Blocks And 3d Puzzles

One thing toddlers love to do is jump.  To keep them off the furniture you could place large pillows on your floor; or, if you have an old mattress that is even better.

Go for walks on different types of surfaces.  Walking on grass, gravel, or sand and uneven surfaces will not only challenge their balance it will help muscles develop.

If you have stairs let them practice climbing up and down when you are watching and standing close by.  If you do not have stairs it is a good idea to have a set of giant cardboard building blocks called ImagiBRICKS.

These toy blocks can be stood on without crushing.  You can place them around the room in a maze like formation and have your children walk around them as well as step up on top of them.  They will learn to balance, step up and down and use a variety of muscles while having a great time playing.

Of course, as with any set of building blocks they will stack them up and knock them down.  They will carry them around and put them in wagons.  All this play is open-ended and will allow for many hours of creative play to help build confidence and self-esteem.

You will be providing your toddlers and young children with one of the best toddler learning toys on the market when you provide them with a set of ImagiBRICKS.

Your grandparents had ImagiBRICKS™   toy blocks when they were growing up.  You won’t find them in stores but they still can be purchased online.

Parents, educators and doctors all recommend giant building blocks for toddlers and if you want the award-winning toy blocks you will have to pay a little more.  Be careful when shopping in toy stores and on line, there are imitations that look like ImagiBRICKS™   and they have the same “brick design”, but they are not as strong and would crush if your child stood on them.

Toddlers and young children love to build tall towers and knock them down.  They also love to carry things around.  Because ImagiBRICKS™   are both strong and lightweight your toddler will build muscle strength by building structures as well as lifting and carrying the blocks. 

As toddler learning toys, these giant building blocks also help teach math concepts and spatial awareness.  Try a starter set of 16 pieces or our popular 40 piece set that includes three sizes of blocks, large red, medium blue and small yellow.

You can teach your child a love of learning by example. Although your toddler will take up a lot of your attention, you can still sit quietly while she plays nearby and read a newspaper or magazine.

She may become curious and want to see what you are reading, or she may want to copy you by sitting down with her own magazine or book and trying to read also. The more your children see you reading the better.

One of the best toddler learning toys you will own is a set of Little Reader Blocks.  These toy blocks are imprinted with over 100 of the first sight words your children will have to know. Your children can play with them as blocks but more importantly they will learn individual words and how to form simple, short sentences.

Many games can be played with Little Reader Blocks and you will be surprised at how quickly your children will take out these blocks and play with them by themselves.  While you are reading you might point to a word in your child’s book and then have them find the word from their toy blocks.  It is a good idea to pull several blocks out of the set, including the one you want them to identify, so they don’t get frustrated when they can’t quickly find the word from the twenty piece set.

When you have a toddler or other young children in your home you want to make sure their toys are safe.  You also want toys that are easy to clean and keep sanitary.

ImagiBRICKS are sturdy, and are coated with a nontoxic coating so they can be wiped down without damaging the toy blocks.  When you purchase cardboard building blocks for your children there will be no sharp points or edges; an important consideration when choosing your toddler’s toys.

A learning toy such as building blocks toys encourages creative, open-ended play.  Children will play by themselves as well as in a group.  Children of various ages can plan, create and build structures of varying degrees of difficulty and learn to work together for hours of learning fun.

Giant sized blocks such as ImagiBRICKS are safe toy blocks because they are too large to get swallowed if there are younger children in the home.  Children tend to like to stand on their giant blocks and these blocks are guaranteed crush proof.  There are images of me standing on the blocks on our website.  

Another reason cardboard building blocks are a perfect toddler learning toy is that they are lightweight and can easily be carried about and can be stacked as high as a toddler can reach.  When the blocks fall or get knocked down (as they most assuredly will) there are no sharp edges to hurt your children.

Children will gain muscle strength while playing with their blocks and as they build structures they will learn coordination as they learn to walk around their structures and not knock them down.

There are no better toys for toddlers as ImagiBRICKS, the toys your grandparents played with.

Providing your children arts and crafts time is not only a great “quiet time” play idea it will help your children develop fine motor skills. Crafts that include the use of scissors, beads, crayons, finger paints or anything else you can think of to get their fingers involved will benefit your children.

An old time favorite from the 1950’s is Silly Putty ® and is a great quiet-time activity to help your children with his fine motor skills.  James Wright, a GE engineer, came upon the material by mixing silicone oil with boric acid. The compound, acted very much like rubber in its ability to rebound almost 25 percent higher than a normal rubber ball. My favorite memory of playing with Silly Putty was pressing it onto the Sunday comic’s page and making an imprint.

Did you know that Silly Putty sold faster than any other toy in history with over $6 million in sales for the year?  Silly Putty is now the registered trademark of Binney & Smith Inc.

Besides encouraging craft activities for your children you can also provide other activities such as building toys such as Legos, Tinker Toys and cardboard building blocks. These toys are manipulativies and will enhance fine motor skills just the same as coloring, painting and cutting. 

Toy blocks such as ImagiBRICKS are giant sized cardboard blocks and are available in sets as small as 16 pieces.  Three sizes of blocks are available in the 24 and 40 piece set or you may get a bulk quantity order when you have several children who will be playing together.

Children are always seeking out new ways to play creatively. But, there is also ways you can help them.

Here is a unique way to use your old typewriter; and if you do not have one maybe I will sell you mine!

Children often have a parent who works in an office and you can have fun teaching them about how an office is set up just like the one you work in.  You can set up a mini office with the help of toy blocks by Smart Monkey Toys. These giant building blocks come in sets of Rainbow colors and can be ordered in any quantity you need from All I Can Imagine.

Set up the typewriter or maybe even an old keyboard on a child size table or a table made from the toy blocks.  Make another work table and provide your children paper, pencils, telephone, address book and other child-safe office supplies.  Set up another office and each of you will have fun interacting.

Children enjoy being creative and it will help them to make sense of the actual world we adults live in and they will especially love having you play with them.  When you provide role playing activities in a real life setting you will gain greater insight into your child’s life and help him develop necessary social skills.

Cardboard toy blocks are made in the USA by Smart Monkey Toys. This toy company only uses recycled corrugated cardboard.

Their trade name for these toy blocks is ImagiBRICKS and all these giant building blocks are made of at least 50% recycled cardboard. The actual amount varies with each run, but is never less than 50%. The trees used for the remainder are all farmed.

The wonderful thing about corrugated cardboard is that it is strong, yet very lightweight, making it a wonderful choice for preschool play. The cardboard is printed with water-based, non-toxic colorful inks. And an additional clear ink coating to each block to make it water-resistant. The cardboard building blocks are also recyclable. Every component of the block sets are made right here in America. They are produced in Wisconsin, where there is a large paper industry.

Smart Monkey Toy’s warehouse is near the plant where the blocks are produced. By keeping everything close, this toy company cuts down on the fuel needed to transport materials and providing much needed jobs to American workers.

The paper industry in our country has been struggling with many companies buying their cardboard from China. China has to import their raw materials from the U.S. or Canada to make their cardboard. The lumber is transported from North American to China, made into cardboard and then transported back to North America. The cost of this inefficient process is lost jobs, and much greater use of valuable fuel.

Back in the 1950’s my dad built me some wooden shelves so I could play shopping.  My playmates and I would often shop in our grocery store and to this day I like to go food shopping.

Creative play is an important learning tool for children and they need all the open-ended play time they can get.  Setting up a grocery store that is not as permanent as the one I had in my basement can be built with ImagiBRICKS toy blocks. These giant cardboard building blocks can be purchased online and come in red, orange, purple, green and timber-look. 

The kids in your neighborhood will help you collect empty cereal boxes, cans, pasta boxes, asprin boxes, diaper boxes, etc.  Design your store with the toy blocks then place your products on your shelves. 

Get together and price all your cans and boxes and make some carts out of old boxes.  Kids will have a ball shopping in their very own store and this pretend game will help provide them opportunities to learn organizational skills, mathematical skills and important problem solving skills.

Children can take turns collecting the play money and giving change. After they have finished shopping each child can load his purchases in a wagon and go to her own “house”; which could also be built with the building block toys.

Both parents and grandparents are still buying ImagiBRICKS for their children and grandchildren. Customers are telling us they are happy that these durable cardboard blocks are still available.

You will only find ImagiBRICKS building blocks toys for sale online as they are not usually sold in your neighborhood toy stores.  Parents with limited space can select from 16 piece sets as well as 24 piece sets and our most popular size, the 40 piece blocks toy sets.

These lightweight cardboard blocks are so big they help kids build up their self confidence as they create tall towers, buildings, forts and every other imaginable structure.  Because there is no wrong way to build a child can create to his hearts content and children of varying ages can “work” together for a common goal.

When children build something “all their own”, it makes them happy and gives them a sense of well-being and builds their self-confidence.  Parents and educators who provide their children with large building blocks toys notice that children gravitate to a pile of blocks and immediately begin interacting with one another.

Movement of the large muscles of the body refers to gross motor control and begins developing from birth.  Your babies first learned motor control begins with the control of his own head and torso.

Your child will then go on to master sitting, crawling, standing and eventually walking, running and jumping as well as the range of activities.  Meanwhile your child will be learning balance and the ability to maintain equilibrium, body awareness (for improved posture and control), major muscle co-ordination and spatial orientation.

You can help your children improve and master spatial orientation – the awareness of his body position in space and in relation to other objects (or people), by providing him with giant cardboard building blocks.  Even when your child is too young to begin building structures with toy blocks they are a useful educational toy for other purposes.

By placing the toy blocks around in a maze-like configuration your child will love mastering walking (or running) around the blocks.  To begin building your child’s major muscles and co-ordination, have him/her help you construct towers; this will also help with your child’s balance.

Your older children may want to build structures with the cardboard blocks so have enough on hand for both activities. Sixteen piece set of ImagiBRICKS is pictured above.  We also carry sets of 24, 40 and bulk quantity cardboard blocks.