Educational Toys: Discovery Toys Review

My sweet, wonderful, perfect, super handsome 2 1/2 year old son is super smart and I'm not biased (well a little, but still). He does, however, have some developmental delays and their cause has not yet been successfully diagnosed (even after many tests).

We are blessed to receive Early Childhood Intervention Services (ECI). Basically, they help families who have children who need a little extra help reach their potential through developmental services. We have a physical therapist and an early intervention specialist come out several times a month to work with my son and help us with the skills we need to help him.

Today, I am going to tell you about some toddler toys that I love that help with this (these are great for all kids, not just those with developmental delays). The toys are all from Discovery Toys. These toys are just like the ones our early intervention specialist uses and my kids both love them.

The best way to show how a toy works and how children interact with them, in my opinion, is through photos and video. Here is a video I put together of the boys playing with their Discovery Toys:

The items you saw in the video are as follows:

Measure Up!® Cups
Hand your toddler a set of Measure Up!® Cups and watch natural learning in action. Your little one will automatically use the cups to scoop, dump, fill, nest, stack and tumble. After all the fine motor exploration, you can use these volumetrically correct, sequentially numbered cups to introduce important preschool concepts related to volume, size, color and measurement.

Place & Trace® Puzzles
With the Place & Trace® Puzzles, your child's first set of puzzles is also a versatile learning tool! Pieces fit into three themed trays to teach shape recognition and fine motor dexterity. Puzzle shapes can also be used for sorting and matching activities, creating imaginary storylines, stenciling, clay stamping, and cookie cutting.

Giant Pegboard™
With the Giant Pegboard™, the award-winning classic, offers your child years of meaningful pre-math and pre-reading play. One side features a pegboard for sorting and stacking; flip side is a "geoboard" with raised pegs so older children can generate geometric designs. Set comes with 25 easy-to-grasp pegs of various shapes and colors, plus expanded Parent Guide chock-full of educational play ideas.

Giant Pegboard™ Activity Pack
Add more math mileage to your Giant Peg Board with the Giant Pegboard™ Activity Pack! Your child can practice math skills related to colors, counting, and patterning, plus developing fine motor dexterity and hand-eye coordination. Bonus pack contains 25 round pegs in all five colors, along with a lace. Combine pegs with the set included with Giant Pegboard, or use alone to create necklaces or color stacks.

Mom's last word...
From the video, you can see that the boys love the these Discovery Toys and they provide them with endless fun and learning. From my point of view, these are wonderful, sturdy, easy to clean toys. They come in nice boxes so that I can store them when we aren't using them. Our early intervention specialist loves them too. Today, she used the Giant Pegboard with my oldest son and he learned a new skill. Since he cannot communicate verbally very well, she had him "ask" for pegs by touching the hole he wanted to put the peg in. When he did that, she would give him the peg. He was so proud when he filled up the entire pegboard.

Buy: For over 30 years, Discovery Toys educational toys have helped "Teach, Play and Inspire" children and parents everywhere. They also support children with autism and special needs. To find the distributor closest to you, go to the Discovery Toys website http://www.discoverytoys.com/ and click at the top of the page where it says “Find a Consultant.” Most consultants have websites with their phone numbers listed. You can contact them online or call them if you have any questions.

Fine Print: I received the items mentioned in this review at no charge from Discovery Toys for the purpose of this review. The opinions are my own.