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Soft Foam Emoji Cubes (Learning Resources)
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Soft Foam Emoji Cubes
These famous faces hopped right off the screen and into real life! Smile, frown, and feel every emotion in between with these Soft Foam Emoji Cubes. Based on the imagery of the popular mobile communication icons, this set of dice-style cubes comes with two cubes adorned with 12 different faces meant to represent common feelings and emotions, and two cubes filled with prompts and questions designed to get kids talking. These cubes offer plenty of opportunities for fundamental social learning—have kids roll the question cubes and answer the resulting prompt, or let them roll the emoji cubes and discuss the feelings and emotions behind the faces that come up. The Soft Foam Emoji Cubes are also great for language and vocabulary lessons, and can help kids expand the ways in which they think about and communicate their inner feelings. Made of easy-to-clean soft foam.
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Magnetic Collaboration Boards (Learning Resources)
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Magnetic Collaboration Boards
Group projects and brainstorming sessions are at their most beneficial when everyone participates. These Magnetic Collaboration Boards encourage cohesiveness and idea-sharing in a small-group setting. Each write-and-wipe whiteboard comes with a large 11”H x 17”L writing surface that’s perfect for hashing out new ideas, taking group notes, or drawing diagrams that help get a point across. Each board in this set of four also includes its own personalized color scheme, so group members will always know which board is theirs. After making the most of that expansive room to work, group members can present their notes and findings with the help of the collaboration boards’ magnetic backing, which makes attaching them to a larger whiteboard a breeze. For more permanent hanging solutions, the Magnetic Collaboration Boards also boast sturdy grommets in each of the top two corners.
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$24.99
Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog (Learning Resources)
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Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog
The hedgehog lost his quills, and only your little ones can help him get them back! New from Learning Resources, Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog helps kids build up hand muscles and fine motor skills as they replace the chunky, peg-shaped “quills” within the holes that dot the smiling hedgehog’s back. The learning doesn’t end there—Spike's colorful quills also lend themselves well to lessons in counting, sorting, and color identification skills. Kids can arrange the quills by warm or cool colors, work on sequences and patterns by alternating colors, or count up the quills with the help of numbers printed on the hedgehog’s back. Once playtime is over, Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog is a snap to clean up—each piece is made of plastic that can be easily wiped clean, and the quills stow snugly inside the hedgehog’s body, which adds simplicity to storage too.
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$14.99
Botley the Coding Robot Action Challenge Accessory Set (Learning Resources)
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Botley the Coding Robot Action Challenge Accessory Set
Help Botley™ set off some crashing chain reactions with Botley the Coding Robot Action Challenge Accessory Set. This interactive 41-piece accessory set contains everything kids need to set up STEM-inspired obstacle challenges for Botley to navigate. Kids can follow the instructions inside the included Activity Guide to create 9 obstacle challenges filled with falling dominos, rolling balls, and swinging hammers, or design their own courses using critical thinking skills. Once everything’s in place, kids simply code Botley with the desired steps, press transmit on the remote programmer, and watch him get things moving! In addition to building early coding skills, each obstacle course run also introduces fun hands-on lessons in early physics concepts including force and motion. All pieces in the Botley the Coding Robot Action Challenge Accessory Set are compatible with other Botley accessories, making the possible obstacle course builds as countless as they are fun.
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$24.99
Serve It Up! Play Restaurant (Learning Resources)
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Serve It Up! Play Restaurant
Serve breakfast and dinner with a side of learning fun! The world of restaurants comes home with the Serve it Up! Play Restaurant. This imaginative activity set contains everything you need to re-create the restaurant experience right at your own table. The set includes foods for breakfast (including a pancake, fried egg, piece of toast, and two kinds of fruit) and dinner (including a t-bone steak, asparagus bundle, and two slices of bell peppers), as well as plates, drinks, a placemat, and more. When they’re not serving up their latest order, kids can use this set to learn real-world skills—with the help of the set’s play money, order pad, and pretend menu, parents can teach lessons including how to order off of a menu, how to pay the check at the end of the meal, and how to set the table for dinner.
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Build & Spin: Farm Friends (Learning Resources)
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Build & Spin: Farm Friends
A trip to the barnyard is just a few spins away with the Build & Spin: Farm Friends. This portable playset’s sturdy base comes with spaces for eight chunky gears complete with friendly, farm-themed toppers: a smiling pig, prancing horse, newborn chick, spotted cow, toothy rabbit, bearded goat, jumping sheep, and big red barn. Each kid-sized piece snaps securely into place, allowing kids to work on their fine motor skills as they construct and deconstruct their mix-and-match playset. When they’re not imagining themselves down on the farm, learning new vocabulary words, or building up the muscles needed for fine motor control, kids can pass countless minutes twisting and turning Build & Spin: Farm Friends’ colorful gears, which provide an exciting hands-on lesson in the concept of cause and effect. Unlike the actual barnyard, this playset is also easy to clean and take on the go.
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$19.99
Gears! Gears! Gears! Machines in Motion (Learning Resources)
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Gears! Gears! Gears! Machines in Motion
These machines really move! With the Gears! Gears! Gears! Machines in Motion, kids engineer their own playtime fun with the help of creative, open-ended building activities. Using the included instructions, kids can build their own versions of numerous different interactive machines and vehicles, many of which incorporate special parts including a wrecking ball, chains, pulleys, and wheels. Turn out a tank with its own helicopter propeller, or craft a complex contraption that spins with the twist of a lever. Kids can also set the instructions aside and bring their own designs to life; thanks to their open-ended designs and interchangeable parts, every Gears! Gears! Gears! set from Learning Resources encourages kids to discover their inner engineer and hone STEM skills such as critical thinking and trial and error. Each set also works with other Gears! sets, a fact that increases the playability of every piece.
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$39.99
New Sprouts Chef Set (Learning Resources)
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New Sprouts Chef Set
From the irresistible smells that waft from the oven to the delicious meals that originate there every night, the kitchen is one of the most popular rooms in the house. With the New Sprouts Chef Set, kids prepare for experiences in the actual kitchen with pretend versions of popular cooking tools. After donning their colorful toddler-sized apron and oven mitt, little chefs set about preparing imaginary eats with durable, easy-to-clean plastic accessories including a chunky spatula and spoon. On their own, these interactive accessories help teach kids lessons in social and imaginative skills, as well as introduce language and vocabulary concepts at the core of cooking and kitchen life. They also pair well with existing toys and playsets, and integrate seamlessly with Learning Resources’ other play foods and kitchen sets. Best of all: they’re easy to clean and store when playtime is over.
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