The Moodies offers an ingeniously effective approach to helping little ones identify and understand their own and others' emotions. Each of the ultra-huggable Moodies is a cuddly, comforting animal companion AND an illustrated storybook, the combination of which epitomizes a specific strong emotion of the sort kids wrestle with on any given day. Each animal's facial expression conveys a singular emotion, while the charact...Read more

This exceptionally fine board game makes for an entertaining way for players to test one another's knowledge of American history and culture while gaining loads of information along the way. Unusually well-crafted game play and visually-appealing components figure prominently in the fun. Players take turns answering questions in an ongoing effort to win enough states to ascend to the presidency and win the game. Question ...Read more

There is a great deal of fun and learning to be had with this enticingly-themed chemistry lab set, and kids savor every minute of it! The experiment guide presents step-by-step instructions for 50 different tie-dye experiments, many of which can be executed with satisfying swiftness. Youngsters take great pleasure in completing numerous experiments in a single sitting and mining the results for valuable conclusions in res...Read more

The Time Activity Set makes for a fantastic way for kids to learn to tell time and develop an understanding of numbers, measurements, clockwise and counter-clockwise motion, geometric shapes, pie charts, parts of the whole, and more. As always with products from mierEdu, the components are of the utmost quality and beautifully and playfully designed. Foremost among these is the Omi Owl Clock, the eyes of which function as...Read more

There is a lot to see and do in this fantastic board game. Trekking the National Parks, its sprawling map board adorned with and surrounded by an abundance of captivatingly colorful and varied game components, evokes a strong sense of anticipatory excitement before play even gets underway. After setup, players take turns in which they choose from among various types of actions that include using their Trekker playing piec...Read more

In addition to its distinctive focus on national parks, this excellent trivia game incorporates a number of elements that spice up the fun and learning. Foremost is that the answer to each round's primary question is always a number and that the winning guess need not be an exact match but merely closest to the correct number without going over. Another fine feature is that the player who reads the question aloud must be ...Read more

This bountiful board game offers up first-rate family entertainment of the sort that sparks nonstop conversation and friendly competition, not to mention a sumptuous feast for the eyes and spirit. The abundance of high quality, visually-appealing components that figure so prominently in Trekking the World have the effect of transporting players, literally and figuratively, to places where fun and adventure reign supreme. ...Read more

These triangular flashcards proved to be wondrously effective in helping kids learn an abundance of math facts while gaining true understanding of the workings behind the equations. The set includes 188 addition, subtraction, multiplication and division flashcards with a total of 752 equations and 6 bonus facts packed in two portable boxes that facilitate fun and learning on the go. The durable cards are of visibly high q...Read more

Children take great delight in the wonders of watercolor painting with this ingeniously-designed set, the contents of which minimize mess and require very little space during storage and usage. At the heart of that ingenuity is a refillable water brush that, with a gentle squeeze or two, releases just the right amount of moisture to activate the included water paint chips. Those circular, wafer-thin chips come in strips o...Read more

This bingo-style game proved both buoyantly fun and exceptionally effective at helping children learn to tell time and understand the underlying concepts, with numerous practical and educational benefits to be gained along the way. Kids take turns flipping over a bingo card to see if the time displayed matches that of any of the spaces on their My Day card. Illustrations on both depict family characters in circumstances i...Read more

Worldwide Buddies did an outstanding job with this powerfully engaging multicultural storytelling game. The 60 large, square cards are beautifully illustrated and labeled such that they fall into four distinct categories: spectacular places, worldwide buddies, whimsical encounters, and magic links. The content on each of these scintillatingly-themed cards provides unique inspiration and functions as a creativity-sparking ...Read more

The monthly installments in this 36-month subscription box series, designed by educators, present an assortment of high quality components, themes and parenting guidance geared towards ensuring your child achieves the maximum possible progress at any given stage of their development. The Wonder Garden WOW! Box does so by integrating several well-established educational approaches (including Montessori, Pikler and Reggio) ...Read more

With easy-to-learn rules and exceptionally entertaining game play that always feels fresh, Word Splice is easily one of the best word games we have seen in quite some time. It is also a great family card game in which players take turns scoring points by forming words from cards in their hand (placed face up on the table) and by inserting cards into words already played. In so doing, wild cards can be substituted for any ...Read more

The Yummy Food Fraction Board serves up a host of fun ways for kids to explore fractions using magnetic pieces whose illustrated surfaces give them the appealing appearance of popular foods. Each of the food types (fruit slices, waffles, pizza, cake and 4 others) is circular and has been segmented into equally-sized pieces that can be combined to form a whole or a larger fraction of the whole. The size of the individual p...Read more