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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
 The spring season is only a short period away. Soon the trees and flowers will be blooming for everyone to enjoy. Here at Childbasics.com we have a fabulous educational toy spring toy for your child to enjoy. The Flower Match Garden Patch Learning Toy is a fun, educational game that will keep kids learning and having fun for hours. This flower game is a wonderful way to kick off the spring season. The Flower Match Garden Patch Learning Toy allows kids to match up flower petals and stems using the easy to follow laminated pattern guides. The self-propping board with pegs and magnetic elements hold their selections securely in place as they follow the patterns or create their own flowers. This educational game comes with its own wooden storage box. Right now this excited toy is available at a low sale price. This educational game is designed for kids ages 3 and up. We also have a wide variety of educational games available. You can view them all today at Childbasics.com. Labels: educational-toys, kids-toys, learning-toys
by: Child Basics
Monday, July 14, 2008
 Lets think back now: our mothers would clean the house and we would watch enthusiastically and expectantly. What is she going to do next? How is she going to do it? For some reason, watching our mothers clean the house was… well… fascinating! It was methodical and mesmerizing the way she would move throughout the house, always so graceful. Why don’t we take such fascination and use it to our advantage? Kids today turn in to messy teenagers, right? Show them the effects of cleanliness and tidiness now while we still hold their interests. Use the Guidecraft Childrens House Cleaning Set. If they have their own tools, show them how to use them, why, and what happens when they use them. Make it a fun routine, a game of sorts. Who can clean the most thorough the quickest, for example? Showing them how to be neat and organized now wont just help with them when they are teenagers so you don’t have to hound them about cleaning their rooms. It will help enhance their appreciation for their things, and it will teach them to take care of their belongings. The Guidecraft Childrens House Cleaning Set is a great idea for your children. Teach them well enough, and you might be able to split the chores with them to make house cleaning quicker! Labels: cleaning-set, guidecraft, learning-toys
by: Child Basics
Thursday, May 1, 2008
 Some of the best toys for kids are some of the toys you probably remember from your own childhood. A toy train set can offer up hours and hours of pretend play for one child or a group of children creating different destinations, travels or even acting out scenes from a favorite movies such as "The Polar Express" which created a renewed interest in trains for many younger children. Talk to your child about trains, explain how they were once the hub of transportation and it wasn't so easy to just hop on an airplane or jump in a car and get across country and a train was pretty much the only way to accomplish getting from point A to point B. This train set is fully kid-powered and the train pieces lock together via magnets on the ends of the cars. You can talk about colors, going fast or going slow and also talk about going right and left and make playtime a learning time. If your child notices that if he holds the train cars one way, the magnets repel each other and when he turns one car they click together - you can talk about the north and south of magnets and let him learn a cool fact. Anything can be turned into a learning time for your kids but that doesn't mean it can't be a ton of fun too! Labels: boys, girls, learning-toys, pretend-play, trains
by: Child Basics
Saturday, April 5, 2008
 Babies are amazing to watch, especially once they reach the age where they begin to get curious and begin to explore the world that all around them. Once you have a little one that is on the move it is important that you give her a place to roll and crawl where it's safe. It's also a big plus if that place can be visually and mentally stimulating to boot. The ABC Foam Mat is a great way to do that. The mat measures a full 5-feet by 5-feet and is emblazoned with brilliant colors to keep your baby's attention. Your little one can roll and crawl on the soft foam without fear of the hard floor hurting soft knees. The pieces assemble like a large puzzle, including the letters that are laser cut and pop out which your baby will enjoy as she grows into a curious toddler that enjoys taking simple things apart to see how they work and putting them back together. As well as the learning potential of this simple alphamat. When your baby is very young she'll be mesmerized by the bright colors and as she grows you can sing the alphabet song and talk about the colors. Play simple games such as ,"Show me red!" and clap and praise your little one when she points to the color red on her mat. As your baby grows, challenge her more and start pointing out the letters. She'll soon learn her colors as well as her alphabet. If you're concerned about care for this mat at babies still spit up now and then when they are mobile, this mat cleans up with a simple wiping down and will stay looking new for years of learning fun to come.
Labels: boys, educational toys, girls, learning-toys, toddler, toddler toys
by: Child Basics
Thursday, April 3, 2008
 One of the best things about letting your child work along side of you is that it's a prime time to teach basic skills and safety rules for doing various activities. Children love to help and through helping they can learn valuable life skills that they will carry with themselves all their lives. If you have a child that loves to help you do the dishes. Whether you're washing them by hand and letting your child help dry them or you're rinsing off an putting in your dishwasher. Explain why we wash our dishes. It may seem a complete no-brainer to you but your youngster is still learning when you teach your child about germs that can make us sick if we don't keep our dishes and living space clean. Your child may even tell you they "see" a germ you missed on that dish! Another fun way to learn about safety with tools is to let your child have a set of his own. When Mom or Dad is working on a project - bring out your child's tool set and let them work along with you. You can get a pair of safety goggles from the local hardware store for a couple of bucks and explain why Mommy wears them when she's sanding or working on a table or when Daddy uses a wrench and why it's a good idea to keep your fingers clear so they don't get pinched. The Child's Wooden Workbench comes with a wrench, screwdriver, hammer (with a claw that works), c-clamp, t-square and a vise grip for holding items tight. It's easy and fun to teach your child about safety and how everyday thing work around the house - just let them help! Labels: boys, educational toys, girls, learning-toys, pretend-play
by: Child Basics
Saturday, March 29, 2008
 The wonderful thing about pretend play is that it has uses far beyond just having fun. Pretend play is valuable because it stimulates and exercises children's minds to come up with creative scenarios for the toys at hand and also if there is a group of children, learning to participate in group activities and group play are all skill building activities that your children will use all the way into adulthood. Even the most basic of life skills - cooking- can become a fun playtime activity for your kids. Talk to your kids about basic safety. Hot things burn, don't leave food out, wash hands before cooking so you don't spread germs and let them test out their cooking techniques in their very own kitchen.The KidKraft Kitchen has left no detail out. There is an oven, a stove top, a sink a microwave and a fridge with a freezer. Additionally there is a cupboard for bowls and glasses and a cupboard below for cooking utensils. Your kids can have a blast playing out every scenario from playing "house" to being Rachel Ray and creating a 30-minute meal on her own cooking show - this set will stretch as far as your child's imagination! Labels: boys, educational toys, girls, learning-toys, pretend-play, toy kitchens
by: Child Basics
Saturday, March 22, 2008
 When you go to purchase toys for your kids or grandkids, did you notice how many of the toys now basically have so many lights, components and gadgets that the toys basically play for the kids? Many toys simply invite a child to sit back and watch a video display or lights as a form of play. These types of toys may be enjoyable - for a while but they don't fire up young imaginations or invite the child to think creatively. You can change that with a one simple addition to your child's toys. A train set is a marvelous toy that has limitless possibilities for play. Your child may not have had the opportunity to ride a train beyond the little one at the park or zoo, but he or she will love playing with their own train set and making up imaginary destinations. Melissa and Doug have put together a 130-piece train set that is nothing short of fabulous. The track can be assembled any way your child likes as each piece simple locks in with another. Make simple looping tracks or make something more elaborate - your only limitation is your imagination! If you'd like to have a toy around that encourages group play - again this is a great choice. Each child can take a different role for running their own railroad and it's a wonderful way to get kids to jumpstart their creative juices and make up their own scenarios for where the train is going and where it has been. Labels: boys, educational toys, girls, learning-toys, pretend-play, toddler, toddler toys, trains
by: Child Basics
Saturday, March 15, 2008
 Want a toy that will keep your preschooler interested and also expand his mind with hours of fun pretend play? Look no further than the magic Melissa and Doug have dreamed up. Made especially for the 3-years old and up crowd, the fun toy cars included in this set are a police car, school bus, fire truck, ambulance, mail truck and of course, the all important ice cream truck. Along with these vehicles are signs that your child will learn from. Handicapped parking sign, do not enter, no U-turns, railroad crossing, speed limit 55, one way sign, cross walk and yield. Talk to your child about what the signs mean and make up scenarios with him about how they work. Let one of your vehicles, like the mail truck run through a stop sign, go up a "do not enter" street and may even make a U-turn in front of the sign that reads, "no U-turns". Then ask your child which vehicle would be the proper one to talk to the mail truck and let him know that he isn't driving safely by following the signs? Let your child guess until he chooses the police car and explain to him what the roll of each of the trucks are and then let his imagination run wild. He can set up his own roads complete with signs, save kittens from trees with the firetruck, deliver million dollar checks with his mail truck and take the school bus to the ice cream truck for a real treat for everyone. Don't be surprised after playing with this set if your child starts telling you what the signs mean as you're driving along! Labels: learning-toys, pretend-play, toddler toys, toy cars
by: Child Basics
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