Blocks And 3d Puzzles

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.

Many states are receiving many inches of snow.  Kids are getting “snow days”, and maybe even parents are unable to get to work.

This is an ideal time to get out anything that will slide down a hill or that can be pulled over a field of beautiful white snow.  You can use toboggans, inflatable sleds and inflatable sleds shaped like inner tubes.  Maybe you have a round disc that looks like an oversized Frisbee.

Not all kids have had a chance to experience the thrill of a ride down a frozen hill or to play in the snow and build a snowman or ice fort.  When a child experiences first snow day it is a time he will always remember.

Every ride will be accompanied by the sound of yells, screams and laughter — with plenty of rides going on at the same time. Parents will hear a constant symphony of joyful kid sounds and enjoy the day just a much as the children.

Children who have a Quadro adventure playset can help their dad build the sled from their modular tubes and go outside and join the fun.  When the snow melts, your indoor fun will resume as you build a car, cart, spaceship, airplane or maybe even a house to play in.

Quadro’s Basic Construction Kit is an adventure playset that can be safely used outdoors as well as indoors and grows with your child.

Quadro is a very UNIQUE “large-scale” modular construction system to create and build an unlimited number of play structures. It is the ONLY system which can be built so that kids can safely use as a jungle gym, play loft, climber, vehicle, desk, fort, maze, obstacle course… etc.

* Quadro designs are only limited by the imagination!
*Kids stay busy and never get bored with Quadro.
*Great for all homes, schools, apartments, playrooms, kids bedrooms, decks, backyards
*Can also be used in Day Care, Kids Gyms, Pediatric Facilities, Health Clubs, etc. etc.

Quadro playsets can be safely and easily be adapted to use by kids with special needs. You can custom designs walkers, walking aids, rolling aids, and other play structures to meet the height and size requirements.  Sight-impaired kids also find Quadro a good way to have fun and be creative.

Quadro is a play system designed to “grow” with all children starting with infants. As the children get older, the way Quadro is used is simply adapted to meet the new demands for age-appropriate activity, learning or play activities.

Quadro kit components comprise impact absorbing, UV-stabilized plastic (thermoplastic) tubes, connectors and panels which are quickly and easily assembled in hundreds of possible ways and then safely secured with special locking screws. The more pieces you have, the larger the designs that can be created.  Additional accessories include slides, wheels, fabric roofs, netting.  Each kit comes with a model handbook with suggestions on how to create a wide range of designs.

Quadro is extremely strong and rugged, has no sharp corners, contains no toxic materials, has no protruding screws or bolts and can be safely used either indoors/outdoors & summer/winter.