Recommended Toys

CLASSIC HOPPING BALLThe hopping ball promotes children's coordination and balance while providing a fun, safe workout! Children sit on the ball and use their legs and feet to bounce around. A toy and ride combined. Best used outdoors.

STOMPERS Children hold the string handles taut as they balance on the plastic stompers and walk around. A fun toy, with a noise-maker aspect when used outside, it helps to develop coordination and gross motor skills.

MULTICULTURAL CRAYONSMultiple skin tones give children a more realistic rainbow of options when they draw pictures of themselves, their families and their friends. Helps children to understand, explain, and name different skin hues.

MULTICULTURAL PLAYFOODS Make a deliciously diverse meal with this play set of 13 different foods from around the word! "Cooking" activities with this set promote cultural awareness in children and help them discuss where different foods come from.

LET'S MOVE! This DVD is perfect for rainy days (or any day) when a toddler has a lot of energy to burn. It is full of fun activity songs that will have small children up and moving around. From "Ring Around the Rosy" to "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes", the activities not only encourage physical movement, but are educational as well!

CUTTING FOOD BOX This set is a great way to build hand-eye coordination, small motor skills; and color and shape recognition. It includes 8 pieces of wooden food, including watermelon, bread and vegetables, which can be “cut” with a child safe play knife. Children will enjoy cutting the food as well as reassembling it.

HAND PUZZLE - Easy to handle. Reinforces counting, labeling colors, learning left-to-right orientation, and problem-solving.

FARM PUZZLE - Reinforces matching skills, helps with fine motor coordination and problem-solving, and stimulates imagination when used as a prompt for story-telling . Imitating animal sounds helps toddlers hear different sounds which is critical for reading readiness.

SHAPE BLOCK WAGON - Learn the basic shapes and different ways to manipulate the shapes in the wagon. Build or count the blocks and sort them by color or shape. Fit the blocks back into the wagon and create different patterns with the blocks to enhance problem-solving skills.

FISHER PRICE DOODLE PRO - This updated Etch-A-Sketch has an easy to grip pen for small hands, four colors to work with, and easy-glide eraser, and storage drawer to keep everything. This toy helps children develop writing skills and saves paper!

BEAD MAZE - Reinforces eye-hand coordination and the ability to track objects visually as they move. Shapes and colors can be introduced.

FARM FUZZY PUZZLE - A textured puzzle that helps promote small motor skills and matching as children figure out where the pieces belong.

BIG LEGO SET - Children can sort, count, differentiate shapes and colors, and build with these interlocking blocks.

SEE INSIDE ABC PUZZLE - This puzzle teaches letter recognition, sounds, and how to spell out simple words, all important reading readiness activities. Also emphasizes color recognition and small motor skills.

DISH PLAYSET - Stimulates pretend play and enables children to learn about family interactions, health and nutrition, manners and many other social skills. Also, bright colors help with color recognition and matching skills.

LITTLE PEOPLE - Stimulates pretend play, enabling children to learn about social roles, daily life, family interactions, manners and other social customs.

SHAPE SORTER - Encourages eye-hand coordination, color recognition, and shape recognition.

BINGO -Teaches young children colors and develops matching skills.

LEGO BUCKET -This 45-piece bucket of interlocking legos is great for color-sorting and general creative play.

ANIMAL PLANET BUG MAGNIFYER -A great kit for young explorers to capture, examine and release real bugs or the plastic ones included (Warning: they’re a choking hazard. This toy is not for children under 3). The kit includes: magnifying container, tweezers, magnifier, binoculars, and 4 "bugs."

An international celebration of music, this Putamayo CD features songs for children from around the world. The selections were made by a six-year-old who created his own radio show to cheer up a sick friend. Proceeds from the CD go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

SESAME STREET: KIDS' FAVORITE MUSIC -This CD contains classic children’s songs like Old MacDonald and She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain. It is the perfect accompaniment to movement games.

CRAYOLA SIDEWALK CHALK- This hefty chalk is made for small hands to create big art. Encourage summer creativity.

CRAYOLA WASHABLE MARKERS -Durable markers that wash off of and out of everything.