Made of felt, this is one of those unique playsets that is timeless fun. It’s all in the details –...
Make learning facial vocabulary fun. Great for self-awareness, self-control and self-expression. Another classroom favorite for all mixed feelings.
Simple is sometimes best. Beloved in many classrooms, children love to measure everything. Develop your child’s numerical literacy by having...
Create fanciful games, spread neighborhood cheer with kind messages or get blissfully lost in large-scale drawings. Did you know that...
Learn letters with a classic game. There’s a reason it’s a classroom favorite. Ditto for the numbers edition.
With its moveable mouth and Squeeze Me bleat, this delightful Folkmanis puppet can help role-play big feelings, explore perspectives and...
Imagine a world with chalkboard walls?! Build the play structure of your dreams. Or back to basics with Crazy Forts.
A must-have staple for every dress-up bin. Bonus fun with this and this. (Fantastical storytelling not included.)
A social and screen-free way of learning letter identification, including phonological awareness and concepts of print. Get moving!
BBQ theme on one side, ice cream on the other. Yes, it’s true! Thank goodness for artful details. Take it...
An essential for any STEAM curriculum. But these have an undeniable coolness factor. P.S. – STEAM = Science, technology, engineering, arts,...
A gem of a toy. The decorative accents build focus and fine motor skills; the recipe cards develop matching skills,...
When your child starts demonstrating behaviors that show they are trying to ‘fit in’ or wants to ‘belong to a...
‘Sensory processing development’ is vital to understanding how children learn. It is deeply studied among early childhood experts, but not...
Are you in the midst of visiting preschools and trying to decipher what to look for in a classroom and...
It’s normal to hear your child experimenting with dramatic language at around age 4 (e.g., talking back, harsh tones of...
Speaking with a child about death is an important, impactful, and often dreaded, teachable moment. Whether prompted by an actual...
While we may agree that it is important to speak about issues of race and racism, these layered and personal...
Your child may not want to learnt to read – *yet*. It’s completely normal and natural. Reading is hard. Reading...
Social exclusion is a main theme in a child’s development and there are many reasons why it happens. Empower your child to...
Whether a young child practices prewriting skills or an older child works on sight words, salt / sand trays are...
Learning to count may seem simple, but it is critical to learning well. Here’s how to do it playfully. The...
Take every opportunity to count…anything, everything! It may feel common sense to us grown-ups, but fluency in talking about numbers...
“It’s not about how smart you are, it’s about how you are smart.” -Howard Gardner