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The following post is by Wendy Smolen. Wendy is a regular guest blogger at Toy Whimsy and co-founder of Sandbox Summit®, a series of conferences that explore the synergy between play and technology. The ABC’s of Educational Toys It’s almost unavoidable. Every toy in your toddler’s playroom, from cell phone-shaped rattles to push toys to stacking blocks [...] Travel plans in your future? Check out the just-released Zingo to Go, based on ThinkFun’s beloved Zingo! game! Having visions of 72 plastic tiles strewn all over your backseat? Not to worry! The Zingo Zinger has been re-imagined into an enclosed Zingo Zoomer Car. The Zoomer holds image dice that, once shaken up, fall into place [...] The following post is by speech-language pathologist Sherry Artemenko, featured on her Playonwords blog Strengthen language skills through play! SPEECH THERAPY GAMES: S’ MATCH BY THINKFUN I use fun commercial games for speech therapy all the time. Some are valuable as a reinforcer after a turn of saying a sound, practicing [...] Need inspiration to start your spring cleaning? Here’s a great reason to dust off that old collection of classic board games! A recent article from KnoxNews takes a look at how classic games like Monopoly and Scrabble can serve as powerful learning aids! In the hands of a creative teacher (or parent for that matter), a [...] A coworker recently passed me a link to the “100 Games Cupcake Game” (Cupcakes + Games = my two favorite words!) and, in the sugary fun spirit of Valentine’s Day, I had to share! Each of the 100 Cupcakes is inspired by a particular game… A few of my favorites…
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