Parents Asking About Educational Toys

[Unregistered]

Natural materials

My ECE/Child Development and Preschool Curriculum teachers say that if you can only afford to buy one toy for your class room invest in Unit Blocks! They are one of the most divers and educational toys you can by becasue they work all of the domains an intellegences (physical, language, social, math/science/cognitive, art, spacial awareness, natural). Unit blocks should be a little weighted (maple or oak wood- to help build strong muscles) in their puriest (little to no paint with no designs or letters/numbers). But basically anything that makes the child think and doesn't use batteries would be the way to go.

They say the rule of thumb for encouraging cognitive development should be that if they can't figure out how it works on their own or you cannot explain to them in a way that they understand on their level (like anything more then nuts and bolts and a manual winding device) that it most likely does not support cognitive development in children- they will just assume it is magic an not question how it works.

[Alex]

Wiplii's toys

I recommend Wiplii's toys, its a brand which create cardboard houses, castles, tepees and pirate ships ! they also sell all the equipments which goes with these 4 mains themes. The concept is that the kids have to paint and decorate the toys and then create their own stories playing with it !

hopefully this will give you some ideas

[permanentvacation]

https://www.lakeshorelearning.com

[MotherNature]

5 year old thread.

[Mad_Pistachio]

Michael, why the heck is "R u s s i a n" getting **'d out?!

cause you can't learn it from a DVD
cause you can't learn it, pretty much period. that's coming from a native speaker
(no, I don't have an answer)

[daycare]

5 year old thread.

Lol. I saw this and was like I didn't post that. Saw it's 5 years old. Lol.

[Mom2Two]

I want to make a felt board. Still trying to figure out how. Lol

Our CCR & R showed us how to make individual flannel boards, and I made a whole set of them. It's really nice, because they can use them to learn to spell their name or whatever. They boards lay flat on the table, so stuff doesn't fall off.



You buy self-adhesive posterboard from a craft store and cut each one into three parts. Then each part takes maybe 1/2 yard of flannel (I can't remember the exact amount). You lay the sticky part of the poster board onto the flannel, then bring the flannel ends onto the back and stick with duct tape (they have cute duct tape). I don't have handles on mine. I bought a Sillouette Portrait and cut out letters with pellon.

[Cat Herder]

Adding links to your first post generally makes you look like a spammer. That coding/interactive/digital toy set looks really cool though. I will leave your link up but others may not.

Please stick around and participate in discussions.

Welcome to the forum.