Blocks And 3d Puzzles

When your children reach the age of two you will notice they like to stand on tip toes, throw balls and kick them forward.

A two year old walks, runs, climbs and walks up and down stairs alone.  And they love to dig. Growing up I loved to dig in the mud and make mud pies; I probably ate some too!

A toddler will love to take things apart and put them back together and it is a good idea to have several age appropriate children’s wooden toys available to give them safe things to take apart.

Your toddler will try to assert themselves by often saying “No”  - providing open-ended games and wooden kids toys will help keep them busy and provide more playtime where they won’t need to say “no”.

A two year old will begin to play simple pretend games and they will want to imitate you while you are in the kitchen preparing a meal.  Here I would like to suggest a children’s wooden toy such as play food cutting set. 

While you are getting out your food and pots and pans they can get their wooden box (included in the toy) and take out their own vegetables and wooden knife.  While you are cutting up your own vegetables your toddler will have several of his own vegetables to cut up. 

You will have a great time preparing your families’ meal and your toddler will be learning new skills as you work and talk together.

Both you and your toddler will have fun playing together.  Play releases your toddler’s energy in a positive manner and may help your stress level decrease when you play open ended games and don’t have to say “no”.

One idea is to do some simple Yoga exercises.  If you know any yoga poses, you will find that toddlers can catch on quickly. Toddlers enjoy imitating anything. Do the simple animal poses, such as monkey, elephant or down dog. Then make up your own silly poses.

These games will also offer you teaching opportunities about the animals and their habits.  And if you have more time have a simple animal theme craft handy. 

The elephant is a highly intelligent mammal.  The African elephant is the largest land animal.  During these activities children can learn some basic facts about this amazing mammal. http://www.first-school.ws/activities/shapes/animals/elephantshapes.htm

Your toddler will love playing with a Safari Stacking Blocks set which includes many animals (including a large elephant) and your child will love imitating and learning more about all of the safari animals. These wooden kids toys are excellent toddler learning toys for kids two and up.  Available online at All I Can Imagine.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Combine fun and learning and you have a happy child.  Educational daycare toddler learning toys play an important role in your child’s development.

Toys have to hold your child’s attention and advancing technology is leading to new innovations is toys specifically designed for toys in daycare centers.  Classic toys such as musical toys, coloring books, paint sets and time tested wooden kids toys are appearing in waiting rooms, Sunday schools, and daycare centers.

Did you know that daycare toys and toddler learning toys are now appearing in shopping malls and toy shops in every possible field?  The variety of children’s wooden toys for parents and educators to choose from includes activity centre toys, sports, science, painting, building block toys and even electronic and computer toys.

Children’s toy collections should include age appropriate toys and with subjects that they are interested in or subjects that you want to introduce to your children.  Remember if a child is bored with a toy, or he finds it too difficult, he will set it aside.

Kids love toys and wood puzzles with a variety of shapes and sizes and in bright primary colors.  By 2-1/2 to 3 years old children have good hand and finger coordination making chunky 3d puzzles a perfect daycare toy. A popular wooden kids toy is our bunnies number puzzle pictured above.  This toddler toy has small parts and is not for children under 3 years old.

The wolf is the largest member of the canine family. Gray wolves range in color from grizzled gray or black to all-white. As the ancestor of the domestic dog, the gray wolf resembles German shepherds or malamutes. Wolves are making a comeback in the Great Lakes, Northern Rockies and Southwestern United States.

Wolves like to eat Ungulates (large hoofed mammals) like elk, deer, moose and caribou. Wolves are also known to eat beaver, rabbits and other small prey. Wolves are also scavengers and often eat animals that have died due to other causes like starvation and disease.

Wolves live, travel and hunt in packs of 4-7 animals on average. Packs include the mother and father wolves, called the alphas, their pups and several other subordinate or young animals. The alpha female and male are the pack leaders that track and hunt prey, choose den sites and establish the pack’s territory. Wolves develop close relationships and strong social bonds. They often demonstrate deep affection for their family and may even sacrifice themselves to protect the family unit.

Wolves have a complex communication system ranging from barks and whine to growls and howls. While they don’t howl at the moon, they do howl more when it’s lighter at night, which occurs more often when the moon is full.

The most common cause of death for wolves is conflict with people over livestock losses. While wolf predation on livestock is fairly uncommon, wolves that do prey on them are often killed to protect the livestock.

We hope you enjoyed reading a few facts about the grey wolf.  You can easily find more facts and crafts by doing an online search.  And your children may love to have a grey wolf of their own.

Available online are 3d wooden puzzles from ImagiPLAY’s line of wooden kids toys. When you want quality built educational childrens toys your children will take great delight in a new wolf puzzle.

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.

We are updating our blocksand3dpuzzles.com website.  We have removed many natural wood 3d puzzles in preparation for our new arrivals in March/April. 

Our spring collection of new wooden children’s toys will include unique lacing toys as well as a variety of beautifully designed EcoYoYo’s just to name a few products.

 Did you know the Yo-Yo is the 2nd oldest toy in the world and has made a comeback?  This wooden kids toy is an eco-friendly version of a timeless toy that has been popular with kids around the world since ancient times.

Simple, elegant and fun! There will be an animal picture on one side of the Yo-Yo and a picture of his favorite food on the other side on our tiger and panda bear yo-yo’s. There is also a moon and stars and fire and water and two others that we will keep as a surprise.

Thinking “way back” to my childhood, I remember having several yo-yo’s and trying to learn to do all the tricks such as Walk the Dog.  Do you remember Gravity Pull, Sleeper, Forward Pass, Around the Corner and Breakaway Pass? You can find them online and re-learn them when you get your new toy.

I did not succeed in mastering any tricks, did you?  But I did have fun trying.  I plan on getting one of our new wooden children’s toys from my supplier and trying again.