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Alphabet Cones

Colorful ice cream cone toys with letters A-Z. Cones feature vibrant scoops, each showing a letter. A hand lifts the red scoop with letter Z.
Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This playful educational manipulative helps children master letter recognition by matching lowercase and uppercase letters in an engaging ice cream cone format. Children select scoops featuring lowercase letters and snap them onto cones with the corresponding uppercase letters, building alphabet knowledge and fine motor skills simultaneously.
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Bridge Building Engineering Center

STEM bridge building kit with colorful plastic connectors and a box labeled "Bridge Building Center."
Recommended Age: 3-6 years
  This open-ended building center teaches children to identify structural elements in real bridges and incorporate them into their own engineering designs. The center encourages critical thinking and problem-solving as children explore concepts like stability, support, and span through hands-on construction activities.
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Count & Link Activity Kit

Educational toy set with number cards from 1 to 20 featuring elephants, colorful interlocking plastic links, and children's hands playing.
Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This hands-on mathematics kit helps children develop counting skills and visualize quantities through an engaging elephant-themed activity. Children count out and attach the corresponding number of colorful links to each numbered elephant, providing concrete reinforcement of number concepts from 1-20.
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Counting Cones

Colorful plastic ice cream scoops stacked in numbered cones from 1 to 10.
Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This playful educational manipulative helps children master number recognition and counting skills through an engaging ice cream cone activity. Children match quantities to numerals by stacking the correct number of ice cream scoops onto cones labeled 1-10, building number sense and fine motor skills simultaneously.
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Fishing for Sight-Words - Level 1

A colorful fishing game for kids features a blue pond with word-labeled fish pieces.
Recommended Age: 4-6 years
This engaging literacy game helps children develop sight-word recognition through playful fishing activities. As children use the magnetic fishing pole to "catch" colorful fish printed with common sight-words, they naturally build reading fluency and word recognition skills in an entertaining format.
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Fishing for Sight-Words - Level 2

A child holds a toy fishing rod over a colorful board game resembling a pond, with word-filled fish pieces.
Recommended Age: 4-6 years
This engaging literacy game helps children develop sight-word recognition through playful fishing activities. As children use the magnetic fishing pole to "catch" colorful fish printed with common sight-words, they naturally build reading fluency and word recognition skills in an entertaining format.
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Fishing for Sight-Words - Level 3

A colorful educational game features a blue pond with multicolored fish, each displaying a word. A hand holds a green toy fishing rod.
Recommended Age: 4-6 years
This engaging literacy game helps children develop sight-word recognition through playful fishing activities. As children use the magnetic fishing pole to "catch" colorful fish printed with common sight-words, they naturally build reading fluency and word recognition skills in an entertaining format.
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House Building Engineering Center

STEM building kit with colorful interlocking pieces, a storage container, and house model examples.
Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This open-ended building center teaches children to identify architectural elements in real buildings and incorporate them into their own structural designs. The center encourages engineering thinking and spatial awareness as children explore shapes, stability, and design principles through hands-on construction activities.
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Light Stax

Box of Light Stax illuminated blocks featuring a colorful figure made of interlocking lit blocks.
Recommended Age: 3+ years 
This building toy combines illumination with construction play. Each block features LED technology that causes it to glow when connected to the power base or any already-lit block. Fully compatible with traditional building blocks, Light Stax offers a magical building experience as structures light up piece by piece during construction.
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Mahjong

Mahjong game

American Mahjong Set, "Santorini": The back of each mahjong tile is designed with elaborate geometry of Mediterranean patterns in ocean blue color; This set is playable with both American and Chinese Mahjong rules.

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Nuts About Counting

Children's educational toy set with numbered bolts and nuts in red, blue, green, and orange. Hands are assembling pieces.
Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This hands-on manipulative kit helps children build early counting skills and number recognition through engaging fine motor activities. Children match numerals to quantities by selecting bolts labeled 1-10 and attaching the corresponding number of nuts. The self-correcting design ensures successful counting practice as each bolt holds only the exact quantity of nuts.
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Nuts About Patterning

Children's toy set with colorful plastic hexagonal nuts and bolts.
Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This hands-on manipulative kit helps children build early patterning skills and color recognition through engaging fine motor activities. Children create patterns by selecting bolts and attaching brightly colored nuts in sequences, developing both mathematical thinking and fine motor coordination simultaneously.
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Nuts About Sorting

Colorful plastic toy nuts and bolts are arranged by color: red, orange, yellow, brown, green, blue, purple, and pink. A child assembles a purple bolt.
Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This hands-on manipulative kit helps children build early sorting and color recognition skills through engaging fine motor activities. Children match colors by selecting brightly colored bolts and attaching the corresponding colored nuts, developing visual discrimination and fine motor coordination simultaneously.
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Time Equivalency Puzzles

Twelve educational puzzle sets each showing a digital time, analog clock, and written time phrases, designed to teach time-telling skills.
Recommended Grades: 1-2
This puzzle set helps children practice telling time in multiple formats. Each puzzle requires children to match a digital time with its corresponding analog clock face, written time expression, and common time phrase, reinforcing time-telling skills in four different ways simultaneously.
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Vehicle Building Engineering Center

Colorful vehicle-building toy set with assorted tube pieces and wheels beside a blue storage box.
Recommended Age: 3-6 years
This open-ended building center teaches children to identify key design elements in real vehicles and incorporate them into their own creations. The center encourages engineering thinking and problem-solving as children explore wheels, axles, and structural designs through hands-on construction activities.
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