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InnyBin by Fat Brain Toys: The Benefits of Playing with this Shape Sorter

Posted on January 26, 2020 by Lubica Misevski

When you're searching for toys that can not only entertain your child but aid in their development, you want toys that will spark their interest and encourage them to develop those vital skills. Fat Brain Toys keeps that at the forefront in all of their toys, designing toys with bright colours, fun designs, and a variety of purposes that can help little learners develop important skills. Inny Bin is no exception to that rule.

What is Inny Bin?

Inny Bin is a hard-edged cube with soft, elastic mesh that allows children to carefully place each of several unique, colourful shapes into the bin. Unlike normal sorting toys, Inny Bin does not simply have one hole that each block can go in. Instead, it offers the ability for toddlers to manipulate each shape through the elastic bands of the cube. It comes with a variety of shapes, each with their own unique textures to encourage exploration. Little ones can put them in their mouths, explore them with their hands, and experiment with how those different shapes fit through the elastic bands of the toy. This fascinating little toy is the perfect way to encourage exploration and invite little ones to learn more about the world around them, all while playing with a toy that is sure to delight.

Inny Bin was also nominated for 2020 Toy of the Year Finalist in the Infant/Toddler Toy of the Year Category.  

Important Skills Built by Inny Bin

Inny Bin helps little ones develop a number of important skills as they explore the world around them. Consider:

Fine motor skills. As little ones play with Inny Bin, they will experiment with fine motor skills: holding the shapes in their hands, manipulating them through the elastic bands, and pulling them back out again. Fine motor skills become increasingly important as your child gets older and needs to handle many tasks independently, including self-feeding, getting dressed, and manipulating other toys. Eventually, those fine motor skills will aid your child with handwriting, drawing, and other school-related tasks. 

Exploration. Toddlers are still a blank slate. They still haven't learned about all the ins and outs of their world, including how that world will change in response to the way they interact with it. Exploring safely is critical to fostering creativity, problem-solving skills, and overall development. While experimenting with Inny Bin, your toddler will have the opportunity to develop a better understanding of colours, textures, and elasticity--concepts that your child will need later in life. 

Cause and effect. When the elastic bands stretch, they leave room for the toy to slip through. Some toys, especially those that are larger or have bigger bumps, may need more room to slip through than others. Experimenting with Inny Bin will allow your child to get a better look at cause and effect, including how his actions impact the toy's ability to slip through. 

Unlike many traditional shape sorters, Inny Bin offers a lower-frustration experience for your child. While traditional shape sorters may quickly frustrate little learners who can't quite manipulate the toys into the proper shapes or match them to the exact shape they're supposed to slip inside, Inny Bin allows your toddler to easily slip the toy through the elastic bands at any point, decreasing frustration and increasing the time spent using the toy. 

Are you looking for educational toys that will help your children learn more about the world around them through play? We can help you find those ideal toys to help encourage development and present your child with more learning opportunities--and have fun at the same time.

You can purchase Inny Bin by clicking the following link that takes you directly to the Inny Bin product. Buy your Inny Bin today.

Contact us today to learn more about Fat Brain Toys or the other toys we've carefully curated to bring your child the best possible learning and play experience. 

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The Benefits of Fat Brain Toys Spinny Pins

Posted on January 25, 2020 by Lubica Misevski

The toys your child plays with every day can have a huge impact on overall development--and in Spinny Pins, Fat Brain toys have, as always, kept that need for development through play at the forefront. This fascinating toy offers a variety of textures and movement options that will help entertain and delight little learners while helping them develop many of the skills they need. 

What are Spinny Pins?

Spinny Pins is a Fat Brain Toy that contains a weighted bowl on a wobbly base and five colourful, textured pins that also wobble and spin to help delight and entertain the child. Each of the five colourful pins has its own unique texture and design, including bright colours that are great for colour sorting and visual awareness. Children can use Spinny Pins for a variety of tasks: fitting the pins into slots within the big bowl, placing pins in right side up or upside down, or spinning and wobbling the pieces through incredible creative play. 

What Skills can Children Build with Spinny Pins?

Spinny Pins allows children to develop and enrich a wide range of skills, including:

Fine motor skills. Developing fine motor skills in early childhood is incredibly important to a child's eventual development and capability. Children with strong fine motor skills are better prepared to handle basic self-care tasks as they get older, including buttoning and zipping clothes, handling feeding tasks, writing and drawing, or performing many of the functions expected of children every day. While some of those skills may be a long way away for your child, working to place the pins in the wobbly bowl of the Spinny Pins toy can help build those important fine motor skills, improving grip strength and helping your child learn the cause and effect associated with those basic tasks. 

Matching and sorting. Matching and sorting skills help many children order their world. This process of sorting and organising can help children learn how to apply logical thinking skills. In playing with Spinny Pins, they're examining the pins and the holes in the bottom where the pins can go and making associations between those things. They're learning how objects are alike (after all, they're all pins!) and how they're different (different colours, textures, and shapes). This vital skill might still be in its early stages, but it can offer your child a number of advantages as they progress through those infant years and on to school. 

Sensory exploration. Like matching and sorting skills, sensory exploration is critical for children of all ages. Through sensory exploration, little ones learn more about how certain textures feel. Little ones may place those toys in their mouths, testing those textures against their teeth, tongue, and gums to get a better idea of how they feel. With Spinny Pins, your child can also experiment with balance and textures. 

Experimentation. Children learn about cause and effect through experimentation. As they experiment with the world around them, they get a better idea of how things work: how things move, how they interact with one another, and how one action can cause another response. The bump on the bottom of the bowl in the Spinny Pins set, for example, ensures that the bowl is always off-balance, which means that it will wobble and twirl with a light touch from your child. This can help your child learn about balance and how to impact wobbly objects. 

Spinny Pins are designed to encourage a wide range of play and exploration in your child. With its bright colours and unique textures, including different textures on the top and bottom of each pin, this toy helps encourage toddler play and development at the same time. 

To buy your Spinny Pins, please click on Spinny Pins. 

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Your Baby Learns and Plays with the Oombee Ball by Fat Brain Toys Australia

Posted on July 20, 2019 by Lubica Misevski

Fat Brain Toys has a great product to help your baby play and learn, even at the tender age of six months. The colourful and carefully textured Oombee Ball will keep your baby engaged, help develop basic motor skills, and introduce her/him to colours, textures, and spaces.

Read on to find out how to entertain and teach your baby with the Oombee Ball by Fat Brain Toys.

What is the Oombee Ball by Fat Brain Toys? 

Fat Brain Toys took the concept of the traditional Matryoshka doll, which nestles one doll inside another, to a whole new level by redesigning it as a fun and educational baby toy. The Oombee Ball is a set of four brightly coloured, highly textured spheres that are just right for a baby to handle. All the balls open up (except the smallest one) so that one sphere can nestle perfectly inside another. In addition, the spheres are safely tethered together in a delightfully wobbly row so that your baby can safely play with them for hours. The spheres are made of the highest quality of materials, and they are constructed to last.

Oombee Balls and child development: Grasping the basics

Your baby will be busy exploring the world around her during the second half of her first year of life. She will be attracted by exciting new colours and textures, and she'll develop basic motor skills when picking up, placing, and replacing objects. She will build upon these initial movements later when she needs to grasp and manipulate everyday things such as household items, zippers and buttons, tools, paper and crayons, and so on. 

Vivid colors

Introduce and reinforce colours with the Oombee Ball. Each connected ball is brightly coloured to visually engage your baby, allowing you the opportunity to teach her the name of the current colour she holds in her hand. Motor skills and spatial abilities develop concurrently as she handles each coloured sphere, associates it with the sound of its colour name, and places it where it needs to go. 

Varied textures

Whether the ball she has in her hand has grooves in the shape of ripples, lines, swirls, or dots, your baby will spend hours of enjoyment exploring the unique texture of each sphere. In this way, giving your six-month-old an Oombee Ball is an ideal method for developing her sense of touch.

Spatial reasoning 

Inspired by the traditional Russian nesting dolls, Oombee Balls allow tiny hands the opportunity to place one ball easily within the other. By completing this important task, your baby develops a sense of spatial relationships as she figures out how each sphere fits into its home. She'll also get a visual on the uniquely shaped grooves on each sphere, which will help her recognize geometric shapes later on.

Object permanence: A growing awareness of things

Finally, much like the game of peek-a-boo, your child will learn to make the ball go away and come back as she puts it inside its containing sphere. In other words, your baby learns about object permanence -- a key concept for understanding that things exist in the real world regardless of whether they are out of sight, out of hearing, or out of reach.  

As a leading educational toy company, at Kidzinc we're dedicated to sourcing safe, engaging, and enjoyable toys for young minds. We're the experts on assisting parents with helping their kids develop the abilities and talents they will use for a lifetime through books, puzzles, games, toys, and interactive play.

For more information on the Oombee Ball by Fat Brain Toys and how it can help your baby learn during her/his first year of life, please contact us.

Or, you can simply purchase the Oombee Ball by clicking the link here. 

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Introducing the Dimpl Wobbl sensory baby toy by Fat Brain Toys!

Posted on July 19, 2019 by Lubica Misevski

Fat Brain Toys has done it again with their newest sensory toy made specifically for babies! The Dimpl Wobbl is a unique, one of a kind sensory toy, safe for the mouths and hands of your little one. Made of high-quality silicone and materials, this toy encourages sensory learning, tactile exploration and fidget fun that is vital for your child's young mind. Perfect for babies, the Dimpl Wobbl is BPA free so you can rest assured knowing your baby is safe, as they spend hours playing with their new favourite toy!

The Dimpl Wobbl

Grab, Chew, Wobble and Pop - this toy does it all. On top of this unique, wobble sensory toy, is a silicone button that little hands can't help but push. Surrounded by a bumpy, textured frame, the Dimpl Wobbl promotes the baby's sensory learning through a satisfying touch. The surface of this toy is also great for teething and soothing sore gums - making this a toy your child can grow with at different stages of their early lives.

Just when you think you have reached the end of possibilities with the Dimpl Wobbl, your child's imagination can soar as the weighted base allows for the top to wiggle, wobble, tilt, and spin! Available in either orange, blue, or green colour, your child's visual development will be captivated by this new toy, making this tactile adventure seemingly irresistible to your little ones!  

What sets the Dimpl Wobbl apart from other toys?

While this toy will keep your baby entertained for hours, it's also good to know that your baby's brain is growing as they play. The silicone top will encourage sensory learning through tactile investigation. At the same time, the wobbling base will allow for fidgeting fun, expanding the possibilities of movement for your baby. When that gets tiring, simply pop the Dimpl Wobbl in your child's mouth for a soothing texture to aide in sore gums. No baby likes teething, but the bumpy texture makes for a great teething alternative.   

Sensory Learning & Tactile Exploration

Starting from birth and all the way through early childhood, children use their senses to explore and try to understand the world around them. One of the first ways babies begin this learning process is through the sense of touch. Providing different opportunities for young children to use their sense of touch is crucial to brain development.  

Sensory play is vital to help build nerve connections in the brain's pathways. This will ultimately lead to your child's ability to comprehend and complete more complex learning later in life, supports cognitive growth, and problem-solving skills. One of the simplest ways to engage your child's senses is by playing with something full of colour, movement, and textures. Lucky for you, the Dimpl Wobbl has all of that!  

The first year of a baby's life is full of sensory learning advancements. Your child's senses develop faster during the first 12 months of their lives than at any time after their first year. As almost all parents know, babies grab on to anything and everything they can get their hands on. While frustrating at times, it is your baby's way of learning about textures and surfaces to better understand their surroundings.  

Essentially, each time your baby interacts with materials, they are building their physical abilities by increasing their comprehension of ways to manipulate materials in a variety of ways. Here at Kidzinc, we understand the necessity of growing the mind of young babies, which is why we bring you the Dimpl Wobbl. There are numerous benefits to sensory play!

Fidgeting Fun

Not only can your child press and feel around the top of our new toy but being able to move and manipulate the placement of the toy increases their spatial awareness and grows their need for fidgeting. The world around your baby is completely new, and can sometimes be overwhelming. Having a toy with fidgeting capabilities can help filter out extra sensory information that can overstimulate your baby.

Our Dimpl Wobbl provides sensory input for your baby in a less distracting way, helping to improve their concentration and attention to tasks. All your baby knows is they are having fun, interacting with a wobbling toy, while you as a parent can rest easy knowing they are content and calm focusing on our newest toy.

You can purchase the Dimpl Wobbl Sensory Baby Toy by clicking the following link Dimpl Wobbl Sensory Baby Toy.

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Build A Child's Imagination with the Fat Brain Toys Joinks Construction Set

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Lubica Misevski

The newest product from Fat Brain Toys inspires children of all ages to create and innovate. Fat Brain Toys Joinks Construction Set 76 Piece provides endless options for children to stretch and bend their imaginations. 

What are Joinks?

Joinks are lightweight dowels that join together with the help of multi-pronged silicone connectors. The possibilities for creation are endless, as each dowel can be connected with 1 to 4 other dowels, to form inventive combinations.

The quality materials in Fat Brain Toys ensure it will last and continue to be a part of a child's life, for a long time to come. Safe and kid-friendly joinks appeal to builders of all ages. The substantial size of this set means that there are enough pieces for adults to create their own structures, side-by-side with the children in their lives.

Joinks Appeals to all the senses

Fat Brain Toys Joinks Construction Set 76 Piece appeals to all the senses of the developing child. This set works on multiple levels, with the ability to stretch into extension activities. It appeals to the senses of all learners:

Sized right for all ages and STEAM applications

The set is suitable for ages 3 and up, meaning that kids can enjoy this as an early-learning toy. But the possibilities don't end at preschool, as developing learners can use this set as their own learning expands. 

The "STEAM" (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) applications of this set are inclusive of many skill sets. Learners can create models of molecules, or demonstrate how something works. Young engineers can plan out innovative prototypes and create new structures. Budding artists can design sculptural creations from their own imaginations. Mathematical concepts can be illustrated through counting, combining, and creating—much is possible with the pieces in this set. 

Put downtime to good use

Parents and caretakers today know the importance of good, old-fashioned playtime. Unstructured play allows children to explore their talents and skills, as well as learning important problem-solving skills. The Fat Brain Toys Joinks Construction Set 76 Piece provides youngsters with important opportunities to see "what works." If a structure leans, a child will learn how to fix it. If something looks unbalanced, a child will learn how to make it even.

The set can also be used for cooperative and collaborative activities. If a child works together with another child (or multiple children), important social skills of sharing and communicating come into play, as they set forward on bringing forth a structure out of their imaginations.

Kidzinc is proud to offer stimulating, educational products to the next generation of learners. We curate particular toys like this construction set to give the children in your life the best opportunities for fun and development.

You can purchase the Joinks construction set by Fat Brain Toys by clicking the link here. 

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Hiding Hedgehogs: Fat Brain Toys' newest learning game!

Posted on July 01, 2019 by Lubica Misevski

Hiding Hedgehogs is the newest tactile learning game to come out of the minds of Fat Brain Toys! Perfect for your young child, this interactive game takes imagination and integrates child development, so your baby is learning while having the best time. Perfect for children ages 2-6, young children can enjoy playing with these cute toys all while developing their minds - what can be better than that!

What is it?

The colorful 4 piece game, includes hedgehogs of differentiating sizes - allowing for a stackable and rollable play experience. Each hedgehog is a vibrant, different colour that visually appeals to the child. All pieces also have zigzagging textures and varying faces to keep your child engaged with each hedgehog. This game doesn't stop with a stackable outcome, each piece also has rolling wheels to allow each hedgehog to connect and roll into a cute animal train. You can connect them big to small, nose to tail, whichever way your child sees fit! Hiding Hedgehogs game pieces are made highly durable and of quality material, so you can rest assured this toy will last after hours of play from your little one.   

The Science Behind the Hedgehogs

All baby knows when playing with the new Fat Brain Toy, is that they are having fun on their pretend adventure with a cute family of hedgehogs. What they don't know is that they are learning and growing their fine motor skills. Parents can feel great knowing their little one is developing sensory, tactile, and spatial reasoning. This is all going on consecutively as they are encouraging their child to play until their heart's content!   

Motor Skills and Young Children

Acquiring motor skills is just one part of your child's development. Fine motor skills are those that involve a refined use of the smaller muscle groups like the hand, fingers, and wrist. The evolution of these skills, a child is able to complete important tasks such as writing, independently feeding themselves, buttoning and zipping up clothes, and much more. Mastering fine motor skills are vital for a child's independence and growth. With our game, the more your child wants to play and explore with these adorable hedgehogs, the more precise their movements will be, and the more they will strengthen their muscles and coordination. Depending on a child's age, there are specific things that will intrigue your child and help aid in the development of their young minds.  

Tactile and Sensory Learning

A baby's first experiences in their surrounding environment occur through touch. Tactile learning expands on the central interface between our bodies and the world around us. When young children feel something, they gather multiple informative cues about the objects that are around them. In our Hiding Hedgehogs game, children are able to hold and feel the sizes and textures of each hedgehog, helping hem infer the differentiating sizes and weight of each critter, to better determine a way for them to stack or roll the toys. Understanding the importance of touch for long-term development with your child can help show how your baby may use their tactile experiences to develop more advanced learning skills.   While tactile learning helps teach your child about the environment around them, sensory learning includes any activity that stimulates your young child's senses. Sensory play is vital in shaping what children believe to be positive and safe in the brain. This ultimately shapes the choices children make and positively impacting their behavior. Exposing your child to sensory learning when they are young, usually leads to a better sense of learning and stimulating their senses: touch, smell, taste, movement, balance, hearing, and sight.

Fat Brain Toys - Hiding Hedgehogs

When your child is engaged in play with our Hiding Hedgehogs, they are using multiple senses to accomplish a task all while being stimulated. The more senses used to accomplish a task, the more your child will learn from the experience and retain more information for the future.   With our new game, your child is stacking the hedgehogs, they are building on their understanding of depth perception and hand-eye coordination. They are also feeling the sizes and weight of each piece to be able to visually distinguish which critter goes where. With the rollable concept for each hedgehog, your child's hearing senses will be intrigued, and their imagination on the places they could take their new hedgehog friends will grow by the minute! It is imperative that you learn how to integrate sensory learning into your child's life.

You can buy the Fat Brain Toys Hiding Hedgehogs learning game here.

At Kidzinc we only select the best toys, games, and puzzles for children and kids to develop young minds. 

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The Benefit of playing with BUGZZLE Puzzle by Fat Brain Toys

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Lubica Misevski

Puzzle-solving toys have always been the best way to actively engage a child's mind and increase hand-to-eye coordination. The visual skills required to complete a puzzle are also linked to helping children advance in both writing and math skills. According to Australian.gov, "Playing with jigsaw puzzles teaches children problem solving and helps with fine motor skills...Always look for age-appropriate puzzles. The younger the child, the bigger the pieces need to be."

What are Bugzzle Puzzles?

Bugzzle by Fat Brain Toys takes the concept of jigsaw puzzles and transforms the pieces into an easy to handle puzzle-solving experience for young children. The 18 puzzle pieces have a different, bright colour on each side of the puzzle piece to entice visual appeal in children. It has been proven that children start seeing colour as early as 5 months old, so even the youngest minds can take advantage of Bugzzle puzzles.

You don't need to worry about your young ones growing tired of playing Bugzzle puzzles, because each toy has a choice of 40 challenge cards to keep children coming back for more puzzle-solving excitement!  The cards are made from a high-quality ABS plastic that is also BPA-free. BPA in plastic toys has been linked to developmental problems in infants and attention disorders in children. This makes Bugzzle Puzzles a healthy choice for your growing family.

How to Play Bugzzle

The key to a puzzle toy that keeps children coming back is having the right balance between fun and challenge. Bugzzle puzzle gives young children both a delightful and brain training experience. Here is how Bugzzle Puzzles are played:

This is a brilliant and fun puzzle that is also very safe for handling with smooth edges and a perfect size. Watch your child's face light up with pleasure after they successfully solve one Bugzzle puzzle after another.

The Benefits of Playing Bugzzle

Playing Bugzzle encourages the fine motor skills of a child - this is the technique of placing a Bugzzle piece into its correct position and orientation. Simply placing Bugzzle pieces in the right position requires your child to use problem-solving, spatial reasoning, and critical thinking skills. But at the same time, Bugzzle removes the boredom that is found in the old-fashioned block and build puzzle sets that offer children only one option of completion.

Behind the colourful and satisfying time at play, your child is actually being exposed to early math skills such as adding and taking away, in addition to visual recognition of fractions which is a primary part of early childhood math education. And don't forget the soft skills that children are developing as they complete a puzzle - to stick with a project, to not give up, to not get frustrated, and to celebrate accomplishments.

The educational Bugzzle Puzzles are suitable for children from age 3 to 8 years old. And with 40 challenge cards, your child will certainly not become bored of this toy! All parents know that their child's brain matters and early development of critical and analytical thinking skills can pave the way for success at school and in life. 

One of the best ways to help your children succeed is to challenge their brain with a variety of activities that are proven to exercise the different parts of a child's developing brain. Bugzzle meets those challenges as the perfect educational toy for young and growing minds.

You can purchase Bugzzle here, or any of our wonderful range of Fat Brain Toys.

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