TOYS FOR LIFE

To learn to design bead pictures

Make colourful patterns with beads. Place a transparent bead board on or next to an image card and add the beads. Stimulates hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness and creativity.

To learn about shape and colour

Create the figures of the assignment cards with the rings and sticks or create your own. Compare various colours and sizes. Stimulate fine motor skills and visual analysis.

To learn to count up to 10. Understand number bonds to ten. 

Let passengers get on or off the bus to practise math skills. How many passengers take a ride with the bus? Introduce counting, adding and subtracting up to 10.

To learn new words

Insert one assignment card into the game box upper shelf and try to find the related pairs by lifting the red discs. Develop hand-eye coordination, spatial insight and visual discrimination.

To learn letter shapes

Follow letter shapes with your index finger or the wooden pen. Stimulates pre-writing skills, letter shape recognition and fine motor skills.

To learn to count up to 10

Search for assignment strip items on the theme boards. For each item found, place a bead on the stand. Flip the assignment strip over for the answers, shown in both dots and numbers. Stimulate counting and number sense up to 10.

To learn about colour and size

Combine colour and shape and take the correct card as quickly as possible with the suction cup. Develop precision and speed.

To develop vocabulary of opposites.

Collect pairs of cards which are opposites of each other. Describe and name what you see and improve vocabulary.

To learn about shape and colour

Place the colourful shapes on the rods and create beautiful flowers. Develop spatial orientation and fine motor skills.

To learn to create geometric figures

Create mosaic designs with geometric shapes in various colours. Model one of the assignment cards or make your own unique creations. Improve fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

To learn new words and social skills

Turn over the image cards one by one and look if the image is on your bingo card. Who is the first player to fill a bingo card?

To learn to think logically.

Challenging game based on the principle of the well-known Sudoku puzzles. The rows and columns may have each item used only once. Children engage analytical thinking and concentration.

To learn fine motor skills

Throw 2 colour dice and lace a sea animal with the 2 corresponding colours. Or place a serie of cards on the table and lace the same sea animals. Develop visual discrimination, sorting and fine motor skills.

To learn fine motor skills

Throw 2 colour dice and lace a sea animal with the 2 corresponding colours. Or place a serie of cards on the table and lace the same sea animals. Develop visual discrimination, sorting and fine motor skills.

To learn to tell the time.

An excellent way to demonstrate time telling to a child, these cards show the o'clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to times.

Learn to tell the time. Learn to identify the hour and minute hands.

To learn about shape, colour and pattern

Create beads patterns as shown on the assignment cards by stringing beads on a lace or holder.

To learn to count up to 10. Understand number bonds to ten. 

Fill trees with the amount of red apples, indicated by a number symbol and dots. Complete trees with green apples up to 10. Understand number bonds to ten. Develop fine motor skills.

To learn about shape and reflections

Create the geometric image by following an assignment card. For a challenging game, recreate one quarter of an image which is completed when reflected in the mirrors. Shape, pattern and spatial relationships take a new perspective.

To learn about shape, size and colour

Use the blocks to experiment with various colours and sizes. Position the blocks in the frame to develop spatial reasoning and fine motor skills.

This activity focuses on hand-eye co-ordination and manipulative skills. It also develops colour recognition and distinction.

Three coloured shapes are put onto the three vertical dowels according to the instructions on the workcards.

To use letters to create words

Stamp the letters and create words. Follow all letters with a pencil. Develop knowledge of letters and fine motor skills

To learn to count up to 10

Discover and combine cards with the same number representation. Numbers 1-10 are visualised in various ways: number symbols, part of a circle, stars and rectangles.

To learn about shape and colour

Combine colour and shape and take the correct card as quickly as possible with the suction cup. Develop precision and speed.

To learn to sort.  To develop vocabulary.

Sort the image cards into related sets of 3. Describe and name each image to develop the vocabulary.

Choose 2 or more cards and make a sentence.  Eg "I put some carrots in the bucket to feed the pony."