Deluxe Mini Play Cube – Classic Wooden Toy with Educational Value

July 16, 2012 by admin

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Deluxe Mini Play Cube – Classic Wooden Toy with Educational Value – Family – Parenting

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Children are amazing gifts to the mankind whose innocence and immaculate persona never fails to take your breath away. They sure bring a smile to your face be it your own toddler or babies of someone you know. As children grow older they tend to absorb a lot of that is happening in the surrounding environment and this builds a strong foundation in their upbringing. They grow physically, mentally and emotionally and if there is anything that can help educate them the different aspects of life metaphorically those would be nothing but toys. Children associate themselves well with toys not just because they are fun to fiddle with but also because they intrigue them in many ways in its visual and functional aspects. Toys are nothing but miniature replicas of the larger things in life. Children learn a lot from these toys and as parents we are encouraged to develop and nurture their minds to manage their lives better as they grow up. In the good old days of our ancestors, children were made to play with classic wooden toys that were nothing but toys made out of wood. Wooden toys for kids were designed and crafted so well that they were highly child-safe, user friendly and attractive at the same time. Unlike the plastic toys, toys from wood are non-toxic, strong and highly durable. Plastic toys sport harmful paint combinations that when brought in contact with the mouth, which is often the case with toddlers and pre-school kids, could pose certain extent of danger to their health. On the contrary, wooden toys have great texture and color of its own and may also be painted with environment friendly high quality paints that do not chip off or do not contain toxins of any sort. For years now, toys have been great educational tools and they have essentially taught the kids how to co-ordinate different parts of their body into understanding as to what goes where, to recognize colors and fit parts of toys to their corresponding counterparts, to be able to count and also to read alphabets, to treat toys for e.g. kitchen sets the way it is supposed to be utilized thus improving their observational and grasping skills, to arrange things in place according to size, shape, color that again shows their ability to co-relate objects with each other to name but a few. There is this one special toy known as the Deluxe Mini Play Cube that is the ideal all-purpose toy for your kids belonging to the early years of their childhood. The Deluxe Mini Play Cube is a self-enclosed play center made out of wood that has ultra fun activity equipped on each of its five sides excluding the base. There is a Rollercoaster Express on the top, a pathfinder, a counting abacus, a panel of alphabets and a gears game on each of its sides. It is been the best seller in the toy market for a long time since it brings in with it a whole lot of educational value and at the same time is one of the safest toys for your little ones. The activity cube is movable and is light weight wherein it can be placed either on the floor or on a table. The colored parts of the Deluxe Mini Play Cube are coated with child-safe lead free paint and due to its enclosed-all sides feature there is no fear of looking for missing parts either being missed or swallowed by your young ones. These classic wooden toys are the best gift that you can give to your lovely little angels.

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Marina Neiman, author and mother of two, writes for 1888Toys.com – Educational Toys Store, features educational toys, puzzles and games for toddlers, classic wooden toys and many more toys for safe and fun play.

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Play and Learn with Educational Jigsaw Puzzles!

June 25, 2012 by admin

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Play and Learn with Educational Jigsaw Puzzles! – Education

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Jigsaw puzzles have been entertaining children and adults for centuries. Wooden puzzles were originally created by painting a picture onto a flat piece of wood, then using a jigsaw to cut out the pieces. A man named John Spilsbury is credited with making the first commercial jigsaw puzzle around 1760. His educational puzzles were of maps, and were used to aid in teaching young children geography. As the children put the pieces of the puzzle together, they were able to learn where different countries and regions were. Because of ease of mass production, many modern jigsaw puzzles are made from cardboard. Puzzles for younger children may also be made of brightly colored plastic or foam. These puzzles have larger pieces, which are easier for young hands to manipulate. Simple wooden puzzles, often three dimensional, are also common. These puzzles have large, easy to manipulate pieces and often form animal or human shapes.

Jigsaw puzzles can be great educational tools. For very young children, they help problem solving and motor skills, while teaching them the forms of animals, people, and much more. Puzzles for children were the primary form of jigsaw puzzle until 1900 or so, when the first more complicated puzzles were produced for adults. It is common for adults to glue down a completed jigsaw puzzle to save their work, whereas children are more likely to take it apart so that it can be put back together again. Doing jigsaw puzzled develops several functions of the brain at once. Reasoning, deduction, analysis and logical thought are exercised in the completion of jigsaw puzzles, as well as physical hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness. This is the case for all jigsaw puzzles, not just the ones marked “educational.”

Jigsaw puzzles can be an important part of the learning process for children, though they should be supplemented with other material. In order to maximize the educational value of a puzzle, it needs to be a part of the learning process, not all of it. A geography puzzle, for example, does not by itself provide all of the information to pass a geography test. The advantage of using puzzles to supplement traditional lessons is that some children are spatial learners. They can better grasp facts when they have some object to move and correlate with their lessons. Visual learners can also benefit from jigsaw puzzles. By seeing the image go together, the information contained within it is better absorbed. Jigsaw puzzles are a fun problem to solve. They can make learning fun and help information to be better absorbed by children. The interesting shapes and process of putting puzzle pieces together, help develop important skills for later life.

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Marina Neiman, author and mother of two, writes for http://www.1888Toys.com – Educational Toys Store, featuring broad selection of educational toys, developmental games and educational jigsaw puzzles for children.

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An Educational Tool Like Puzzles for Children Enables them to Play and Learn

July 31, 2011 by admin

Playing with puzzles is not a new phenomenon. Both children and adults have been doing that for ages. Puzzles like the jigsaw ones are really entertaining. In earlier days it was the wooden puzzles. Pictures were painted on pieces of wood and by means of a jigsaw the pieces used to be cut out. It was during 1760 that the first jigsaw puzzle was introduced commercially. The name of the man who created it was John Spilsbury. The puzzles for children created by him were actually maps. Young children learning geography were greatly benefited by these educational puzzles. Those puzzles helped the children learn about countries and regions.

Gradually modern jigsaw puzzles were made on a mass scale. Cardboard was used as a raw material to make these puzzles. Later on plastic and foam were used to make puzzles for children (in Danish puslespil til børn) These brightly colored puzzles are great for children to play and learn.

Since the pieces are large it is easy to manipulate them particularly by young children. Nowadays you have three dimensional wooden puzzles which are simple. The shapes that are used today are either that of an animal or a human being.

Children who play and learn (in Danish leg og lær) through puzzles develop faster. These educational tools aid children to improve their problem solving and motor skills. Since these are available in the shape of animals, humans and other interesting forms children learn a lot about them.

Not only children but adults too play with puzzles. It is a sort of brain teaser. Today you have complicated puzzles which were introduced after 1990. The brain has\ several functions and playing with puzzles help develop these functions. Puzzles help improve reasoning, logical analysis, numerical calculations and much more. Regarding the physical aspect these puzzles help improve hand-eye coordination. These even impart spatial awareness.

Puzzles are an integral part of the learning process. Children should be given access to puzzles from an early age. Since subject specific puzzles are available nowadays a child can get lot of valuable information from such puzzles. A lot of children are spatial learners and they learn better when they handle objects which are related to the subject that they are learning. Since puzzles also have images these are also beneficial for children who are visual learners. Problem solving can turn out to be a fun exercise with puzzles. When learning is fun children enjoy and develop interest in it. Later on it helps to develop career skills.

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