Educational toys for home schools – engaging children in educational play

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Home schooling can be a great experience for the parent and the child.  There are many tools needed for home schooling including educational toys for home schools.

Home schooling need not be expensive or overwhelming.  Find ready prepared curriculum complete with work books, tests, educational toys, and videos, or prepare your own unique curriculum.  Preparing your own set of educational toys can be fun and encourage the children to suggest things that can help on the road to learning and creating. Here are some suggestions for educational toys for home schools:

Ages 6-8

• Computer games- hand held, cartridge style and CD’s. These are not video games that only promote violence and apathy, but interactive educational games that encourage, help and promote learning.
•  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 bock sin 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.
• Magnifier- this is perfect for outside and inside educational play. Seeing up close what makes things tick.
• Bug net- what a great way to see bug up close and personal.
• ant farm, or bug farm- a chance to see natural up close and day to day bug activities.

Ages 9-12

• microscope- what a perfect home school educational toy, learning and living at the cellular level

• Crystal making kit- creates and grows a crystal; see the basics of the earth’s formation.
• ant farm- older children gain more of the balanced ecosystem in the ant farm
• Educational computer games- from math, to English to logic, strive direct and develop the mind in new ways.

Of course there are many more educational toys for home schools, but gathering up a set of basic materials that can be used for years is a good place to begin your life long quest for learning.