Children have endless excitement and creativity to learn when they are young and and it’s up to us, as parents, to foster that creativity in unique and fun ways. We’ve chosen the Best Educational Products for Preschool Aged Kids because making sure kids are having fun and sparking their creativity will help mould a child’s brain for years to come.
In order to be a Parents’ Picks Award Winner, these products go through a rigorous approval process with over 50 criteria, including thinking skills, character building, engagement, ease of use, innovativeness, quality, durability, and creative thinking. These products come highly recommended and we hope you will love these award winning elementary school products as much as we do. With over three hundred applications, we took extensive time with each product to whittle it down to our top picks. Here are the Best Educational Products for Preschool Aged Kids.
NOTE: THESE ARE LISTED IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER. ALL PRODUCTS ARE FANTASTIC.
2018 Parents’ Picks for the Best Educational Products for Preschool Aged Kids
Little Passports creates products designed to inspire children to learn about the world through monthly subscriptions, educational toys and characters kids love.
Little Passports Early Explorers (ages 3-5 years old) is a monthly subscription box designed for kids to explore a new world theme each month. Every month, your preschooler will receive a package in the mail filled with fun activities, educational toys, stickers, trading cards, and learning games. Each package has a unique theme (like Art, Music or Food) and teaches your child about the world! For example, the Oceans package contains an educational fishing game that teaches children about different sea creatures, a salt water science experiment, and a beautifully illustrated booklet that has fun facts about each of the world’s oceans – along with other bonus materials that come in every package. Each package is carefully designed to make learning fun and engaging for young toddlers and preschoolers.
Build 30 different models! The multi-model capability of the new Qboidz™ system is fully unleashed with this 30-in-1 set, including a variety of scenes created by many figures. Take the Farm for example with four horses (two large and two small), two feeding stands and a stable or the Race Track including two racers, two human figures and a finish line with flags! There is also a Construction Site scene with a truck and loader, a House with Car scene,a large Train with three wagons and finally a Sleigh with 3 reindeers carrying a cart! The remaining large models include many animals like theBig Dog, the goofy Turkey, the smart Owl, the slow Turtle and the Big Elephant. There are also many vehicles, flying machines and ships like the Extreme 4×4, the strange Dragster-Tractor, the huge Scooter, the AirForce Plane and a Helicopter! For more excitement, create an amazing, functional Beading Maze, or turn yourself into a farmer by building the large Farmhouse or the colorful Watermill!
TheQboidz™ development is based on the latest pedagogical principles of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), aiming to provide both girls and boys with the necessary experiences, skills and knowledge to cope with the technological advancements of the future.
Introducing Tiny Polka Dot, the colorful card deck that grows with the child. With 16 easy-to-learn games that playfully teach math, from counting and early numeracy to arithmetic and logic, Tiny Polka Dot is the perfect way to nurture a child’s love of math: through play. Mathematician-designed and teacher-approved, Tiny Polka Dot is the playful way to fall in love with numbers.
The Twins Mia & Mateo Daddy’s Little Helpers – An awesome picture book about Twins adventure with their Daddy!
– age: 1 – 8 years old:
– Bilingual – English and French
– Easy and fun to read
– Size: 10″” x 10″” – square book!
– Hard Cover
– Beautiful illustrations – Silly dog included!
– Gold embossed title
– A must-have in your children’s book collection!
– Educational – 2 pages of vocabulary at the end of the book!
– Toddlers and even 8 years old kids will enjoy this book!
– Great story – Fun way to learn French – Practice reading English and/or French!
Stages Language Builder Verbs & Action Words
The Stages Language Builder Verbs & Action Words flash card set offers 230 Verb Cards to help kids recognize and name a large selection of action words.
Images in the Language Builder Verbs & Action Words card set show people from various ages, genders and ethnicities engaging in a range of common activities. This variation in actors allows for practice learning gender, pronouns and full sentences.
Many of the verb cards also offer more than one example, so you can increase generalization of the learned words. For example, the word “”blowing”” shows someone blowing a whistle, blowing bubbles, blowing out a candle and blowing their nose.
As with all tools in the Language Builder series, the Verb & Action Words images are current and familiar, and are featured in natural settings. Each picture includes plenty of context clues to make identification easy and fun, and to provide great topics for discussion.
Millie MooMoo – Millie MooMoo is a sweet country cow featuring dreamy embroidered eyes and a soft felt flowered hat, and is safe for children 1+. Made of incredibly soft, huggable material, this plush pal is also available in the travel size Dream Puffs style.
Millie MooMoo is one of many cuddly companions of the new Dream Pets collection, which was inspired by the iconic Dream Pets of the 1950’s. This modern collection of softer and slightly larger plush creations is ready to share these fun and adventurous characters with the next generation of dreamers.
Fiete Math – Fiete Math makes counting easy for kids to understand. Numbers are touchable objects that can grouped, combined and cut up. The kids can discover the links between amounts and numbers and develop confidence in dealing with them. Based on the educational approach of Montessori, numbers are touchable objects that your child can group, combine and cut up. This makes maths fun for kids.
Reading Eggs – Reading Eggs makes learning to read interesting and engaging for kids ages 3-7, with great online reading games and activities. Reading Eggs makes learning to read interesting and engaging for kids, with great online reading games and activities.
The 4.0 Bluebee Pal Pro is an interactive plush learning tool with FREE companion (life skills /educational app) that connects to all IOS and Android Devices. Our patented technology allows Blue bee’s “mouth and head”” to move while reading stories, teaching through educational games, learning a language and singing songs.
The Bluebee Pals Learning App is a robust life skill and cognitive development tool for children ages 3 to 7. When connected to a Bluebee Pal, children can immerse themselves in activities in five life skills’ rooms and play 9 educational mini-games. In addition to our app, Bluebee Pals pair with “”all apps”” with a narrative providing endless entertainment and education for all mainstream and special needs children.
Gemiini is a web-based program that utilizes an approach called Discrete Video Modeling.
Discrete Video Modeling is a clinically proven way to increase language, reading and social skills. It breaks down information into understandable and digestible bites, making it an ideal solution for people with Autism, Down Syndrome, Stroke and others.
With our online videos and teaching tools, Gemiini not only teaches you information, it trains (or retrains) your brain how to think.
Gemiini focuses on one concept at a time,utilizing an approach called discrete video modeling to teach language, reading and social skills. Discrete video modeling breaks down information into understandable and digestible bites, making it an ideal solution for young children or people with special needs.”
The Hello Body Module is a comprehensive social emotional learning (SEL) curriculum that guides young children through a step-by-step mindfulness practice that begins with an engaging introductory video and practice along songs that are perfect for home and school use. Once familiar with the practice the Lyrics and PictureBook, Workbook, and Generalization Strategies can be used to expand skill development with a wide range of detailed lesson plans and printable visual supports that include literacy activities, games, art projects, and more. All together this multimedia kit provides serval months worth of educational activities that support foundational skills related to attention control, emotional identification, self-regulation, social attunement/understanding and other gateway skills essential for school readiness and psychosocial development.
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