Toys for All Ages and Needs: A World of Play and Learning
by Rosemary Portera | Saturday, Dec 01, 2018
Calming Toys
The Ultimate Fidget Set
10 Fidgets:
- Tangle Therapy
- Super Spaghetti Ball
- Inside Out Ball
- Squiggles Sensory Bracelet
- Moody Face
- Stretchy Frogs
- Tactile Atom Ball
- Koosh Ball
- Bendy Man
- Super Sticky Starfish
Isoflex Ball Hand Exerciser
- Stress ball, hand exercise ball, or classroom fidget for elementary
- Stress relief or to keep hands busy
Tangle Therapy
- Relieves stress through smooth repetitive twisting
- Research has shown the Tangle Therapy's size and range of motion also encourages fine motor development
Pencil Fidget Topper: Set of Three
- Fingers stay busy as they listen and work
Aku Ring
- Fidget for Stress
Popping Peepers: A Fun Squeeze Toy For Kids & Teens
- Just squeeze and Watch their eyes pop out! This fun squeeze toy is great for relieving stress. use it as a distraction toy to help with anxiety, anger or transitions for students with autism.
The Original Koosh Ball
- This quiet fidget works great in the classroom to keep hands busy or to use as a squeeze ball
Tangle Jr.
- Keeping hands busy and out of trouble in the classroom, on trips in the car, on a plane or anytime
Language & Social Skills Toys
Blunders Games
- Positive social skills. Children 5 and up will learn about honesty, responsibility, table manners, school etiquette, telephone manners, respectfulness, kindness, how to give confident introductions and how a party guest and host should act.
Reverse Charades
- Team is given 60 seconds to act out as many words as one person can guess.
Friendship Farm- Who is Being Friendly?
- Build a social themed puzzle. The back of catch puzzle piece features a question designed to stimulate social conversation.
What's Yours Like? Game
- Guess word and start describing it.
Toys for Preschool
Wooden Project Workbench
- All wood constructions toy
- Using the guide book or building something from their imagination
- Features realistic looking tools, nuts, bolts and screws included with the workbench
Gears! Gears! Gears! Super Set
- Imaginations with this massive bucket of vibrant, colorful gears
- Opportunities to practice patterning and problem solving
- Fun 3-D structures that whir and spin
60 Standard Unit Blocks
- Creativity, fine motor, cognitive planning, emergent math skills
Funny Faces
- Working on identifying and making facial expressions
- Great for social and emotional exploration
- To play kids try to match a face on the game board while the other players try to guess which face is being imitated
Alphabet Train Lacing Beads
- Build fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, alphabet recognition, spelling
- Cute railroad illustrations on each bead
Daisy Maxi
- Fine motor skills and hand eye coordination while also learning about colors, matching, sorting
Feed the Woozle
- Gross motor skills, dexterity, body awareness
- Cooperative game,
- Three levels
Doorbell House
- Fine motor skills, teach cause and effect or encourage pretend play
Happy Giddy Tunnel
- Gross motor skills as well as developing spatial awareness
Monster Bowling Game
- Active play, eye-hand coordination, imaginative play, sensory play
Farm Sound Blocks
- Cause and effect with the Farm Sounds
- Matching the blocks to complete the animal picture
Vehicle Sound Blocks
- Match the two parts
Big Red Rocket Room Light
- Multi-sensory toy
- Offers gently pulsing lights of the rocket along with the "white noise"
- Calm down after a rough day
Wily's Wiggly Web
- Cutting skills
- Working together
- Cooperative game-social skills building as well
Wood Pattern Blocks & Boards
- Imagination
- Teaching matching, colors and shapes, problem solving, patterning
- Fine motor skills and eye - hand coordination
Magnetic Number Maze
- Fine motor skills,
- Counting and numbers with the Magnetic Number Maze
The Great Cheese Chase
- Cooperative game
- Social interaction
Sound Puzzles
- Cause and effect
- Matching
- Hand-eye coordination, visual perception, fine motor skills
How Do You Feel Facial Expression Puzzle Game
- Learn emotions
- Visual discrimination skills
- Game or puzzles
- Explore occupations
- Pretend play
- Imaginative play
- Story telling skills, develop fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination
Wooden Bear Family Dress-Up Puzzle
- Fine motor skills, emotional exploration, hand eye coordination, imaginative play
- Calming
Magnetic Wooden Bug Catching Game
- Fine motor skills, eye hand coordination, turn taking, vocabulary
Color Blast
- No mess
- Great for traveling
Build An Inch-Worm
- Sensory development. Great for building fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, problem solving skills
Vehicles Reusable Sticker Pad
- Entertaining vehicle themed sticker pad is also Re-usable
Toys for Elementary
Blunders Game
- Positive social skills
- Children 5 and up will learn about honesty, responsibility, table manners, school etiquette, telephone manners, respectfulness, kindness and more
Reverse Charades
- Team is given 60 seconds to act out as many words as one person can guess
Living Sands Small Set
- Fun and unique material that children can play and be creative with
- Unique tactile experience
What's Yours Like? Game
- Guess Word and start describing it
Solar System In My Room
- Calming visual effect for the bedroom
Consequences Board Game
- Game of consequences is designed to help young children with a developmental age of three to six learn that actions and behaviors have consequences in a fun and relaxed environment
Find It on the Farm
- Great for keeping kids occupied while traveling, in class or during down time
Story Speller
- Story Speller is a simple game where players learn to tell and spell their own story
- Helps kids develop their imagination, sequential thinking and language skills
Glow in the Dark Krypton Putty
- Charge the Glow in a the Dark Krypton Putty up and it will glow like fun fine motor work out!
Speaking and Listening Board Games
- This set of six social skills games will help your students learn to interaction with others
- Work as a team
- Listen to others and speak clearly
- Designed to help students develop critical thinking skills, convey their ideas, and vocabulary
Temper Tamers In a Jar
- A jar of ideas to help calm and control your temper and express your feeling in positive ways. Include finding a calm place sharing about times when you feel angry, acting out situations that can cause anger and brain storming positive outcomes
Boochie
- Kids will have hours of motor fund tossing, kicking, bowling, and throwing with Boochie!
Liquid Timer
- Relaxing and incredibly visual, this approximately one minute timer is a great gift for those who are visually oriented
Jeliku Three Dimensional
- Your fingers and mind will become instantly engaged with the Jeliku
- Awesome fidget
- Endless designs and shapes
- Keeps fingers busy
Kanoodle: a fun visual game
- Kanoodle is a highly visual three dimensional puzzle game
- Kids use a variety of interconnected spheres to duplicate structures in their Kannodle book
- These structures move from very simple to highly complex
Kanoodle: a fun visual game
- Kanoodle is a highly visual three dimensional puzzle game
- Kids use a variety of interconnected spheres to duplicate structures in their Kannodle book
- These structures move from very simple to highly complex
Toys for Tweens, Teens & Adults
Vision Motion Lamp
- This visually calming lamp features floating balls of wax against a reflective mirror creating the illusion of several tubes of a floating balls
Relationality: Learn all About Relationships
- Relationality is a research-based board game designed to help teens and adults explore the many different aspects of healthy relationships
Gallop Lamp
- This lamp also works well for calming areas
- Turn on the lamp and watch various animals come to life as the lamp gently rotates
Super Sized Light Doodler
- Highly visual kids and teens love the Super Size Light Doodler
- Using the controls you can create your own light show
Playable ART Ball-Colored
- The incredible Playable Art Ball twists and moves smoothly to create a wide variety of designs and shapes
Archiquest Classical & European Architecture
- This unique architectural building system is sure to challenge the creative mind with endless design possibilities and open ended, imaginative play
Reverse Charades
- Reverse Charades is a team version of the classic charades games
- Each team is given 60 seconds to act out as many words as one person can guess
- Great for kids who need team to work with as they explore pretend play and non-verbal cues
Chill Skills In a Jar: Anger Management
- Helps teens learn healthy ways to work through anger
- Promotes group discussions
- Use cards to learn calming strategies for tense or difficult situations
- What would you do? Tip cards; Share cards; Act it out cards
Flowing Sand Panel: Calming & Relaxing
- Sturdy construction
- Helps overstimulated students relax
- Use it as a visual timer to help students transition out of a relaxing area and back into the learning environment
Social Fortune or Social Fate
- Teach teens how their behaviors affect the way others feel about them and treat them, which ultimately effects how they feel about themselves
- Teens explore 10 social scenarios through the lens of Social Fortune visually illustrating how social situations can change quickly based on how someone responds to the situation
Tangle Museum Chrome
- Kids and teens will instantly become immersed in the kinetic experience of moving the extra large pieces of this tangle into a variety of shapes