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Wooden educational toys – the foundation of the house of learning

 

You had them as a child, the ABS blocks, the colored building blocks, and a wooden stacking toy. These are all good solid examples of a wooden educational toy for a young child.

Watching a child build is amazing. She has no concept of what makes a house, no structure or foundation set to inhibit her creativity and flow. A wooden educational toy like blocks promotes creativity and freedom of expression.

Imagine a stack of blocks, no rhyme or reason for their function, but with the hands of a baby, a world emerges of trees, roads, houses, animals and even people. The child takes the wooden educational building blocks and manipulates them into an educational experience that can not be taught in a book, but rather needs to be experienced and lived

Some great examples of wooden educational toys are the following:

Manipulative toys with shapes, colors- there are countless choices of micro wooden and plastic building blocks aimed at building math and logic skills.

Building blocks- wooden blocks in varying shapes and sizes, encourage creativity, building, math and reasoning.

Building blocks- A classic toy with plastic interlocking pieces, may include wheels, and figures for more hands on play and manipulation.

ABC blocks – teaching toddlers and young children the tools for reading in a fun hand on way.

Wooden educational toys do not need to be limited to the in doors, a child can create with twigs and sticks her own castle or house and have an learning experience in the out of doors.

So instead of grabbing for that plastic water pistol, or that non dimensional plastic doll with too many accessories to list, pickup a classic and sure to be passed down to the next child- wooden educational toy.