Award Winning Educational Children's Toys

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Educational toys for children are not only fun, they are a gift that will stand to them for years to come, help your child to discover new interests and learn about the world, give them an educational toy and watch your child grow and learn through play because as everyone knows, children learn through hands on experiences. You can help prepare your child for school with toys that will increase their understanding of the subjects they will be studying later on. Simple brightly colored toys appeal to young children and have the ability to help them with problem solving, math and language skills.

This pages focuses on developmental toys that have proven to be great learning toys for young or preschool children, many are educational toys used in schools to aid learning. While I do think that learning toys such as from popular toy brands such as Vtech and so on have a place in children's education, the toys featured here are the more tradition types of learning toys for kids that you would commonly see used in schools such as Cuisenaire Rods or counting rods and construction blocks.

Cuisenaire Rods

What are Cuisenaire Rods?

educational toys cuisenaire rodsThey may not look like the most exciting educational toy for kids, especially when compared to some of the big brand learning toys on the market at the moment but Cuisenaire rods or counting sticks are an extremely efficient and colorful way to encourage learning in kids at an early age. The brightly colored rods were invented in Belgian school by school teacher George Cuisenaire and have become widely recognized as a vital component in mathematical teaching today.
The rods appeal to kid's natural inclination to fun and brightly colored objects. Cuisenaire rods are now used worldwide in schools and have been praised as aa unique teaching method that has proven to give young (and older) children a new comprehension of math. The different colored rods all represent numbers and using the this learning method has shown that all children have a natural mathematical ability and comprehension from a very young age. The rods help to develop these skills by visual learning and as your child plays with the rods you can introduce new concepts to them that make learning math fun!

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Parents Choice Gold Award Educational Toys

Established in 1978, Parents' Choice is the nation's oldest nonprofit guide to quality children's media and toys.

Parents Choice Gold Award Educational ToysWhat's the use of an educational kids toy if they don't want to play with it? That's why there are organizations like Parents choice. Parent's know their kids and we know they toys that are novelty toys and the ones that our kids will get great use out of, the toys below all won the Gold award for their educational benefits for kids.

ThinkFun PathWords



MindWare Pattern Play



MindWare Block Buddies

Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Toys Award

Kid's educational toys tested by the experts and kids. The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio was founded in 1989 as the only independent consumer review of children's media by child development experts Joanne Oppenheim and her daughter Stephanie Oppenheim. Below are some of the award winning educational toys from their choice awards.

Gears! Gears! Gears! Super Set - 150-Piece Set



Connectagons



Learning Resources Teaching Cash Register

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