It encourages self-expression, develops fine motor skills, promotes creativity and an understanding of building and construction using early maths and science skills.
Bright Basics™ Slide & Splash SpoutsThe Bright Basics™ products available from Learning Resources will encourage toddlers to learn through familiar nursery rhymes as they encourage little ones to play and grow. The Slide & Splash Spouts (RRP £18.00) brings the iconic nursery rhyme "The Itsy, Bitsy Spider" to life for fun learning.
Support STEM learning from an early age with this colourful bath time activity set as early learners engineer their own ball run creations. It encourages early maths and science skills as children fit these pipes together, helps develop fine motor skills as little ones fit the pipes together and introduces cause and effect from an early age.
Design & Drill® Robot
Develop creativity while supporting STEM learning in children with this novelty, 3D, Design & Drill® Robot (RRP £13.50) from Learning Resources.
The sturdy, free-standing robot features a swiveling head, arms and upper body and comes with 15 plastic bolts in a variety of colours that can be screwed into the robot. The toy screwdriver helps develop motor skills and the kit encourages children's creativity as they secure the colourful bolts and stickers onto the robot model. Learning can be extended by encouraging imaginative play activities.
Artie 3000™Artie 3000 the Coding Robot (RRP £70.00) for kids programming is the award-winning coding robot from Learning Resources that introduces children to real programming languages.
Artie puts the “A” in STEAM, making coding relatable and fun for kids. You design the code and Artie 3000 draws the lines. Learn to code and get drawing with STEAM-style robotics to create visual masterpieces. If you can code it, Artie 3000 can draw it. With pre-programmed designs, beginners can start coding right away with Drag & Drop then advance their coding skills with Remote Control, Point & Click, Blockly, Snap!, Python and JavaScript coding languages.
Trends Discovery Digital Walkie Talkies The Discovery Digital Walkie Talkies (£24.99) are lightweight long-range walkie-talkies perfect for outdoor explorations, secret missions and fun adventures!
Suitable for children 4 years + are lightweight and feature a handy belt clip. Ideal for outdoor escapades the 2 digital walkie-talkies work up to a range of 3km and feature a ringing call alert, press to talk buttons, night light and LED digital display.
The award winning (Creative Play Awards - Winner 2017) walkie-talkies from Trends support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) learning. They also inspire role play, spark imaginative play and encourage play with friends and/or siblings.
OJO Which Way? GameThe OJO Which Way? coding board game (RRP £24.99) is a new and exciting strategy game that teaches coding skills for 4-8 year olds.
The innovative coding game makes learning key coding skills fun for children. Playing the game teaches children 4 top coding skills so that they learn to define the problem, plan the solution, build the program and then test it.
Who can help Messy (from CBeebies TV show, Messy Goes to OKIDO) to visit all his friends across the map first? The game features a magic, self-driving car that works with the magnetic tiles.
Not only does it make learning coding fun, the game also improves problem solving skills, builds confidence, improves communication and provides fulfillment and a sense of achievement.
MathLink® Cubes Numberblocks 1-10 Activity SetMeet the Numberblocks, stars of the award-winning CBeebies series! Now children can build their own Numberblocks characters using award-winning MathLink Cubes Numberblocks 1-10 Activity Set (RRP £20.00).
This special edition MathLink Cubes set brings Numberblocks learning to life as children see how numbers work and master key early learning math skills through hands-on discovery and play. The activities have been developed to help children recognise numbers, learn to count, add and subtract, discover division and multiplication, and develop problem-solving skills.
MathLink Cubes are durable stackable cubes that are easy for little hands to stack, connect and twist apart.Follow 30 hands-on activities linked to the episodes, and play along as they watch episodes and learn. Children can also use the colourful Character Cards to learn more about each number.
Stomp Rocket Original
The award winning Stomp Rocket Super High Performance Stomp Kit (RRP £12.99) from @stomprocketuk provides hours of outdoor fun, supports STEM learning and encourages kids to get moving.
100% kid powered: Run, jump and STOMP to launch these rockets up to 400 feet in the air -- that's longer than a football field! The Stomp Rocket Original includes a Stomp Launcher and 3 Super High Performance Rockets. No batteries required; super easy, fast assembly and great for year round fun to get kids away from screen time and more active outside.
The Stomp Rocket Original helps children learn concepts such as gravity, trajectory, force, power of air, cause and effect through fun play. For added learning pair with Stomp Rocket Science book and get kids interested in STEM subjects early.
Stomp Rocket® BLO-Rockets
Stomp Rocket BLO-Rockets (RRP £14.99) promotes STEM learning, encourages exercise and limiting screen time as well as hours of safe fun!
Just blow to launch the rockets into the air, no batteries or assembling required. The kit comes with 2 rocket launchers and 4 foam stomp rockets.
Enjoy hours of fun with the 4 games - Catch A Rocket; Distance Launch; Target Practice; Dodge Rockets. It offers year round fun and can be used outdoors and indoors.
Sensors AliveSensors Alive (RRP £60) from Thames & Kosmos is a highly innovative, gamified sensor physics lab that helps introduce and demystify abstract physics phenomena like sound, heat and light.
The core of this science kit is an app-based video game in which you use real-world sensor data that you collect from your environment to generate a diverse array of creatures.
In a pretend bioengineering lab inside the game, kids play the role of scientists who use readings taken from three physical sensor pods outside the game. The readings are then transferred into the game via the base station. The sensor data dictates the different attributes your bioengineered creatures will have. For example, if you take a low temperature measurement, the creature generated will have long hair to keep warm. Or, a low light level captured by the light sensor might yield a creature with huge eyes to see better in the dark, while a high sound level reading might result in a creature with tiny ears.
Continue to use the sensors to capture data that lets you care for your creatures, feed them, play with them, create habitats for them, and generate more creatures — all the while developing an intuitive sense of the different measurements you are taking with the sensors. You will gain experience in measuring light levels, volumes, and temperatures with the three sensor pods, and learn about the physics behind light, sound, and heat. The kit contains three sensor pods, base station, app, and quick-start poster. Requires a tablet or smartphone running recent versions of iOS or Android.
Ubongo!
Ubongo! (RRP £34) from Thames & Kosmos is a fast-paced, addictive, and easy-to-learn geometric puzzle game. Players race against the timer and against each other to solve a puzzle of interlocking shapes. The faster you solve the puzzle, the more gems you get. The player with the most valuable gem treasure after nine rounds of solving puzzles wins!
Each player receives a set of 12 polyominos — geometric shapes formed of equal-size squares joined edge to edge in different arrangements. At the start of each round, each player gets a new puzzle panel. A roll of the die determines which polyominos you must use to perfectly fill in the empty spaces on the puzzle panel. Any players who complete the puzzle within the time limit yell out “Ubongo!” and grab a gem at random from the bag. The fastest player also gets a blue gem and the second fastest an amber gem. Each gem colour is worth a different amount of points. After nine rounds, the player with the most valuable gem collection wins.
