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Holiday Shopping Guide Day 4


Happy Thanksgiving from All Care! Day 4 of the shopping guide is here just in time for your Black Friday Shopping tomorrow and this one is for your school aged loved ones! A lot of these great toys will provide fun for the whole family!

Perfection

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This game is a challenge for adults and kids! These complex geometric shapes need to be matched with the appropriate hole before the whole tray pops up. What a great activity for visual motor skills! You can also make the game easier by removing the time constraints.

Best for Ages: 5-9 years

Skills Addressed

  • Visual Motor Skills

  • Visual Discrimination

  • Fine Motor Skills

  • Pincher Grasp

Where to buy it: Find it here, on Amazon

Louie Lobster Claw Catch

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Louie Lobster is such a fun water toy! Just squeeze the handle and the claws clamp shut to catch small objects. The toy comes with a ton of great game ideas, and it great for developing scissor skills and hand strength

Best for Ages: 5-10 years

Skills Addressed:

  • Hand Strength

  • Scissor Skills

  • Hand Eye Coordination

Where to buy: Find it here, on Amazon

Crayola Color Explosion Glow Board

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What a fun way to develop writing skills. There are hours of drawing fun ahead when your child greats to create beautiful, glow in the dark art!

Best for Ages: 6+

Skills Addressed:

  • Fine Motor Skills

  • Pencil Grasp

  • Handwriting

  • Visual Motor Skills

Where to buy: Find it here, on Amazon

Find It

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This game is AMAZING for visual scanning skills, and keeping parent’s sanity in the car! Kiddos exercise their visual perceptual skills as they spin, twist and shake the Find It game to locate one of 40+ objects hidden within, and they come in so many great themes!

Best for ages: 8 years and up

Skills addressed

  • Visual Perceptual Skills

  • Visual Scanning

  • Visual Discrimination

  • Identification

Where to buy: Find it here, on Amazon

Dueling Stomp Rocket

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This is a great toy to encourage balance and weight shift as the child has to lift one leg to launch the rocket. Rockets are foam and soft as to not hurt anyone. Safe and fun! What more could you want?

Best for Ages: 8 years +

Skills Addressed:

  • Balance

  • Leg Strength

  • Weight Shifting

Where to buy: Find it here, on Fat Brain Toys

Upside Down Yoga Spinner Board Game

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Yoga is such a great activity for kids, and this game helps to make it fun! Spin the spinner and answer one simple question or try to hold a certain pose for ten seconds. These activities can help improve kids’ posture, balance, coordination, strength, and self-regulation, and so much more!

Best for Ages: 6y-15y

Skills addressed:

  • Balance

  • Core Strength

  • Focus

  • Coordination

  • Gross Motor Skills

  • Range of Motion

  • Body Awareness

Where to buy: Find it here, on Amazon

Gonge River Stones

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Remember making stones out of mom’s couch cushions when you were younger? Now your kids can have the same fun, and you can save your cushions! These cool gross motor props are a fun way to get kids moving, balancing, and having fun! Create an obstacle course and hours of fun!

Best for Ages: 36 month - 15 years

Skills Addressed:

  • Balance

  • Following Directions

  • Turn Taking

  • Visual Perceptual

  • Motor Planning

Where to buy: Find it here, on Amazon

Scooter Board

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From children to teenagers; no one can resist a good race..you can get creative with these scooter boards and have your children race on another on their belly or in sitting position. This will encourage bilateral coordination, hamstring strengthening, strengthening of the ankles, and when laying on your belly, it will strengthen your arm and back muscles.

Best for Ages: 3 years +

Skills Addressed:

  • Bilateral Coordination

  • Balance

  • Leg Strength

  • Arm Strength

  • Back Strength

  • Following Directions

  • Turn Taking

  • Motor Planning

Where to buy: Find it here, on Amazon

Spooner Boards

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Kids will love this fun and challenging toy! You can balance on your feet and rock side to side, lie on your stomach and spin like crazy, or if you live up north, use it as a sled!

Best for Ages: 36 months - 15 years

Skills Addressed:

  • Balance

  • Coordination

  • Gross Motor skills

  • Weight Shifting

Where To Buy: Find it here, on Amazon

Automoblox

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Your child can challenge their fine motor skills and imaginations by changing out the wheels, rims, and all other parts of the car to make their own designs!

Best for Ages: 36 months - 10 years

Skills Addressed:

  • Fine Motor Skills

  • Creative Play

  • Problem Solving Skills

  • Hand Strength

  • Manual Dexterity Skills

Where to buy: Find it here, on Amazon

Jump Start Trampline

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This toy is great for increasing leg strength and coordination, and provides great vestibular input. Its also a great way for your kiddos to work off extra energy!

Best for Ages: 3 years +

Skills Addressed:

  • Leg Strength

  • Gross Motor Skills

  • Motor Coordination

  • Vestibular Input

  • Proprioceptive Input

Where to buy: Find it here, on Fat Brain Toys

See-Me Connecting 6 Foot Tunnel

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What a fun toy for creating an obstacle course! It also folds up easily for easy clean up. This toy helps to promote bilateral coordination, proprioceptive input, and leg and arm strength.

Best for Ages: 3 years +

Skills Addressed

  • Bilateral Coordination

  • Proprioceptive Input

  • Strengthening of Arms and Legs

Where to buy: Find it here, on Pacific Play Tents

Stick-Lets

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This is a great toy for engaging the imagination. These reuseable, weather-resistant, safe, silicone joints allow kids to use found objects like sticks to create anything their mind will allow!

Best for Ages: 5+

Skills Addressed:

  • Fine Motor Skills

  • Hand Strength

  • Creative Play

  • Problem Solving

Where to buy: Find it here, on Stick-Lets.com

Learning Advantage Hammer and Nails

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We love this game because it provides the opportunity to develop so many great skills! Let your child make a masterpiece!

Best for Ages: 4+

Skills Addressed:

  • Hand Strength

  • Following Directions

  • Visual Discrimination

  • Visual Perceptual

  • Fine Motor Skills

  • Hand-eye Coordination

  • Manual Dexterity

Where to Buy: Find it here, on Amazon

Be sure to check back tomorrow for a lot of toys geared around family fun! You can also check out our recommendations for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. Tomorrow is your last day to enter our Gift Card Contest, so be sure to share with your friends and family!

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