Parents and educators love giving their toddlers and young children giant cardboard building blocks. ImagiBRICKS, now from Smart Monkey Toys, are toy blocks that are made from recycled cardboard.
The wonderful thing about corrugated cardboard is that it is strong, yet very lightweight, making it a wonderful choice for preschool play. The cardboard is printed with water-based, non-toxic colorful inks and an additional clear ink coating is added to each block to make it water-resistant. The blocks are also recyclable.
Giving these giant kids building blocks to young children is recommended by doctors, parents and educators. Kids will carry them around and their muscle strength and coordination will begin to increase.
As they get a little older they will begin making simple towers. Knocking them down will be just as much fun as carring the toy blocks from place to place and their creative little minds will soon begin making simple towers and structures.
Groups of children will gather around the cardboard building blocks and begin to work independently (if there are enough blocks to go around). If you have a limited supply of blocks and there are several children around you will want to help them “work” together to build a small structure.
If you own a preschool or children’s play zone it is recommended to own a bulk quantity of at least one hundred cardboard toy blocks.
I remember that it was my birthday and I had just received my birthday present from my grandparents. I was so excited that I had to open that one first. I opened the box as fast as I could and saw just flat red and white cardboard.
I told my mom that I didn’t like my present. She got down on her knees and said to me that all it needed was to be put together. At my age, I wasn’t very happy if I couldn’t play with a toy right then. My mom and sister sat down and put all of the toy blocks together for me.
It took what seemed like forever, but when all the cardboard building blocks were put together, I ended up having a blast with them. I got to make my own chair out of them. The chair was more like a stool, but at that age I didn’t care. I could even sit in it with out breaking the blocks or even bending them.
I thought that was so cool at the age of six. I could play with the blocks for hours. I think my grandparent got me the 36 piece set of these blocks, but you can also get them in a 16 piece or a 24 piece set.
Yes, parents and educators and preschool’s can still purchase these amazing kids learning toys. Manufactured in Wisconsin by Smart Monkey Toys there are sets of 16, 24 and 40 and bulk quantity cardboard blocks are also available. Also available are City Blocks sets and Castle Blocks sets, Timber Blocks as well as Construction Blocks.
Have we begun to expect too much academically from our children too soon? Children only have up until about second grade to be children where they can play most all of the time.
Children may be expected to know certain things when entering kindergarten but let’s not forget that they can learn through play and not formal-like lessons. This is why educational childrens toys such as adventure playsets and toy blocks are important to have in your children’s play room both at home and in their preschools.
According to Valerie Strauss in an article in the Washington Post “There is solid research on the benefits of well-designed play that teaches kids to ask questions and find their own answers”.
If you as parents see your kids playing with wooden playsets or toy blocks and think they are wasting their time, you may want to re-evaluate your opinions. Allowing your children creative playtime and providing them with open-ended toys will automatically open up exciting teaching opportunities you probably could not plan.
Let’s lessen up on pushing so hard teaching younger kids, toddlers, and preschoolers so that we do not kill the joy of learning in our children before second grade.
Reading begins with play and Little Reader blocks are cardboard blocks you will find useful and fun. Teaching kids their first 100 sight words and primary colors is easy with these toy blocks from Smart Monkey Toys.
Kids love playing with educational childrens toys and will play with them longer than other toys. They love to stack their toy blocks, count them and move them around from place to place in their wagons and trucks. As they do so you as parents and educators will have perfect teaching opportunities to help your children learn sight words in a fun, stress-free atmosphere.
Two game suggestions to use with these cardboard toy blocks is to roll them like dice and have the child name the word or color. Or, you could pull out of the stack two or three blocks that you know make a short sentence and have the child arrange the blocks into that sentence. Examples: “this is a red fish” or “he laughed”.
Little Reader Blocks are available online and ready to ship for Christmas gift giving.
When 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.
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.
Providing 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!