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Social skills learnt through playing with Sylvanian Families

Posted on August 03, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

We all know the importance of our family, the love we share amongst each other, the hopes, dreams, and so much more. We learn this from the moment we are born, and there is nothing more important than family to us.

This is why we love Sylvanian families. It is such a wonderful collection of little families, who live together, share and enjoy their little village life. There are so many aspects to the Sylvanian families that we are unlikely to include them all in this post.

Created back in 1965, Sylvanian Families have continued to grow around the world. Their focus has always been on three main principles, nature, family, and love and what a wonderful aspiration that is.

With Sylvanian Families, your children learn key social skills. They learn how diverse families can be through the different types of families. The collections include the chocolate rabbit family, silk cat family, and the walnut squirrel family. They all might just live in a cosy cottage starter home :), or the grand Beachwood hall.

Whether you start with the cottage starter home, of cedar terrace you can start small and slowly build your village. There are eating out sets like the hamburger restaurant, juice bar for the healthier families, or the courtyard restaurant. In fact, you can build this to include the soft ice cream shop, the pizza parlour, or the popcorn cart. Luckily they all live near the forest, so they can go for a run afterwards :).

This enables you to build a little village, and that brings all of the Sylvanian communities together. Also, we personally love the tree house, as it comes with a slide, and hammock when joined with the log cabin.

With a great focus on nature, all the settings have that forest village feel. It helps your little one learn about relationships and love of others.

All the figures are soft and warm by appearance, and are very detailed with a happy disposition. It is not trendy per se, even though it grows in popularity every single year. It is a collectable and whether your child has one family, one piece or many we know they will love playing with them.

How do we know, our daughter loves them, and her passion for them has made us fall in love with the Sylvanian families even more than we originally had.

From an education point of view, the Sylvanian families teach your child about love, social interaction, and fine motor skills. It is also great for understanding different animals and nature and emotional development. The families are always happy, and whilst life is not always that way it is a wonderful disposition to have.

We stock the complete range, because we believe in the Sylvanian families so strongly. Even our little boy has started to play with them. Oh yes, he loves the Sylvanian family saloon car.

They are a beautifully made product, and one that you will be happy you bought. We are proud to sell it, and use it ourselves :)

For the full range please click here, and we would love to hear about your experiences with this wonderful collection.

Posted in dolls and dollhouses, educational toys, gifts for children, social development toy, sylvanianfamilies

Fat Brain Toys Tobbles Stacking Toy

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

Tobbles, Tobbles, Tobbles either over or around; the Fat Brain Toys Tobbles is made to wobble, wiggle, spin, stack, balance, wobble or of course tobble :).

If you have not heard about Fat Brain Toys, the are like us curators and creators of toys for learning and fun. We are proud to be selling their toys in Australia, and have a great collection to showcase.

The Fat Brain Toys Tobbles is a toy that your child can stack, spin, tilt, and wiggle. It needs to be seen to be believed. It is unlike traditional stacking toys, as it does so much more than just stack.

The colours are vibrant, and each of the beautifully created spheres are perfectly weighted, and nest inside each other.

As with most of our selection this is another award winning toy. Having been selected in the 2012 TIA Toy Finalist of the Year, Dr Toy Top 10 Best Creative Toys, and Dr Toy Top 100 Best Children Creative Products.

Although none of this matters to us unless your child benefits through play and development. Our goal is that every toy we sell to you is not only fun for your child, but develops their beautiful mind.

This is why we have the Tobbles, which is suitable for children 3 years + , and the Tobbles Neo suitable for babies 6 months + in stock.

The Tobbles builds your child’s creativity, fine motor skills, co-ordination and visual spatial acuity. (The ability to see clearly and understand the distance between points). Yes, originally we too had to look that one up too!

Fat Brain Toys are focused on toys that are outside of the box, offering you and your child something different. In this case, this toy is so much more than just stacking cups…

So whether it is for your child, grandchild, or just the child inside of you we really feel you are going to love this one.

You can see the full range of Fat Brain Toys by clicking here, or just go straight to the Tobbles, or Tobbles Neo by clicking here.

Posted in award winning toys, educational toys, spatial smart toys, stacking toy

Ravensburger Puzzles and the Benefits to your Childs Mind

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

For only a few more days, we have Ravensburger puzzles on sale. If you have not heard about their collection and the puzzles they make, you are in for a surprise.

However, before we tell you about the quality of these puzzles, let us share with you how they develop your child. Puzzles develop your child’s spatial skills, fine motor skills, attention, concentration and focus. It also helps them learn about matching, sorting, and how many components can end up making something bigger than the sum of the parts. It also develops their memory, and recognition skills as well as problem solving capability.

In fact, puzzles are nothing short of amazing for educational development. They touch on so many area’s of both physical and brain development, that we feel every home should have them. They are superb for adults too :)

However, like anything if the product is not good the enjoyment does not last. This is why we are so proud to bring you the Ravensburger collection and also at a sale price.

Now this sales will end 30th July 2014, so with only a few days left, we wanted to write a blog and just let you know why they are so good.

The Ravensburger puzzles have soft click technology, so this means when you put them together they have that nice clicking feel. You know where it just fits snugly into the next piece.

Ravensburger creates puzzles were no two pieces are the same. Ravensburger uses international photography agencies, photographers, and internationally renowned illustrators. These agencies and illustrators create their unique pictures, portraits, and puzzle boards.

All the Ravensburger puzzles are produced on the finest composition of cardboard and must be perfect. It has been specifically designed for Ravensburger. As per their unique and exacting guidelines, they are environmentally friendly.

The secret behind the print of the puzzle picture onto a high-quality linen embossed paper, is using high-tech machines. Each puzzle picture is created with almost watchmaker precision.

Oh yes, if you ever loose a piece of the puzzle, the Ravensburger service department will be glad to assist you.

We are proud to carry this range, and we know it will bring you and your child hours of fun and development. It is one of the highest quality puzzle products on the market, and we know it will serve you and your family well.

There is a puzzle for everyone, please click here to see the full range.

Should you be after one that we do not carry, please let us know, and we can get one for you.

KidzInc because learning should be fun!

Posted in educational toys, puzzles, ravensburger, spatial smart toys

Engino Toy System - the Engino Inventor Basic

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

You are not going to believe this toy. The Engino Toy System Inventor is one of the coolest toys ever created.

As you know Thomas Edison is a famous inventor, in fact one of the most prolific inventors to have ever lived. He invented and held patents for over 1,000 inventions including the light bulb.

He was relentless in his pursuit of new ideas and his desire to improve the world. It is believed he tried over ten thousand variations of the light bulb, before finding light :).

Now if Thomas Edison had a toy like the Engino inventor when he was little, he might have invented the light bulb earlier, or with fewer attempts. Of course, we are just theorising for fun.

However, the Engino Inventor basic 25 model set is amazing. Your child can create 25 different motor powered models.

Yes, that is right, motor powered Engino models. This ranges from a car, plane, bulldozer, helicopter, racing car, truck, crane, and robotic dog just to name a few.

The Engino Toy System inventor basic has been designed to maximise creativity, and your child’s imagination.

The list of awards it has won is almost endless. However let us name a few for you.

The Engino Toy System Inventor has won:

Dr. Toy's 10 best educational toys
Dr. Toy's 100 best educational product
Toy 7 construction toys by www.about.com
Also, the ministry for Education Selection for Technology Education, Construction, Engineering, Eye-Hand Co-Ordination.

If you are after a toy that builds your child’s spatial intelligence, imagination, and motor skills this is the one.

The Engino Inventor 25 Basic comes with:

✓ 110 pieces and 475 connecting points.

✓ Printed instructions, and downloadable additional instructions

✓ It is compatible with the rest of the Engino series. Yes, unlike other more known brands, you can link the series together.

✓ Includes a 3v motor so your child can see their creations come to life

✓ It promotes logic, problem solving, imagination and your child’s interest in technology, and eye-hand co-ordination.

The Engino Toy System Inventor series is possibly the most advanced construction toy in the world.

We are very proud to stock and sell the Engino Toy System Inventor series, and we can not wait to see all the inventions your little one creates.

Click here to see the full range of Engino, or here to be taken through to the Engino Inventor basic series, which is anything but basic.

Posted in award winning toys, construction toys for boys, construction toys for girls, educational toys, engino toy system, spatial smart toys

GoldieBlox - The Construction Toy Made for Girls

Posted on July 19, 2014 by Lubica Misevski

Hey??? Yes you heard us right the construction made for little girls. You see there is this story about this engineer by the name of Debbie Sterling, who only discovered engineering at the age of 18.

She was never exposed to building toys, even Lego as a little girl and never thought twice about it. Until she discovered engineering, and then she discovered that 80% of the engineers were male.

Why? Well she figured the answer was simple, no little girls are given construction toys like GoldieBlox. So GoldieBlox was born through the ingenuity of Debra, and the community of Kickstarter.

GoldieBlox is an engineering toy made for little girls. It is a book and construction set, because little girls love to read, and they get to do this with Goldie and her crew of motley friends. As they read along they build and create the same construction sets as Goldie and her friends.

They build what Goldie builds, and at the same time they develop their spatial skills. It is the toy you may have wished you had, and the one toy that helps little girls discover if they would also like to be engineers one day. Even if they don’t, they will develop their spatial skills, be creative when they make their own designs, and love the adventure part of the GoldieBlox story.

GoldieBlox combines spatial skills and reading skills. Which of course develops verbal skill. GoldieBlox was born in San Francisco just over a year ago, and we are proud to help bring it to the world, and your daughter.

Oh yes, did we mention it comes in pink :)

Click here to buy the GoldieBlox construction toy for your little girl.

Posted in award winning toys, construction toys for girls, educational toys, goldieblox, spatial smart toys

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