Fun Educational Toys

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Educational toys are becoming the toys of choice for many discerning parents, and there are dozens to choose from.

Buying educational toys for your children simply means that they'll be learning something while they're having fun - and what a great way to learn!

	Best Selling #1 Leapfrog Leapster Multimedia Game System: Green Here is one handheld gaming system that both parents and kids will be able to agree upon. The Leapster Learning Game System takes the brain-building principles that Leapfrog laid out in its earlier electronic learning devices (which have an interactive book format) and applies them to a video-game format. Leapster draws kids in with familiar video game templates $59.99 Usually ships in 24 hours
	Best Selling #2 Leapster L-Max Handheld Learning Game System -Blue The award-winning original LeapFrog Leapster handheld takes it up a notch with the Leapster L-Max for kids ages 4 to 10. This handheld features dual-screen action (players interact with the handheld screen and watch the results on their TV screen), multiple skill levels, tailored tutorials, and unlimited potential for educational fun. Slip in one of Leapster's many software games ("Letters on the Loose," "Rock the World," "Madagascar," "Dora the Explorer Wildlife Rescue," etc. $89.99 Usually ships in 1-2 business days
	Best Selling #3 V.Smile Nitro Notebook Interactive Learning System Youngsters will love whipping out this very grownup-looking laptop for a little educational fun $59.99 Usually ships in 4-5 business days
	Best Selling #4 My First LeapPad Software: Cars Snap this interactive book and cartridge into any My First LeapPad system and your child will begin learning valuable preschool skills. This new addition to the LeapFrog library features characters and storylines from the popular Disney movie, Cars. Kids will explore the book with Lightning McQueen and friends and unwittingly practice their math, reading, and pre-writing skills through fun activities. For example, preschoolers help Mater the tow truck locate letters, numbers, and shapes on license plates in one exercise. In another, preschoolers locate numbers 1 through 10 on a map to direct McQueen through the town of Radiator Springs. Junior mechanics will also delight in learning various car facts and names of parts. --Cristina Vaamonde $10.46 Usually ships in 24 hours
	Best Selling #5 LeapFrog Interactive FLY Pentop Computer Pretty fly for an educational toy! The Fly Pentop Computer is the wave of the future--today. So $109.99 Usually ships in 1-2 business days
	Best Selling #6 V.Smile Interactive Learning Handheld Game This hand held version of the popular V Smile educational game console makes for a handy companion on a trip, in the backyard, or wherever a kid might want to go. It works with all the same V Smile "smartridges" as the larger console and features adaptable buttons for left and right handed play. Back at home, it can also plug into a television set to play all the games on a bigger screen. The appeal of the V Smile series, of course, is that all the games are educational and help build skills that kids don't even realize they're building. This pocket size set includes a game of Zayzoo, My Alien Classmate that teaches vocabulary, math, logic, and more. --Charlie Williams $69.99 Usually ships in 1-2 business days
	Best Selling #7 Musical Activity Walker This versatile toy starts as a fun-filled activity center with lively music, beads, gears, and colorful doors. Then it converts into a fully mobile walker, ready to steady the mobile child. Four fun songs reward baby for the great physical accomplishment of walking on either carpeted or hardwood surfaces, providing the incentive to keep on practicing. (For quieter play the music can also be turned off.) Although perhaps most suitable for more stable toddlers that enjoy the thrill of being able to push toys around, this durable walker will soon become a favorite friend. It also folds flat for easy storage and requires three AA alkaline batteries (not included). --Deb Oroszlan $19.97 Usually ships in 24 hours
	Best Selling #8 My First LeapPad Alphabet Bus Shaped like a friendly yellow school bus, this incarnation of My First LeapPad continues to engage children with fun games that they will never suspect are valuable brain-building activities. The updated LeapPad still accepts all of the 15 titles in the LeapFrog interactive library, each of which snaps into the LeapPad reader and focuses on a different pre-kindergarten skill, from reading to math to social skills. Secured to the bus is the "magic" pen, which hones fine motor skills when used to point to objects within the interactive books and, for more advanced learners, provides practice on how to hold a pencil and write letters. The difference with this First LeapPad, however, is that it has several early phonics activities built right in that do not require a book. The alphabet is listed along the side of the bus and children can touch a letter to hear its name said aloud. Two fun games ask children to identify a particular letter or letter sound and offer positive encouragement if kids don't get the right answer the first time. Finally, preschoolers can listen to (what else?) The Wheels on the Bus in between games. My First LeapPad comes with the interactive book and cartridge for Leap's Big Day and runs on four "AA" batteries (not included). --Cristina Vaamonde $29.99 In stock soon. Order now to get in line.
	Best Selling #9 LeapFrog Explorer Globe This award-winning globe could help children become A geography students. The Explorer Globe II is jam-packed with hundreds of facts, trivia, and useful scholastic information about every aspect of the geographical world. It electronically verbalizes everything from area population, capitol city/country, state/province, large bodies of water, currencies, high points, distance, and more. Other remarkable features make the Explorer an even more useful reference tool. It has a world clock that, once set from your home area, will tell the time in every other part of the world. And any country can be selected to hear a sample its national music (yes, Tahiti does have a national anthem). The globe sits on a sturdy base, which features a dashboard full of interactive functions and an attached soft-tipped stylus. This stylus is the key instrument: use it to touch virtually any point on the surface of the globe to retrieve information. --Diane Beall $99.99 Usually ships in 1-2 business days
	Best Selling #10 Write N Learn Smartboard Young kids can learn to write using this slick magnetic board with activities for numbers and letters. The board, equipped with an LCD screen, comes with buttons for all the numbers and letters and teaches through basic diagrams, how the numbers and letters are drawn. Silly songs, noises, and some basic animation options keep things fun. High tech toys can sometimes be confusing for younger kids who can't keep up with the abstraction that technology sometimes requires. But on this entertaining and educational writing set, the technology is seamlessly integrated, letting kids just focus on the fun and the learning. --Charlie Williams $29.97 Usually ships in 24 hours

Educational toys are also colorful, creative and sturdy - all the necessary qualities for great toys to have!