Archive for September, 2009
Learning social skills such as working and planning with others is an important trait. Children begin learning such skills at an early age.
When children spend time at day care centers, kids zones, Sunday schools and other places where there are many children it is a good idea to provide them with a large quantity of cardboard building blocks.
Giant sized kids building blocks are manufactured by Smart Monkey Toys here is the USA. Made from 50% recycled cardboard their blocks are crush proof and are coated with a drool-proof coating. These blocks are known as ImagiBRICKS and are the same brand blocks your grandparents used to play with.
Kids will have multiple opportunities to create, build, stack and knock down their structures and when provided bulk quantity blocks they will have better opportunities, while playing with a larger group of children, to let their imaginations run wild.
Spatial skills as well as increased muscles and coordination (by stacking and walking/weaving in and around structures), are skills that can be increased when children have giant building blocks in their play areas.
The year was 1915 and history was being made in Waterford, New York. The opening or the new Erie Canal from Waterford to Rexford began as the Tug Schenectady entered the Waterford Flight of Locks on May 15th.
Over the next three years, different sections of the Barge Canal would open as completed. Soon, backyards throughout New York State would feature long barges loaded with goods of all kinds, pushed and pulled by sleek and unassuming tugs, whose smooth lines and tranquil appearance while at rest would belie massive steam (and later diesel) engines below, giving them tremendous capacity to do their work.
Belching gigantic clouds of black smoke; these unique canal-going tugs, with their beguiling lines and sparkling brass, enchanted children of all ages from Waterford to Whitehall and Tonowanda. Gazing upon these fire breathing dragons moving effortlessly through the water, many would dream of someday taking the place of that kindly Engineer or Captain leaning up against the wheelhouse – taking a puff on his pipe, and giving a wave of his cap.
Kids of all ages were fascinated by watching tug boats and for twenty-four hours a day, communities had – permanently ingrained in the backdrop of their main streets and rolling fields alike – a constantly changing collage of these proud, magnificent vessels. Tugboats were as common a sight as a man walking a dog, or a child riding a bike. Oh, how times have changed.
Bring back the excitement in this time of history with a tug boat wood puzzle toy by ImagiPLAY.
From an article, “First Tug on the Barge Canal”, written by Capt. John C. Callaghan – see pictures of real tug boats and read his full article at: http://www.nycanal.com/history/tugsonthebargecanal.html
For over a decade, ImagiPLAY has created high-quality educational toys that inspire children’s imaginations and the desire to explore. With the abundance of toys available for children today, ImagiPLAY sets itself apart from the rest through its motto: “Toys with Integrity.”
ImagiPLAY works to benefit the earth we share and the people that inhabit it by producing quality kids learning toys that connect with nature, has eco-friendly sources, and hold educational value.
After studying languages and music in Japan and across the US, founder and President Barbera Aimes, a nurturing earth mother, explored ways in which she could communicate her desire to make the world a gentler, move loving place.
Barbera hopes to inspire children across the globe to discover the world on their own terms and communicate with the environment. With her child safe and earth safe toys, wooden board games and collectibles, children enrich their ability to count, learn the alphabet, and identify different animals while gaining a true sense of the world’s beauty and diversity of species.
Offering educational children’s toys that represent her true passion: our planet, these toys are available online and at a few specialty stores through the United States.
Lord
It’s wonderful
That You see me
More wonderful
That You lead me
Most wonderful
That You love me.
Good, better, best?
No-with You
All is superlative:
Always best.
Decrease the clutter in your waiting room . Waiting rooms in doctor offices, dentist offices, spa’s, gyms, car dealerships, day care centers and retail stores can keep kids busy playing with activity play panels.
Geared for kids 0-6 years old the play panels come completely assembled and include a variety of childrens learning toys both boys and girls will enjoy playing with by themselves or with other children.
Brightly colored panels include games young children love to play with including: telephone & dial, steering wheel, crazy mirror, spinning crab, clock and bead maze and more are included on each play panel. There are no choking/tripping hazards and each panel is age and height related.
Hygienic, easy to clean and a snap to install on any pole or wall, these toys for waiting rooms will be a great benefit for stores because customers stay and spend more when the children are safely occupied.
Single panels or tripod versions available online.
Huskies are considered the perfect companion by many of their owners. This is probably so because of the fact that they are extremely loyal and especially the older breeds – which are very alert to their owners need and extremely well behaved in most situations.
Alaskan huskies are very energetic, which makes them excellent for families with energetic kids and they are one of the choice dogs for pet owners who need someone to have their daily run with. As dogs go, these breed of dogs are really very energetic, so they need a lot of space to run and play.
Teaching your kids about huskies and this frozen section of our world will be more fun with Arctic Expedition, one of ImagiPLAY’s wooden kids toys. This is an adventure playset for kids age 3 up. The 8 x 5 inch igloo tote has a Velcro-closure to store all the wooden figures. There are seven chunky figures including a husky and a natural wood sled.
Available online.
Help your kids learn to create a more sustainable environment and to protect and nurture our plant. Available online are new wooden board games including EcoRanch.
Global Games is a new line from ImagiPLAY and will help inspire global awareness through play. Going green can be all fun and games with one of their four selections pictured above.
Made in the USA, this is a family-friendly game of strategy with a new twist: players win by giving back or “paying-it-forward”.
By raising awareness in a fun setting, this one-of-a-kind board game encourages players to create a more sustainable environment. Geared for ages 12 up this will make a great game for the whole family.
Invite your youth group over for a pizza and game night and create lasting memories.
The image shown is of the first prototype G. I. Joe action figure, hand-carved in 1963 by the designer of the famous toy, Don Levine of Providence, Rhode Island.
While toy company Mattel could barely keep up with demand for its Barbie dolls in the early 1960s, its competitor, Hasbro, realized the market had no analogue for boys. In 1963, Hasbro began development on a military-themed line of dolls that, like Barbie, could be accessorized with different outfits and equipment. The original strategy called for a different figure for each branch of the military, but seizing on a 1945 film called The Story of G.I. Joe, the toys were eventually generalized. (The term itself comes from World War II, where it was used as a shorthand symbol for the typical service man, or “Government-Issue Joe.”)
G.I. Joe was initially a massive success and Hasbro expanded the line throughout the ’60s, reimagining Joe as an astronaut, a deep-sea diver and a Green Beret. But outcry over American involvement in Vietnam dampened enthusiasm for a camo-clad action figure, so Hasbro gave Joe an honorable discharge.
It redesigned the toys and re-launched them in 1970 as Adventures of G.I. Joe: the figure received lifelike hair, moveable eyes and a “kung-fu” grip, enabling him to hold onto objects for the first time. But the changes proved to be a gimmick, taken even further by Hasbro with the development of a space-traveling “Super Joe” in 1976. The reception was lukewarm, and by 1978, Joe was retired from service entirely.
More information is available at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1915120,00.html