Archive for the ‘Educational Toys’ Category

Discovery Bottles filled with Root Words, Prefixes and Suffixes – Wonder Bottles for Bigger Kids

Wonder Bottles don’t have to be just for babies. Try creating a series of Discovery Bottles for your first to sixth graders with magnet letters hidden in sand, water with glitter, or snowy white beads. As they turn the bottles around, they search for the letters contained in the bottle. Try words like wintry, wintertime, [...]

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Cooperative Board Game teaches about Natural Backyard Habitat

Max the Cat cooperative Board Game Max the Cat is Hungry! Scurry, Climb or Fly for your Lives! While blue jays sing in the trees, chipmunks scavenge for nuts and seeds, and mice do what mice do, a fat old cat named Max finds his way out the door of his house. His owners have [...]

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Ducklings Play Follow the Leader

Ducklings Play Follow the Leader Ducklings in Alphabetical Order Ducklings Play Follow the Leader Buy at AllPosters.com Write the names of each of the ducklings on the rubber ducks and then ask the children to put them in ABC order. This makes a wonderful activity for the first few children who come into the classroom [...]

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ThinkFun Hoppers: Fun, Educational Game – Stocking Stuffer Idea

ThinkFun Hoppers Frog Game When I was looking for stocking stuffers for my frog loving children the other day I ran across ThinkFun Hoppers. ThinkFun Hoppers is a fun, educational game that my kids love to play anytime, anywhere and the case is so compact that it can be slipped into a Christmas Stocking. My [...]

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A Parking Garage: A Christmas Present for Children of all Ages

When my son turned three he loved cars, trucks and buses so I showed him how to play the fill and dump game with cars and a garage. My son loved to play with the Fisher Price Garage making the cars go down the ramp and then chasing after them as they rolled across the [...]

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Letters for Learning

Is your child ready to learn to spell, learn letter sounds or make their own crossword puzzles? There are dozens of activities you can do to encourage your child to learn letters and words while playing with letters. One of our favorite games is to take a handful of Alpha-bits Cereal and see how many [...]

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Frogs and Hands-on Creative Unit Studies

As I start on my second year of writing lenses at Squidoo, I have decided to take the plunge into learning about the rest of the web. Up to this point I have written mostly about education and how to set up a learning environment that is focused on a central theme or unit study. [...]

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