So Much More Than Toys
When we decided to write a blog as part of the website the idea behind it was to show you - our customers how fantastic our toys are in real life. It is easy to show you a packaged toy and tell you how great it is but what we all really want to see is the benefit it has on your child in real life - the toy in action!
Our children have a lot of the toys we stock (although they do have to earn them!) and it was recently Joshua's second birthday. As they both love art we bought him a Melissa & Doug Art Easel. Many hours have been spent covering themselves, the easel and many things around them in paint and chalk!I decided it was one of our best buys almost as soon as we had opened the box.
More recently the Easel has become an essential item for Chloe. We had a note in her book bag saying that she was struggling with a few of her words and I had noticed how frustrated and 'bored' she was of reading words in black and white off tiny bits of card. Chloe seems to learn better when she has written the word down, sounded it out and can see it clear in front of her so I decided it would be much more fun for her to use the Easel to copy down her words, sound them out as she was doing so and then make sentences with them. We then also stuck the words from her box next to those on the Easel so she could relate to the smaller version. To her suprise she remembered every single word and an hour later was able to tell me again which words were which. We used chalk this time but will use the paints or whiteboard next time to make sure she does not get bored!
We would love to hear about the toys you have bought and used in many more ways than expected.
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