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.
Educational playtime is of the utmost importance. Parents and educators alike believe educational childrens toys that promote creative play provide great educational value for your children.
3d wooden puzzles are just one of the many children’s toys that are recommended for homes, schools and as waiting room toys. It is a well know fact that children most often play with toys that provide fun play as well as creative learning opportunities.
While providing children with a new wood puzzle as often as possible you will observe your children engaging in a unique learning experience without them even knowing it. 3d wood puzzles are a good idea for beginner puzzles and they may be incorporated into other play activities because they are chunky and easy to grasp.
As with the Monkey Tree Puzzle shown above, and many other 3d wooden puzzles, an individual puzzle piece may be a complete whole character/animal. These seperate figures will be a welcome addition to incorporate with your children’s playsets and other games or to play with alone.
Young children can be encouraged to learn their abc’s with many of the educational childrens toys that are on the market today. Shopping online for wooden puzzles will provide both parents and educators a wide variety of unique abc wood puzzles.
Puzzles encourage logical thinking because they involve putting related pieces together to form a completed object. Playing with puzzles is a great quite activity and involves concentration. Nowadays it is important for children to have many “quiet” type toys to combat the world of constant stimulation.
Each puzzle piece usually has its own letter and is a different color from the piece on either side of it. Children not only learn their letters, they learn colors as well. And because 3d wood puzzles have to be assembled sequentially, children will quickly learn what letters come after one another.
When selecting an alphabet puzzle for your child you will want to make sure it is age appropriate. Also important is that you select an animal or other character that your child likes. If your child does not like dinosaurs, for instance, and you purchase a dinosaur puzzle it is likely he will set it aside and not play with it.
It is very important that you select 3d puzzles that are made from splinter-proof wood and painted with non-toxic paint.
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.
Blocks toys are a great way to keep your children occupied. While creating exciting structures children learn to “work” together while they are playing – but they are also receiving educational benefits.
As children learn to share and cooperate with others they are developing important life skill such as social development. Toddlers will enjoy placing their kids building blocks into larger sized boxes and wagons and then pour them out or pile them out on the floor. Preschoolers will build towers, houses, and many other imaginative structures then knock them down and re-build again.
As your children grow they and their playmates will begin to creative more advance structures with their kids building blocks and began learning more advance planning as they decide what they actually want to do with their structures or how to use them.
With these educational childrens toys boys and girls of several age groups playing together will increase their social development as they all work in harmony playing and planning.
Christmas is just around the corner and you may be wondering how to begin selecting the perfect wooden kids toy for your toddler. There are many educational children’s toys on the market to choose from and this new toy for toddlers is one you must see!
Early childhood educators all agree that blocks toys are the single most important toy a child can be given. ImagiPLAY’s Toy Store in a Box, as with all of their wooden kids toys, are designed to inspire hours of imaginative play.
These toy blocks are brightly painted in the colors your kids love - red, blue, yellow and green. All 28 stacking/nesting boxes fit neatly inside the largest 9″x 9″ green cube. If your child were to have just one toy this year this beautifully designed wooden box set will provide hours of creative play.
Geared for toddlers and preschoolers age 2 ½ up this wooden toy will make a great addition in your Sunday school and as toys for waiting rooms. Now available online.
Earth friendly materials and ethical labor led ImagiPLAY to produce toys that are naturally safe not only for children but for our children’s planet. The sustainable woods they use in all their educational children’s toys are made from preservative free wood and always from plantations or managed forests.
This year showed an increase in eco-friendly wooden kids toys including their new line of wooden board games and push pull toys, which included the award-winning blue dog mentioned in a previous blog post.
Instead of depleting resources, the materials ImagiPLAY uses for their wood toys contributes to the health of our planet while growing, by exhaling oxygen and inhaling carbon dioxide, and are replanted after harvest. In addition, they plant over 5,000 trees a year in developing nations through Trees for the Future.
The image with this article is of a new eco-balancing wood game sold online and viewable when clicking the link in this blog post.
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.
Spur of the moment shopping is fun although sometimes only temporarily satisfying. But when you are shopping for quality educational childrens toys it is wise to have an idea of what you need before you begin shopping.
Whether you are driving to a store or logging onto your favorite search engine, knowing several factors before you begin will help you save time and stay focused on the product type you are seeking. This is important so that you do not get sidetracked to easily when you see all the wonderful, new and exciting toys on the market.
You will want to know the age range and development stage of the children you are shopping for as well as what types of toys and wood play sets the children are interested in. If, as an example, one of your children loves zoo animals but you see a beautiful farm play set on sale, wouldn’t it still be better to purchase the set with the zoo animals?
If the wooden play sets have many small pieces you want to make sure you are not purchasing it for a child younger that the toy manufacturer suggests to avoid choking.
Children will gravitate towards a large pile of red cardboard building blocks when they get to their day care center or a fun zone play area. Open-ended toys also make the best educational children’s toys you can provide your children.
Sometimes you may want to start a game to play to get all the kids involved equally together. Here are a couple of suggestions to get you started.
After they children have played for a while and arranged the blocks their way, you could begin talking about how they arranged their building blocks, each child will be eager to share his thoughts on their structure.
Then you could put the cardboard blocks in a circle. All of the blocks you are using are touching and you have a space in the middle. Such a corral will open up new and exciting games the kids will provide.
Have the children work together and have some children put stack of large blocks horizontally and make columns, have one child place one block over the top and you now have a bridge that cars can go underneath allowing the children to incorporate their cars, trucks and other toys into the fun.
Whatever structure the children have built you can talk about the number of blocks used, saying, “You decided to use 6 blocks for this building, what would it look like if you added three more blocks”. If you have a set with more than one color you could select a certain child to get a blue or yellow block and add it to the already built structure.
Watching children play with their blocks you will have opportunities to see how each is developing socially and notice a shy child holding back a little. Incorporating some of the above ideas may help the shy child get involved.