ark was said to have been the largest sea-going vessel ever built until the late nineteenth century when giant metal ships were first constructed. Its length to width ratio of six to one provided excellent stability on the high seas. In fact, modern shipbuilders say it would have been almost impossible to turn over. In every way, it was admirably suited for riding out the tremendous storms in the year of the flood.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. (Gen. 6: 14-16).
The image above is the size comparison between average size one-story home and Noah’s Ark. Illustration from The World that Perished. By the way a cubit is the distance between an adult’s elbow and tip of the finger, no less than 18-inches [45.72 centimeters].
Teaching children about the Flood and the Ark and about all the animals God brought to Noah before it began to rain will become more “alive” when you child has a “real” Ark of his own.
ImagiPLAY’s wooden toy playset is hand-crafted and has 28 pieces. This toddler learning toy includes different male and female animals such as elephants, pigs, polar bears, giraffe’s and more. Store all the animals in the Ark for safe keeping.
Make a fun Valentine’s Card that is made to share. An added plus is that your child can practice learning about basic math concepts such as number recognition, shapes, and patterns.
While your child designs an imaginative and artistic set of counting cards you may use this craft as a learning tool to reinforce mathematical abilities.
You can see a sample of this craft and get the directions and a list of needed supplies at this website –
http://www.education.com/activity/article/valentine-day-counting-cards/
Hope you enjoy this craft project. Don’t forget to take a look at our website and see all our number and alphabet 3d wooden puzzles such as our counting penguins pictured here.
Your child will love games played at their level, on the floor. You and your toddler will have plenty of laughs when you get down on the floor and play with them.
With or without “props” you can laugh yourself silly and kids of all ages can participate. Play peek-a-boo by crawling around furniture (watch the sharp edges of tables, please). You could set up pillows and cushions around the room and have races around the objects.
Have a make believe zoo and each person is a different animal. Talk about the animals and how they might relate to one another. Before you plan this you could do online research and get some simple facts about several animals; find some that do well together and maybe some who can not co-exist.
Bring out your son’s trucks, earth moving equipment trucks, police cars and fire trucks and make up some games. If you have large toy blocks such as ImagiBRICKS cardboard building blocks you can “build” garages, police stations, fire stations and such.
Giant building blocks are also good for crawling around while playing peek-a-boo. Weaving in and out of a maze of blocks helps children learn balance – they aren’t supposed to knock the blocks down while maneuvering around each set of blocks.
Wind down the fun by playing something quieter such as putting puzzles together or coloring. Maybe you will all fall asleep for a little nap right there on the floor. Just grab one of the pillows and snuggle up with your toddler.
A child’s brain is likened to a sponge and absorbs enormous amounts of a variety of information. Because the brain continues to expand as it grows it is important to expose your children to a variety of open-ended wooden kids toys.
Not only are children exposed to a variety of toddler learning toys at home, there are wooden toys in their daycare, Sunday school and waiting rooms. Where ever your children are becomes an opportunity for teaching opportunities.
You can help your children learn colors, for example, while sitting in the doctor’s office. If you put down your magazine and observe the toddler toys available you could point out to your child a chair and say to him “this is a chair. The color of the chair is blue”.
Quality education is most important to the mental health and growth of all young children and it is because of this that you will find it beneficial to surround your children with playsets, wood puzzles and other toys that have a variety of shapes and colors to keep your children interested in play and learning.
Your child may love playing with a Sealife puzzle playset pictured above. Each chunky puzzle piece is it’s own creature including a sea horse, crab and turtle. Made from splinter-proof wood this is one of our toddler learning toys is for ages 3 up.
Lord
Again and again I have asked You
To robe me in splendor—
To spark my life with radiance
Until there burns within me
A soft unquenchable glow.
Now today as I read Your Word
Your answer to my longing is so direct:
“They looked to him and were radiant.”
Lord, the mystery is solved!
I must look steadfastly to You
A shimmering reflection of Yours.
Does Your Child’s Daycare Center Have the Right Toys for Your Child?
Combine fun and learning and you have a happy child. Educational daycare toddler learning toys play an important role in your child’s development.
Toys have to hold your child’s attention and advancing technology is leading to new innovations is toys specifically designed for toys in daycare centers. Classic toys such as musical toys, coloring books, paint sets and time tested wooden kids toys are appearing in waiting rooms, Sunday schools, and daycare centers.
Did you know that daycare toys and toddler learning toys are now appearing in shopping malls and toy shops in every possible field? The variety of children’s wooden toys for parents and educators to choose from includes activity centre toys, sports, science, painting, building block toys and even electronic and computer toys.
Children’s toy collections should include age appropriate toys and with subjects that they are interested in or subjects that you want to introduce to your children. Remember if a child is bored with a toy, or he finds it too difficult, he will set it aside.
Kids love toys and wood puzzles with a variety of shapes and sizes and in bright primary colors. By 2-1/2 to 3 years old children have good hand and finger coordination making chunky 3d puzzles a perfect daycare toy. A popular wooden kids toy is our bunnies number puzzle pictured above. This toddler toy has small parts and is not for children under 3 years old.
A snail lives in a shell and moves very slowly. To teach kids about snails it helps to have a live specimen available.
If you have a garden you probably have a snail nearby. Did you know garden snails feed on both living and decaying plants which can damage your garden’s crops? Because of this fact, snails are not very welcome in your garden and are considered pests.
Regardless that the snail is a pest they do make an interesting educational lesson for your children. Snails are neat to learn about and fun to watch.
Let’s get back to the “snail trail hunt”. So where do you look for snail trails? Most garden snails live in and around moist areas such as near ponds, in the woods, and of course, in the garden. They usually travel in irregular paths, oftentimes in a circle and sometimes even upside down.
Take the kids for a walk on a cloudy day along a nature trail or at night in the backyard to see if they can spot any snail trails. Hunt for snail trail in the garden along walks and walls or beneath stones, leaves, or flowerpots. Follow the snail trail to see where it leads. Be aware, however, that not all snail trails are the same. It could belong to the slug instead. A slug is simply a snail without a shell. So how do you tell the two trails apart? If the snail trail is continuous, then it’s a slug. If there are breaks in the trail, it’s a snail.
If you find a snail have your child capture him and put it in a clear container with a lid and air vents. When disturbed the snail will retreat back into its shell. This is how they also sleep and hibernate during the winter. Find more snail facts online or at your library.
For craft ideas you may like a website I just located: http://daniellesplace.com/HTML/snailcrafts.html
If you have a young child 3 and up who is learning his numbers he will love our snail 3d wooden puzzle. This wood puzzle is made from splinter-proof hardwood and measures 6” x 5”. Painted in bright primary colors that kids love each chunky piece has an individual number painted on it.
