Torno TornoMSRP:
$49.99Age:
1 to 5Category:
Wooden ToysToyDirectory Product ID#: 26106This product is designed so that young toddlers will delight in placing the dowel/balls in the holes, turning the base, and watching the whirling forms turn around. Older toddlers can start to build with the hardwood squares, put “red hats on the red heads," and stack colored shapes into sturdy towers. Preschoolers can build more complex and imaginative structures while exploring how motion changes the appearance and stability of forms. "Torno Torno combines a wood building toy with a wood turn-table base that is activated by the child — no batteries, just the child's gentle push and imagination," Karen Hewitt, president of Learning Materials Workshop, told
TDmonthly. This product was named one of Dr. Toy's 10 Best Toys 2009. Launch date: November 2009. 11/17/2009
[Add to my Inquiry Basket][?] Minuta 2MSRP:
$19.99Age:
3 and upCategory:
ConstructionToyDirectory Product ID#: 19092The collection of modular boxes increases perceptual and motor skills, stimulates language development, provokes mathematical thinking and nurtures aesthetic ideas and imaginative play.
Children recognize that these beautiful little boxes are perfect for storing their special collections, building high towers or long slinky roads, framing their pictures and photographs and much more,” Learning Materials Workshop Sales and Marketing Director Meg Walker told
TDmonthly. Launch date: 2008. 5/30/2008
[Add to my Inquiry Basket][?] Dwellings 2MSRP:
$19.99Age:
5 to AdultCategory:
Construction
Watch Video NowToyDirectory Product ID#: 13210Dwellings 2 involves building with optical illusions, patterns and reflections. Four jewel-like transparent acrylic prisms are housed in a natural, hardwood tray with a series of dot-and-line patterns and reflective mylar squares. The opportunities for playing with optical illusions and constructing fanciful architectural and sculptural forms are endless. Imagine the possibilities. 6/4/2007
[Add to my Inquiry Basket][?] Dwellings 1MSRP:
$19.99Age:
5 to AdultCategory:
ConstructionToyDirectory Product ID#: 13209This set allows individuals to build with light, color and shadow. Four jewel-like, transparent, acrylic prisms are housed in a natural hardwood tray with a series of color optical filters and reflective mylar squares. The opportunities for experimenting with color mixing and constructing brilliantly colored architectural and sculptural forms are endless. Imagine the possibilities. 6/4/2007
[Add to my Inquiry Basket][?] TINTEMSRP:
$189.99Age:
5 and upCategory:
ConstructionToyDirectory Product ID#: 10964Created by award-winning designer Karen Hewitt, TINTE is both an art object and a toy that appeals to children and playful adults. As an interactive art object, the myriad design combinations become intriguing, two-dimensional works of art, equally at home on the living room wall or a child’s bedroom. As TINTE is both a plaything and educational toy, builders of all ages delight in constructing three-dimensional structures with TINTE’s 42-color, modular, hardwood blocks while exploring the basics of color theory: hue, value and intensity. The product comes with a hardwood frame with a sliding Plexiglas cover. An illustrated booklet on color theory is included. Launch date: March 2007. 1/5/2007
[Add to my Inquiry Basket][?] CaroselloMSRP:
$49.95Category:
ConstructionToyDirectory Product ID#: 3867Revolving gently or standing still like a "theatre in the round", Carosello is both a construction set and a platform for children to invent and stage stories or construct moving sculptural forms. Children can take apart and put together the brightly colored wood dowels, bobbins, balls, and bendable Mylar to create a changing world where shapes look different from various viewpoints, where new forms appear and disappear, straight lines become curves, colors bend, structures reflect and stories unfold. 6/29/2005
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