Our 4 year old is our crafty kid. Our 6 year old is our puzzle kid. Obviously, their roles are not set in stone, but by in large, that is what they prefer. As a parent, that’s why it was surprising to me that our oldest gravitated towards Paint By Sticker KIDS, a combination craft book that uses a little precision. This is a new book by Workman Publishing that lets kids create their own works of art using stickers.
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Go to any children’s museum and they’re likely to have some sort of steel plate on the wall with magnetic running boards for balls or marbles. Tumble Trax from Learning Resources is essentially the same version of those, just scaled down slightly for players at home. This is an activity that can keep kids engaged for hours, watching the marbles fall prey to gravity before being captured by magnetic boards.
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I dread the day when our children’s homework gets too difficult for me to assist with. That was my fear with STEM Robot Mouse Coding Activity Set by Learning Resource. I do not know how to code and here we have a children’s coding activity set. Do not obsess over the term ‘coding’ in this case. On the first page of the directions it states that all coding does is transforms information into a form that a computer can understand. After a few minutes with Colby, the programmable Robot Mouse adults will understand how to make it work and so will your children.
Yes, after showing our 4 year old how to program Colby to find the mouse he could do it on his own. It’s not because the activity set is simple by any means, it’s as complex as you want to make it as you create mazes of all sorts of turns, cubby holes and more for the cheese to hide in.
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STEM is the buzzword that parents hear in regards to their child’s education. It stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. These are the building blocks for the jobs that will be in demand when they’re entering the job force in 15+ years. STEM Simple Machines is a learning activity set from Learning Resources with 10 various STEM things to get their young minds thinking about these things.
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Like most kids I played Monopoly growing up. My older sister or my dad usually won, except for the rare occasion where I did-and celebrated too much, which caused more space between the games. World Monopoly Day is March 19 and to honor the board game that’s been wheeling and dealing since 1935 we played Monopoly Empire with our oldest. I was hesitant to do so for two reasons, which I’ll explain in a moment.
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Our 6 year old loves to play Skylanders SuperChargers. Shocking, a 6 year old that likes video games I know. However, what is good for parents and by default, children, is that Skylanders SuperChargers is a near all age perfect game that the entire family can enjoy. I say ‘near all age’ because the game is rated 6+, so younger brothers or sisters can’t get in on the Skylands action yet. Skylanders has partnered with Autism Speaks to create some Power Blue SuperChargers vehicles and characters in honor of Autism Awareness Month.
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I was compensated both financially and in product by Hasbro for the #YokaiWatch campaign. All opinions are ours. To some parents Yo-Kai Watch is Greek. it’s that foreign thing that kids dig but parents can’t tell their Yo-Kai from their spectral anomalies. In actuality, Yo-Kai Watch isn’t Greek at all, it’s Japanese. It’s an anime show that took Japan by storm and is now in the U.S. As go the shows, so go the toys and the Yo-Kai Watch toys from Hasbro are here, full of imagination based play-with a touch of collection, mischief and giggles.
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Hey, we received a copy of the game for review, all thoughts are our own. No Smurfing way. Your favorite friendly blue characters have found themselves in a predicament. They’ve gone for a walk in the forest only to come back and find their entire village destroyed! All of their trademark mushroom houses are reduced to ripped up fungi, as well as the scaled down tables, chairs and everything else. Thankfully they live in a forest where the Smurfs can go out and gather wood, rocks and other materials to build it all again. Or rather, you can rebuild Smurf village and hopefully find out who smashed it all to bits.
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