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1) The guide to woodworking with kids: craft projects to develop the lifelong skills of young makers
Author
Publisher
Blue Hills Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Children love the feeling of accomplishment and pride that comes with building something from scratch. [This book] is the perfect source for teaching the skills required to do so. Inside you'll find step-by-step instruction that teachers, parents, and grandparents can use to share safe woodworking opportunities with their students and children as a way of developing a wide range of valuable lifeskills."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With a little creativity, it is easy to turn old or unwanted toys into fun new inventions. Through simple text written to foster creativity and problem solving, students will learn the art of innovation. Large, colorful images show students how to complete activities. Additional tools, including a glossary and an index, help students learn STEM concepts, new vocabulary, and locate information.
Publisher
Smart Toys and Games, Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"With Day and Night preschoolers can shed some light on the dark! This unique, wooden logic game challenges young children to use high quality wooden blocks to recreate images shown on the challenge cards. 24 "Day" challenges are easier, as the colors of the shapes to be replicated are shown. "Night" challenges are more difficult, as only the silhouettes are shown. Day & Night is a fun way to develop problem solving and logical thinking skills as...
Publisher
Mindware
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
With Twist-a-Maze toddler car track puzzle, children construct an ever-changing car maze by flipping, rotating and connecting the car track pieces to create a variety of routes. Set the battery-operated dinosaur-shaped vehicle in motion and watch as it zooms past a donut shop and beneath a Ferris wheel before dashing into a mushroom house that whistles when it passes through! Great for individual or group play, this puzzle track vehicle set offers...
Publisher
Learning Resources
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This pineapple has even bigger feelings than before! The follow-up to our TOTY-nominated bestseller Big Feelings Pineapple, this set comes with more emotions and bigger pieces to help kids learn to identify and talk about emotions."
"Develops social-emotional learning & fine motor skills"--Container
Publisher
Mindware
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Twist, click, solve! Players begin with one pattern and must twist the wheels and shift the tiles until the end pattern is reached. With 360 card combinations in all, players can progress from beginner to expert as their skills improve. Kids and adults alike will enjoy this single-player game of logic and strategy!
Publisher
Uncle Goose
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Includes 28 blocks. Each block has six sides displaying lower case letters and the American Sign Language hand sign for each letter. Colored in blue, green, orange, yellow and natural wood.
An educational toy for those who want to use American Sign Language to communicate. Touch the two debossed sides on every block of this 28 block set.
11) Innybin
Publisher
Fat Brain Toy Co
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An incredibly unique shape-learning experience! The six chunky shape blocks are each covered with fascinating textures that are sure to thrill the fingers. But the best part? As kids push the shapes through the elastic bands of the cube, curiosity is sparked and young minds can't help but explore, experiment, and discover. It's beautifully simple and amazingly mind-expanding!"--Container
12) Braille blocks
Publisher
Uncle Goose
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An educational toy for those who want to learn to use Braille to communicate. Use your fingertips to trace the clean, European-style font that accompanies every Braille letter. Feel the attention to detail in every hand-crafted cube. Uncle Goose strategically devoted one letter to each block. This means you'll discover the same Braille letter debossed on two sides of every block. One debossed side is paired with its font equivalent. We chose a font...
Publisher
Peaceable Kingdom
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Queen Benevolence is hosting a celebration to honor her loyal subjects. To thank them, she will give away 12 extraordinary items from her treasure box that she keeps hidden away in a secret chamber in the castle. But when the Queen goes to choose the items that she wants to bestow, she discovers the box is empty! A thief has stolen her treasures and is running away with them! The celebration cannot happen without the treasures and there is not much...
Publisher
Learning Resources
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
What kind of robots can you dream up? Kids build their own twisting, turning STEM creations with the mix-and-match pieces of the 1-2-3 Build It! Robot Factory. Sized just right for little hands, this build-it-yourself toy's chunky plastic pieces are ready to help kids design, build, and tinker with their own robo squad during open-ended play sessions. Build tall bots with squiggly green legs, add a few eyes to help your creation see, or snap on a...
Publisher
Maison Battat Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Keep this friendly penguin balanced and learn to count and measure weight along the way! Comes with 3 playbooks, filled with educational play ideas, at different developmental levels. Get a hands-on lesson on weight, size, addition, and subtraction!
20) Jelly blox
Publisher
Goliath
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Jelly Blox is a patent-pending, unique, and imaginative building system. Featuring soft, safe, sensory play for endless hours of engaging fun! The higher you go, the jigglies things get!"-- container.
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