Blocks And 3d Puzzles

If you guessed that they are all considered rainforest animals you would be correct. Frogs are from the Amphibians category, Bats and Bengal Tigers from the Mammals category.

Other animals that are considered rainforest animals are from categories such as Arachnids, Birds, Insects, and Reptiles to name a few others.

According to Answers.com the Amazon Rainforest has a mossy ground cover and is rich with vegetation, animals and insects. It has many slopes, cliffs and hills for waterfalls and rivers.

The soil is moist because it gets at least 9 feet of water a year. It has many exotic flowers and many fish in the rivers.

Nowadays there are many students studying the rainforest and here is a link with all sorts of useful information for your students. http://www.rain-tree.com/schoolreports.htm.  You may also like this rainforest activity pages link:  http://www.first-school.ws/theme/animals/coloring-pages/rainforest.htm#alphabet.

If your students are 3 and up we offer a unique rainforest 3d wooden puzzle playset on our website. Each animal is its own puzzle piece and is chunky in size making it easy for young children to pick up and play with. All the toy animals fit together to form a pretty 7.5” square puzzle.

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?

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.

Creative play is important in a child’s education.  Providing educational children’s toys such as playsets allow creative play for a child playing alone or in a group.

Playsets are also a great teaching tool for lessons.  With the chunky pieces of individual sea animals in the Sealife playset pictured here you can make up games to teach children about the wonderment of under water life.

Here is another game you could use.  Find pictures of sea life creatures, or have the children find them.  Laminate and cut them in half.  Have your children match up the fronts with the backs of the creatures.  If you can’t find any pictures you could trace the individual figures from the puzzle playset onto brightly colored construction paper.

Another variation of this game is for the teacher to mismatch the animals’ halves and see if the children can spot the correct halves.

Home schools and preschools will get years of use out of wood puzzles, puzzle playsets and indoor wooden play sets when purchasing quality educational children’s toys. Shop for toys that are made from splinter-proof wood and painted with non-toxic paints.  And remember to wipe down and sanitize all your toys each day.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) had led a campaign to have Darwin’s theory of how life evolved through natural selection made a compulsory element of the new primary curriculum.

 It organized a public letter signed by more than 500 scientists and supporters.  Andrew Copson of the BHA said: “This is excellent news. Evolution is arguably the most important concept underlying the life sciences. “Providing children with an understanding of it an early age will help lay the foundations for a surer scientific understanding later on.”

 I read the above in an article morning and thought that teachers and parents may like to know about a cube puzzle you can use as one of your kids learning toys for teaching Creation in school and home.

 Your kids will “eat up” the Creation story when this wooden puzzle is brought out.  Many questions about Creation can be explained and a lively discussion will begin when playing with the brightly colored cube puzzle.

Do you know about the AiG Creation Education Center?  This center exists to equip and enable educators to restore the authority of God’s Word by reconnecting the Bible to the real world.  To do this, we need to teach more than just ‘Bible stories.’

Answers magazine is the Bible-affirming, creation-based magazine from Answers in Genesis.  In it you will find fascinating content and stunning photographs that present creation and worldview articles along with relevant cultural topics from different authors. http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am

Four and five year olds need toys to enhance and develop creative thinking and decision-making.  Providing puzzle games and construction toys is paramount to allow this development to occur.

Any area where children gather to play, whether at home, in day care facilities or waiting rooms, the choice of educational kids toys provided for them is important to help the children become aware of their potentials.

Wooden children’s toys are a good choice as waiting room toys because they are sturdy and durable and easy to clean. Open ended toys such as puzzle games are a favorite toy for boys and girls of various age groups and will keep them busy creatively playing.

To help promote independent thinking and provide an avenue for creative thinking consider a Sea life 3d puzzle that doubles as a play set.  Each puzzle piece of this wood play set is an individual toy.  Chunky figures are easy for little hands to grasp and the bright colors and uniquely shaped sea creatures will provide children with a toy that has no rules.

Children can play with the animal figures or put them together to form a beautiful puzzle they can put together on the floor or a table.  There will be many teaching opportunities for parents and educators as you talk about the dolphin, turtle, sea horse and many of the other sea life creatures.