Playing Is Educational

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.  

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:

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:

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 & Toys:

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.

Wooden Play Structures:

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.

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!