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Your children will love to learn about basic mechanical concepts by playing with Gears! Gears! Gears! These early childhood toys will provide your children with hours of entertainment as they increase their color skills, small moter skills, and eye-hand coordination.
In the early years of a child, it is essential for them to learn their ABCs and phonics. This will help them with the vocabulary and reading skills that are required to strive in their later years of school, college, and with their careers.
Sometimes the problem for children trying to learn their ABCs is that they lose interest. We, as parents and teachers, need to be creative in the ways we teach them so that they don’t even realize they are learning.
There are many early childhood toys and products that can be used. These products can range from electronic toys like the Alphabet Pal or Spin & Sing Alphabet Zoo to other develpmental toys like the EZ as ABC Purple Pebble Activity Set, Alphabet puzzles or board games like the Dr. Seuss ABC Game.
Whatever method you select to help your child learn their ABCs, realize that it is an essential part of their education and will help them for a lifetime.
So make it as fun as possible and enjoy yourself!
2008 will be a year to remember. As the economy has turned against all of us financially this year, we all have to become wise about our money and purchasing decisions. It is important to teach your child about financial responsibility. When your child is young, teach him about the value of coins and dollars. Teach him the math that goes along with the value: 10 pennies = 1 dime; 10 dimes = 1 dollar; etc…
Pretend play store at your home. Use groceries out of your cupboards or use pretend plastic foods, boxes, and cans. Teach them about buying decisions and what is a good value and ones that are not. You can be the cashier and your child can be the purchaser; allow him to pay for the groceries with play money.
Your child will learn the value of money and how to make buying decisions, which will be important in his future.
If you want to have a little bit for fun with your children tonight, but you want to do something educational - consider playing Dominoes.
By playing with Dominoes, your children can increase their math skills, by learning about whole numbers and fractions in either pictorial or numerical forms. They can also learn pattern recognition, color & shape recognition, and practice their fine motor skills.
So give Dominoes a try!
Children learn through play and exploration of their environment. They love to squish things, put them in their mouths and touch textures to form their impressions of various objects.
Enhance learning in this curious stage by giving your child early childhood toys that are certified safe and child-friendly. Check each toy’s age appropriateness to ensure an optimum educational experience for your child.
Help your child choose a lifestyle of eating healthy and nutritious foods.
Food nutrition and food portion size will play a large role in your child’s healthy life. When they play with pretend foods, they will learn about the food groups and about healthy and nutritious foods. Let them be creative with life-like plastic meat, vegetables, dairy food, and fruit. Encourage them to make you dinner with a salad and fruit for dessert. Help them to plan a dinner party for several guests or pretend guests. This dinner could include a salad, an appetizer, an entree with a vegetable, and a dessert. Food can be a fun thing for your child to play with, they could pretend to eat what they want.
By definition: An educational toy is a toy designed to teach people, typically children, about a certain subject or help them learn a skill as they play.
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Puzzles can teach a child topics like ABC’s, colors, shapes, animals, and geography. Puzzles can also help with hand-eye coordination, teach sizes & shapes, and problem solving.
Board games and card games can be used to teach things like counting, colors, and reading, to more complex things like communication skills, logical thinking, and organizational skills.
Games and Toys can be very educational to children. By playing with educational games and toys, children can learn physical skills, such ashand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, and even texture. They can also learn about things like animals, colors, and the human body.
Dramatic Play / Creative Play:
Let them dress-up or play puppet show theater with puppets and dolls. This will stimulate them to role play and express themselves through character play. They can learn about different foods and even money by playing with Pretend Playsets.
Children love to play outdoors on wooden play structures. Wooden play structures encourage children to be physically active and mentally active as they determine if and how they can perform specific skills. Children are increasing their imagination as they soar through the sky on a swing and play around it.
It is important to keep our young children involved and playing - get them to play with educational toys.
Over 4000 years ago, magnets were discovered in northern Greece. One of the first uses of magnets was in mariner’s compasses. 
Today magnets come in many colors, shapes, and sizes. Children find playing with magnets addictive as they build 3-D images with Award Winning -Magneatos construction sets, magnetic construction sets, and magnetic art sets.
Magnets will provide for an endless amount of entertainment while increasing creative play and imaginative play.
Puppet show theater is very educational. When playing with puppets, children will learn the art of story-telling. They will also increase their imagination, build their language skills, and learn how to express themselves.
Puppets vary from finger puppets to hand puppets to hand-operated rod puppets.
Sing simple songs and nursery rhymes when you play or play out a simple skit.
Puppets can be the perfect pretend pal!