Learning Resources – Smart Toys and Books https://smarttoysandbooks.com Not your average toy store! Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:03:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://smarttoysandbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-Smart-Toys-Favicon-32x32.jpeg Learning Resources – Smart Toys and Books https://smarttoysandbooks.com 32 32 Number Bubblebrix https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/number-bubblebrix/ https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/number-bubblebrix/#respond Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:10:58 +0000 https://smarttoysandbooks.com/?post_type=bigcommerce_product&p=2375145 The Big Idea

Fidget fun takes an educational twist with Number BubbleBrix! Press a number block, feel and hear it pop, and practice its number name, then snap it to another block to create a number sentence.

Psst…They’re Learning!

  • Number recognition
  • Addition & subtraction
  • Tactile & sensory play
  • Develop fine motor skills

Cut to the Chase

  • Includes 42 Number BubbleBrix, storage bucket with handle, and activity guide packed with early math activities
  • Build preschooler math confidence
  • Perfect for fidgety fingers
]]> https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/number-bubblebrix/feed/ 0 T-Rex Rumble https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/t-rex-rumble/ https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/t-rex-rumble/#respond Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:10:52 +0000 https://smarttoysandbooks.com/?post_type=bigcommerce_product&p=2375143 The Big Idea
Strap on your tiny dino arms and get ready to giggle as players compete to complete challenges from four different dino categories!

Psst…They’re Learning!

  • Encourages social skills and teamwork
  • Enhances strategic thinking skills

Cut to the Chase

  • Includes 2 T-Rex arms, 100 challenge cards in 4 hilarious categories: Pre-historic Pickup, Dino Drawings, Jurassic Charades, and Tiny Arm Challenges, 15 foam pieces, ball, dry erase marker, 30-second timer, and die.
  • Perfect for family game night and kids parties
  • For 4 or more players
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Help Sophie the Otter find yummy shells to eat in this pattern-matching spin and swim game! Players spin the spinner and use the Sophie squeezer to pick up a shell with a matching pattern. The first player to collect one shell of each pattern wins!

Psst…They’re Learning!

  • Develops critical pre-reading and strategic thinking skills
  • Enhances fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination
  • Promotes sharing and turn taking
  • Helps develop social skills

Cut to the Chase

  • Board game designed to teach patterns and pre-reading skills
  • Quick, fun game that children can grasp quickly
  • No reading skills required
  • Easy setup and cleanup
  • Based on the award-winning The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game!®
]]> https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/sophies-seashell-scramble/feed/ 0 GeoSafari Jr. Talking Space Explorer https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/geosafari-jr-talking-space-explorer/ https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/geosafari-jr-talking-space-explorer/#respond Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:10:43 +0000 https://smarttoysandbooks.com/?post_type=bigcommerce_product&p=2375138 The Big Idea

Explore the cosmos—and spark curiosity about space—with a talking play telescope designed by scientists! Includes telescope with high-res LCD screen, 130+ images and videos (including media from NASA), and 200 fun space facts and quiz questions spoken by Emily Calandrelli, space expert and star of Netflix’s Emily’s Wonder Lab.

Psst…They’re Learning!

  • Encourage STEM learning
  • Spark an early interest in astronomy, exploration and discovery
  • Encourage role playing, and imaginative play

Cut to the Chase

  • Includes kid-tough telescope with LCD screen, 120 crystal-clear images, and 13 videos straight from the cosmos
  • Features the voice of Emily Calandrelli, star of Netflix’s Emily’s Wonder Lab
  • Talking Space Explorer requires 3 AA batteries, not included
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Build early literacy skills – and kid confidence! – with the Hot Dots Alphabet Set! Preschoolers practice letter recognition and formation all by themselves with 72 colorful letter lessons and an interactive Hot Dots Pen. Kids simply press the pen to any answer dot for an immediate audio (mutable) and visual response – green light and congratulatory sounds for correct responses, red light, and gentle redirection for incorrect answers. Hot Dots Pen requires 2 AAA batteries, not included.

Psst…They’re Learning!

  • Playful, interactive learning
  • Confidence-building feedback
  • Provides ample practice time, and perfect tool for early reading skills
  • Encourages independent learning

Cut to the Chase

  • Includes 36 double-sided, illustrated activity cards (72 lessons!)
  • Activities include letter recognition, and formation, an early reading skill
  • Hot Dots Pen requires 2 AAA batteries (not included)
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Build early literacy skills – and kid confidence! – with the Hot Dots Beginning Phonics Set! Preschoolers practice letter sounds, initial sounds, final sounds, rhyming words, reading and spelling – all by themselves – with 72 colorful phonics lessons and an interactive Hot Dots Pen. Kids simply press the pen to any answer dot for an immediate audio (mutable) and visual response – green light and congratulatory sounds for correct responses, red light, and gentle redirection for incorrect answers.

Psst…They’re Learning!

  • Playful, interactive learning
  • Confidence-building feedback
  • Provides ample practice time, and perfect tool for early reading skills
  • Encourages independent learning

Cut to the Chase

  • Includes 36 double-sided, illustrated activity cards (72 lessons!)
  • Activities include letter sounds, initial sounds, final sounds, rhyming words, reading and spelling, an early reading skill
  • Hot Dots Pen requires 2 AAA batteries (not included)
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Set 1

  • Pollens & Spore
    • Pollen of lily, sunflower pollen, bottle brush sport, fern spore
  • Tiny Creature
    • Plant louse, fruit fly, shrimp egg, silk work larva (moth)
  • Textile Fibers
    • Hemp fiber, silk stuff, cotton fiber, bemberg
  • Insects
    • Leg of butterfly, wing of butterfly, wing of locust, leg of honey bee
  • Plants
    • Pine wood, camellia leaf section, bamboo shoot, sponge gourd
  • Animals
    • Goldfish scale, hare hair, camel hair, feather fowl point

Set 2

  • Pollens & Spore
    • Tulip pollen, leaf spore, pinte tree pollen, orange pollen
  • Tiny Creature
    • Common red sponge, angora rabbit hair, ant, mouse fur
  • Textile Fibers
    • Panya, nylon, wool, handmade paper
  • Insects
    • Locust leg, worker bee wing, bee antenna, bee abdomen
  • Plants
    • Stem of corn, leaf of Nerium, onion rind, silver berry scaly hair
  • Animals
    • Cat hair, canary feather, dog hair, sheep hair
]]> https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/prepared-slides-bundle/feed/ 0 Bubble Tea Break! Sensory Fidget Activity Set https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/bubble-tea-break-sensory-fidget-activity-set/ https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/bubble-tea-break-sensory-fidget-activity-set/#respond Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:10:32 +0000 https://smarttoysandbooks.com/?post_type=bigcommerce_product&p=2375132

Take a bubble tea break for the senses with these friendly sensory fidget toys! Kids discover sweet ways to reset and build social-emotional learning (SEL) skills when they play with the Bubble Tea Break! Sensory Fidget Activity Set from Learning Resources. This set of three bubble tea fidget friends comes with all kinds of fidget fun—kids can twirl the straw and shake the cup to find the sequin smiley faces hidden in the swirling sand, squish the dumpling, and pop the donut popper! There’s more than just fidget fun here, though—the Bubble Tea Break! Sensory Fidget Activity Set also comes with guided calming activities that help kids get centered, as well as an illustrated emotions poster that helps them identify and talk about what they’re feeling. This set of preschool sensory toys is ready for fidget fun at home or on the go play, as well as use in classroom calm down corners or school counselor supplies, or even as a therapy game for kids!

 
 

 

 
 

 
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Includes:

  • Stand
  • 5 Colorful doughnuts

Largest measuring 5″ in diameter.

]]> https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/stack-em-up-doughnuts/feed/ 0 Smoothie Break! Sensory Fidget Activity Set https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/smoothie-break-sensory-fidget-activity-set/ https://smarttoysandbooks.com/products/smoothie-break-sensory-fidget-activity-set/#respond Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:10:24 +0000 https://smarttoysandbooks.com/?post_type=bigcommerce_product&p=2375128

Treat yourself to a sensory smoothie with these friendly sensory fidget toys. Kids discover sweet ways to reset and build social-emotional learning (SEL) skills when they play with the Smoothie Break! Sensory Fidget Activity Set from Learning Resources. This set of three smoothie fidget friends comes with all kinds of fidget fun—kids can twirl and swirl the boba balls, squeeze the textured strawberry, and spin the orange spinner! There’s more than just fidget fun here, though—the Smoothie Break! Sensory Fidget Activity Set also comes with guided calming activities that help kids get centered, as well as an illustrated emotions poster that helps them identify and talk about what they’re feeling. This set of preschool sensory toys is ready for fidget fun at home or on the go play, as well as use in classroom calm down corners or school counselor supplies, or even as a therapy game for kids!

 
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