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Save on entertainment for your kids! Looking for an Amazon FreeTime Unlimited deal? Through July 17th, score a FREE $20 Amazon credit towards select Ryan’s World toys with your 1-Year FreeTime Unlimited Family Plan subscription – valid for new FreeTime Unlimited customers only. Note within 3-5 days you should see the credit applied to your account and receive an email with a link to the Ryan’s World toys page where you can redeem your credit. Amazon Prime Members pay only $69/year for a FreeTime Unlimited Family Membership (versus $99/year for non-Prime members). That’s like paying just $5.75 per month for access...

In her column “Detroit Archives,” Aisha Sabatini Sloan explores her family history through iconic landmarks in Detroit.  Part of the Heidelberg Project in Detroit, Michigan (Photo: Fren Lebalme) For a period of time in 2014, I couldn’t stop watching the surveillance video of a person setting fire to the Heidelberg Project, a world-renowned art installation by Tyree Guyton in a residential area of Detroit. The recorded arson struck me as a performance piece in itself. In what appears to be the very early hours of the morning, a figure approaches the threshold of a structure called “Taxi House,” a home...

REVIEW –  Being the mother of two children and also working with elementary students for a living, I am always in the market for educational learning tools that can be used at home and/or in the classroom.  With so many of our toys and activities linked to screen-time, I am … [visit site to read more] Filed in categories: ReviewsTagged: Educational, Kid Gadgets, STEMBotley the Coding Robot 2.0 review originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on July 9, 2020 at 10:30 am.Note: If you are subscribed to this feed through FeedBurner, please switch to our native feed URL http://the-gadgeteer.com/feed/ in order...

Building your child’s vocabulary is one of the essential ways to develop their ability to communicate. For children who are verbal and even those who are non-verbal but have the ability to learn to read, vocabulary games can make learning words and phrases a fun and interactive way to expand their understanding of the world around them. Some children learn best when repetition and exposure are coupled with the knowledge that they already contain. Games that incorporate visual learning and interactive methods can appeal to different types of learners. Vocabulary-building games help children understand the basic concepts of grammar and...

Two-piece part-whole perception puzzles can look simple but they can be difficult, they go to the core of what puzzles are about - matching pieces and forming a whole. Part-whole perception puzzles help the child to understand 'part' and 'whole' relationships, that two parts can come together to form a single shape or a single whole picture. They allow for hands-on discovery and exploration of shape, colour, form and spatial relationships. There is growing evidence that spatial skills exercised during puzzle play are foundational in supporting learning in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. "Through infant age, toddler age and in...