Toys that teach: Golden Apple Awards 2010
We've sorted the gold from the gravel to offer you great learning toys for every age.
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Mad Money
How you can help at home: Here's a game that will help your child learn money basics.
Make a Paper Quilt
How you can help at home: This activity teaches math skills and creative problem solving.
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These fun games are perfect for those long car rides.
Frijole formula
Help your kindergartner build math skills with this bean-counting activity.
Counting Coins
How you can help at home: By counting pennies, nickels and dimes, your child learns to count by ones, fives and 10s.
Laundry sort
How you can help at home: Make doing laundry with your child fun and educational!
First grade learning games and activities
How you can help at home: These games and activities will help your first grader master important academic skills while having fun.
Numbers sense
How you can help at home: This number-sense game played with dice helps your first grader build math concepts such as greater than and less than.
Seven ways music boosts that brain
Recent research underscores how playing an instrument (sooner than later) bolsters kids' academic, social, and emotional lives.
