Four Good Things
LEGO's Large Creative Brick Box, Spirograph Design Tin, and more
No theme this week, just four things worth passing along.
LEGO's Large Creative Brick Box is the classic no-brainer. 790 bricks with ideas included if a kid wants them and total freedom if they don't, the kind of thing they come back to for years. Spirograph Design Tin is the same Spirograph you probably remember, the one where a kid runs a pen around little gears and ends up with these intricate looping designs. Makedo Discover is a set of kid-safe tools that lets a kid turn a cardboard box into a fort, a car, whatever they can dream up. And Hey Studio's Colorful Chess Set is a vibrant wooden set designed in Barcelona that a kid can learn to play real chess on.
LEGO
LEGO Classic Large Creative Brick Box
790 bricks with ideas included if a kid wants them, and total freedom if they don't.
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PlayMonster
Spirograph Design Tin Set
Seven toothed gears that guide a pen into intricate looping designs.
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Makedo
Makedo Discover
Kid-safe tools that turn a cardboard box into a fort, a car, or whatever they dream up.
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Hey Studio
Colorful Chess Set
A vibrant wooden set, designed in Barcelona, for learning to play real chess.
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This week's picks
One product and one brand from the collection
Makey Makey Classic. Alligator clips run from the board to anything that conducts, so a row of bananas becomes a piano and a drawing in pencil becomes a game controller. Get it here
Kinderfeets. Dutch company started in 2012 by designer Oscar V. Mulder, making balance bikes and open-ended wooden play from bamboo and birch. Find it here
Last week's drop
In case you missed it
The Phonics Shelf. Toddlers Can Read's ABC flashcards, Uncle Goose's blocks, and more View the drop
Books
Bob Books: Set 2
12 decodable stories in one hardcover, built from three-letter short-vowel words.
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Uncle Goose
Classic ABC Blocks
28 basswood blocks, hand-made in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with letters, numbers, and animals.
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Lovevery
The Reading Skill Set - Part 2: Words to Books
7 phonics games and 13 decodable books covering kindergarten and first-grade reading.
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Toddlers Can Read
ABC Sound Flashcards
26 double-sided cards that teach the sound each letter makes, with a picture to match.
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