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Take Your Child Outside

 

Posted by: Valerie Garnjost
Educational Consultant

Did You Know that from September 24 to the 30^th is Take Your Child Outside Week? This week is dedicated to connect your child to, and to foster an awareness to the natural world around them. Getting involved can be as simple as spending time within your back yard, going to a local park or participating in organizations within your community. Encourage your child to appreciate nature by taking a closer view of the world around us , exploring different outdoor animals , and by creating activities that promote a healthier, and a greener appreciation for nature.

New Infant Products

Posted by: Valerie Garnjost
Educational Consultant

Young children are stimulated and have a natural curiosity about everything around them and Thinkbutton is proud to introduce some new products for infants. Young children are attracted to colors, sounds, textures, and the movement of anything within their reach.  

Books are a great way to introduce language to any child. Books that are soft, have different things to touch and feel and stories with large pictures and simple text will engage young children of any age. Reading stories to children of any age will begin to introduce concepts as the appreciation of art, and animal conservation and environmental awareness of the animals around us.

Products that stimulate your child's natural curiosity, to touch, hear, and explore their toys and ones that encourage mobility are great at helping your child grow and develop. As young children continue to grow, so do their interests in interactive toys, shape recognition, and imaginative play. Children are interested in products that are interactive, fun and the perfect size for their growing hands.

Products for young children easily provide the stimulation that your child needs to grow and develop. Finding products that go beyond that and introduce children to concepts of the world around them are not only engaging, but educational as well.

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Latest Puppet Additions

Posted by: Valerie Garnjost
Educational Consultant

Team Thinkbutton is pleased to introduce our latest puppet additions from Folkmanis and Melissa and Doug! As with all the puppets we offer, these newest ones make perfect companions to many of our books, games and kits. For example, bring an animal, from down under, to life with this full body kangaroo puppet - complete with a removable, finger puppet Joey. This soft, expressive character makes an exotic pal that encourages a global awareness for animals, as well as, a fascinating addition to any puppet play. In addition to puppet productions you can animate sea life books and games with a plush and beautifully detailed octopus puppet. Bring it to life using your hand to manipulate the legs and rotate your wrist to make it appear as though it is gracefully moving  underwater.

Create a lifelong appreciation and respect for alligators with a full-body, reptile puppet. Begin with showing the unique movements of an alligator while manipulating this realistic looking puppet. As your child continues to grow, expand this appreciation by building your very own alligator and then reading all about them.

Use your hand to make a bee fly and then learn all about the life of a honey bee. Use a horse hand puppet to help sing all about the life on a farm. When you are in the mood to play a game, you can experience life as a rancher and herd your horses.

Do you want to know what it is like to have a frog jump right off your hand? Use the long legs of the leopard frog puppet and see how far you can make him jump. Challenge young minds and keep them engaged by learning interesting facts about the longest surviving animals on earth.

Using puppets can be a lot of fun for children of all ages. Thinkbutton has expanded their puppet family to include some more exotic animals that will be a great addition to any puppet show or story time.