Blocks And 3d Puzzles

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!

Don’t be surprised if your kids go to a friend’s home and play with one of their Quadro Play Sets and come home and ask to have one of their own.  It will happen!

So here’s the scoop on just what a Quadro Playset is.  First of all Quadro makes several sets, each of which come with building plans for many different playsets for children.  With some kits you will be able to build airplanes, trucks, carts.  With other kits you may build a house, juice bar, theatre etc.  Or just construct structures for climbing.

Quadro™  kids toys are the most unique and versatile large scale play construction system you will own. You will find the modular tubes, connectors and panels are lightweight yet strong and long-lasting. As your kids grow these Quadro indoor/outdoor play sets will grow with them.

Quadro playsets are weather proof and the colors are mostly UV resistant. Each of our Quadro™” play structures kits encourage creative, open ended play time that children thrive on mentally and physically.

Quadro™ construction kits 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 with Quadro™ play structures are only limited by their imagination.

With this Quadro Starter Kit – pictured above –  you may build play structures such as a house, theatre, juice bar and goals. Use two of the panels and make a small slide; great for small children.

Everyone from pioneering aviators to World War I armies used kites. The armies in WWI used kites to observe enemy troops.

If you live near the Washington, the Smithsonian Kite Festival is on March 27 and would make a nice trip for you and your kids.  Kites of all shapes and sizes will be flown. 

Other outdoor activities that day include a Rokkaku-kite battle-see how many enemy kites you can force to the ground.  Learn more at http://kitefestival.org/

I wish I lIved there; I would love to see their display of hand-crafted kites from all over the world.  If you go take some pictures for me, OK?

Another fun thing to do now that the weather is getting nicer is build a juice bar or other structure from a Quadro Junior II adventure playset.  It comes with 390 components to build 32 unique models. Build a puppet theatre, large desk or a goal.  Strong and lightweight and completely safe.

Let it snow!  It’s fun to go out side and play but when you have to stay in parents can organize some fun inside activities that do not involve electronics or expensive props.

Kids love zoo toys and animals so why not play a game about elephants. Pretend play is a fun activity for everyone and opens up creative play to help children develop self esteem.

To go for an “elephant walk” get the children in one long line. Everyone is to stretch one hand each back through their legs and, with the other hand, take the outstretched hand of the person in front. The children will be lined up, attached like elephants holding trunks and tails. Move to slow music.

Elephant Soccer- Children get into a circle with legs wide apart. Hold their arms down in front of them with hands clasped together for trunks. Roll a ball across the circle trying to get it between someone’s legs. Use only your trunks to keep the ball from going through your legs.

Besides active animal games provide your children with zoo related children’s learning toys such as a Zoo playset by ImagiPLAY.  This wooden kids toy comes complete with a bright Zoo entrance with two large parrots and eleven hand painted zoo animals this play set will open up many teaching opportunities for indoor play.

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.

Although pickles and planets may not have anything in common I did find an interesting idea on the Internet.  Memorize this: “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles”.

Now you are ready to learn the names of our planets.  Ready?   It stands for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.  I do not know why learning things in the form of a poem or through a song is helpful but it really does work.

Teaching young children about our planets can be an exciting experience.  There are many games, activities and wood toys that you can find to help keep the learning fun.  And we know “play” is a child’s learning tool when they are not at their desk.

You can begin with telling your children that our galaxy is known as the Milky Way.  It is home to nine planets, their moons and the sun.  The sentence that you just memorized is a way to remember those planets in the order in which they are situated from the sun.

To keep children interested in learning about space and our planets remember to watch for the manufacturers recommended age for any wooden kids toy, craft project or game.  You may like this website  Elementary GLOBE that I just found:  http://www.globe.gov/fsl/html/templ.cgi?elemGLOBE&lang=en . 

Elementary GLOBE is designed to introduce students of grades K-4 to the study of Earth System Science (ESS). Elementary GLOBE forms an instructional unit comprised of five modules that address ESS and interrelated subjects including weather, hydrology, phenology, and soils. Each Elementary GLOBE module contains a science-based storybook and classroom learning activities.

And don’t forget to take a look at our own playset, a wood toy called “ Zoom to the Moon”.  This is an award winning wooden toy for kids 3 up which includes a  portable rocket ship set is perfect for take-along space adventures with 7  hand-painted wooden figures and 5″ x 8.5″ rocket ship tote that has zippered closure for secure take offs and landing!  Hand-crafted for ImagiPLAY from Rubberwood  - an environmentally-friendly hardwood.

You will love the child safe paints and splinter-proof wood this toy is made from.

Quadro™ construction kits 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 with Quadro™ play structures are only limited by their imagination.

Children of all ages and physical abilities can safely and confidently play with this brightly colored construction kit which may be set up either outside or inside. Waiting rooms, doctor’s offices, health clubs, day care centers will all benefit by owning at least one of these beautifully constructed child’s toys.

Kits come with directions to make a large variety of structures and when you add a vehicle kit the wheels you are provided open up even more play opportunities.

Quadro playsets are weather proof and the colors are mostly UV resistant. Each of our Quadro™” play structures kits encourage creative, open ended play time that children thrive on mentally and physically.

As a child I was not fortunate to own a beautiful construction kit to play with.  But nowadays many children are being introduced to the exciting world of Quadro™ playsets.

Quadro™ is the most unique and versatile large scale play construction system you will own. You will find the modular tubes, connectors and panels are lightweight yet strong and long-lasting. As your kids grow these adventure playsets can grow with them.

As a child his first structure might be a simple climbing gym.  As he grows more pieces can be added onto the structures to make bigger structures such as space ships, sleds, and even a theatre.  Quadro grows with children and even goes to college with them as desks, beds, and even bookcases are set up in their rooms.