Blocks And 3d Puzzles

Important lessons do not have to be learned in a classroom. Teaching children while they play increases their knowledge and you can all have fun while doing it together.

 You could use blocks or other toys and place them in various locations in the room and discuss opposite relationships such as near and far.  Have children build tall and short towers and discuss how many more blocks it takes to make the taller tower.

 Children like to slide so you can talk about up and down as they climb up and down the ladder of a slide.  Or, have running races and discuss how slow and fast are opposites.

 For wonderful teaching opportunities use educational children’s toys, such as adventure playsets that include many different figures.  This is a perfect way to teach about different animals, what they eat, where they live and so forth.

 An African Safari wooden playset, such as the one pictured in the post, is a great visual tool to teach about Africa and the variety of animals that are indigenous to Africa.  Children love open-ended toys such as play sets and as they use their imaginations to play you will have many teaching opportunities.

Surprise your child this Christmas with a new Arctic play set.  Wooden play sets are one of the best childrens learning toys on the market.

The internet is full of useful information for both parents and teachers and as you use kids learning toys as props your lessons will have more meaning and excitement for your children.

You can begin your lesson with such facts as: The North Pole and the South Pole are also referred to as the Polar Regions. The Arctic is the area around the North Pole.

Although you can walk to the North Pole, you are really just walking on ice. There is no land beneath you, which is unlike the South Pole that has a continent called Antarctica underneath all that ice and snow.

Continue your lesson with this fact: Snow can be very difficult to walk on, because it crushes down when you step on it. Man invented snowshoes, which are very wide shoes that look like tennis rackets. This distributes the weight over a large area, and allows a person to walk easily on top of the snow. 

Go to http://www.americazoo.com/kids/arctic.htm and see  beautiful pictures of arctic animals and read other interesting facts to use with your Arctic wooden playset.

Development of your child’s emotional well-being can be accomplished through play.  By providing childrens learning toys such as wood play sets  your child can play and at the same time master his environment.

When children feel safe, successful and confident, they will gain principles of positive emotional health.  Playing with educational toys will also help create strong bonds between the parent and child.

When playing with wooden kids toys, such as a zoo playset that has many pieces, don’t hesitate to “change the rules” and use only some of the pieces to simplify the play.  Even though this learning toy is meant to provide open-ended play time some children may need simplified play and require less pieces in the beginning.

Provide promps as needed to ensure your child continues to stay interested in his toy and successful and motivated. Throughout the day it may be a good idea to plan short time frames of play and know when to end a play session and move on to another type of learning toy.

We are all supposed to eat plenty of vegetables to stay healthy.  But, are we turning into vegetables by watching too much television.

If you think the television is a baby sitter and your kids are not getting enough exercise make plans each day to stop what you are doing and get out one or your kids wooden indoor playsets or one of their other educational children’s toys and spend some quality time with them.

The Safari wooden play set shown above includes all the animal figures you see as well as the jeep with rolling wheels and is available online.

The American of Academy of Pediatrics Society suggests that children watch no more than one to two hours of  “quality programming,” whether on TV or video, each day. The  Academy also says that children need physical activity and personal interaction, not a diet of glaring electronic images, especially when they are lewd, violent, or inane.