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Friday, December 12, 2008

Go Fish Go Magnetic Marble Maze


Your children are growing up, and they are acquiring the skills necessary to do every day tasks. As adults, you are constantly perfecting those skills whether you realize it or not. Hand-eye coordination is the ability of the vision system to coordinate the information received through the eyes to control, guide, and direct the hands in the accomplishment of a given task. Simple things such as handwriting and catching a ball come easy to adults and it is hard for them to conceive the idea of having to learn how to do those things. Hand-eye coordination is not a complex idea, but it is very much a necessary one.

To help your children with this skill, you should concentrate on toys that will help them perfect it. The Go Fish Go Magnetic Marble Maze will do that very thing. The magnetic wand is used to guide the marbles throughout the aquatic styled maze. To stimulate their interest, the fish is vibrantly colored and a fun toy to have. Your child will be able to control the marbles and work them through the maze. It is a great puzzle and a wonderful learning tool for your children.

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Friday, December 05, 2008

Physical Activity



With the ever growing popularity of technology, video gaming is a must have with children. A lot of parents will bring along a pocket game system to appointments to occupy their childs attention. These gaming systems are great for hand-eye coordination; however, it is concerning when the child spends too much time on games and not enough time with physical activity. After prolonged game time, children may be more apt to be diagnosed with repetitive stress injuries when they do finally make it to run around and take part in physical play.

To avoid this, keep a close watch on the amount of time per week your child spends at the computer or playing their video games. Provide them with toys that force them to get up and run around. The Childrens Throwing Game is a great way to get them up and moving. A large stand is mounted with polyester bags in four different colors. Using the juggling balls that are included, the child can make a game out of tossing the balls into a specific color polyester bag. They can devise their own point system to make the game more enjoyable. The childrens throwing game will help them develop their hand-eye coordination and accuracy. Depending on how young your child is, it can even help their color recognition.

Help keep your children physically active. Monitor their time sitting at the computer or playing video games. Provide them with fun activities, such as the Childrens Throwing Game.

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Monday, August 11, 2008

Musically Inclined


As a child, can you remember how music affected you? Did you swing and sway to the tunes or did you obnoxiously jump and jive to the radio? Music always has a certain way of connecting with us, making our bodies groove with the rhythm. Now that you have children, how does music affect them, have you noticed?

Music has a way of reaching children and captivating their little attention spans. Once the harmony has grasped their young bodies, it taps in to their creative side and opens their minds to new thoughts and ideas. Not only that, but it has other effects as well. Depending what kind of music is playing; it can calm a rambunctious child. If nothing else seems to work, play something that is soft and that will mesmerize them.

Children respond to music very well. Considering your child for piano lessons or any other instrument would be beneficial to them. As was mentioned previously, the music opens their minds to creative thought. Learning to play an instrument would also tap into their hand and eye coordination as well.

The next time your child is running around with bursts of energy and they need to be calmed down, perhaps put on some soothing music and just wait for them to cool their jets.

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

An Indoor Sandbox?


Yep, you read that one right. An indoor sandbox will be a great toy to keep your kids entertained on those days it's just too yucky to go outside and play. This is also a fun toy for waiting rooms or if you own a child care facility - all of these are great reasons to incorporate this fun toy.

The Happy Trails Sand Table is made by Educo and the design of this fun sandbox has been extremely well thought out. The sandbox is entirely sealed inside of a solid wooden table and there is a clear acrylic top that the kids can look down and see the sand with both vehicles and creatures inside. The vehicles and creatures are magnetic and using the magnetic hand pieces that are attached to the bottom of the sandbox, they can move the vehicles and creates all over the place inside the enclosed area of the sandbox.

Kids can have races, make designs and even arrange the pieces in shapes and forms. One to four children can play with this interesting toy at once and for added stability, the table has steel legs that can be bolts to the floor. No worrying about the magnetic pieces getting lost or being a hazard, they are firmly enclosed within the box.

This is a fun and safe toy that will deliver hours of fun for kids. If you have a group of kids that you keep as a day care or you have a waiting room where kids need to be kept busy, this is a fabulous way to do it!

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