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Marbotic Smart Letters

by admin January 7, 2016

Kids need to learn the alphabet early. It will certainly help them eventually develop their spelling and reading skills faster. But those first steps towards learning them can be challenging. It helps if kids find the first stages of learning the alphabet fun. It will surely help keep their interest to learn up. The Marbotic Smart Letters learning system can help in this aspect.

The Marbotic Smart Letters combines classic wooden letters and apps to create a learning system that many kids will find fun. It makes use of colorful wooden blocks shaped as letters. But there is more to it than just that. These smart letters combine with an iPad app to create a fun and interactive learning interface where kids use the letter blocks while using the app. Kids can use the wooden letters much like a stamp. When kids press a wooden letter into the touch screen display of the iPad running the app, the same letter appears digitally into the screen, giving the effect of stamping an answer into the tablet screen.

With educational lessons and tests, kids can then use each smart letter to stamp answers to corresponding questions. Through this interactive learning system, kids will find learning letters fun and exciting. The interplay of using physical wooden blocks with digital devices like the iPad serves to help kids love learning all the more. The Marbotic Smart Letters is now available at the Marbotic site for 50 Euros or around $54.

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Pattern Play 3D

by admin May 7, 2015

Kids usually love playing with building blocks. It helps them to develop their creativity while using their hands to create something out of the materials available to them. It does not necessarily have to be objects that they see from day to day. Kids can also be interested in building patterns and art. These Pattern Play 3D blocks can help develop a child’s eye for different patterns.

The Pattern Play 3D is a set of uniquely shaped wooden blocks that kids can stack up to create different patterns. The set comes with 22 colorful and multi-shaped blocks that kids can use to create beautiful 3D structures. The set also comes with 20 cards that provide 40 building challenges. The cards show only a 2D image that kids need to recreate in 3D form using the blocks. Kids can try building walls with zigzag patterns, towers that seem to topple at anytime or create pyramids and skyscrapers.

The Pattern Play 3D set helps kids develop their fine motor skills, critical thinking as well as their visual-spatial reasoning and logic. It is also a good way for kids to learn about science, technology, engineering and math skills. The Pattern Play 3D set is ideal for kids from 5 years old and above. It is available at Fat Brain Toys for $32.

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Early Learning Set

by admin November 30, 2013

Educational toys are important for kids during the early developmental stages. Parents need not wait for the kids to enter school in order to teach them the basic skills they need such as learning ABC’s, numbers and shapes. It pays to help teach them as early as possible to give them a good head start. This Early Learning Set from Melissa & Doug may help give your kids this unique opportunity towards some early learning fun.

The Early Learning Set contains a wide array of fun learning toys that kids can try out. It includes a wooden box containing different peg puzzles for toddlers and pre-schoolers to play with and develop their fine motor skills. There is also a set of 20 animal themed 123 and ABC blocks. The blocks are also illustrated with counting dots, and pictures of familiar objects on the sides. It offers a classic way for many kids to learn about the alphabet, counting and distinguishing different objects.

The Early Learning Set also contains a set of 36 blocks of different shapes with bold colors and playful patterns. There are a variety of rectangles, squares, semicircles, arches and triangles for kids to use to build many things limited only by their creativity and imagination. The Early Learning Set provides a fun way for kids from toddlers to preschoolers to learn the basic skills they need before they begin standard education. It gives them the advantage of early learning that will help them excel once they start school. The Early Learning Set is available at Melissa & Doug for $50.

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Citiblocs Neon Wooden Blocks

by admin December 19, 2012

Building blocks are among the most essential learning toys you could give to your child, as it trains their fine motor skills and imagination. Citiblocs take it a notch higher with its 100-piece Neon set, which is composed of rectangular blocks measuring 1 x 4.5 x 0.25 inches each.

You may wonder why this set does not provide a variety of shapes. It makes sense, actually, since children only stack the blocks on top of another. Without odd-shaped blocks that do not provide a flat surface when stacked, there are lesser instances of toppling, which often tests the child’s patience and interest to the toys. Each block is made of New Zealand pine.

Unlike other building blocks, the Citiblocs Neon is named such because of its neon-colored blocks that are eye-catching and unique. However, just because the blocks are painted neon does not mean they can glow in the dark. Nevertheless, there are multiple ways for the kids–and the parents–to create their engineering masterpiece.

Children who want to build megacities with Citiblocs can ask their parents to purchase additional sets ranging from 52 to 1,000 piece sets.

Recommended for children ages three and above, Citiblocs Neon Wooden Blocks is available in Amazon for the listed price of $29.99.