Spending time with your child while he plays, and playing with him, has several benefits for parents and the child as well. While interacting with your child (or several children) they will be thriving in a stimulating environment.
Providing toddler learning toys that are open ended and provide a moderate challenge to your childs physical and cognitive abilities will make their playtime an educational experience without them knowing they are learning.
Adults providing close attention to children’s playtime, while being friendly and nurturing, will help all the children involved nurture one another. As parents are pointing to words in a book or an animal in a puzzle and begin talking about it the children will easily open up with their own ideas and questions.
During this type of playtime, if you as a parent have a particular lesson you want to teach, you can provide a hands-on learning experience that children will be interested in and they will easily absorb their lesson. This nurturing type of playtime is useful at home as well in child care and nursery school programs.
See our new A Day on the Farm Playset. We have just added a new wooden kids toy to our website that is a perfect educational toy for 3 year old boys and girls. Kids will love learning about farm animals as they play with each chunky wood figure. Cows, roosters, pigs and more!
Let it snow! It’s fun to go out side and play but when you have to stay in parents can organize some fun inside activities that do not involve electronics or expensive props.
Kids love zoo toys and animals so why not play a game about elephants. Pretend play is a fun activity for everyone and opens up creative play to help children develop self esteem.
To go for an “elephant walk” get the children in one long line. Everyone is to stretch one hand each back through their legs and, with the other hand, take the outstretched hand of the person in front. The children will be lined up, attached like elephants holding trunks and tails. Move to slow music.
Elephant Soccer- Children get into a circle with legs wide apart. Hold their arms down in front of them with hands clasped together for trunks. Roll a ball across the circle trying to get it between someone’s legs. Use only your trunks to keep the ball from going through your legs.
Besides active animal games provide your children with zoo related children’s learning toys such as a Zoo playset by ImagiPLAY. This wooden kids toy comes complete with a bright Zoo entrance with two large parrots and eleven hand painted zoo animals this play set will open up many teaching opportunities for indoor play.
Although pickles and planets may not have anything in common I did find an interesting idea on the Internet. Memorize this: “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles”.
Now you are ready to learn the names of our planets. Ready? It stands for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. I do not know why learning things in the form of a poem or through a song is helpful but it really does work.
Teaching young children about our planets can be an exciting experience. There are many games, activities and wood toys that you can find to help keep the learning fun. And we know “play” is a child’s learning tool when they are not at their desk.
You can begin with telling your children that our galaxy is known as the Milky Way. It is home to nine planets, their moons and the sun. The sentence that you just memorized is a way to remember those planets in the order in which they are situated from the sun.
To keep children interested in learning about space and our planets remember to watch for the manufacturers recommended age for any wooden kids toy, craft project or game. You may like this website Elementary GLOBE that I just found: http://www.globe.gov/fsl/html/templ.cgi?elemGLOBE&lang=en .
Elementary GLOBE is designed to introduce students of grades K-4 to the study of Earth System Science (ESS). Elementary GLOBE forms an instructional unit comprised of five modules that address ESS and interrelated subjects including weather, hydrology, phenology, and soils. Each Elementary GLOBE module contains a science-based storybook and classroom learning activities.
And don’t forget to take a look at our own playset, a wood toy called “ Zoom to the Moon”. This is an award winning wooden toy for kids 3 up which includes a portable rocket ship set is perfect for take-along space adventures with 7 hand-painted wooden figures and 5″ x 8.5″ rocket ship tote that has zippered closure for secure take offs and landing! Hand-crafted for ImagiPLAY from Rubberwood - an environmentally-friendly hardwood.
You will love the child safe paints and splinter-proof wood this toy is made from.
We are updating our blocksand3dpuzzles.com website. We have removed many natural wood 3d puzzles in preparation for our new arrivals in March/April.
Our spring collection of new wooden children’s toys will include unique lacing toys as well as a variety of beautifully designed EcoYoYo’s just to name a few products.
Did you know the Yo-Yo is the 2nd oldest toy in the world and has made a comeback? This wooden kids toy is an eco-friendly version of a timeless toy that has been popular with kids around the world since ancient times.
Simple, elegant and fun! There will be an animal picture on one side of the Yo-Yo and a picture of his favorite food on the other side on our tiger and panda bear yo-yo’s. There is also a moon and stars and fire and water and two others that we will keep as a surprise.
Thinking “way back” to my childhood, I remember having several yo-yo’s and trying to learn to do all the tricks such as Walk the Dog. Do you remember Gravity Pull, Sleeper, Forward Pass, Around the Corner and Breakaway Pass? You can find them online and re-learn them when you get your new toy.
I did not succeed in mastering any tricks, did you? But I did have fun trying. I plan on getting one of our new wooden children’s toys from my supplier and trying again.
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.