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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!
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! Â
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. Â
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. Â
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! Â
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. Â
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!
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.
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.Â
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.
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:
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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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!
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. Â
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! Â
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. Â
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. Â 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.
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. Â 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.Â
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."
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.
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:
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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.
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.Â
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.
As a parent, you want only the best for your kids, and this includes the toys that buy for them. You want to give them a great start for them to grow a strong interest in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
Your kids should grow up with a love for STEM that propels them into a STEM career that earns them 12 to 30% more than other occupations at all levels of education. But which toy is the right toy? Here's a look at the next generation in marble runs and how they encourage your child's love of STEM topics.Â
According to Beth Holloway, the director of the Women in Engineering Program at Purdue University, toys that utilize basic concepts of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) can do just that for all children, and, for girls, it can be even more important.
"Parents need to provide girls with toys that indulge their feminine side but also those that allow them to feel the sense of accomplishment that comes from designing and building something," Ms. Holloway said. "Those accomplishments will encourage them to continue to stretch their imaginations."
With the seemingly endless cuts to public funding in the US for science, art, and music education, many parents are finding themselves searching for ways to stimulate their child's mind in addition to encouraging play. Experts agree that open-ended play with educational toys is an excellent choice to accomplish that goal. Still, as recently as 2017, Fast Company reported that STEM-based toys were only accounting for two percent of the direct-to-consumer toy market. Â
In addition to promoting an interest in STEM fields, there are many immediate benefits of encouraging play with STEM educational toys, including:
While there are a number of different choices that are all beneficial in their own way, marble run games are gaining popularity among children and educators alike. In addition to sparking creativity, encouraging spatial thinking, and teaching problem-solving skills, they bridge the age gap to allow interactive play between siblings while still allowing for even young children to create and discover on their own.
Modern-day marble run building sets, such as Mindware's award-winning Q-Ba-Maze 2.0 Starter Box available in both Warm Colours and Cool Colours, allow for creative building options that would leave your child staring in amazement.
Consisting of open-sided cubes instead of the traditional tubes and connectors, engineers as young as six can learn the basic laws of gravity and movement while building everything from robots to more traditional mazes.
Q-BA-Maze 2.0 Starter Box Cool Colours Set
With gorgeous blue and green colors, this starter box of marble runs encourages your child to learn more about engineering and design and also helps them explore angles and enhances small motor skills. The kit includes 36 cubes that lock together in a variety of patterns from cubes to fun animal shapes.Â
The set includes 14 nickel plated marbles that your child uses to run the maze as they learn more about gravity and importance of velocity to keep the marbles running from one cube to the next. The toy teaches logic and reasoning, problem-solving skills, and basic engineering.Â
Q-Ba-Maze 2.0 Starter Box of Warm Colours Set
The starter box of marble runs is almost identical to the one with cool colours with the exception of the colours. This kit includes autumn colours, including yellow, orange, and white. Your kids can use their imagination to create a marble run that resembles a lion or funky geometric shape with the 36 BPA-free cubes.Â
As your kids build and rebuild marble runs, they learn the basics of engineering, logic, physics, and other STEM-related skills. When your child plays with a sibling or friend, they can expand their STEM skills with the teamwork and collaboration necessary.Â
When your child masters the basics and is ready to expand their creativity, Mindware has expansion options available in every price range to allow the play set to grow with your child and continue encouraging cognitive growth.
Q-Ba-Maze 2.0 Big Box SetÂ
The Q-BA-MAZE 2.0: Big Box Marble Run playset adds an additional 72 cubes consisting of 3 different designs to be used as scaffolding, ramps, paths for the marbles to escape through, and much more. Your child will play and create for hours as their imagination soars.Â
Without the need for glue, these colourful cubes snap into place, encouraging your child to use and grow their small-motor skills. Watch as your child claps in glee as gravity pulls the marble from one level of the run to the next and learn about basic physics and take their first steps toward learning about engineering.Â
Q-BA-MAZE 2.0 Rails Builder Set
The Q-BA-MAZE 2.0 Rails Builder Set adds 40 single-exit cubes, 20 bottom-exit cubes, 20 double-exit cubes, 10 straight-away rails, 4 marble catchers and 20 marbles.
Your child will use a variety of STEM skills to work with the varied designed cubes and straight rails that can drop the marbles between levels or allow them to move from one set of cubes to the next. Using planning and strategy skills, your child can create a different maze in a variety of shapes from flowers to geometric shapes each time they play.Â
Give your children, even more, to work with when you purchase this rails builder set.Â
Q-Ba-Maze 2.0 Ultimate Stunt SetÂ
Just when your child thinks they can do it all, Q-BA-MAZE 2.0: Ultimate Stunt Set Marble Run adds another 156 cubes, 9 stunt pieces, 8 marble catchers and 30 steel marbles to add countless hours of learning fun.
Or you can start with this set if you are adventurous and want many hours of creative fun!Â
Hours of fun and STEM learning await your child with this ultimate stunt set. Kids use this set to learn about cause and effect and basic physics as they build tall marble mazes that include loops, scaffolding, and inclines. Locking each piece of the maze into place help to build up your child's hand-to-eye coordination.Â
Giving your children a head start on STEM learning is easy when you purchase one or a couple of these marble run sets. You can mix and match the sets to create a larger palette for your kids to explore science and engineering through, and you won't go wrong with these award-winning sets.Â
As the benefits of STEM educational programs receive more public acclaim, parents concerned with ensuring that their child is receiving all of the educational benefits that play can offer are seeking new and innovative toys to foster those critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills which will encourage the invention of even more STEM toys in the future.
Click here to find more educational STEM toys that can help to start your child on the path to a lifelong love of learning.
Ozobot, the award-winning coding robot, is an invention that aids kids to use their innate curiosity to create. This tiny bot packs a big punch; crafted with ingenuity, it uses coloured lines and a more mature coding language (OzoBlockly) to teach children and adolescents the beauty of programming. Whether in the classroom or at home, children learn the skills necessary to succeed with Ozobot.
Ozobot Bit 2.0 is a small robot that is mostly manipulated through the use of Colour Codes and OzoBlockly (discussed later). Colour Codes are lines drawn with coloured markers denoting specific actions. Without the use of a screen, children can discover the wonder of programming with a few strokes of a marker. These thick lines will indicate whether Bit should turn, dance, pause, celebrate, change speeds, and much more. Creating games, mazes, puzzles, and more creative structures, such as roller coasters or drawings, require ingenuity, creativity, and the brandishing of a coloured marker. Introducing children early to the surprising complexity of programming simple movements for a robot ensures they will understand the basics of code before opening a textbook.
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Ozobot Evo is just as tiny but offers more technological incentives for your buck. This generation of Ozobot teaches children how to use recorded macros with the help of a remote-control app. With a simple tap, children can input direct actions for their Evo to perform rather than having to draw lines or manually program.
Evo has several functions different from Bit. Children can beam programs to Evo using Bluetooth rather than holding it onto a screen for a few seconds to calibrate. Evo also has a social networking capability, allowing for owners to send sequences of actions to their friend's bot for playtime even when separated. Alongside these new features, Evo has a gamification application that encourages extended play sessions. Children can feel accomplished by earning XP and leveling up through programming their Evo to perform their favourite actions. These features add value to the bot, increasing kids' confidence and ability to tinker for hours and using their creativity to learn through crafting.
OzoBlockly is the visual block language children use to power up Ozobots and get them moving. Built on Google Blockly, it teaches kids how to build programs for Ozobots to follow. The user interface is intuitive and provides a playground for children to visually learn code and how to manipulate blocks to create narratives for their Ozobots to act out. Extra material for using OzoBlockly to its fullest extent can be found on the OzoBlockly website.
Through a mimicry of coding language, Ozobot Colour Codes and OzoBlockly simulate building instructions for bot response. This combination of colour coding and block building teaches children how multiple tasks given to a bot can be acted out, allowing for pliability. Kids can also attach implements to their bots, guiding them to illustrate a complex image or act out a scenario.
Ozobots provide children with a physical and visual element to coding. By giving them an object that performs each task as instructed, children learn how to build rather than merely memorising. Failure soon becomes a part of the problem-solving process, in addition to playtime, just as playtime becomes a part of the learning process.
Collaboration is an essential component of learning with Ozobots. Standard classroom activities with textbooks and sheets of paper can come to life with ease. Students will be itching to figure out how to next use their Ozobots to fulfill their dreams.
These skills of providing accurate instructions, problem-solving, building, learning, failing, and collaborating are instrumental in coding. These are also essential components of becoming a STEM student. Children who learn how to accept failure as a part of the process for creation, and thus in experimentation, will have an easier time in developing those skills. The STEM field is wide-ranging, full of interesting careers in academics and active production, and it is part of the future of tomorrow.
Ozobots are a tool that provides a blank canvas for kids to experiment upon, tweaking and tweaking them until they have finally perfected their desired end-result.
The Ozobot packages offered are as follows:
More of the Ozobot accessories are coming soon. For the entire collection available and to purchase an Ozobot for home learning or in the Classroom, please click here.Â
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Makerspaces have emerged as one of the best ways to engage young minds in creative, educational play. These freeform environments consist of tools and materials that children can manipulate to form their own innovative projects. Typically, they will incorporate electronics or computer components to encourage a healthy exploration of technology that can translate into lasting STEAM aptitudes and career interests.
The benefits of a makerspace, whether based at home or in the classroom, are many. Allowing kids to dream up, design, and develop their own open-ended projects inspires confidence in their own abilities and hones their creative capacities. Kids exposed to makerspaces also begin to develop concrete technological and problem-solving skills that they take with them into the classroom (and eventually the workplace). And the best part? Kids don't perceive working in a makerspace as tedious—they consider it to be a form of play, which inspires a natural love of learning and creating.
If you want to take advantage of these benefits for your child or students, there's no better place to start than with the Makey Makey Invention STEAM kit.Â
Makey Makey is extremely popular for use in makerspaces, and for good reason. The kit employs a simple plug-and-play alligator clip mechanism to connect everyday objects with a computer input. In this way, kids can create their very own keyboards, game controllers, instruments, and much more. They simply develop a concept, connect the physical components to the computer, and map each interaction to a button press or mouse click. It works with everything from ketchup to your pet cat, allowing for infinite creations.Â
The Makey Makey enables any number of imaginative ideas. Young inventors can hook a donut button up to their favourite video game or program their stairs to work as a keyboard—the possibilities are limitless. This inspires experimentation and a sense of accomplishment with completed projects.
The Makey Makey links the physical with the digital, giving children an engaging way to understand very conceptual concepts about science and engineering.
Playing with the Makey Makey is a clever way to teach useful technology skills in an approachable way. Even the most basic Makey Makey project develops skills in circuitry and computing, and advanced students can delve even further into computer engineering projects.Â
The Makey Makey is extremely versatile, meaning it's suitable for tinkerers of all ages and skill levels. It is also available in three configurations to suit different use cases.
The classic kit that started it all, the Makey Makey Original Invention Kit comes with everything you need to start rewiring the world. This set includes the standard circuit board that accommodates remapping of up to 18 keys, enabling even complex creations to come to life.
The Makey Makey GO offers all of the benefits of the standard Makey Makey but with the added flexibility of being completely portable. This kit comes with a single USB invention stick and one alligator clip, making it simple to create on the go.
Designed with teachers in mind, the Makey Makey STEM Pack Classroom Invention Literacy Kit is tailored specifically to the needs of educators. Including 12 classic circuit boards, 75 alligator clips, 144 connective wires, and fun extras like conducive pencils, your class will never run out of ways to use your new toys.
Kidzinc is committed to fostering a love of STEM/STEAM from an early age. We carry a wide selection of educational toys and developmental products, including the full range of Makey Makey invention kits. Don't sleep on your child's potential—cultivate their mind early with playthings from Kidzinc.
For the whole range of Makey Makey, please select here.Â