October 2008 Notable Toys — Educational

Age Range: 1 to 6
Gender: Boys And Girls

Category:

Videos & DVDs
Educational
Developmental Toys

SPEECH PARADE! early language development videos are a fun and exciting way to encourage and facilitate language growth and development. Whether your child is not yet talking or already forming some early words, these engaging videos will encourage imitation by using animals, objects, and activities that children love.

This fun and exciting video is not only helpful for native Spanish speaking children developing their language skills, but what a great way to introduce another language to your children! Whether your house is bilingual, multilingual, or monolingual, this video will help facilitate language development in children.

Age Range: 8 and up
SKU or Item #: 7811
Launch Date: January 2008
Gender: Boys And Girls

Category:

Science & Nature
Educational

This 40-page science book and materials kit includes eight major activities that transform the study of central concepts of molecular biology into child's play. Kids can extract DNA from a fruit, probe and spool real DNA, build a double helix model, solve a chromosome puzzle (Is it a boy or a girl?) and play a gene construction game. A more advanced version is available for appropriate markets. Awards: TDmonthly Top Toy 2008. Launch date: 2008.

Where to Buy: Kazoo Toys

This 49-piece set comes with a "WordWorld" DVD, featuring material from the PBS Kids program, and has pieces that teach the words barn, rake, rope, tractor, pail, corn and fence.

This 18-piece set helps kids learn essential skills such as how to button, snap, buckle and tie. Inside the backpack are even more learning tools including a pencil holder, stencil shape ruler, assignment notebook, mix-and-match milk carton, three jumbo crayons, calculator, ID card, lunch bag, stickers and a 5-piece counting apple.

Each set contains 64 full-color cards, with gloss lamination to ensure quality and durability .
All cards are packed in a beautiful full-color hi-gloss gift box and shrink-wrapped for protection during shipping. All CD's are packed with beautiful full-color insert and shrink-wrapped for protection during shipping.

From armadillos to zebras, the latest title from the award-winning Challenge series is packed with 1,000 trivia questions covering all the quintessential animals and animal topics kids can’t get enough of. Kids use the game component to answer randomly chosen questions, and the automatic score-keeping function shows who knows the most about the animal kingdom. Launch date: August 2008.