Creative play is important in a child’s education. Providing educational children’s toys such as playsets allow creative play for a child playing alone or in a group.
Playsets are also a great teaching tool for lessons. With the chunky pieces of individual sea animals in the Sealife playset pictured here you can make up games to teach children about the wonderment of under water life.
Here is another game you could use. Find pictures of sea life creatures, or have the children find them. Laminate and cut them in half. Have your children match up the fronts with the backs of the creatures. If you can’t find any pictures you could trace the individual figures from the puzzle playset onto brightly colored construction paper.
Another variation of this game is for the teacher to mismatch the animals’ halves and see if the children can spot the correct halves.
Home schools and preschools will get years of use out of wood puzzles, puzzle playsets and indoor wooden play sets when purchasing quality educational children’s toys. Shop for toys that are made from splinter-proof wood and painted with non-toxic paints. And remember to wipe down and sanitize all your toys each day.
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.