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Kids in all countries love toys and our troops are being equipped with wooden toys to take to Iraq and Afghanistan. According to an article I read online from the gazette.com (Colorado Springs), a group of senior’s have a woodworking club and have crafted several hundred small wooden cars and animals for Fort Carson bound for Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Springs Scrollers got most of their materials, according to the article, from friends in the Pikes Peak Whittlers, which supplied 12,000 wooden wheels and hundreds of quarter-inch dowels that allow the wheels to spin.
I further read that “Master Sgt. Andrew Clark, who coordinates donations at Fort Carson, said the post sent its first shipment of toys with the 43rd Sustainment Brigade, which deployed this month (March 2010) to Afghanistan, and will send others with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team to Iraq.”
Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/toys-95642-diplomacy-wooden.html#ixzz0t0PDctC8
Children have always loved the touch, smell and feel of a hand-crafted wooden toy. Toys made of wood last longer, are safer children’s toys and can be passed down from child to child and perhaps even from one generation to another.
When you are selecting painted wooden toys you will want to make sure they are painted with non-toxic paints and varnishes. ImagiPLAY is a toy manufacturer we strongly suggest – their non toxic toys are all natural, earth friendly and child safe. View their wooden kids toys online at All I Can Imagine.
If you are making your own wood toys, purchasing the correct type of paints and varnishes will benefit everyone especially those with allergies and chemical sensitivities. You will also be helping our environment by reducing ozone depleting contaminants.
Pictured above is our Apple Tree Bead Maze Toy.
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!
It has been said that “complex block-play is linked with advanced math skills in later life”. Toddlers as young as two years old should have several sets of toy blocks to play with.
Whether your child has foam blocks, cardboard blocks or wooden blocks to play with he will have a toy that will provide him open-ended play time. They will be able to create their own structures into their own play scenarios.
A set of blocks can help your child develop such things as language skills, social skills, creative problem-solving skills, spatial skills as well as motor and hand-eye coordination.
Toy blocks and other construction toys are among the best developmental toys that money can buy. An investment in quality wooden kids toys can’t be over emphasized. One such kids toy is Toy Store in a Box, by ImagiPLAY.
ImagiPLAY’s owner believes that the single most important toy a child can have is a set of blocks. Every block set they manufacture us multi-functional and is designed to inspire hours of imaginative play.
Toy Store in a Box is the ultimate developmental toy for ages 2 up. There are 28 stacking/nesting boxes of various sizes and they all fit into one another. They all stack in such a way that they can be stored in the largest block, the green, 9” x 9” cube.
Kids will love the feel of the wood and the bright colors, red, yellow, blue and green. This is one wooden kids toys you must see!
Dr. Robert Agnew (a Professor of Music and Humanities at Edison State College in Piqua, Ohio) wrote an article “Ancient Humanity and the Night Sky” in which he talks about the understanding of astronomy and, though, he says, “there is much still to learn about ancient Egypt and ancient China, it appears that their understanding of astronomy was already quite advanced as much as five-thousand years ago.”
When introducing your children to the night sky and our solar system, you will have many good articles to ready by Dr. Agnew at: http://www.abc-learningfun4u.com/astronomytalk.html where most of his articles, according to what he says, are dealing with the night sky and how we understand it using telescopes.
Our ancestors and early sailors used the night sky for navigation way before telescopes were ever thought of. I am always amazed when I remember how many hundreds of miles were sailed and navigated with only the stars that God put in our sky.
Because of ancient peoples who sailed the seas and oceans and their love of the heavenly sky, their curiosity and endurance to face hardships led to many discoveries of faraway lands such as America.
ZOOM TO THE MOON: Get your child one of our children’s wooden toys from our selection of playsets. As you teach your children about space and our planets their lessons will be enhanced when playing with our 5 X 8” Velcro-closure rocketship. Receive seven wooden figures including aliens and two space people along with the rocketship.
Travel in our sky, the inventions of airplanes and rocket ships, are only possible because of years of trial and error that men and women paid for with their lives. We should never take their sacrifices lightly.
Make sure to visit the link above and read many interesting articles to help in your children’s education. Dr. Agnew has written such articles as: “Music and the Stars”, “Ancient Rocks”, “Ghosts of the Night”, and more and you may read them by clicking on the links.
Camping with your children will be a wonderful bonding experience. And, when children can play outside there are less rules and restrictions, making it fun for the whole family.
Besides all the running around and exploring and the normal camping chores, there will also need to be a time for quite play. Planning ahead of time you could prepare some simple crafts for kids to make while sitting at a picnic table.
Here is one I thought would be fun and children will learn about design in nature from this toddler craft.
LEAF PRINT
You will need:
* Paper
* Different types of leaves
* Paint or crayons
Put the paper flat on the table and then put the leaf under the paper. After you’ve done that, use the crayon to shade the print of the leaf on the paper.
If you are using paint, you put the leaf in the paint and then print in on the paper.
You could bring some zip lock bags to store their leaves in if your child does not have some other idea of his own – such as decorating his tent.
If you liked this craft idea and want more I would suggest going to this website: http://www.parentingtoddlers.com/toddlercraft.html
See one of our unique children’s wooden toys. You can easily pack some wooden kids toys when you go camping and this outrageously fun eco-balancing game can be played at a picnic table when the family gathers around together. See this Tumblin’ Tree Game on our website, All I Can Imagine.
Camping usually is a great family fun idea-when you want a sure-fire way to bond with your kids take them camping. You will be creating life-long memories.
Kids can help set up the tent and unload the car and can be trusted to remain nearby without continual supervision. They can help collect wood for your fire and help with the cooking (and clean up).
One important thing to remember when you are packing for your trip; each person must have his/her own flashlight. How else can you make shadows on the tent? And a flashlight will direct the way to the outhouse late at night.
A great evening ritual will be looking for different kinds of insects that they can find. They might even catch frogs and minnows near the lakes and streams. You could let them examine these creatures and return them unharmed to the wild. Also, carry bug jars, nets, and buckets.
Make sure you always have a camera on hand; camping can be a comedy of errors with kids. You can also let your kids carry their own cameras through their travels each day.
You will want to bring a few simple toys with you for quiet time. A set of Backyard Buddy Blocks is a great idea for kids 18 months and up. See these children’s wooden toys on our website, All I Can Imagine.
For more camping fun ideas visit: http://www.greatdad.com/tertiary/72/35/camping-with-kids.html
This farm animal can see almost 360 degrees and can see colors too! And, the cow can smell up to 5 miles away.
Cows can live up to 25 years. Cows have four stomachs, and no two cows have the same pattern or spots. An adult male cow is called a bull and an adult female is called a cow. Cows eat corn, hay, barley, beet pulp, grass and wheat.
You can read about other farm animals and find neat craft ideas at this website: http://kiddyhouse.com/Farm/
See a neat set of wood blocks, manufactured by ImagiPLAY. These wood blocks are fun kids toys to help teach about six farm animals. These blocks are called 
Buddy Blocks and are a safe Color Matching and Puzzle Toy.
Colorful animals make our wooden kids toys a great puzzle for boys and girls age 18 months and up. Kids learn to match colors and animals.
Each four piece block set forms six different puzzles featuring colorful animals. When choosing our Farm Buddy Blocks set two of the animals you will get are a pink pig and a brown and white cow. (We also have sets of backyard animals and jungle animals.)
The development of gross motor skills for your toddlers is very important! Providing your kid’s playsets with chunky pieces that they easily can grasp and play with will help their muscles develop.
Besides providing your children playsets, giant toy blocks and a variety of other wooden kids toys, Theraputty is another great idea to give your children. Theraputty is a strong silly-putty-like material that comes in a tub. It comes in various “strengths” so there is more or less resistance when squeezed.
Working on a variety of hand skills, it is easy to play with anytime and anywhere – it’s fun and kids love it. Here is a website where you can purchase some Cando Theraputty. http://www.allegromedical.com/exercise-fitness-c523/cando-theraputty-p555170.html
Each Cando Theraputty is color-coded and has a different consistency ranging from XX-Soft for strengthening the weakest grasp to X-Firm for developing a stronger grip. Available in convenient easy-open plastic containers. Store you putty in this container when play is done and seal the lid tightly so it does not dry out.
You might want to try a couple of different strengths when you first buy this product. It is good for kids, teens, adults and seniors. It’s just good, fun exercise for your hands.
Remember to see our puzzle playsets at All I Can Imagine. There are three themes of floor puzzles; Rainforest, Dinosaur and Sealife and each of our playsets have chunky pieces that children age 3 up can play with to help them strengthen and develop fine motor skills.
Your child’s toys need to entertain as well as educate. Toddler toys have to keep your toddler occupied.
Children love wooden toys and so do parents. They last longer, and the feel of wood is warmer than plastic.
An easy toy to keep in your automobile is a wooden bead maze toy. These rollercoaster toys, which they are also called, come in sizes ranging from small and simple to bigger floor models you would keep at home.
These toddlers learning toys captivate and stimulate a child’s imagination. A maze toy is one of the children’s wooden toys you will own which will help your child develop eye hand coordination.
Traveling with these wood toys has another advantage – they are safe and you won’t have to monitor your child’s play as there are no loose parts. They also improve your child’s motor planning and bi-lateral coordination.
Help keep your child happy and active during long or short drives to the doctor’s office or just to play with whenever you are running errands.
Remember it is more important to have fewer toys so that you can afford quality built children’s wooden toys that are painted with nontoxic paints.
Wooden Toys bring back the feeling of nostalgia. Babies and toddlers love wooden toys too.
The simplicity and effectiveness of wooden kid’s toys will make them sure winners with your baby and will last longer than other toys.
When you purchase your child’s wood toy please remember to check that they are finished with nontoxic paints and varnishes.
One popular toy is a push pull toy. These toys are appropriate for homes, daycare centers as will as doctor’s waiting rooms and other play areas in hair salons, tennis clubs, etc.
When your push pull toy is made of wood it is easy to keep clean and will last for years of tough play making it an economical toy in the long run. From infancy to childhood children learn while they play.
Quality toys are important during your child’s developmental years.It would be better to spend more for your children’s wooden toys and have fewer toys.