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Early Concepts

All About Me Theme Kit

This kit includes:

*Book: Eyes, Nose, Fingers, and Toes
*My Hands reusable mat
*large ink pad
*two unbreakable mirrors
*two plastic mirror stands
*magnifying glass
*28 pop-and-play people
*stethoscope
*vinyl (toy) microphone
*gingerbread person cookie cutter
*47 picture cards
*9 "my day" foam puzzle pieces
*activity guide

Animal Memory (Memo Animal)
This innovative memory game has children matching animals with their skin patterns. Each animal card has a hole in it. Each skin pattern card shows a square with the animal's skin design but not the shape of the animal. The animal cards have holes in them so children can place the animal card over the skin pattern card and check to see if they match. Ages 3+

Ball Take-Home Pack
These packs are intended for use by a child and her family to reinforce classroom concepts. The Ball pack contains the book The Ball Book, a parent letter and activity guide, wipe-off crayons, a small playground ball (deflated), a ball inflator and instructions for use and 3 pieces of sidewalk chalk. Ages 3+

Beginning Sounds: A Matching Game
This memory game features pictures and beginning sounds. For 1-4 players. Ages 3+

Bingo Bears
This game does double duty -- it can be used for color bingo or number bingo. Includes four game cards, 32 removable bingo tiles, spinner, and 36 bear markers. For 2-4 players. Ages 4+

Changeable Mood Bear
This bear presents six faces and outfits. Mix and match heads and outfits to express laughter, sadness, worry, anger, fear, and a plain good mood. Three outfits are boys' and three are girls'. Ages 3+

Color Mixing Take-Home Pack
These packs are intended for use by a child and her family to reinforce classroom concepts. The Color pack contains the book Little Blue and Little Yellow, a parent letter and activity guide, activity mats, color mixing tiles, and crayons. Ages 4+

Early Language Concept Kit: Object Matching
Kit includes activity cards and miniatures to help children develop visual discrimination skills. Children match the miniatures to concept cards built around themes, such as the ocean. Directions and extension activities are included. Ages 3+

Early Language Concept Kit: What Goes Together?
This set includes eight activity cards and 24 miniatures. Children choose the miniatures that go with the pictures on their card -- the bone goes with the dog; the plane goes with the airport. Ages 3+

Froggy Gets Dressed Storytelling Kit
Froggy wants to go out and play in the snow. His mother relents but makes him get properly dressed first. This kit includes the book, a cloth Froggy, and all the items of clothing necessary to play outside in the snow.

Match-A-Color Sorting Box
Set contains sorting cards for red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, pink, black, and white miniatures. Ages 3+

Match and Learn Math Board
Children use pattern cards and a sorting board to sort wooden shapes using two attributes. Shapes come in five colors and three shapes. Ages 3+

Mind Your P's and Clues
This set includes an activity book, plastic "match" frame, and tiles. Choose an activity from the book, align the match frame with the activity and begin! Children remove a tile from the left side of the frame, revealing a picture. They then study the squares on the right page and decide which picture or phrase on the right side goes with the square they just uncovered on the left. Answers are included. Topics include: animal habitats, patterns, calendar/time concepts, food categories, and more! Ages 6+

Movement Take-Home Pack
These packs are intended for use by a child and her family to reinforce classroom concepts. The Movement pack contains the book Clap Your Hands, a parent letter and activity guide, wipe-off crayons, 10 movement cards, and 1 pair of stilts. Ages 3+

Peg-It Number Boards
Set contains foam work cards with numbers 1-9. Children work to put 5 pegs in the "5" card. This activity gives children practice with counting, associating printed numbers and quantities, and number concept. Ages 4+

Roll and Match Lacing Game
Roll the die and see what you will add to your "snake" next: a yellow circle? A red star? Give your fine motor skills a workout, while exploring colors and shapes. For 1-4 players; activity guide included. Ages 3+

Shape Puzzle, preschool
Shapes featured: oval, diamond, circle, rectangle, square, and triangle. 12 pieces

Shape Puzzle, toddler
Shapes featured: square, triangle, hexagon, diamond, oval, circle, rectangle, and pentagon. Each shape is a different color. 8 pieces with wooden knobs

Story Sequence Cards
This set includes cards that tell eight different stories. Story sequence cards help children to develop listening, observation, and logical sequencing skills. A teacher's guide is included. Ages 4+

Early Literacy/Reading

ABC's-Lowercase: Write and Wipe Flash Cards
Box contains 32 cards (26 with one letter per card, five with smaller letters to trace, and one parent guide) and a write on/wipe off pen. Cards are two-sided. One side offers children the opportunity to trace a letter; the other side features a picture that begins with that letter. Ages 2+ (according to box)

ABC's-Uppercase: Write and Wipe Flash Cards
Box contains 32 cards (26 with one letter per card, five with smaller letters to trace, and one parent guide) and a write on/wipe off pen. Cards are two-sided. One side offers children the opportunity to trace a letter; the other side features a picture that begins with that letter. Ages 2+ (according to box)

Alphabet Match-Up Puzzles: Lowercase
These self-correcting puzzles help kids match lowercase letters with a picture that begins with the same sound. This set uses different pictures than the uppercase set. Ages 4+

Alphabet Match-Up Puzzles: Uppercase
These self-correcting puzzles help kids match upper case letters with a picture that begins with the same sound. This set uses different pictures than the lowercase set. Ages 4+

Alphabet Match-Up Puzzles: Uppercase to Lowercase
These self-correcting puzzles help kids match uppercase letters with their lowercase counterparts. Ages 4+

Alphabet Puzzle (Lowercase)
This wooden tray-type puzzle contains each lowercase letter in one of seven bright colors. Ages 3+

Alphabet Puzzle (Uppercase)
This wooden tray-type puzzle contains each uppercase letter in one of seven bright colors. Ages 3+

Alphabet Soundtracks
Yaks yelling for yogurt? This alliterative alphabet game asks children to listen to a tongue twister and either use the picture clues to identify the letter featured in the rhyme, or, for a higher level of play, identify just the letter that represents the sound at the beginning of each word in the rhyme. Set includes four double-sided game boards, a cassette tape, and 38 chips. For 1-4 players. Ages 4+

Alphabet Take-Home Pack
These packs are intended for use by a child and her family to reinforce classroom concepts. The Alphabet pack contains the book Eating the Alphabet, a parent letter and six write and wipe activities, write and wipe crayons, and 26 plastic, magnetic letters. Ages 3

Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Storytelling Kit
Anansi uses a strange moss-covered rock to trick the other animals out of their food -- until Little Bush Deer teaches him a lesson. Set includes the book, a teacher's guide, and 12 velcro storytelling pieces.

Beginning Sounds: A Matching Game
This memory game features pictures and beginning sounds. For 1-4 players. Ages 3+

Bird Puppet

Caterpillar Glove-Style Hand Puppet

Chef Puppet (male)

Cloth Books
Two cloth books, each with crinkle pages and bright tactile animals to capture baby's interest. Each book is attached to a plastic ring that can be secured to a stroller. Birth - 3 years

Construction Worker Puppet (male)

Cooking Set
This box contains everything young chefs might need to whip up a meal! Includes pots, muffin, pan, mixing bowls, spatulas, aprons, and much more! 40 pieces altogether. Ages 3+

Doctor and Nurse Puppets(1 of each)

Eency Weency Spider Felt Pieces
Set contains a felt house with a generously-sized waterspout, a sun, one large rain cloud, three smaller clouds with raindrops falling, and three different-size spiders. The activity guide includes the lyrics to the song in both English and Spanish, though the activity suggestions are only in English. Ages 3+

Family Puppets: Mother, Father, Sister, and Brother

Farm Day Felt Pieces
Children can explore farm life with these felt storytelling pieces. The pieces in this set do not correspond with a specific story, so children's imaginations can roam free. Set includes: boy, girl, barn, apple tree, sun, fence, lamb, chicken, nest with eggs, cow, tractor, pig, mama duck, baby ducks, field of corn with scarecrow, rabbit, hill with flowers, and a row of carrots. 18 pieces altogether.

Feltboard
This purple 15" x 24" stand-alone feltboard can be combined with one of our storytelling kits or used with felt pieces of your own.

Firefighter Puppet (Female)

Firefighter Puppet (Male)

First 100 Words Match-Ups
These self-correcting puzzles have kids matching words and pictures. Puzzles are divided into ten color-coded categories (separated into their own pouches): Wild Animals, In Nature, Things I Wear, At the Beach, Creepy Crawly Bugs, My Favorite Food, Pets, My Body, Things That Go, and In My House. Ages 3+

Five Green and Speckled Frogs Felt Pieces
Set contains a felt log/pond scene, five green and speckled frogs in various poses (all eating some most delicious bugs), and felt numbers one through five. The activity guide includes the lyrics to the song in both English and Spanish, though the activity suggestions are only in English. Ages 3+

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Felt Pieces
Recite the story of the five little monkeys! Set includes a felt bed, carpet, five jumping monkeys, Mama, the doctor, and an activity guide. The activity guide includes the lyrics to the song in both English and Spanish, though the activity suggestions are only in English. Ages 3+

Leap Pad
This interactive pad and sample book set help introduce reading concepts. Children use the pen to hear and interact with the story as it is read aloud. This set includes the Leap Pad and introductory book, as well as the book and cartridge Phonics: Leap's Friends from A to Z. Additional books and cartridges are available. Leap Pad uses 4 AA batteries. Ages 4+

*Leap Pad Learning System: The Day Leap Ate Olives
This book and cartridge focus on consonants and the vowel U. For use with the Leap Pad.
*Leap Pad Learning System: Once Upon a Time
This book and cartridge focus on observational ability, comprehension, and concentration/memory. For use with the Leap Pad.
*Leap Pad Learning System: Tad's Good Night
This book and cartridge focus on consonants and the vowels A and I. For use with the Leap Pad.

Long Vowels: Write and Wipe Flash Cards
Box contains 32 cards (30 with three words per card, one card with blank lines, and one parent guide) and a write on/wipe off pen. Cards are two-sided. One side features three words with a picture (rain, train, pain); the other side offers children the opportunity to trace each word. Ages 4+

Mail Carrier (Female)

Monster Puppets (2)

The Paperbag Princess Storytelling Kit
Tell the story of Elizabeth, the Princess who rescued the Prince she adored, only to find out he wasn't her type after all. Kit includes the book and soft Velcro pieces for retelling the story.

Parenting Advice Kit: Literacy
This kit contains lots of great information about starting your child on the road to literacy. Materials include books, a video, pamphlets, and a talking hippo. (Batteries not included.)

Patrick's Dinosaurs Storytelling Kit
Patrick's imagination runs away with him when his big brother tells him all about dinosaurs. Set includes the book, a teacher's guide, and 11 velcro storytelling pieces.

Phonics Flash Cards
Box contains 86 cards, including a parent note, and a card with activities; includes long and short vowels, consonants, and beginning and ending blends. Ages 6+

Phonological Awareness Kit
This set includes a book and activity packet introducing Phonological Awareness, as well as several picture books that will allow you to test your new skills with your kids. Also included are five sets of Lang-O-Learn cards, offering clear images of animals, household objects, vehicles, clothing, and foods, as well as a set of sound canisters to help develop auditory discrimination. Ages 3+

Playhut On the Go Puppet Show
This is a great lightweight puppet theatre. The top is open, the sides are mesh, children enter through a large opening in the back wall, and a curtained opening in the front wall is the stage. The overall height is 4'. The interior dimensions are 3' x 3'. Ages 3+

Police Officer Puppet (Female)

Quick as a Cricket Storytelling Kit
"I'm slow as a snail; I'm small as an ant..." This rhyming book of similes celebrates a child's view of himself and his place in the natural world. Set includes the book and 21 velcro storytelling pieces. (The kitten storytelling piece is missing.)

Reading Rods: Prefixes and Suffixes
Reading Rods are interlocking cubes with letters and letter combinations printed on them so that students can easily make and remake words. This section of the reading rods set includes a teacher's guide with blackline masters, 120 overhead tiles, 24 double-sided activity cards, an activity tray, 72 double-sided prefix/suffix/root word flashcards, 13 yellow prefix rods, 11 orange suffix rods, 11 light green Greek root rods, 52 English base word rods, 3 red vowel rods, 9 blue consonant rods. Grade 2+

Reading Rods: Sentence Building
Reading Rods are interlocking cubes with letters and letter combinations printed on them so that students can easily make and remake words. Set includes a teacher's guide with blackline masters, 24 double-sided activity cards, 110 overhead tiles, 72 double-sided word cards, an activity tray, 35 green noun rods, 12 light green pronoun rods, 35 yellow verb rods, 25 red adjective rods, 8 pink article rods, 11 orange adverb rods, 10 blue preposition rods, 5 purple conjunction rods, 3 turquoise interjection rods, and 11 white punctuation rods. Grade 2+

Reading Rods: Spelling
Reading Rods are interlocking cubes with letters and letter combinations printed on them so that students can easily make and remake words. This kit includes a teacher's guide with blackline masters, 144 letter cards, 78 overhead tiles, 74 blend and digraph overhead tiles, 42 advanced vowel overhead tiles, 56 red vowel rods, 144 blue consonant rods, an activity tray, a sample reader, and 24 double-sided activity cards. Grade 1+

Reading Rods: Word Building
Reading Rods are interlocking cubes with letters and letter combinations printed on them so that students can easily make and remake words. This kit contains a teacher's guide with blackline masters, an activity tray, 24 double-sided activity cards (and one guide card), 90 letter cards, 27 consonant blends and digraph cards, 41 blue consonant rods, 26 red vowel rods, 22 green consonant blend and digraph rods, and 20 purple vowel combination cards. Grade 1+

Rhyming Words Flash Cards
Box contains 86 cards -- 28 sets of three rhyming words -- along with a parent note and a card with activities. The flash cards have words on one side and part of a sentence and a picture on the other. When all three words are together, flip the cards to complete the sentence and the picture on the back. Ages 5+

Rhyming Words Picture Puzzles
These twenty, two-piece wooden puzzles feature rhymes such as whale/scale, cat/bat, bell/shell, and fly/cry. Each piece contains an image and a word. The puzzles are cut in such a way as to be self-correcting. Comes in a wooden storage box. Ages 3+

The Right Number of Elephants Storytelling Kit
A counting book in which a little girl tells readers the right number of elephants for every situation. Kit includes the book, a teacher's guide, sponge numerals 0-9, and ten rubber peanuts.

Sheep in a Jeep Storytelling Kit
The sheep are at it again and this time they have a jeep! Retell their wild and woolly tale with our soft Velcro storytelling kit. The book is included.

Short Vowels: Write and Wipe Flash Cards
Box contains 32 cards (30 with three words per card, one card with blank lines, and one parent guide) and a write on/wipe off pen. Cards are two-sided. One side features three words with a picture (hen, pen, ten); the other side offers children the opportunity to trace each word. Ages 4+

Sleepy Bears Storytelling Kit
Winter has arrived so Mama Bear rhymes her cubs off to sleep. Set includes the book, a teacher's guide and 14 velcro storytelling pieces.

Soundtracks
Can you recognize the sound of a pig's oink? Sisters laughing? A sneeze? Find out when you put in the Soundtracks cassette and try to match the pictures on the cards with the sound you hear. Box contains four game boards, a cassette, and 40 playing chips. For 1-4 players. Ages 3+

The Stonecutter Storytelling Kit
A stonecutter wishes she could be better and stronger. Each wish is granted until one day she realizes how strong she herself (as a stonecutter) really is. A copy of the story (though not a book with illustrations) is included with the felt board pieces needed to tell the story.

Storytelling Apron
Don't want to be tied to your feltboard while you tell a story? Use our storytelling apron for mobile storytelling! Felt or Velcro storytelling pieces are available separately -- or use your own!

Tactile Letters - Lowercase
This set contains each lowercase letter of the alphabet on a separate blue card. The letters are cut out of sandpaper so the children can feel the shape of the letter with their fingers as they trace it. Ages 3+

Tactile letters - Uppercase
This set contains each uppercase letter of the alphabet on a separate orange card. The letters are cut out of sandpaper so the children can feel the shape of the letter with their fingers as they trace it. Ages 3+

Tell-A-Story
Players try to collect all the cards from one storyline. The cards can then be arranged in any configuration, allowing players to think about the same story in multiple ways. Ten different stories are included. For 1-5 players. Ages 4+

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Storytelling Kit
Set includes the book, a teacher's guide, and the lady herself! The lady has velcro on her back and a fuzzy belly for attaching the animals she eats. Ages 3+

The Three Billy Goats Gruff Storytelling Kit (Bilingual-English/Spanish)
Tell the tale of The Three Billy Goats Gruff -- in English or in Spanish! Set includes the book, a felt backdrop of the stream and bridge, the three goats, the troll, and a word blurb reading "TRIP, TRAP." (Note: this version of the book doesn't use the words "Trip, Trap," but you might decide to anyway.)

Very Hungry Caterpillar Storytelling Kit
Follow the Very Hungry Caterpillar has he eats his way into becoming a butterfly! Set includes the book, soft Velcro pieces for retelling the story, and an activity guide. Ages 3+

Word Building Puzzles - 3 Letter
Set includes 16, three piece puzzles featuring short vowel sounds. Words featured: bat, bus, fox, hen, bug, dog, hat, jet, pig, bed, cat, gum, map, win, top, and sun. Ages 4+

Fine/Gross Motor Skills

Balance: A Wobbly Game of Balancing Chips
Stack more wooden chips on your wobbly base piece than your opponent does and win the game! For 2-3 players. Ages 5+

Block Sets

Architectural Blocks
Set of 44 blocks includes columns, roofs, stairs, and archways so budding architects can create the buildings of their dreams. Ages 3+

Ball Track, Large Basic Set
This 40-piece set allows children to experiment with physics, using the blocks and ramps to construct a marble run. Ages 3+

Basic Building Blocks
This basic 60-block set includes all the basics: cubes, cylinders, triangles, arches, and flat-bottomed spheres. Rectangles come in two widths and three lengths. Ages 1+

Bug Blocks
These blocks have various bug eyes, bug legs, and bug body parts painted on each of their sides. Children can mix and match to make their own zany bug combinations. Includes 33 blocks, enough for three children to create at once. Ages 3+

Geomix Blocks
This set of 32 blocks comes with its own wooden tray. The mix of sizes, shapes, and colors help children sort, compare, pattern, and build spatial skills. Ages 3+

Nesting/Sorting Blocks
Five nesting blocks and five shape blocks allow children to practice hand-eye coordination and shape matching skills. Ages 18 months+

Water Blocks

Set includes six water-filled blocks, three squares and three half-circles. Two of the blocks are filled with red liquid, two with yellow, and two with blue. Ages 3+

Bowling Set (Safe Play)
This indoor bowling set will enliven many a rainy day! Set includes ten weighted foam pins, two foam balls (with finger holes), and a mat to help children position the pins. Ages 3+

Design Builder
Set includes 285 plastic pieces both curved and straight. They snap together to form countless different shapes and designs, including letters and numbers. Ages 3+

Easel
This two-sided artist's easel can be used for drawings or paintings. A tray underneath the board holds supplies while four metal clips hold the paper securely from above. http://134.241.192.15/record=b3636922

Feed the Bunny: Fine Motor Game
Use the large plastic tweezers to put the carrots into the rabbit's mouth. Ages 3+

Feed the Dog: Fine Motor Game
Use the large plastic tweezers to put the bones into the dog's mouth. Ages 3+

Feed the Monkey: Fine Motor Game
Use the large plastic tweezers to put the bananas into the monkey's mouth. Ages 3+

Fruit and Vegetables Beanbag Activity Kit
Ten beanbags (purple grapes, carrot, pear, corn, peas, banana, orange, red pepper, broccoli, and red apple), twenty beanbag activity cards, and one teacher's guide card add up to lots of nutritional fun! Learn games such as Broccoli hot potato, Guessing Garden, and Fruit Flip. Ages 3+

Lacing Cards (Moringa)
This lacing "card" activity is actually a wooden tree. Children use the two laces to attach 1 fox, 1 squirrel, 1 bush, 3 apples, 4 butterflies, 1 bird's nest, and 20 leaves. Ages 3+

Obstacle Course Take-Home Pack
These packs are intended for use by a child and her family to reinforce classroom concepts. The Obstacle Course pack contains the book Ready, Get Set, Go! featuring the Berenstain Bears, four stepping stones, one ladybug beanbag, one bumblebee beanbag, a sandtimer, a parent letter and six write and wipe activities, and write and wipe crayons. Ages 3+

Outdoor Play Set
Set contains two jump ropes and two paddle blitz games (four paddles and two balls). Ages 6+

Sandbox Playset
This set includes large shovel and rake, five small shovels, a scoop, a small hand rake, three wooden sifters, a bucket with a pour spout, a small pail, a snail sand mold, and three stacking pots. Ages 3+

Shapeshifters
Set of six lycra loops that children use to stretch into shapes when they pull them over their bodies. Activity guide is included. Ages 6+

Team Walker
The Team Walker allows children to practice coordination and cooperation. Plastic "walkers" hook together. Children must work together in order to move forward. Accommodates up to four children at a time. Pieces can be unhooked for individual practice. Ages 4+

Tunnel (for Crawling)
Children will love crawling through this 6' long play tunnel. The opening is 18". Ages 3+

X-Men
Game is comprised of 45 wooden "men" in four colors. To play the game, children build the men in a pre-agreed upon manner until one person knocks all the men down. Many variations on the game are possible. Ages 3+

Infants/Toddlers

Baby Band Infant Rattles
Four plastic rattles, brightly colored, easy-to-hold, and each with its own sound. Birth - age 3

Basic Building Blocks
This basic 60-block set includes all the basics: cubes, cylinders, triangles, arches, and flat-bottomed spheres. Rectangles come in two widths and three lengths. Ages 1+

Duplo Blocks
This large bucket of Duplo blocks will keep kids busy for hours. Ages 2+

First Blocks
This 8-piece set will delight young toddlers. Includes a person block, a car with wheels, a wooden ring, a sphere, a cylinder, a square with a bell inside, a rectangle with wooden beads inside, and a rectangle with a mirror embedded. Ages 1+

Infant Kit
This set includes the board book Wow! Babies, the parent/teacher book Baby Play: Activities for Discovery and Development During the First Year of Life, two soft grab rattles, three terrycloth puppets: a dog, a duck, and a frog, and an Oball -- a (safe) plastic ball with lots of holes, easy for babies to hold. Birth - 15 months

Nesting/Sorting Blocks (High Five)
Five nesting blocks and five shape blocks allow children to practice hand-eye coordination and shape matching skills. Ages 18 months+

Shape Puzzle, toddler
Shapes featured: square, triangle, hexagon, diamond, oval, circle, rectangle, and pentagon. Each shape is a different color. 8 pieces with wooden knobs

Sorting Bus
This wooden bus includes a driver and three different colored shapes, each of which fit in two different slots in the bus walls. Children pull on the block on the top of the bus and the shapes come tumbling out. Bus also features a pull string. Ages 19 mos+

Math

Addition Flashcards
This is a traditional box of flashcards. There are 54 double-sided cards, covering addition facts through 9+9. Box includes study sheets and a study guide. Ages 6+

Addition Flash Cards
Box contains 86 cards, including a parent note and a card with activities. Ages 6+

Architectural Blocks
Set of 44 blocks includes columns, roofs, stairs, and archways so budding architects can create the buildings of their dreams. Ages 3+

Ball Track, Large Basic Set
This 40-piece set allows children to experiment with physics, using the blocks and ramps to construct a marble run. Ages 3+

Basic Building Blocks
This basic 60-block set includes all the basics: cubes, cylinders, triangles, arches, and flat-bottomed spheres. Rectangles come in two widths and three lengths. Ages 1+

Bucket Balance
This balance can be used for solids or liquids. The buckets hold up to a 1/2 liter of liquid.

Counting Box: Apple Tree

Children place apples on apple tree counting mats, according to the number printed at the base of the tree. Ten mats and sixty apples are included. Activities are suggested on the bottom of the box. Ages 3+

Counting Match-Ups
Twenty, two-piece, self-correcting puzzles help match numbers with quantities. (The number 6 gets matched up with six hats.) Ages 4+

Counting Mats: Fish
This kit contains ten two-sided fish bowl mats. On one side, children read the number at the top of the bowl and put the correct number of foam fish in the bowl. On the other side, children can trace and practice writing the number with the write and wipe crayons. Activity guide is included. Ages 3+

Division Flash Cards
Box contains 86 cards, including a parent note and a card with activities. Ages 8+

Division Theme Bag
This theme bag includes the book The Doorbell Rang, twelve vinyl cookies, a toy cookie pan, and a teacher's guide. When Mom makes cookies, it's easy to figure out how to divide them fairly, but every time the doorbell rings, it gets a little harder!

Division War Flash Cards
Box contains 86 cards of division facts to use for the card game War. Ages 8+

Dominoes
This is a classic double six dominoes set. 28 pieces. Ages 7+

Dominoes, Sesame Street
These cardboard dominoes feature Sesame Street characters. 30 pieces. Ages 4+

Duplo Blocks
This large bucket of Duplo blocks will keep kids busy for hours. Ages 2+

Geomix Blocks
This set of 32 blocks comes with its own wooden tray. The mix of sizes, shapes, and colors help children sort, compare, pattern, and build spatial skills. Ages 3+

Mancala
Mancala is an ancient, easy-to-learn game with many variations. Rules for a simple version of the game accompany our game board and 48 stones. Ages 8+

Match and Learn Math Board
Children use pattern cards and a sorting board to sort wooden shapes using two attributes. Shapes come in five colors and three shapes. Ages 3+

Measurement Center: How Long Is It?
This measurement kit includes 24 activity cards, a wooden cardholder, 6 foam measuring feet, 100 plastic links, 24 snap-together inchworms and an activity guide. Ages 4+

Measurement Center: How Much Does it Weigh?
This measurement kit includes a balance scale, 24 activity cards, a wooden cardholder, plastic weights, plastic buttons, wooden cubes, and an aluminum cube. Ages 4+

Money Theme Bag
This theme bag includes Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst, coin rubber stamps, fake bills and coins, and a teacher's guide. Alexander receives a dollar from his grandparents, but it is too hard to resist spending it impulsively. Soon, he is out of money and doesn't have much to show for it.

Multiplication Flash Cards
Box contains 86 cards, including a parent note and a card with activities. Ages 8+

Multiplication War Flash Cards
Box contains 86 cards of multiplication facts to use for the card game War. Ages 8+

Nesting/Sorting Blocks (High Five)
Five nesting blocks and five shape blocks allow children to practice hand-eye coordination and shape matching skills. Ages 18 months+

Number Concepts Theme Bag
This theme bag includes the book How Much is a Million? by David Schwartz, a magician pop-up puppet, 3 sponge stars, and a teacher's guide. The book introduces children to very large numbers using comparisons from their daily lives.

Number Jugglers: Math Game Book and Card Set
This book and card set can be used with children up through middle school to help them develop number concepts and critical thinking skills. The games involve varying numbers of players and often contain challenges or adaptations to make the game work on multiple levels. 85 custom-designed cards included. Ages 5+

Numbers 1-30 Flash Cards
Box contains 32 cards (numbers 1-30, one parent guide, and one blank card) and a write on/wipe off pen. Cards are two-sided. One side features red dots (to match the number on the reverse); the other side offers children the opportunity to trace each number. Ages 2+ (according to box)

Numbers Flash Cards
Box contains 86 cards representing numbers one to 100, including a parent note and activities. Ages 4+

Pattern and Sequencing Cards
Set includes 15 double-sided activity cards, an answer key, an activity guide and 120 plastic bears in four colors and three sizes. Ages 3+

Patterning: Literature-Based Math Center

This patterning kit includes the book Beep Beep, Vroom, Vroom! by Stuart J. Murphy, twelve patterning cards, 48 car manipulatives in red, blue, yellow, and green, and a teacher's guide. Children use the cards to copy or extend the patterns drawn on the "roads" Ages 4+

Quick-Flip: A Fast-Paced Counting Card Game
Use your cards to count one up or one down from the starter cards. The cards include groups of objects, printed numerals, and number words (i.e., a picture of 4 birthday candles, "4," and "four.") The object of the game is to get rid of all your cards. Ages 5+

Road System-Deluxe
This 36-piece set contains everything needed to make a short road system, including a bridge, intersections, straightaways, and turns. Ages 3+

Sesame Street Flashcards, Numbers 1-10
Double-sided cards feature colorful objects and characters on the front of the card and printed numerals on the back. Ages 3+

Sesame Street Flashcards, Numbers 1-20
Double-sided cards feature colorful objects and characters on the front and a smaller version of the same picture accompanied by the printed numeral on the back. Ages 3+

Shape Puzzle, preschool
Shapes featured: oval, diamond, circle, rectangle, square, and triangle. 12 pieces

Shape Puzzle, toddler
Shapes featured: square, triangle, hexagon, diamond, oval, circle, rectangle, and pentagon. Each shape is a different color. 8 pieces with wooden knobs

Shut the Box: Math Game
In this game, players roll the dice and flip up "levers" equaling either the total value of both dice or equaling the value of each die. (Will you lift lever number 9 or levers 4 and 5? Or?) Once a lever is flipped up, it may not be reused. The player with the lowest score wins. A game box, two dice, and complete instructions are included. Ages 6+

Size Take-Home Pack
These packs are intended for use by a child and her family to reinforce classroom concepts. The Size kit contains the book Watch Out! Big Bro's Coming!, a parent letter and six write and wipe activity cards, a box of write and wipe crayons, five plastic sailboats with sails, 18 picture cards (six of fish, six of frogs, six of mice), two sorting mats, and 12 plastic animals (two ducks, two pigs, two sheep, two cows, two horses, and two rabbits).

Sorting: Literature-Based Math Center
This sorting kit includes The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid, four cardboard button sorting boxes, twelve sorting cards, 60 large plastic buttons in four colors (red, yellow, blue, and green), five shapes (flower, circle, triangle, heart, and square), and two sizes, and teacher's guide. Ages 4+

Subtraction Flashcards
This is a traditional set of flashcards. There are 54 double-sided cards, covering subtraction facts up through 18-9. Box includes study sheets and a study guide. Ages 6+ \

Subtraction Flash Cards
Box contains 86 cards, including a parent note and a card with activities. Ages 6+

Supero: The Game of Memory and Strategy
The object of the game is to get four blocks in a row. However, the blocks may have different patterns on each side. You have to get four in a row on your side, without getting four in a row on your opponent's side! Ages 5+

Tangoes: The Puzzle Game Ages
Tangoes are based on tangrams, an ancient Chinese puzzle game. Players use seven shapes to try and reproduce a puzzle picture. This game can be played by one player or by two players racing against each other to recreate the puzzle with their own card. 5 - Adult

This game is recommended for ages 5 and up, but the puzzles are challenging. Answers are shown on the back of each card.

Tic Tac Toe Felt Pieces
Big purples X's and bright pink O's -- a fun new format for playing this classic game.

Time and Money Flash Cards
Box contains 86 cards, including a parent note and an explanatory card. The money cards help children identify and add coins and bills. The time cards help them learn to tell time. Ages 6+

Time Theme Bag 1
This theme bag includes The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle, a clock-face rubber stamp, a minute timer, a ladybug finger puppet, two practice clocks, games stands, and a teacher's guide. The Grouchy Ladybug gets off to a bad start one day and attempts to fight a different animal at every hour. He finally meets his match twelve hours later, and finds himself back at home, with a very different perspective.

Time Theme Bag 2
This theme bag includes Usborne's First Learning's book Time and a plastic practice clock. The book is a workbook, not a storybook. Pages may be copied or done together orally. A note to parents is included. Concepts include order of events, day/night, morning/afternoon/evening, days of the week, seasons, as well as number practice and looking at digital and analog clocks.

Water Blocks
Set includes six water-filled blocks, three squares and three half-circles. Two of the blocks are filled with red liquid, two with yellow, and two with blue. Ages 3+

Weight Theme Bag
This theme bag includes the book Who Sank the Boat?, five different-sized plastic boats with sails, a scale, a one ounce hex weight, a mouse puppet, and a teacher's guide. In the story, some animals decide to go out for a row, but the boat sinks. Who sank the boat?

Music

Baby Band Infant Rattles
Four plastic rattles, brightly colored, easy-to-hold, and each with its own sound. Birth - age 3

Boomwhackers
Eight plastic percussion tubes tuned to the C Major Diatonic Scale. Tubes may be whacked together or on your own hand or thigh. Includes activity sheet and Boomwhackers Games CD. Ages 5+

Musical Instruments
Kit contains 4 guiro tone blocks, 4 multi-jingle bells, 4 tambourines, 2 caxixi baskets, 4 hand-flip den den drums, 3 single jingle bells, and 1 pair claves.

Music Take-Home Pack
These packs are intended for use by a child and her family to reinforce classroom concepts. The Music pack contains the book Abiyoyo, a parent letter and activity guide, two maracas and a triangle.

Old MacDonald's Farm Finger Puppets/Felt Board Set
Display some of Old MacDonald's farm animals on a felt board, or hand out animals for children to wear on their fingers as you sing this classic song. (Animals have both slits for fingers and velcro for sticking on a board.) Set contains Old MacDonald, a horse, a pig, a duck, and a cow. Song lyrics are included. Ages 3+

Percussion Frogs (Guiros)
This kit includes three frog guiros and the book Marsh Magic .

Parent/Teacher

ASQ--Ages and Stages Questionnaires: A Parent-Completed Child-Monitoring System Ages 4 months to 5 years
The ASQ system is available for review particularly by childcare providers and preschool teachers who have been awarded grants by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care. This is one of the assessment systems grantees may choose to purchase through the grant. The paper edition of ASQ is available in English, Spanish, French, and Korean. CD-ROM editions are available in English and Spanish. The ASQ system screens children aged four months to five years in communication skills, fine and gross motor skills, problem-solving skills, and social/emotional skills.

COR--Preschool Child Observation Record Ages 2 ½ to six years
The COR system is available for review particularly by childcare providers and preschool teachers who have been awarded grants by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care. This is one of the assessment systems grantees may choose to purchase through the grant. The Preschool COR assessment tool is appropriate for use with children aged two and a half to six. The assessment looks at six areas: initiative, social relations, creative representation, movement and music, language and literacy, and mathematics and science.

Creative Curriculum for Preschool Ages 3 to 5
The Creative Curriculum system is available for review particularly by childcare providers and preschool teachers who have been awarded grants by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care. This is one of the assessment systems grantees may choose to purchase through the grant. Creative Curriculum for Preschool is appropriate for children between the ages of three and five. This system identifies 50 objectives in four developmental areas (social/emotional, physical, cognitive, and language).

Ounce Scale Birth to 3 1/2
This assessment covers six areas of development: Personal Connections, Feelings About Self, Relationships with other Children, Understanding and Communicating, Exploration and Problem Solving, and Movement and Coordination.

Parenting Advice Kit: Anger
This kit includes a wealth of resources for parents to deal with their own anger as well as to help their children deal with theirs. Materials include books for adults and children, pamphlets, and a children's video.

Parenting Advice Kit: Discipline -- Parenteen Series
This kit contains everything parents need to get started disciplining their children in a positive and effective manner. This kit includes advice for parents of all ages, as well as some additional materials designed especially to support teen parents. Materials include books, videos, pamphlets, and a promise bear.

Parenting Advice Kit: Discipline
A second discipline kit is available with the books, brochures, and bear, but without the teen parenting materials and video.

Parenting Advice Kit: Toileting
This kit contains everything parents need to know about toileting their children. Materials include books, a video, pamphlets, and a talking teddy bear. (Batteries not included.)

Work Sampling System -- Preschool 3 & 4 Classroom Kit
The Work Sampling system is available for review particularly by childcare providers and preschool teachers who have been awarded grants by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care. This is one of the assessment systems grantees may choose to purchase through the grant. Work Sampling assists teachers in documenting a child's skills using activities and experiences that occur naturally in the classroom. The Work Sampling System considers personal and social development, language and literacy, mathematical thinking, scientific thinking, social studies, the arts, and physical development. For use with children aged 3 and 4.

Science

Active Earth Cards
This deck offers a variety of card games that help children learn facts about volcanoes, earthquakes, icebergs, and other geological features. The cards can be used to play Go Fish, Gin Rummy, Concentration, Crazy Eights, and Solitaire. Ages 5+

All About Me Theme Kit

This kit includes:

*Book: Eyes, Nose, Fingers, and Toes
*My Hands reusable mat
*large ink pad
*two unbreakable mirrors
*two plastic mirror stands
*magnifying glass
*28 pop-and-play people
*stethoscope
*vinyl (toy) microphone
*gingerbread person cookie cutter
*47 picture cards
*9 "my day" foam puzzle pieces
*activity guide

Balance: A Wobbly Game of Balancing Chips
Stack more wooden chips on your wobbly base piece than your opponent does and win the game! For 2-3 players. Ages 5+

Ball Track, Large Basic Set
This 40-piece set allows children to experiment with physics, using the blocks and ramps to construct a marble run. Ages 3+

Bird Puppet

Boy Body Puzzle
This anatomically correct wooden puzzle has five layers. The top layer is a boy dressed in jeans and a tee-shirt, the second layer shows his skin, the third layer shows his muscles, the fourth layer shows his organs, and the final layer shows his skeleton. Ages 4+

Bucket Balance
This balance can be used for solids or liquids. The buckets hold up to a 1/2 liter of liquid.

Bug Blocks
These blocks have various bug eyes, bug legs, and bug body parts painted on each of their sides. Children can mix and match to make their own zany bug combinations. Includes 33 blocks, enough for three children to create at once. Ages 3+

Bugs Puzzle
Bugs pictured: Fly, ladybug, butterfly, spider, grasshopper, bee, ant, caterpillar, beetle, and dragonfly. 35 pieces

Bug Kit
This large theme kit contains the following:

*A Bug puzzle (48 pieces, 2' x 3')
*Buggy Bingo game (2-4 players; ages 4-6)
*15 Patterning and Sequencing cards (with bug counters in 6 colors)
*Bumblebee Hand Puppet
*Butterfly Finger Puppet
*Small stuffed Ladybug
*Insect Learning Cards
*2 Insect Net Viewers
*17 Plastic Insects (in a purple bag)
*10 Small Hand Magnifiers (in a single plastic case)
*1 Large Hand Magnifier
*4 Small Bug Observation Magnifiers (Clear cups with lids)
*7 Bug Bucket Viewers (with hand-held bug nets and plastic tweezers)
*1 Large Bug Observation Magnifier
*1 Small Complex Eye Magnifier
*1 Sample Bug Book (project idea)
*10 Books:
*It's a Good Thing There Are Insects
*Spiders Are Not Insects
*The Caterpillar and the Polliwog
*The Icky Bug Alphabet Book
*Butterflies and Moths
*Thematic Unit: Bugs
*Insects Up Close
*Insects: Volume One
*Insect World
*National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders
Ages 3+

Butterfly Tumble Puzzle: floor-sized
Facts poster included identifies each butterfly and provides a little detail about its size and where it lives. 48 pieces

Caterpillar Glove-Style Hand Puppet

Dinosaurs
Eight large plastic dinosaurs are available to temporarily roam your childcare center or living room. Included are: Parasaurolophus, ceratosaurus, edaphosaurus, styracosaurus, stegosaurus, brachiosaurus, and two tyrannosauruses rex. The dinosaurs' names are written on their tummies for easy identification. Ages 3+

Dinosaurs Puzzle
Dinosaurs pictured: Tyrannosaurus Rex, pteranodon, Apatosaurus, compsognathus, velociraptor, ankylosaurus, stegosaurus, triceratops, and iguanodon. 45 pieces

Dinosaurs Theme Book Library

Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff
Day of the Dinosaur (Berenstain Bears) by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Digging Up Dinosaurs by Aliki
How Big Were the Dinosaurs? by Bernard Most
If the Dinosaurs Came Back by Bernard Most

Dinosaur Theme Kit
This kit includes:

*18 dinosaur counters
*6 dinosaur stamps
*large inkpad
*2 dinosaur puppets
*Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs by Byron Barton
*activity guide
*3 large dinosaurs
*6 dinosaur skeletons
Ages 3+

Five Senses Theme Box

Kit includes:

*Book: My Five Senses by Aliki
*feely box
*pack of six scented markers
*sounds and noises cassette
*magnifying glass
*tuning fork
*55 picture cards
*activity card
*inventory sheet
Ages 3+

Girl Body Puzzle
This anatomically correct wooden puzzle has five layers. The top layer is a girl dressed in pants and a tee-shirt, the second layer shows her skin, the third layer shows her muscles, the fourth layer shows her organs, and the final layer shows her skeleton. Ages 4+

Growing Things Theme Box

Kit includes:

*Book: How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan
*1 hand magnifier
*1, 8.5" x 11" magnetic garden landscape board
*10 plant growth activity cards (pole beans, tomato, lettuce, pumpkin, radish, nasturtium, marigold, sunflower, corn, and carrot.
*39 magnetic pieces (2 fruit trees, 3 heads lettuce, 3 bunches of grapes, 4 flowers,
* 1 cluster of strawberries, 3 apples, 3 tomatoes, 3 corn stalks, 3 carrots, 4 oranges, 4 heads of broccoli, 4 potato plants, 2 climbing vines.
*1 plastic sleeve to hold the magnets
Ages 3+

Human Body Science Card Game
The goal of this card game is to identify a body part using the fewest clues possible. For 2-4 players. Ages 7+

Magnasticks
This set contains a plastic base with four embedded magnetic surfaces and 57 shapes with which to build magnetic sculptures. Ages 6+

Magnetic Magic
This book comes with ten magnets and is filled with experiments and tricks that demonstrate magnetic principles. Ages 6+

Magnifying Glass with Wooden Legs
The lens on this stand-alone magnifier is 4.5 inches in diameter. Removable legs allow it to stand over bulky objects. Ages 3+

Nutrition Take-Home Pack

These packs are intended for use by a child and her family to reinforce classroom concepts. The Nutrition pack includes the revised edition of The Edible Pyramid, a parent letter and activity guide, wipe-off crayons, and 6 plastic manipulatives: a bagel, butter, watermelon, meat, cheese, and peas. Ages 3+

Our Body poster and booklet set
This set includes a write on/wipe off poster of a girl and a boy with major body parts labeled (i.e., neck, tummy, toes). The children are dressed in bathing suits. Six write on/wipe off booklets include smaller versions of the poster, as well as close-ups of hands, feet, the mouth, and back, a picture to illustrate each of the five senses, and a skeleton. A pack of write/wipe crayons accompany the set. A teacher's guide is located on the back of the poster. Ages 4+

Rainforest Puzzle
Animals pictured: Sloth, orangutan, toucan, butterfly, macaw, anteater, tapir, anaconda, tree frog, and jaguar. 45 pieces

Sand Table
This small sand table with lid allows children to explore sand at a comfortable height outside or even indoors. Our table includes a small funnel, a sailboat, a small cup with a spout, twelve stacking cups, a scoop, a sieve, three measuring cups, and a tablespoon. Table stands 24" high. Sand basin is 27" long, 15" wide, and 8" deep. Ages 3+

Sea Life Puzzle
Animals pictured: Dolphin, whale, fish, seagulls, shark, sea horse, lobster, crab, sea urchins, octopus, stingray, and starfish. 25

Sea Life Theme Book Library

A B Sea by Bobbie Kalman
Families of the Deep Blue Sea by Kenneth Mallory
Garden of Whales by Maggie Steincrohn Davis
My Visit to the Aquarium by Aliki
Ocean Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta
What's Under the Ocean (Now I Know series)

Shells
Most of the shells in our bin are real beach shells, but there are 13 very realistic plastic replicas among them. Can you spot the fakes? 72 shells in all. Ages 3+

Space Theme Book Library

Dogs In Space by Nancy Coffelt
Is There Life in Outer Space? by Franklyn M. Branley
I Want to Be An Astronaut by Byron Barton
The Universe by Gallimard Jeunesse
What is the Moon Like? by Franklyn M. Branley

Space Theme Kit

This kit includes:

*8 constellation cards
*10 space photo cards
*wooden card stand
*flashlight (batteries not included)
*planet puzzle
*two plastic astronauts
*one American flag
*one soft NASA space shuttle
*one foam earth ball
*one foam moon ball
*activity guide
Ages 3+

Tiger Puzzle: life-sized
19 jumbo pieces. This puzzle is over five feet long.

Underwater Puzzle: floor-sized
Puzzle shows many creatures living in tropical waters. The fish are not named. 48 pieces

Wild Animals Puzzle
Pictured: Elephant, giraffe, zebra, monkey, lion, flamingo, hippopotamus, and crocodile. 35 pieces

Social Studies

All About Me Theme Book Library

A Head is for Hats by Mary Serfozo
Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault
I Was So Mad by Mercer Mayer
My Body, Your Body by Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom
My Hands by Aliki
Sometimes by Keith Baker

American Sign Language Flashcards
This set includes a card for each letter of the ASL alphabet and one for each number 0-9. Ages 4+

Bus Depot Diner: A Cooperative Game
This cooperative game includes three sets of rules so it can accommodate players at different age levels. Players work together to get a busload of hungry passengers fed and on their way in 30 minutes. Ages 5+

Chef Puppet (male)

Community Helper Flashcards
This set of 26 flashcards portrays community helpers from Barbers to Veterinarians, dressed and ready for work. Information on the back of each card discusses the academic requirements for the job, the personal qualities necessary for a person in that profession, and a description of the various duties they perform. Discussion points are offered, as well as ideas for games to play with the cards. Ages 4+

Construction Worker Puppet (male)

Cooking Set
This box contains everything young chefs might need to whip up a meal! Includes pots, muffin, pan, mixing bowls, spatulas, aprons, and much more! 40 pieces altogether. Ages 3+

Doctor and Nurse Puppets(1 of each)

Family Puppets: Mother, Father, Sister, and Brother

Farm Puzzle
Pictured: Farmer, cow, rooster, goat, cat, horse, sheep, pig, chicken, and duck. 25 pieces

Firefighter Puppet (Female)

Firefighter Puppet (Male)

Mail Carrier (Female)

Police Officer Puppet (Female)

States and Capitals Flash Cards
Box contains 86 cards, including a parent note and a card with activities. 50 of the cards teach U.S. states and capitals; the other 34 teach key foreign nations and their capitals. Each card features a map outline. For the U.S. cards, each state is shown in its place on the U.S. map; on the capital side of the card, the outline is just of that state, with a dot for the capital. The country cards are a different color than the U.S cards. They do not show the country's place on a world map, but they do show the capital's place within the country on the capital side. Ages 8+

World Map Puzzle
Floor-sized, foam--54 pieces

updated : May 22, 2010

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