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Navir products feature a range of optic and scientific toys at great prices. From the Bug Viewer (£3.10) to the Green Factory which has everything needed for budding gardners (£22.00). The kit comes with a manual, seeds, peat cups, magnifying lens and more, plus instructions for 14 experiments for children interested in growing plants and science. Also available are a Gyroscope, Binoculars, Periscope, Optic Wonder, X Belt,
Zoomscope, Threek, Discovery Kit and Triple Bug Viewer. The other range is from Globus, an Italian company which is a leading producer of living ecosystems. The Plantariums come with space age growing gel – the seeds provided in the packs germinate in the gel and the seedlings and roots are visible throughout the entire germination and plant growth process. There is also an Ant Eco Terrarium
where ants and plants live in a balanced environment. Prices range from about £6.80 for the single Pet Vials up to about £19.50 for the larger Plantariums. Brookite is also distributing Circa. This is a wooden educational circular calendar specifically designed to help
children understand the cycles of the calendar using the toy’s rotating and circular stacking design.
INSPIRATIONWORKS
InspirationWorks is set to launch a new pre-school tablet range. Riding on the wave of popularity for grown-up tablets, the firm has developed its tablet lines specifically for young children – utilising its heritage in the ELA sector.
The new tablet
product range includes the National Geographic Space Tablet. The sleek and high tech National Geographic Space Tablet offers an introduction to space for young children. Discover facts by touching any of the featured icons and enter a quiz by touching the true or false icons on the tablet. Age appropriate information helps children learn about planets, stars, meteorites
ORCHARD TOYS 0870 898 8923 BIGJIGS
Bigjigs has extended its range of educational toys, which are designed to encourage the learning of foundation concepts such as numbers, letters, colours and shapes. Learn to Count is a tactile activity
toy featuring colourful stacking discs and numbers. The product encourages children to stack the brightly coloured discs onto the correct pegs using colour coordination. The toy helps develop key number and colour recognition. Bigjigs has also launched
several educational clocks including the Clock in a Box.
01303 250400 It features a bright analogue clock
with moveable hands and an interchangeable digital clock. The clock also acts as its own
storage, with digits being stored inside.
LITTLE TIKES
Little Tikes has developed a new collection of educational toys in which ‘tech meets play’. The iTikes range consists of four
interactive products: the iTikes Discover Doodle Board, Keyboard, Map and Microscope. Each is a stand-alone product, but when linked to an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with the free iTikes App download, the resulting play unlocks more learning, augmented reality and gameplay. The iTikes Digital
Discover Doodle Board works like a classic doodler with a stylus and shape buttons for stamping.
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When used with the iPad app, the stylus produces music, lights and sound effects and allows colourful designs to be drawn in six different artist materials. The iTikes Discover Keyboard offers stand-alone keyboard play but when connected to an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with the app, children can learn to play the keyboard, enjoy six learning games, record and play back music. On its own, the iTikes Map Explorer
and space exploration. The new tablet will be available from autumn/winter and will retail at around £19.99.
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allows a child to explore the world through six maps of music, cultures, countries and more. When used with an iPhone or iPod Touch, the app-based play unlocks interactive learning with quizzes and games, while the tethered stylus activates fun facts and interacts in 3D when hovering over maps. The iTikes Discover Microscope allows children to use a lens-based microscope to explore, examine and interact with 36 real specimens. Add an iDevice plus the free app and play expands to include animated 3D models.
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Orchard Toys’ coloured boxes and contents are designed to be appealing to children, but what they don’t realise, while pretending to be a firefighter, or rubbing on magic tiles, is that while playing, they are learning key skills. Many of the jigsaw puzzles have activity guides on the boxes to help adults stimulate the child to talk about the picture. Rhyme Robber helps
children to match up rhyming pairs. When the players do match up the picture cards, they have to say phrases which will help them remember the words and the rhyme. Pass the Word is a fast-paced spelling game. Children have to race against a timer to put together a word, but when the time runs out they have to pass the letters on to the next player.
Taxing young minds is easy with the educational games and puzzles from Sevi by John Crane. The Sea Puzzle Cubes from Sevi includes nine cubes featuring sharks, deep sea divers, mermaids and other sea creatures. The set encourages early matching skills and picture recognition. The set also includes pictures of the finished puzzle so children can match the puzzle to the pictures.
Also in the collection are the Farm
Stacking Cubes, Stacking Pull Along Clown and Sailor Stacking Tower that all promote hand-eye coordination, plus matching and sorting skills. Sevi also offers a collection of memory games all based on the traditional ‘picking pairs’ games. Memory has five cards that provide different levels of difficulty. The lifting pieces are decorated with flowers and they reveal the pictures underneath.
JUNE 2012
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