The letters can also be used as patterns to create other learning games. VTech Write and Learn Creative Center Although typing in gadgets to communicate is now ubiquitous, actual handwriting is still a skill that is important to learners.

In fact, some studies suggest that when kids write notes, the processing that occurs improve learning and retention. This Write and Learn Creative Center toy encourages your pre-schooler to learn and practice uppercase and lowercase letter-writing in a fun way. Your child can also practice drawing skills by following instructions on how to draw different lines, shapes and objects.

Uneedity Preschool Handwriting Practice Book Your preschooler can jump-start her education with this activity learning toy. This is a reusable workbook that teaches your preschooler how to write numbers, letters, words, as well as draw shapes by tracing, copying and connecting dots.

Your preschooler writes with erasable colorful dry erase pens that comes with the set — so it can be used over and over, perfect for practicing handwriting skills and learning to spell and do math. A magnetic eraser comes with the kit, as well as a mesh bag to keep everything in.

SGILE Magnetic Drawing Board Toy Alternatively, this is larger, and more suited to imaginative freestyle colorful drawing, but without the animated demonstrations for writing letters. Your child can start to work with 6 design templates, and advances to create her own designs using her imagination.

Kids who do a lot of creative work as kids and have fun in the process also enjoy being creative when they grow up.

VTech Touch and Learn Activity Desk Deluxe Frustration Free Packaging The Vtech Touch and Learn Activity Desk enables your preschooler to pretend to have a work desk, although this one is made for fun and learning.

This is a colorful, interactive desk that displays 5 activity pages on the surface of the desk teaching numbers and counting, music, alphabet and letter sounds, the human body and fruits and color. It features a light-up letter and number display, a music player with 20 fun melodies, and a toy phone that introduces numbers.

The desk can also transform into a chalkboard and an art station. A versatile educational toy for your preschooler. LeapFrog LeapStart 3D Interactive Learning System, Green This electronic learning system becomes an interactive toy when loaded with a LeapStart book.

The interactivity makes all kinds of learning fun. There is an on-screen 3D-like animation which your child responds to and interact with by using a stylus to tap on images on the book. Tapping on the images trigger questions, challenges, songs, jokes and more, and your child becomes engaged in learning activities such as reading, counting, and problem solving while playing.

The activities are highly replayable, and the stylus also helps train your child proper writing grip. Note that a computer with internet is required to download books onto the LeapStart system. There are more than 25 activity books available that can be loaded in the system, and each book has its own attractions, and one of the most popular one is….

Featuring Ryder and the Paw Patrol, It teaches position words, maps, and professions through logic and problem-solving games. It includes an electronic fix-it tray, working toy drill, hammer, wrench, nails and screws.

The working drill spins the gears and drill screws into the electronic tray holes. Light-up buttons in the interactive toolbox produce fun songs about tools, how they are used, and the sound they make. Another cool interactive features are the two double-sided cards that fit over the holes and teaches your child colors and numbers as he hammers or put in screws.

LIKEE Alphabet Number Flash Cards Wooden Letter Puzzle Matching Games Animal Counting This toy combines flashcards and puzzles into one toy for your preschooler to learn alphabets and numbers while having fun. With this toy, your child matches the wooden carved letters and numbers into their respective delightfully illustrated flash cards.

The toy promotes familiarity with letters by actively associating them with the objects the letter starts with. It also does the same associating number symbols to the quantity of the object.

This alphabet-wooden puzzle toy also teaches vocabulary and simple counting. OBUBY Real Binoculars with 8×21 High-Resolution Optics Your child learns about the world by looking and watching, especially when she is outdoors, and with nature.

This toy binocular that acts like a real one allows her to see more clearly things in a distance like birds, critters, wildlife, landscapes and more. This binocular is made for kids, and is therefore lightweight, fits their hands, with adjustable eyepiece distance and focus, and equipped with non-slip grip.

It magnifies 8x with 7. It also folds and comes in many colors. A great outdoors educational activity companion! Educational Insights GeoSafari Jr. Talking Kids Microscope This is a learning toy in a form of a microscope that talks.

The GeoSafari Jr. talking microscope introduces your young child to how the microscope works by peering at 20 slides with 60 colorful biology images.

While your child looks at the slides under the toy microscope, young naturalist Irwin Bindi narrates facts about animals and plants in the images. In addition to playing with Fact mode, your child can also use the Quiz mode to test her scientific knowledge.

While playing scientist, your child learns actual scientific facts — and who knows, this could lead to her lifelong interest in the biological sciences.

Click here for more smart toys for preschoolers. Amazon Fire 7 Kids tablet — a variety of technology-driven intelligent games and books Amazon offers a really fast, feature-rich high-tech tablet that is fun for kids. It even has a kid-proof case to withstand rough handling and ensure that it will last for a long time.

And even if it gets broken, Amazon will replace the device from its 2-year worry-free guarantee. The Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet, All-new Kindle Kids Edition — Includes access to thousands of books — Reading is, of course, one of the most important activity that makes your child succeed not only in school, but also in life.

This device is built solely for reading — without games, ads, or videos as distractions. It motivates kids to read and learn vocabulary words with tools like Word Wise and Vocabulary Builder. With the included year of FreeTime Unlimited, kids can explore thousands of popular titles and series, including Harry Potter, The Boxcar Children, and more.

The e-reader comes with a kid-friendly cover and a 2-year worry-free guarantee, which means that if your child breaks it, you can return it and Amazon will replace it for free, no questions asked. ThinkFun Circuit Maze Electric Current Brain Game and STEM Toy A brain and puzzle game that uses real electrical circuits.

In the process, your child learns basic electricity concepts such as how circuits — series, parallel and combinations thereof — really work.

It exercises her logical thinking and planning skills, and perhaps could even stimulate her interest in electricity or physics. Snap Circuits Jr. SC Electronics Exploration Kit This building toy can stimulate the minds of the budding engineer who likes to work with electronics.

With 30 color-coded, real circuit components that snap together, the package enables your child to build more than projects including working models of a photo sensor, a flashing light, an adjustable volume siren and more.

And once he has mastered using the components, he can create his own customized circuits and electronic devices! The package comes with an easy to understand illustration manual and requires no tools.

Your child will understand what goes on behind everyday electronic gadgets and will feel accomplished and proud when he builds simple gadgets of his own. The toy consists of a inch human body model, a stand, 9 squishy organs, 12 plastic bones and muscles, a body part organ-izer mat, an instruction sheet and even a page illustrated anatomy book.

Your child learns about the human anatomy and how the body works by knowing about its parts, placing the organs where they belong using the included forceps and tweezers, and learning what the organs do.

By following a slice of pizza as it travels through the body, your child learns how the organs work together and interact with the food. This toy sets your child up to understand the most important knowledge he would ever need — about himself.

Light-up Terrarium Kit for Kids with LED Light on Lid This will warm the heart of the future botanist or nature lover. This kit enables your child to build a miniature garden inside a container that simulates a natural environment. She plants the seeds, water the soil, decorate the environment, and watch the plants as they grow every day.

The terrarium even glows at night with the LED light on the lid, creating a beautiful sight. While being engaged and having fun, your child discovers how a plant grows and what it takes to take care of plants. This toy was evaluated by STEM.

org to meet the highest standards of STEM learning. A less expensive option, but without the attractive LED light and other decorative features, except for glow-in-the-dark stickers:. LEGO Gadgets A great toy for future engineers and creators — specifically those who love to build gadgets and machines with practical use, or are just simply fanciful.

This set consists of 58 Lego pieces with elements such as pegs, gear wheels and more, and it has instructions to help your child build 11 types of machines that whirl, flip, punch and cruise.

Your child would be able to build gadgets by following the built-in step-by-step instructions in the beginning, but it also allows your child to use his creativity to build his own inventions using what he has learned on how the elements work. ZOOB BuilderZ S.

Your child can design, invent and build his own toys like vehicles, monsters, or monsters that turn into vehicles. This toy also enables your child to design and create objects to solve challenges such as hitting targets and making balls bounce.

It teaches and make your child apply science, technology, engineering and math S. ThinkFun Gravity Maze Marble Run Brain Game Gravity Maze is a puzzle game where your child builds a maze tower so that the marble falls from the start position to the target.

It offers 60 challenges that progresses from beginner to expert. This toy won the Good Housekeeping Best Toy Award , among other awards, and was featured in the Purdue University Engineering gift guide. Scientific Explorer My First Mind Blowing Science Kit Kids love to mix it up, and they are curious what happens when they combine substances.

This toy introduces your kid to the science of chemistry. It teaches her the basics of chemicals like the difference between acids and bases, nature of chemical reactions, as well as how to use science tools like the test tube and the pipette.

Some of the fun experiments she can play while learning is how to create a color-changing volcano and how to grow colorful crystals. AmScope XX pcs Kids Beginner Microscope STEM Kit with Metal Body Microscope, Plastic Slides, LED Light and Carrying Box The future doctor or biologist may discover his passion with this toy.

Although it is as a toy for beginners, this kit is packed with advanced features for exploring and learning about the microscopic world. This microscope provides magnification from x to x. Its viewing head has LED light and mirror illumination with built-in color wheel.

The kit also comes with items that will start your child exploring like a shrimp hatchery and brine shrimp eggs, as well as lab tools like specimen slicer, petri dish, and tweezers that will help him prepare specimens for examination. The kit contains all the tools and chemicals that your child needs to perform science experiments designed to be performed as a magic trick.

The included experiment guide not only provides illustrated, kid-friendly instructions but also explanations about the science behind the experiments, techniques used by real scientists, and fascinating facts.

Another high-quality educational toy from the renowned National Geographic. Among the 15 experiments that your child can perform with this set includes boiling boogers, dissecting a brain, creating glowing worms and making a test tube vomit. The set includes step-by-step kid friendly guide with educational facts about chemical reactions, biology, and more.

The rock tumbler polishes any rock your child puts in it, and turns it into gemstones. It is a hobby kit that helps your child create beautiful homemade jewelry or an attractive rock collection. Easy to follow instructions and full-color information guide with cool facts about each of the gemstones are included.

Your child might even yearn for additional knowledge and start researching about rocks. The kit includes a page full color learning guide that teaches how the geodes are formed, a safety googles to protect the eyes when cracking open the geode, a magnifying glass, and 3 display stands.

With this kit, your child can perform 15 experiments including building an erupting volcano, grow a real crystal, create a tornado, and much more. Your child is also given more than 10 specimens to start off his rock collection.

The kit includes an easy-to-follow instruction and a learning guide that teaches the science behind the experiments.

It consists of blocks that your child can snap together, and in the process your child learns math skills. It also teaches one-to-one correspondence, counting to , skip counting, as well as geometric shapes, and more. Insect Lore Butterfly Growing Kit — With Voucher to Redeem Caterpillars Later Growing butterflies, and watching them develop through various life stages, is a great way to introduce your kid to the fascinating world of nature.

When your child witnesses firsthand how caterpillars transform into chrysalis, then into butterflies, it stimulates her mind to further learn how nature works.

By observing, she learns to be a scientist. It consists of a pop up, reusable The kit also includes all the food caterpillars need. This toy, authenticated by STEM. org as an Educational Product, can ignite a love of nature and science exploration and discovery in your child.

It can take a kid from simple blinking lights to complex motion-controlled games. The snap-together baseboard can lie flat on a table like a regular breadboard, but it can also be folded into a cube or the pieces can be attached at a degree angle.

This gives kids an extra element to play with when they graduate to designing their own circuits. The kit comes with instructions for 50 projects, but with the parts available a creative child could build quite a few more.

My one critique is that the jumper wires can be tough to insert and might require a bit of patience — something we know not every eight-year-old has an abundance of. An included protective case packs its own stand critical for getting kids to hold the screen more than three inches from their eyeballs , plus the p display is sharp and the storage space is upgradable to a full terabyte.

A shape sorter is an awesome toy for younger kids because it encourages hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, problem-solving and even vocabulary by identifying the names of shapes and colors. I am, admittedly, a sucker for a good subscription box. Each month my kid receives a collection of simple DIY toys, crafts and games built around a theme.

For instance, one box was all about bioluminescent animals. Inside was a plush lightning bug that we had to stuff ourselves and shape using hair ties; a mushroom that had us painting a Slurpee lid and then dotting it with glow-in-the-dark stickers; and a dancing, glowing jellyfish as well as several window clings of sea creates for him to create scenes with.

Past kits have covered farm life, dinosaurs and simple machines like ramps. The stuff inside the box is usually pretty simple think: cardboard, felt and wood. The best part is the crates will grow with him. As he gets older the projects will get more complex and the price will go up.

Later boxes include everything from screen-printing tools, to trebuchet kits and even robots. The Blipblox may look like a simple noise-maker for kids, but this gadget is much more than just a toy. While the device is loaded with melodies and a synchronized light show, it also packs a capable digital synthesizer engine.

The Blipblox also has a MIDI input for use with a keyboard or other accessories in addition to a ¼-inch output. Lastly, it runs on three AA batteries or plugged in via a USB cable.

Blipblox can teach kids about music through a basic approach to instruments and synthesis, but its features are advanced enough to offer noise-making magic for parents, too. A busy board capitalizes on this curiosity by offering several different clasps, snaps, zippers, buttons and openings for little ones to work their fingers on.

It intrigues children by activating their senses and helps them develop their fine-motor skills and problem solving by using real-world obstacles.

It also adheres to the Montessori philosophy of simple, wooden toys that help children explore the world around them through play. The deMoca busy board is one of my favorites because it has bright, eye-catching colors, and 10 sensory activities including a zipper, a buckle, a latch and Velcro.

My first grader starts the morning talking about Minecraft. His final topic before nodding off is also Minecraft. Outside of his screen-time allotment, Legos are one of the few toys that can capture his attention nearly as well as mobs and enchanted netherite swords.

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