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You and your children will have the time of your lives designing and building with a Quadro™ toy. You will always know where your kids are if you are the proud owner of one of Phunzone’s large scale construction kits.

These construction kits are available right here in the USA and are tough modular construction systems so you can create a wide range of compact, tough, durable, colorful, safe and fun play structures.

Quadro™ playsets for children offer the ultimate opportunity for safe, developmentally appropriate play in a colorful and fun environment, at very affordable prices.  This toy is appropriate for kids with special needs and allows them an avenue for safe play along with other children.

Picture the wooden Tinker Toys that were popular in years gone by and all the structures you could build.  Using one’s imagination in building and tearing down and rebuilding a new structure never grows old and the Quadro™ Construction Kits offer the same creative fun time for kids nowadays.

When you build a Quadro™ play structure you will love their impact absorbing modular tubes, panels and connectors and the bright primary colors that kids love. And as your kids grow your adventure playset can grow with them.  As you add to your Quadro play structure kit you can build many more different structures for added open-ended fun.

Designs for around 35 different structures come with each kit; as an example the Junior Kit includes directions for:

• Fort
• Pirate ship
• Desk
• Theatre
• Parallel Bars
• Goals
• Shop
• Juice Bar

No matter what ages your children are for any age group Quadro™ creations always provide “new” things to play with. Every day they can make a new, exciting structure either from the directions or their imaginations.

Providing an excellent way for kids to develop fine and gross motor skills Quadro™  adventure playsets are great play sets for kids with special needs. Our indoor/outdoor toy playsets are an extremely safe child’s toy, non-toxic, no splinters, no sharp edges etc.

When you build with a Quadro™ play structure you will be assured that their impact absorbing modular tubes, panels and connectors and the bright primary colors that kids love will provide children a safe play toy.

And as your kids grow your adventure playset can grow with them. As you add to your Quadro™  play structure kit you can build many more different structures for added open-ended fun. Strong and durable kids have been known to take them to college and build a bed or a desk.

Whether you set up the structures indoors or outdoors these play sets for children are just plain fun.  Kids can play in a group and develop their social and communication skills and are using both their mental and physical muscles.  These construction kits grow with your children.

Parents prefer Quadro™ kids toys for several reasons such as:

• it is a lifetime product starting with infants up through pre-teen
• many families who grew up with Quadro™ adventure playsets have passed it on to the next generation
• can be designed and constructed to meet many different play activities
• easy to add more kits or components to “grow” your Quadro™ over time
• simple play sets to decorate for parties or special themes;
• extremely durable child’s toy, rugged and strong – lasts for years and years
• excellent way for kids to develop fine and gross motor skills
• great playset for kids with special needs
• extremely safe child’s toy, non-toxic, no splinters, no sharp edges etc.
• impact absorbing modular tubes, panels and connectors
• high quality UV stabilized thermoplastic makes these play sets ideal for indoor or outdoor play
• great for apartments, basements, playrooms, kids bedrooms, backyards, pools
• excellent way for parents to get more involved with their children

Visit All I Can Imagine to view all available kits.  A complete parts comparison list is available by writing webmaster@blocksand3dpuzzles.com

Brain Balance:  Free Workshop Series for Parents – The Dynamics of the Brain: How to Improve Poor Grades and Low-Self Esteem without Medication.

So many of us don’t even realize that the problems we are facing with our children are beyond their control. They literally can’t help some of the things they do, the way they act, the way they feel, etc.  They are not bad kids and we are not bad parents.

There is help. To those of you who are struggling with their children on any level, whether behaviorally, developmentally, academically, emotionally, physically, socially, etc.  (regardless if they have any type of label or not) there are assessments available at Brain Balance Center.

These centers will do a 1200 point assessment to make sure your child’s brain is functioning and developing properly.  If it is not,then Brain Balance can change that.  It is such a small price to pay to ensure that your child’s brain is developing properly and that your child will be able to reach their full potential.

Brain Balance Centers are helping children who suffer from the effects of ADD/ADHA, dyslexia, Tourette’s,  Asperger’s  or autism spectrum disorders.  Their programs help children overcome their academic and behavioral challenges.  No drugs are used. No cookie-cutter approaches implemented.

Your child’s achievement program will be carefully tailored to match each child’s individual and uniqueness and will connect them with success and increased self-esteem.

If you happen to live in Suwanee, Peachtree City, or Roswell, Georgia there are upcoming workshops you can attend:

September 13, 2011 at 6:30pm – Understanding the Brain of a Child with Autism and Utilizing this Information in the Home Environment.

October 11, 2011 at 6:30pm – The Dynamics of the Brain: How to Improve Poor Grades and Low Self-Esteem without Medication.

November 8, 2011 at 6:30pm – Unlocking Learning Disabilities: Understanding the Brain Related to Auditory and Visual Processing.

Call these numbers for more information:

Suwanee 770-614-4790

Peachtree City 770-610-3033

Rosewell 770-650-8010

Looking for a playset for children with special disorders?  You will be happy to know there are Quadro Playset Kits available at All I Can Imagine that are safe for all children. When you want play sets for children that are tough, come with a great warranty and have the ability to grow with your child you can’t beat a Quadro™ adventure playset.

Children of all ages and physical abilities can safely and confidently play with this brightly colored child’s toy which may be set up either outside or inside. Modular tubes and panels made in the bright colors that children love.

**Want to read a mothers story?  Read about her experience with Brain Balance.  Visit her blog at:  http://networkedblogs.com/mxMeP

Many parents concentrate on finding fun summer activities that their children can participate in while school is out. However, while there are tons of fun summer activities available for school-age children, it can be difficult to find some that toddlers can participate in.

This doesn’t mean that it isn’t important for toddlers to be involved in fun summer activities too. After all, they are still people and when they are being carted all over for their siblings’ activities, they will begin to feel less important and not understand why they don’t get to join in on the fun. Below is one suggestion for a fun summer activity that toddlers can participate in.

Gymnastics: One of the most universal activities for toddlers is gymnastics. This is because gymnastics provides toddlers with a constructive way to burn off the extra energy they have while improving their socialization and coordination skills. They will also become more aware of their body and increase their physical fitness levels. While gymnastics is available for children all year, it’s one of the fun summer activities that your toddler is sure to enjoy!

**All kids love to climb and our adventure playsets and Quadro indoor/outdoor play structures are just want your kids need. Whether you are looking for a kit that can be made into an airplane, go cart, car or many other vehicles or a large climbing structure for you large playroom or backyard Quadro toys are available at our website, All I Can Imagine.  Take a peek and you will see what we mean!

Quadro play sets are like a giant Tinker Toy. You can design and build a variety of structures, take them apart and rebuild a new design as often as your heart desires.

Fun toy for indoor and outdoors. Quadro adventure playsets vehicle kit is durable and versatile!

This Vehicle Kit from Quadro will get your children zooming around the town! Great Christmas gift idea.

The basic building components of our indoor/outdoor fun toy consist of:

27 Straight Tubes: (6, 15 cm and, 21 35 cm.
Connectors: 10, 4 way connectors and 2, 3 way. Two Tee connectors, 8 elbow connectors.
Panels: 4, 40 x 40 cm
Wheels: 3 types – Multiwheel; Bearing and Steering Lock and 2 Caster – wheels only and 2 adapters.
Miscellaneous: Clips for tubes and panels, steering connections, tool key.

Our Quadro Vehicle Kit will give your child a variety of cars, trucks, and even a plane. Bright colored accessories in blue, green, red and yellow. This is a great toy to get dad and child working together. Sorry, dad, but you won’t fit in the vehicles!

This past weekend a friend and I drove to Dahlonega, Georgia.  We mainly wanted to see some colors and that we did.

Of course we made a stop at the visitor’s center and in doing so found a brochure about the only North Georgia Zoo (which I had never heard of).  It is the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve and has animal species from around the world, including rare white Siberian Tigers.

Besides their exotic and domestic animals and walking trails they have educational programs, animal exhibits, photo sessions, forums, corporate events, lectures and more.  If you live in the area this would be a great place to have a kid’s birthday party.

A Day At The Zoo Play Set

For those of you who can’t get to a zoo anytime soon our A Day at the Zoo is a children’s wooden toy that will make a great toddler learning toy for your children.  You will love the unique zoo entrance and all the wooden animals.  Each piece is chunky in size and easy for young children to handle.

As with all our indoor play sets, these zoo animal figures are made from splinter-proof wood and painted with lead-free paint and your kids will love the bright colors.

Christmas will soon be upon us and it is not too early to order your playset!  Visit All I Can Imagine and see our A Day at the Zoo, Zoom to the Moon, Arctic Adventure and more.

Both indoors and outdoors the preschool years are oft times referred to as the “play years”.  This is true because children of this age spend a lot of time running, chasing, galloping, balancing and climbing.

Several popular indoor activities include painting, building, stringing beads, and cutting with child safe scissors.  They also enjoy age appropriate puzzles and coloring with crayons.

Immensely improved since they were toddlers are their large and small motor skills.  Motor activities that are impossible for toddlers include balancing on a seesaw, hanging upside-down from a climber playset, or jumping over canals in the sand.  Preschoolers owe much of their agility to their lower center of gravity. The lower center of gravity provides a firmer foundation for balance and movement. 

This ability for balance and movement allows preschoolers to improve both their locomotor skills and their upper body and arm skills. With the winter months upon us it is a good time to consider an indoor climbing toy such as Quadro adventure playsets from Phunzone™.

Definition:

Locomotor skills are those motor skills in which the feet move the body from one place to another. They are (roughly in order of how children learn them):

• Walking
• Running
• Hopping
• Jumping
• Skipping
• Galloping
• Sliding (a sideways gallop)
• Leaping

Phunzone play centers are designed to help children become more secure, confident and socially responsible and will help them develop balance, strength and a range of motor skills. Children’s activities on these wonderful adventure playsets are only limited by their imagination.

Check out all the available models including kits with wheels for building trucks, carts, airplanes and more.  Complete parts lists are available.  Visit our website, All I Can Imagine and let the fun begin!

Introduce your children to the land and sea distribution of the Arctic!  And to make his lesson even more fun provide an “Arctic Expedition” children’s wooden toy for indoor creative fun play.

Toddler learning toys by ImagiPLAY are safe toys for children ages 3 up. Their collection of Play Sets include the evey popular, Arctic Expedition. This award-winning playset includes an 8″ x 5″ tote-able Velcro-closure Igloo and nine chunky wooden figures including a walrus, seal, two polar bears, three people figures and a dog pulling a sled.

The distribution of land and water in the Arctic is a factor with important implications for climate. Because water has a higher heat capacity than land and so exhibits a greater resistance to temperature change than does a land area (that is it has greater thermal inertia), land heats up more during the day and in summer, and cools down more at night and during winter than do adjacent bodies of water. This means that localities immediately adjacent to water exhibit smaller seasonal temperature variations than do localities that are situated well inland. For example, continental conditions cause the climate to be quite severe in the interior of northern Russia and Canada. The “Cold Pole,” or coldest part of the Northern Hemisphere, is in northeast Siberia near Verkhoyansk.

The Arctic consists of an ocean surrounded by land, and the ocean has a warming influence on the land. However, because a large part of the Arctic Ocean is covered by an insulating layer of ice, the warming influence of the ocean in winter is decreased. Leads and polynyas (cracks and open areas in the ice) permit intense heat exchange from the water to the atmosphere during the cold part of the year because of the large differences between the air and water temperatures. But overall, the influence of the ocean in moderating local climate where sea ice is present is much less in winter than in summer. In Norway, where open water persists all year, the moderating effect of the ocean is largest in winter.

Read more facts about the Arctic where this information was found.  Go to: http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/factors/land_sea_distribution.html

I was reading an interesting article about a father’s experience with his children getting hooked on his own On Line Flight simulator game. He realized, as his children played around with this game, that they could also learn engineering, design and architecture.

With his on line flight simulator game the kids could even make their own plane as well as design their own airport. They could fly to over 20,000 airports around the world, and he thought that getting kids to geographically know where all the airports were was quite an accomplishment.

If you have someone in your family who is interested in planes and they would love to open up the world of designing and building planes to toddler age children then here is a great toddler learning toy to get your boys and girls.

Quadro playsets come in five different varieties as well as a Vehicle Kit. These playsets come with a variety of modular tubes, panels, and connectors in bright colors.  They can be played with outdoors or indoors.

With the Basic II as well as the Vehicle Kit parents and kids can together build an airplane and many other designs of cars, go carts, trucks, spaceships, racers, locomotives, houses, climbers and much more.

When you spend time designing, creating and building with your kids many lively topics of conversation will come easily.  This is open-ended play with no rules so you can bond with your children while introducing them to many new experiences.

Climbing Frame Safety

One of the primary benefits of owning a Quadro climbing frame from the parents perspective is the high safety standards that are maintained with these adventure playsets.  All parts in these playsets are made out of sturdy but soft plastic panels making it very difficult for children to hurt themselves.

The joining parts such as the corner frames and bolts are all made out of large plastic parts that are colorful and also big enough to make it very difficult for kids to put in their mouths and inadvertently swallow.

Quadro Climbing Flexibility

A great advantage that Quadro playsets for children have over other kids climbing frames is flexibility. When you purchase a quadro kit you receive a series of panels and parts that you, or preferably your kids, are supposed to construct. However, quadro kits come in such a way that there are several different variations available to your children to construct. This means when they get bored of one design they can simply dismantle it and start over building a new frame.

While some parents may be hesitant due to that fact that this is time consuming, on the contrary, one of the things kids love best about these kits is that they are fun and easy to dismantle and rebuild.

Our website shows five different kits as well as a special Vehicle Kit. Great for  home, preschools and anywhere you need safe outdoor fun play for several children.  Safe for indoor or outdoor use.

Spending time with your child while he plays, and playing with him, has several benefits for parents and the child as well. While interacting with your child (or several children) they will be thriving in a stimulating environment.

Providing toddler learning toys that are open ended and provide a moderate challenge to your childs physical and cognitive abilities will make their playtime an educational experience without them knowing they are learning.

Adults providing close attention to children’s playtime, while being friendly and nurturing, will help all the children involved nurture one another.  As parents are pointing to words in a book or an animal in a puzzle and begin talking about it the children will easily open up with their own ideas and questions.

During this type of playtime, if you as a parent have a particular lesson you want to teach, you can provide a hands-on learning experience that children will be interested in and they will easily absorb their lesson.  This nurturing type of playtime is useful at home as well in child care and nursery school programs.

See our new A Day on the Farm Playset.  We have just added a new wooden kids toy to our website that is a perfect educational toy for 3 year old boys and girls.  Kids will love learning about farm animals as they play with each chunky wood figure.  Cows, roosters, pigs and more!