Education & Inspiration

Educational Light Cube: Dimensional Art by Twins at Play!

The awesome sensory and light play blog Twins at Play delivers a new post about our Educational Light Cube! Check out this great combination of our Light Cube Building set and Constructa Clips on a beautiful illuminated surface and the … Continue reading

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Project Spotlight: Cross Weaving Mats

Honour the memory of our veterans’ sacrifices on Canada’s Remembrance Day, November 11, with the R16005 Cross Weaving Mats!  Weaving mats help to encourage fine motor development through the act of passing the weaving strips under and over each of … Continue reading

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Educational Light Cube: Sorting Colorful Plastic Circles

View the beautiful effects of colorful mylar shapes on the Light Cube!Today’s lesson was to experiment with different printed shapes and colors that can be overlapped to create new appearances. These mylar shapes were made from tinted transparency sheets. You can find … Continue reading

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Amazing Animal Paper Halloween Costume

Make a simple, quick and cute Halloween costume from our R15256 Amazing Animal Paper! Our step-by-step photos will show you some easy tricks for cutting out and assembling the paper costume.  Age: 5+ Duration: 10 minutes Learning Objectives: Gain fine motor … Continue reading

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Project Spotlight: Super Slick Craft Paper

Turn your regular craft paper designs into spectacular projects with R15314 Super Slick Paper! The paper is coated with a gloss to make the colors vibrant and the paper texture smooth and easy to work with. Super Slick Craft Paper is a … Continue reading

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Educational Light Cube: Stacking Colorful Cups

View the dazzling effects of color-changing light on the cube with dollar store variety cups and plastic drinking glasses! Develop fine motor skills through arrangements of stackable cups… see more of this exercise below! To start the activity, we first turned … Continue reading

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Project Spotlight: MRI Scan

Merge the upcoming Halloween celebration with a unit on human anatomy! The R59254 MRI Scan kit is perfect for introducing children to organs and tissues of the body. See how our art campers used critical thinking skills to put the … Continue reading

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Educational Light Cube: As Furniture?!

Yes, you heard right! Our R59601 Educational Light Cube can be used as a wonderful furniture addition to your classroom! The sturdy design makes it perfect not only as a table at the play center, but as a stool, a … Continue reading

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Craft Spotlight: Big Huge Fingerpaint Fish!

Decorate giant paper fish with fingerpaint, glue and glitter! Our art campers painted and collaged several Big Huge Fingerpaint Fish paper projects. Check out their process below! The R75402 Fingerpaint Fish is 3 feet long and about 2 feet at its widest … Continue reading

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Guest Post: Kristen from Twins at Play and the Educational Light Cube!

Kristen from Twins at Play has written up a wonderful guest post about her twins learning and playing on the Educational Light Cube! Check out her brief overview of all the things you can do with the cube.  Please visit … Continue reading

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