Zoo Animals Preschool Theme
Wooden Educational Toys
Babies
Babies love the gentle sound of rattles and, at about five months, start experimenting with holding things and moving them from their hands to their mouths. ImagiPLAY makes rattles from managed forest Beechwood that is sanded and finished with beeswax. Rattles in elephant, bird, fish, hedgehog designs make a perfect first wooden toy. Check them out here.
Wooden Educational Toys for Older Babies and Toddlers
Babies love to sort, so what better than a shape sorter? Check out this Wooden Shapes Sorting Wheel Toy. Your baby will love placing the colorful wooden shapes into their corresponding holes in the wooden “cage” and rolling it around to make sound. This toy, designed for children one year old and older, engages both fine motor skills and auditory senses, and helps young children increase their familiarity with shapes and colors.
For Toddlers and Preschoolers
Toddlers and preschoolers love to build, and wooden toys that they can assemble teach them about spatial relations, logic, and help to develop fine motor skills. The Build-a-Chopper Wooden Toy Helicopter, made of wood and PVC, is a safe toy that encourages eye-hand coordination and imaginative play. The helicopter pilot is also a screwdriver that can be used to assemble the pieces.
Wooden Playsets
Preschoolers enjoy making up imaginary worlds of animals and people, and ImagiPLAY offers a variety of wooden sets that will encourage verbalization, motor skills, and exploration of different animal habitats. Chunky, easy to hold, and colorful, these wooden sets are available in A Day at the Zoo, and Day on the Farm, Arctic Expedition, and other fun scenarios. Check out the variety of these durable pieces here.
Puzzles
Wooden puzzles develop a child’s sense of order, logic, and space, and, depending upon the theme, can teach about numbers, the alphabet, animals, and many other things. Three dimensional puzzles like these develop problem-solving skills as children fit the interlocking pieces together to form an animal shape.
Leaning to count to ten is fun with a puzzle like the Counting Penguins puzzle that stands up. Line up the penguins conga-line style for a fun, interactive counting toy. The wooden Number Snail, whose pieces interlock to form a circular one to ten pattern, is another favorite counting toy. Puff the Alphabet Dragon’s pieces interlock to form the entire alphabet in a curvy design. Both are painted with child-friendly paints and made of plantation-grown rubberwood.
Durable, Safe, Colorful
Wooden toys make a terrific choice for educational toys because they are durable and safe. So long as you keep the pieces together, you can use these toys for many children, passing them down to siblings. Because they usually do not contain any plastic parts, children are safe from toxins. Try some of these toys today for your child or to give as gifts, and watch as children play to learn.
About the Author
Katie Franklin is a researcher and writer on parenting, children and child development. She is a regular contributor at Quality Toys and Hobbies. Quality Toys and Hobbies specializes in high quality safe children’s toys. All of the toys are selected by experts in the field of child development.
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