Did You Buy Your Kids Their Toy Blocks Yet?

posted by gbowen
December 11, 2009

Boy with red building blocksWhen shopping for Christmas remember to include one of the best educational kids toys on the market – kids building blocks.  Cardboard building blocks toys should be given to children at an early age to help them develop their creativity.

Toy blocks offer children the chance to make their own designs, and the satisfaction of creating structures that did not exist before. Beginning at the age of two, children may use a variety of blocks for pretend-play. Children may become life-sized actors in large block structures, or use figures to create dramas in miniature landscapes.

Selecting ImagiBRICKS will provide your children years of safe play with these drool-proof coated blocks.  These kids building blocks are easy to wipe down and keep sanitary to prevent the spread of germs.


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Open Up a World of Possibilities for Your Children

posted by gbowen
November 5, 2009

Girl carrying blocksThis 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.


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3018 Little Reader Blocks Spread outBecause kids love cardboard blocks, having blocks such as Little Reader Blocks can be a wonderful tool to use not only for English speaking children but also for teaching English as a second language (ESL). Teach nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives and prepositions.

Using these cardboard blocks in conjunction with phonemic awareness will enable your students to understand that each letter has it own unique sound and will help them understand the basic sounds of our language.  

These children’s learning toys, when used to teach kids to read, will help open up an understanding of the basic sounds in groups of words and they will be able to apply letter-sound relations with greater ease as you make up games using their kids building blocks during lessons.

Little Reader Cardboard Building Blocks are 3”square and easy for young children to pick up and play with.  With these building block toys you can incorporate many games into your lessons and make learning reading basic sight words more enjoyable for your kids.


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Promote Independent Thinking with Kids Building Blocks

posted by gbowen
October 10, 2009

girls-with-40-pc-set-blocksParents are busy multi-tasking more than ever these days and may feel guilty about not spending enough time playing with their children.  But there is another way to think about this.

Even though you want to spend time with your children they do need plenty of free play time by themselves or with other children so they will learn how to “work” with others as well as problem solving and independent thinking.  Therefore it is important to provide many age appropriate educational kids toys in your home. 

By providing your children open ended toys such as giant kids building blocks they will have ample opportunities for creative play as well as learning problem solving and improving their motor skills. And as you are busy in the kitchen preparing their favorite meal you will be rewarded by hearing them planning and building and laughing together.


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box-40-pc-set-larger-sizeProviding your young children with a set of multi-colored cardboard building blocks as early as possible is recommended by educators and doctors. Because these are open-ended toys, kids of any physical and skill level can have fun.

Boys and girls can begin to sort their kids building blocks by color and eventually they will learn the names of the colors.  Toy blocks are also excellent for introducing math. Children can put the blocks toys in order by color to practice counting, or they can count all the blocks themselves to learn how to count objects.

As your children are ready you can introduce games where they can use their building block toys to experiment with addition and subtraction. Have your children horizontally stack several toy blocks of one color and count as they do so.  Ask them to remove one or two and then re-count the blocks to teach the method of subtraction.

Physical, hands on learning is a great method to introduce a new lesson and fun too!


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 2-kids-with-40-pc-setBlocks 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.


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Classroom Play with Kids Building Blocks

posted by gbowen
October 4, 2009

girls-with-40-pc-set-blocksClassroom play with blocks is sure to be your children’s favorite time of the day.  And when you encourage your children to use props such as stuffed animals, trucks, cars road signs they will have even more creative and fun play with their kids building blocks.

Some play time ideas using cardboard building blocks are to let each child use only a small number of toys building blocks while they play on a mat of their own and encourage children to build horizontally rather than vertically.

Use tape, mats, etc. to define a child’s play area and have them plan and build with their blocks toys within a given area and if you can find a large refrigerator box have them build in that box for extra fun.

By rotating the types of blocks toys you give your children, wood, cardboard, plastic, or foam, you can provide the types, colors and feel of many toys to entertain children of all tastes.


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Increase Your Children’s Attention Span

posted by gbowen
September 14, 2009

1024-24pc-imagibricksPhysicians, educators and parents are ever aware of the popularity of giant cardboard blocks.  Kids of various age groups can play together making large blocks one of the best educational children’s toys on the market.

Kids building blocks, such as ImagiBRICKS, bring many benefits to your children as they play and work together to design, build, knock down and re-build.  It is especially important to supply children in day care centers and preschools with as many giant cardboard blocks as you have room for.

Besides increasing your children’s attention span and level of concentration children will develop perceptual, motor, and memory skills.

Playing with toy building blocks help build up self-esteem as there is no wrong way to build.  And by creating, exploring and constructing in different ways children are doing hands-on problem solving and becoming divergent thinkers.


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The More the Merrier

posted by gbowen
September 8, 2009

kidszone-centraliparks-3-80-percent-sizeLearning 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.


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ImagiBRICKS -Toys Your Grandparents Played With

posted by BarbaraS
August 15, 2009

 1040-40pc-imagibricks1Your grandparents remember playing with large blocks and are purchasing them today for their grandkids.  Parents, doctors, and educators alike still believe these are one of the best educational kid’s toys on the market.

These kids building blocks are manufactured from 50% recycled cardboard and are guaranteed crush proof.  Available in large, medium and small sizes the blocks have a new and improved drool-proof coating.

The coating makes the blocks easy to wipe off and keep sanitary; especially important for day care centers.  So that the blocks stack well this coating is not slippery.

Manufactured in Wisconsin by Smart Monkey Toys and easily available from online retailers, sets come in sizes as small as 16,  24, and 40 pieces as well as in bulk quantities.


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