Playing Is Educational

This classic game makes a great addition to any party or playground activity! 

Ring Toss Games are fun and educational games that can be played indoors or outdoors by a wide range of age groups.

They can be played by one person or by a group.  When played in a group setting, your child can learn about taking turns. 

Younger children can stand closer for success (Ring Drop) and as their eye-hand coordinination improves, spread the posts further apart to create a more challenging game.  This will also help them develop their wrist movement skills.  

Your child can practice his or her counting skills through scoring.

Keep your child actively playing with this Fun-A-Saurus!

This 5 piece puzzle-like play structure can be assembled and disassembled to allow your child to have hours of fun. 

They can assemble all 5 pieces together and create a dinosaur-like character (like Puff the Magic Dragon) and they could imagine riding it to mystical places. 

They can attach the head and tail pieces to one center piece to create a sitting rocker! 

The 3 middle pieces can be assembled to create a ring (measures 34″ outside diameter and 22″ inside diameter) that can be used for other creative play activities or for your child to sit in. 

Construction Grid Blocks are heavy-duty low maintenance construction blocks that are perfect for young builders to use either indoors or outdoors.  These 12″ durable blocks are just right for your child’s hands and attach easily together allowing them to imagine and build their own castles and tunnels.

After the construction is done, they can have hours of fun playing with their own creations.

Everyday there are opportunities to teach your children the general concepts of math.  From the time they are an infants, we can begin teaching math by using counting activities.  These activities can include story telling like one little piggy, two little piggy … to counting their blocks as we play with them.

Children do not always grasp the concepts of math immediately.  Show them why and how math works.  For example: When having a pizza dinner or sharing a dessert with your family you can teach fractions to your children.  Start out with whole item (in this example = 1 pizza), then start dividing the pizza into portions to share with the family.  Discuss how much is being used or how much is left over.

As they learn the concepts of math, they will increase their deductive reasoning skills and learn that math is fun.

There are also many educational math board games available that can be used to teach mathematics.

Children should spend exciting times with safe outdoor play structures that have different play activities. A Gorilla Playset is made from quality pine that underwent wood treatment to resist rot, decay and termites infestation.  The beams are maintenance free and poly-coated. The swing beams are 4″x6″ thick wood pine that can carry heavy loads.

These wooden play structures also have chains that are all powdered coated to resist rust and iron decay even when exposed to rain and snow. The green wave slide is 10 feet of highly durable fiberglass and resin materials, while the rock wall and climbing rope are made from wood pine timber. Other amenities are the built in wooden picnic table and sand box. A Gorilla swing set also features an exclusive tic-tac-toe spinner panel and telescope for endless entertainment.
 

To play means to learn. Early childhood development is the phase where kids still experience life in a more holistic way. Social, emotional, cognitive, language and physical lessons are learned collectively and not as separate modules as adult usually see them. Early childhood is when experts have proven that a child can learn five languages or more at the same time.

The early childhood years should be supplemented with constructive toys that are proven to be effective in the development of child’s psychomotor skills and behavior. In children with behavioral and mental disabilities, such toys are much more beneficial. The colors and functionality of each toy stimulate a child’s ability to do simple physical activities. Activity toys help exercise a child’s agility that will help him later in daily rituals such as brushing teeth, combing hair, and even writing his own name. 

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.  

Your children can learn the value of money by playing money-related math board games.  They will also increase their arithmetic skills as they use coins and bills to pay for purchases, compute change, handle allowances and gifts, collect earnings, and make deposits into college savings accounts.

Math board games like Making Change Octominoes, Managing My Allowance, or Presto Change-O will help your children learn how to save money and take advantage of sales.  Your chldren’s lives will be enhanced because they learned these skills.

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!