Developers Age of Learning spent three years developing the content collaborating with leading childhood educational professionals, including National Teacher of the Year Award recipient Kimberly Burnim and National Board for Professional Teaching Standards founding director Dr. Rebecca Palacios; they continue to meticulously review every additional activity on the site. ABCmouse.com has no advertising, pop-up ads, or links to other websites. A child can share completed educational lessons and artwork, as well as send and receive audio, video, and text messages with family members. Family members can also record and save the readings of books and stories for the child. Since 2010 launch, ABCmouse.com has received the 2011 Parents’ Choice Gold Award, 2011 Mom’s Choice Gold Award, 2010 Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award, and Teachers’ Choice Awards for the Family. ABCmouse.com is offered FREE to public schools in the U.S. and Canada.

[ABCmouse Kids Learning Phonics Educational Games Preschool-Kindergarten Reading]

[Pkolino Play Table]

An inventive Heirloom Growth Chart by Miss Natalie! Mark your child’s growth with a keepsake that can travel with you, from nursery to bedroom, or from house to house. Packaged in an heirloom wooden box, Miss Natalie’s Growth Chart contains a 4′ long jute cloth, mounted on wooden dowels and hung with a satin red ribbon.

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Turn cardboard boxes and other household packaging into your own unique robot! The Makedo Find & Make Robot Kit gives you all the tools, reusable connectors and stickers you need to build a one of a kind robot. A great way to learn about recycling, this simple kit makes any cardboard box or paper tube a potentail arm, antenna or robot control centre. The kit includes a plastic safe-saw for punching holes in thick cardboard and cutting it down to size; and the clever re-clips and lock-hinges let you connect boxes together quickly and easily. In fact, the only thing you’ll need is a wild imagination and some well practiced sound effects “Bip, boop, biddy tip”.

Love it!

[Makedo Find&Make ROBOT]

Powerful optics reveal clear, sharp focus at 30x magnification. See the fine detailed designs on banknotes. Examine skin and hair. See how this page is printed using millions of coloured dots. Try looking at fibres in clothes, like wool and cotton. Surprising and impressive images to fascinate young scientists. Microscope 150 x 100 x 30mm.

[Pocket Microscope]

The perfect size toy for kids to learn how to lace and tie over and over again, this sturdy wooden Deluxe Wooden Lacing Sneaker learning activity from Melissa & Doug will tickle kids down to their toes!

[Melissa & Doug Deluxe Wooden Lacing Sneaker]

Bring home your adopted Moshi Monsters Plush – Poppet and have the paperwork to show it’s yours. Make your online adoption official with Moshi Monster Adoption Papers! Sign your name and make your Monster part of the family. Sit together as you go online to play, laugh, and learn. When you have your Monster at your side, you both share in the fun!

[Moshi Monsters Plush]

The Vtech Slide & Talk Smart Phone is a slide phone that allows for pretend texting and cell phone play. The toy features a slide-out keyboard and the LCD screen automatically recognizes when the device is in phone or message mode and adjusts accordingly. The phone also features a phone book that contains four friends who you can text or call. Surprise “wrong number” phone calls from a variety of silly characters adds to the fun. Teaches letters, numbers, counting, alphabetical order.

[Vtech Slide & Talk Smart Phone]

Moon Dough Magic Zoo. Magically create 3 different zoo animals that come alive and really walk! Make fences with the new “Popper” mold and build your own zoo! Set includes, 1 Magic Molding Zoo, 3 Wind Walkers, 3 Animal Molds, 1 Popper Fence Mold, 1 10oz Bag Purple Moon Dough, 1 10oz Bag Orange Moon Dough, and 1 10oz Bag White Moon Dough.

[Moon Dough Magic Zoo]

The new improved Mega Bloks 24-Piece Bag stimulates creativity and learning while encouraging discovery and open-ended play. Bag includes 24 big and soft building blocks in red!

[Mega Bloks Bag 24-Piece]