Blocks And 3d Puzzles

Parents and educators alike know that one of the best kids learning toys are blocks. Toy blocks are also excellent for introducing math to young children.

Children love to stack and knock down their blocks and while they are doing so you have a perfect opportunity to suggest they count how many blocks are in their tower. Eventually you can use the blocks to experiment with addition and subtraction by having a child add more blocks to their structure and then take some blocks away and put them in a wagon. 

If you have a set of cardboard blocks that have more than one color you could have one child move a certain amount of blue blocks to a new location and practice counting them as he does so.  Another child could get the number of yellow blocks you have suggested and place them in a circle. 

Math skills are developed through the process of grouping, adding, and subtracting. Make up more games as you go along and have fun interacting and playing with your kids.

This Christmas give you children ImagiBRICKS building blocks toys. You will be guaranteed that these toy blocks will be one of your child’s favorite toys.

Cardboard building blocks are one of the most basic toys you can give children and remain as popular as they were when your grandparents were young.  In reality, kids building blocks are a simple toy, but to a child they represent and open up a world of possibilities.

Children of several ages can play together without adult supervision. Smaller children will obtain hand strength from lifting, stacking and moving the building block toys from place to place. Toddlers will attempt to arrange and stack building blocks and will eventually learn to balance them.

As your children get a little older, the structures they plan and build together will become more advanced and other toys, such as dolls, cars, wagons and so forth, will be incorporated into their play time.

When you provide building block toys to preschoolers guided play activities will come easy as the children will build towers, houses, forts, corrals and more just by using their own imaginations.

Social development is one of the benefits preschoolers receive when supplied with a bulk quantity of cardboard building blocks.  Larger sized cardboard blocks, along with medium and smaller sized blocks, are the perfect way to keep your children occupied and are fun for just one child, but playing with other children makes it more interesting.

Because young children love playing with toy blocks it is easy for parents and educators to encourage children to learn to share and cooperate with others.  As children grow, they, along with their little friends will learn to work together to build various structures. 

Parents and educators can observe social skills that need to be worked on and correct and lead in a fun environment without hurting children’s self-esteem.  

Bulk quantities of blocks are available online from All I Can Imagine and are recommended when two or more children will be playing at one time.

Article By Mary Bellis

The Barbie doll was invented in 1959 by Ruth Handler (co-founder of Mattel), whose own daughter was called Barbara. Barbie was introduced to the world at the American Toy Fair in New York City. The doll was intended to be a teenage fashion doll. There has been some controversy over Barbie’s figure when it realized that if Barbie was a real person her measurements would be an impossible 36-18-38. The Ken doll was named after Ruth’s son. Barbie first had bendable legs in 1965.

Ruth Handler
After fighting breast cancer and undergoing a mastectomy in 1970 Ruth Handler, one of the creators of the Barbie Doll, surveyed the market for a suitable prosthetic breast. Disappointed in the options available, she set about designing a replacement breast that was more similar to a natural one. In 1975, Handler received a patent for Nearly Me, a prosthesis made of material close in weight and density to natural breasts.

Read more about the history of Barbie at this website:  http://www.dolls4play.com/barbiehistory.html

We are posting this article on our Blog because we want to get the word out to as many families as possible. 

Pete Chagnon – OneNewsNow – 10/30/2009 5:40:00 AM

A physician with the Christian Medical Association believes there will be enough swine flu vaccine for anyone who wants it.

 Dr. John Greene tells OneNewsNow that more than one-billion people worldwide may become infected with Novel H1N1, a virus better known as swine flu. Vaccines have slowly been coming onto the market, but Greene notes that anyone who wants or needs a vaccine against swine flu should be able to get one before the end of the year. 
 
“I would say that within the next month or two, they will have hit most of the high-risk people — and then anybody else who is lower down on the list for risk, [it] will be available to them,” predicts Greene. “And then eventually everyone who wants it will ultimately get it. The question is how fast, and I think in the next month…most people who need it will have gotten it.”
 
The physician also believes that the Obama administration declaring swine flu a national emergency was a wise move because it is pushing people to get vaccinated at a much higher rate.

*** We at blocksand3dpuzzles.com hope your family stays healthy this year but we know most families will suffer some colds and children may have to stay inside for a day or two.  Therefore, we’d like to suggest having a new toy or two tucked away in your closet for such a time.

A quiet wooden kids toy for age two up is a colorful rollercoaster, bead maze toy.  Available styles are Apple Tree, Cactus Tree and a Palm Tree.

As always, we would like to remind parents and educators to frequently wipe down your children’s learning toys.

It’s not to early to begin thinking about Christmas gifts.  The stores have been putting up Christmas items for over a month now and gift giving ideas have been dancing around in your head ever since.

Wooden children’s toys, such as 3d puzzles, not only make a great Christmas gift for a child but a puzzle such as the natural wood puzzle pictured here is great for decorating.

Wooden puzzles make pretty center pieces when arranged along with Christmas greenery.  Place candles along with the Santa puzzle, set it in your train scene, or on a fireplace mantle.  As a stocking stuffer you could leave it unwrapped and place it in the top of the other gifts in your child’s Christmas stocking.

Hands crafted all natural and the Santa is shrink wrapped to showcase the natural beauty of the wood.  The Santa puzzle will stand up by itself  because it is 1-1/2 inches thick.  As an extra “bonus”,  this wood puzzle may be painted.

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.

Choosing natural wooden kids toys will help protect your children’s health.  When you keep your children away from toxics you may even be saving their lives.

If you have woodworking skills you could make your own toys from reclaimed materials; this is great for your wallet.  However, not all of us are talented in this area and will have to shop for store-bought wooden children’s toys.

When you purchase wooden baby rattles and wooden baby toys made from durable materials you will be purchasing kids toy that can be passed down from child to child. 

Purchase “good wood”.  Choose toys made from sustainably logged wood that is painted with vegetable, water-based, or beeswax finishes. You will be helping our Earth when you avoid toxic materials.

Natural wood toys are biodegradable, for one thing, so, unlike plastics, they won’t be sitting in our landfills for thousands of years.  The image with this article is a wood baby rattle by ImagiPLAY and is coated with beeswax.

When you browse through the wooden children’s toys on the store shelves and you will find most toys are made with toxic materials. Natural toys, on the other hand, are made from materials that are safe for the child and the environment.

Children are known to put toys in their mouths yet manufactures continue saturating the marketplace with children’s toys made with toxic materials. It up to us to read the labels and do our research in order to provide our children safe wooden kids toys.

 Wooden baby toys can be one of your child’s first connections to nature. A wooden baby rattle in a child’s hand comes from a living tree and feels familiar and nurturing in a way that man-made materials can’t match.

As your child grows you will want to continue purchasing as many wooden kids toys as your budget will allow.  These natural toys will protect your child’s health as well as our environment.

Incorporate these germ-fighting strategies into your daily routine to fight off colds. These tips may help your baby and the whole family stay healthier.

According to Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, many common winter viruses are airborne, so if your baby takes a breath within, say, 4 to 6 feet of someone who’s sick, he can easily catch the bug himself. Most people stricken by winter viruses are contagious before they develop symptoms. So pulling your baby away from a sniffling, coughing, or sneezing pal doesn’t guarantee that he won’t come down with similar symptoms himself.

Neither will bundling him up: Studies have shown that exposure to cold or damp weather doesn’t increase a child’s likelihood of catching a cold, says Offit.

Wash your baby’s hands frequently, too — especially before eating (once he’s eating solids) and when he comes home from daycare or an outing.

Also be diligent about hand washing for siblings, especially if they’re sick as well. No need to pay extra for fancy antibacterial soaps — any soap will remove germs from the skin’s surface.

Make sure all of your baby’s caregivers are vigilant about hand washing, too. If your baby’s in daycare, ask what the official hand-washing policy is. If it’s less than satisfactory, don’t be shy about requesting a change and reminding caregivers that this protects their health as well.

Another tip is to keep your babies furniture and toys’ including his wooden baby rattles sanitized.  Wipe them as often as necessary.