January 2011 New Specialty Toys — Puzzles & Skill

Toddlers like toys with multiple pieces and these six colorful star shapes are challenging for little hands to put together and pull apart. There may be a short learning curve for the putting together action, but these big plastic pieces they have no right and wrong order. These not only help build motor skills, they can help knowing and naming color words and simple counting.
Awards:  Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Blue Chip Classic Award Winner, 2009.

International photographer Achim Bednorz has released three dazzling high-end puzzles featuring some of Bednorz’ most famous images in the Purrfect Puzzles Architectural Collection. The new 1000-piece puzzles present stunning photos of La Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, the Papal Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in San Francesco, and Lincoln Cathedral in England.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010

Word Wheels are fun, educational, toys. They are intuitive, hand held, and promote learning through reading, manipulation, and understanding. To a child they are toys, but to a parent or teacher, they are learning tools. They engage the mind, are quiet, and enhance learning through stimulating comprehension. "Word Wheels play like a toy and teach like a book," Tim Irwin, president of Paradigm Devices, told TDmonthly. Launch date: September 2011.
Awards: 2010 Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products

The JTB Mini Concept Boxes include a careful selection of diverse eco-friendly toys, books and games pre-packaged to teach specific concepts to young children through play, emphasizing health, the body, good eating habits, art and music, geography and travel, personal safety, and sustainable architecture. The MINI Moody Foodie Box includes the classic Eating the Alphabet book by Lois Elhert, a fruit and veggie set made of renewable rubberwood, a USA made utensil and pots puzzles, USA made sensory dough, a USA made waiter costume for role play fun, and USA
made lace and trace food stencils for developing fine motor skills.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010

This environmentally friendly wooden Geometric Stacking Puzzle is made of wood from FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) monitored sources, painted with water-based paints, packaged in a box made of recycled materials, and printed with
soy-bean ink. This puzzle with stacking and counting elements helps your kids think and learn. Each of the four puzzle pieces contains one, two, three, or four posts for children to stack a circle, rectangle, square, or triangle on.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010

This is an active barnyard that will keep your youngster busily engaged and learning at the same time.  Every young farmer will enjoy opening the box and spilling out the 51 detailed figures smartly stored in 5 layers of tiers.  From the bright rooster on the roof to the red tractor and white fencing, nothing has been forgotten to recreate a down-on-the-farm experience. The red and white barn overlooks horses, sheep, pigs, and cows.  This activity will build eye-hand coordination and expand communication skills.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010

The Dragonflies Scramble Squares® puzzle features some of the most beautiful of the varied Dragonflies’ coloration. The object of the Scramble Squares® puzzle game is to arrange the nine colorfully illustrated 4” x 4” square pieces into a 3 x 3 pattern to form a 12” square so that the realistic graphics of the dragonflies match perfectly. Each puzzle package includes a panel of facts on dragonflies, as well as a trivia question and hidden answer to the trivia question.
Awards: Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products - 2010