Other toys :
36 objects that correspond to the 36 colorful felt pieces included with the house. The rooms are arranged with one room on the bottom of each panel and one room at the top. There’s a kitchen, living room, bedroom and dining room on the first level, a baby’s room, an office, a bedroom and bathroom on the top level. The next two ways to play are created by standing the house up and folding it into a 3D house. Because of the Velcro on top and sides, this can easily be done to form a house with four walls and a four-sided roof. Open it up and re-fold it so you see the outside of the house (four walls and four-sided roof). When playing with the inside, the felt pieces can be used to match the outlines. When playing with the outside, there is plenty of space to create your own design or rooms. These 36 items have been selected to provide maximum opportunities for language devel- opment. For example, the included objects also demonstrate colors, sizes, shapes, opportunities for counting, description and narration and examples of spatial and temporal concepts. This open-ended learning toy can be used at home, in school, by a child alone or in a group, and encourages open-ended imaginative play and social interaction. In addition to the house, My Little House comes with a box to store the house and piec- es, with a convenient handle on top, making transporting easy. Also included is a pamphlet with an overview of concepts and skills you can address in play. The second in this series, My Little Farm, just became available. Others are planned. To help reinforce these early learning concepts in other relat- ed play situations: Apps: • My Town: Home Doll House (www.my-town.com) • Toca House (www.tocaboca.com) • My PlayHome (www.myplayhomeapp.com) • Pepi House (www.pepiplay.com)
• Jinja’s House (www.sagomini.com) (see above), • Little People Big Helpers Home (www.fisher-price.com) (see above) and • Pillow Playsets: Doll House (www.sagomini.com) (see above)
Rocktopus: (Fisher-Price: https://fisher-price.mattel.com/shop/ en-us/fp/think-learn/think-learn-rocktopus-fxw98)
Rocktopus (Fisher-Price: https://fisher-price.mattel.com/shop/ en-us/fp/think-learn/think-learn- rocktopus-fxw98 ) Rocktopus is a musical octopus that contains errorless play and some learning games using music as the focus and moti- vator. It encourages children to explore a variety of musical styles while learning about different instruments and rhythmic patterns. Rocktopus won the prestigious Toy of the Year Award in the Preschool category at the 2019 Toy Industry Association’s Toy of the Year Awards Ceremony. Rocktopus has eight “tentacles” to hold different combina- tions of the 15 musical instrument modules. On the easiest lev- el, children just select an instrument module, insert it into the tentacle, and press to hear it named and played briefly. If they want to hear more complex music, they can enter the “Mix and Match Music” mode, and add up to four instruments to hear them played together and to make the music go faster or slow- er. It’s simple exploratory play that encourages children to lis- ten to a variety of musical instruments, and to make errorless choices. In the Musical Math game, children follow spoken in- structions such as “hand me some instruments, hand me three instruments, take away two instruments, take away all four in- struments, etc.” As children place and remove instruments in the tentacles, the toy reinforces the math concepts – “Now I have
My Little House: YouTube Video Link: https://youtu.be/NqzlB1A-Lv8
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