Children's Learning Toys
It's well known that children learn through play. Children's learning toys teach basic skills in a fun way. Children don't even know that they are 'educational'! Bright Minds has a range of quality products for different age groups. Electronic Hangman is a modern take on a traditional game for age 5+. Players have eleven chances to find the letters to make a word. Desktop Spellchecker is a phonetic system of correcting spellings using more than 250,000 words from Chambers Dictionary. Rattled (7+) is a word game. The rattle is shaken and both players compete to form the longest word possible from eight scrambled letters.
Bright Minds make science fun too with a series of children's learning toys, including a Chemistry Set with instructions for100 experiments. The set comes with eleven chemicals, safety goggles, pipette, test tubes and spirit burner. Giant Bubbles is for younger children and comes with a bubble wand, bubble mix and bubble tray. The World of Flight (6+) is for budding aircraft engineers. The set includes five flying models including hand launch gliders, a catapult and a rubber band powered plane. The Flight Manual has a history of flight and teaches the principles of aerodynamics. Magic Garden is a children's learning toy for 10+ and is an easy to use kit for growing crystal flowers. Marbles have kept kids entertained for generations. The Horseshoe Magnet with Marbles is for age 3+.
The Toys and Learning company has a line in wooden toys, each with their own educational value. There is a Wooden Color Clock for Numbers, which teaches how to tell the time, and toys that teach the concept of shapes, such as the Wooden Hammer Peg and the Wooden Sorting Box. There is also the Wooden Clacking Caterpillar and the Wooden Alphabet Blocks. Bus Stop is an adding and subtracting game with a pretend bus and passengers. Technokits is for children that get a kick out of making things, such as building a solar powered butterfly or creating a solar rainbow. The range also includes 3D Wooden Puzzles.
Fisher Price is a well established company, known for its durable children's learning toys. Generations have grown up with classics such as the Rock-a-Stack (6 months+), the stacking rings toy. The Top n Turn Bench (18 months-3years) is a toy for hammering in different shapes. Fisher Price has also kept up with the electronic age. Their Computer Cool School (3-6) is a clever device for preparing kids to use a computer before they have to use one at school. The computer helps them to read, spell, extend their vocabulary and solve problems. The All-in-one-Learning Desk (3-7) is another electronic toy and has a screen that can be erased. Children work on it to learn about numbers and phonics.