Hohner has the perfect product to introduce children to the fascinating world of music. The Hohner 30″ Hardwood Child’s Guitar is a beautifully handcrafted musical instrument of smaller scale, specially designed for younger musicians.
This guitar is build with naturally finished woods, its construction creates a crisp texture to the overall sound of the instrument.
This instrument also comes equipped with light gauge nylon strings for easier fingering, so as to not discourage beginners.
The kid’s guitar includes instruction booklet, color-coded finger position stickers, and tuning pitch pipe.
Hohner has a reputation for creating musical instruments of excellence, also for supporting and encouraging music education. Recently, Hohner joined the efforts of the Guitar and Accessories Marketing Association (GAMA), in their campaign to start or enhance existing guitar programs within school systems nationwide.
Age 4+
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Anomia by Anomia Press is the winner of the ASTRA Best Toys for Kids 20101 award in the Game Play-Party Game category.
This fast action game combines word recognition and trivia about people, places and things. Each turn players draw a card, they must find a matching card from others to initiate a face-off, the first player who comes with a correct example of the person, place or thing featured in both cards, gets to collect the loser’s card, and the game continues.
The game is fast-paced and incredibly funny, the variety of topics is great for bringing different generations together.
The educational value of this game may not be as relevant as the entertainment value, but there are important aspects such as cognitive skills development, and stimulation of perception and quick thinking, to be considered if you are looking to challenge and motivate your children.
Anomia is also a good developmental toy for matching skills, concentration, and literacy. Finally, one of the most important qualities of Anomia is: less screen time and more laughter for the whole family!
Age 10+
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1. The award winning toys selected by The American Specialty Toy Retailing Association (ASTRA), are chosen because they are considered to be engaging, unique, open-ended, fun and safe. For more information visit Astra’s official website at www.astratoy.org.
This fast action symbol matching game by the creators of the Crazy Cheese Puzzle provides fun and develops memory and sight coordination for children. There are so many products that can stimulate quick thinking and develop cognitive skills like Spot It! does, all happening in a fast-paced but fun setting.
Kids need to discover the one time matching symbols between any two cards to win, but there are several challenges to complete the task. Each card has eight symbols and the sizes of matching symbols can be different; the game becomes more challenging as new cards circulate quickly.
This game also features four alternative games in addition to the basic matching game:
The Tower
The Well
The Hot Potato
The Poisoned Gift
Spot It! by Blue Orange Games
This child educational toy comes in a compact portable tin package, there are 55 circular cards and 5 sets of rules, one per game. The game is designed to be played by a minimum of 2 players and a maximum of 8 players. Each game takes between 10 and 20 minutes.
Spot It! is a great alternative to video games, it brings people together for an old fashion entertainment away from the screen. Your kids perception will sharpen while the whole family enjoys it!
Age 6+
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Thames & Kosmos Alternative Energy and Environmental Science Wind Power
This renewable energy educational learning kit is a fantastic resource for children, families and educators, to discover the benefits and science behind wind energy.
The Wind Power Science kit is a toy construction set and a toy lab at the same time. By putting together a wind turbine, future scientists get to have lots of fun while learning about one of the cleanest most promising sources of energy available today.
The wind turbine includes an electric generator, wind speed indicator and adjustable rotors. Kids get to experiment with different configurations to learn about the physics of wind turbines; the combination of mechanical toy and science set allows kids to test results with different number of blades, different blade angles, gear ratios, wind speed, etc.
Some of the kids science experiments lead children to understand the physics behind wind power technology. For example, they can learn how to measure and calculate forces acting on the blades, and how electricity is such a promising energy source.
The 32-page illustrated instructions manual includes valuable scientific information about how wind is created and many other principles in physics and mechanics. There are a total of 20 experiments featured by the Wind Power Science set.
This fantastic green science set goes far beyond building a full operational wind turbine to generate electricity to light and LED or charge a battery. It’s a full experience that combines learning resources, fun building toy activities, and environmental friendly education in compelling kids science projects. The Wind Power Science kit is an excellent choice for your home or your classroom!
The clean water science kit from Toysmith 4M is another amazing product to educate children about green science and environmentally friendly resources available to improve humanity’s quality of life in the XXI century. Big stuff!
The science set is a complete lab toy for kids science experiments that helps them learn about water filtration, water desalination, and different recycling and purification techniques, including solar power. The package includes:
a plastic filter system
active carbon,
sand
rock
filter paper
instructions manual
If you are looking for a science toy or science project for kids to encourage your future Nobel Prize winner at home, or in your classroom, look no more! The Clean Water Science set is yet another green science set that features multidimensional learning experiences and the priceless lesson of respect and protection of mother nature.
Thames and Kosmos Alternative Energy and Environmental Science Hydropower
This renewable energy science set offers pretty much everything needed for children inclined towards science toys, families and educators looking for mind expanding kids science projects.
The Hydropower Science kit uses a science toy building set and illustrated instructions for kids to construct fully operational water turbines that generate real electricity.
This magnificent set features a total of 10 different toy building project and 30 kids science experiments. Building models and conducting experiments at the same time allows young scientists to get the whole picture and all the benefits of science sets! Not to mention that this particular child educational toy revolves around concepts such as sustainability and renewable energy.
Some of the kids science experiments include, surface tension, adhesion and cohesion and experiments revealing how moving water gets to perform different types of physical work.
Some of the toy building projects include: a waterwheel, a sawmill, a hammer mill, a water tower, a water fountain, and communicating vessels.
The 32-page illustrated instructions manual includes all of the steps to complete the projects in full color, with information and references related to the scientific aspect of the activities.
Entertainment, great learning experiences and valuable lessons about green energy, the Hydropower Science Kit from Thames and Kosmos has it all!
This is a complete Weather Station lab toy for future scientists. The Toysmith 4M Weather Station Kit is a perfect resource to help you conduct kids science experiments and determine changes in the weather.
This educational learning set includes:
wind vane
anemometer
thermometer
rain gauge
Kids curious about the environment can use these tools to observe and track the weather, and experiment to learn about the greenhouse effect.
My favorite feature is the terrarium in a bottle project that encourages and promotes recycling, a fantastic attribute of the green science toy series we have seen in products such as the Three Mechanical Kit, the Tin Can Robot and the Solar Rover.
The Green Science Weather Station includes accessories and instructions, your child just needs to bring a recycled bottle and his/her ingenuity!
The MobiGO is a portable learning system that allows children to play and learn on the go. It’s touch screen technology and slide-out QWERTY keyboard offer the feeling and benefits of sophisticated gadgets previously reserved only for adults.
This electronic learning device is an interactive educational toy created to encourage learning and development, as well as entertainment for little guys and girls. Some of the educational aspects and skills developed by this modern toy include:
mathematics
spelling
grammar
observation
problem solving
dexterity
The MobiGo is a well designed handheld device that offers a soft feeling and allows easy grip and control by small hands, very well conceived ergonomically.
The MobiGo uses cartridges with a variety of games and complexity that are inserted into a slot on the back of the device. New games can be purchased and/or downloaded online; parents have an array of choices to encourage learning in specific areas of interest with different focus. Parents also have tools to track kids performance and follow their progress.
Just remember that the MobiGo or other fantastic electronic learning toys won’t replace or compensate for the benefits of old fashioned creative toys, time spent reading real books, or quality time well spend interacting with people such as family and friends.
Screen time after all, should be planned considering caution and moderation as priorities.
This Interactive Touch Learning System also comes in pink, highly preferred by little ladies.
There is nothing like green toys that teach and entertain on top of providing a positive message in favor of renewable energy sources and the value of earth conservation practices.
OWI has come up with another great set of educational learning toys that use and teach the science behind solar energy. This solar educational kit is 6 toys in one, the different models include:
a windmill
a car
a robotic puppy
an air-boat
two different air planes
This science toy set uses 21 snap together components that connect with ease and without tools of any kind. Only a single project can operate each time, but no batteries are required whatsoever: in regards to the 6-in-1 Educational Solar Kit, that old battery technology belongs to another time.
Kids science projects and kids science experiments turn into fascinating toys of unlimited energy, literally. A great recipe for endless hours of fun and the discovery of clean science that really promises a bright future for the next generations.
Although I am one to advocate for caution and moderation regarding electronic learning toys, the LeapFrog Leapster Explorer Learning Game System seams to be just that: a learning system. Finally there is a product that effectively merges kids’ insatiable electronic game needs and a more wholesome, learning experience.
This Leapster Explorer fits solidly in the category of electronic learning toys, offering what LeapFrog claims to be “endless ways to play and learn”. The device holds a library of more then 40 games inside of its memory and on top of that you can get other cartridge games to supplement the Leapster’s memory.
This educational toy offers hours of fun, focused entertainment for your children while at the same time emphasizing school skills including reading, math, science and geography.
If your children do not have enough to hold their interest with the LeapFrog’s latest Learning System alone, they can expand the experience by joining LeapWorld – a safe, online world that LeapFrog provides full of learning games and activities.
As your children learns to play and discover with their Leapster Explorer, your only challenge will be getting them to stop long enough to come to the dinner table: good luck!
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