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How educational toys can help your kids
“The toys that we choose to buy for our kids can make a difference in their development.”
Being presented opportunities to see, play with and experience specific materials will present different challenges, require different skill sets and cover different learning areas. Children can learn from any toy, (or anything they deem to be a toy), but the amount, depth and breadth of the learning depends on the interaction between the child and it, and the type of opportunities the toys provide. Further learning can also occur when the child plays cooperatively with peers or adults. Educational Toys encourage specific learning areas such as Literacy, Math’s, Science, Music etc. and are often more expensive than “regular toys” as (hopefully) more thought has gone into the educational benefits and the usefulness for your child and I find they are more often built to last. This isn’t always the case though so it is important when choosing toys for your children that you consider a few points.
I am always on the lookout for excellent quality, open-ended educational toys (as birthday’s and Christmases seem to roll around so quickly!), so when I was contacted by Jim Kim, the founder of Kids ground, introducing me to his newly designed Spielgaben Toy-Based Educational Learning System, I was keen to find out more. After going over the Spielgaben Website and checking it out for myself, I was absolutely delighted to agree to try out one of their sample models in anticipation of the upcoming production of the first batch of clean, beautifully re-engineered Spielgaben Educational Aids.
What are the benefits?
- Boost Creativity
- Improve thinking skills
- Develop maths and science skills
- Significantly increase children’s IQ
- Open ended play with endless possibilities
- Enhance children’s natural gifts
- Allow children to develop deep and intuitive understandings of the mathematical and geometric principals
- Grows with the child. Used in different ways over a lifetime
- Encourages interaction and quality time between child and parent
- Includes 4 full-color curriculum-based user guides in digital format. Over 700 pages to help you get the most from Spielgaben.
- Beautiful wooden set, all in their own wooden storage boxes and kept complete in a wooden cart.