Learning Toys in the Modern World The modern world is all around us. We have to embrace it to some extent, whatever we think of it. Our children too have to embrace it, though for them it is simply the world that they were brought up with. Children have a lot of options for toys these days.Long gone are the days when teddy bears and rattles owned the market. As well as all of the traditional toys, children are drawn in by the lights, the sounds, the allure of computer...

The cold dreary months of the winter are slowly coming to an end, beckoning forth the warm(ish) rays of spring. Even if you are the sort of parent who encourages your children to get outside and hack the cold, it is very likely that the whole family has been a little more housebound than you would be in the summer. This spring, why not play outside more with your children?Outside play has been shown to have many more health benefits for your children than inside play. In a lot of...

We here at Click-A-Brick™ appreciate the educational potential that toys have. You may look at a child quietly (or, more likely, noisily) playing with a toy and think they’re just merrily playing away without a care in the world. And, they are. But, what you may not know is that they’re also learning as they play. Building Toy Building toys have a long and established reputation as being great educational tools for children. For the wee ones, they help with physical development, as the children work their muscles to connect...

With Click-A-Brick™ children can learn at their own pace. We live in a fast-paced society, where a lot of children's learning takes place in an environment that has some amount of pressure. Even from a young age there are time constraints, deadlines, and a need to get it right. At least this is how it is in schooling.In a lot of ways, this is how is has to be, simply so that children start to understand the pressures involved in a typical job role. Deadlines and quality control are a...

Educational Toys How does a child best learn? We believe the way a child learns best, is through the powerful medium of play. Our youngsters have a unique ability to turn anything into a game, sometimes without the need for any props at all, and sometimes with the help of a toy that can spark the imagination, or ingenuity of their spongy minds. Certain toys lend themselves well to creative and inspiring play, so we have composed a list of 10 types of educational toy that are sure to benefit...

Construction toys have long been a part of the fusion of play and learning in children. At Click-A-Brick™, we are quite proud to say that our creation has a rich family history, and is part of a lineage of toys that have been shaping children's education for generations, and which we hope will continue to do so for many generations to come.The premise of a construction toy is simple: using basic components, your child can assemble and creates something much bigger and better. They can then smash it and build...

Not all learning takes place in the classroom. Throughout the history of evolution, the single biggest factor of learning has always been play. Play is the most natural way in which children come to understand the world, and to develop the motor and cognitive skills needed to function within it. Most learning takes place in the realm where imagination and fun, meets physical interaction with objects.Many of us will be able to relate to how our early experiences with childhood toys and games, came to shape how we think, and...

The world of play has changed a little since we were young. Skipping ropes, hopscotch, and “imagination games,” which required little more than an active and imaginative mind, have been replaced by flashing lights and loud noises, buttons and robotic features, and the omnipresence of the screen. This new generation of flashy gizmos is considered to be more sophisticated than the toys we played with when we were young nippers. I beg to differ! It is easy enough, in this world of technological awe and wonder, to lose sight of...