TimeOut Kids and Scholastic Love eeBoo’s Travel Bingo!

This month, TimeOut Kids and Scholastic feature eeBoo’s  Travel Bingo! This rendition of a classic game is perfect for fun on the run, and is a summer vacation must-have. Bingo sheets feature common sights to search for while on the road: gas station, restaurant, smokestack, water tower, bird on a wire, flag, traffic signal, and so on. Each set contains 4 pads of markable bingo sheets, 4 pencils, and a sturdy tray box for storage. As an added bonus, the box is made out of 90% recycled grey-board! eeBoo’s Travel Bingo is a winner of the Oppenheim Best Toy Award!

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the Toy Book Loves eeBoo’s Paper Nova’s

eeBoo’s Paper Nova‘s are one of eeBoo’s most beautiful craft activities. Each pack contains 3-20 different vibrantly colored strips of paper, with a baker’s string for hanging. Easy to follow instructions are printed on the back of each pack. Each of the 10 color styles are named after a real supernova — Sirius, Betelgeuse, Procyon, Vega, Alpha Centauri, and more.

eeBoo‘s new Paper Novas are inspired by one of the universe’s most impressive phenomena: supernovas. The new Paper Novas take that sense of wonder and replicate it on a smaller scale, reimaging [reimagining] the supernova as a craft activity. – The Toy Book

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Toys are Tools Loves eeBoo’s About Face!

Toys are Tools  blogger loves eeBoo’s visual skills activity, About Face. 

About Face features images of found objects in categories of objects arranged to look like facial parts — such as eyes, a nose, a mouth, and hair. Children are encouraged to flip over and rearrange the tiles to create a multitude of different faces. About Face’s educational benefits are wide ranging, from teaching out-of-the-box visual thinking, encouraging the development of facial expression recognition skills, to teaching color identification (choose only tiles with red objects), to expanding vocabulary as children ask parents what each object is.

Winner of the Oppenheim Best Toy Award, and the Oppenheim Snap! Awards.

See some of the Faces Toys are Tools made, and read the review here. 

“…it’s such a wonderful way to expand vocabulary associated with feelings.” – Toys are Tools

“Petra Pankow, who has taught me so much about the role of art in education told me this.  “There is a certain magic in this ability to make meaning in this way, that I think, as you grow older you might actually lose this.” – Toys are Tools

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Family Review Center loves eeBoo’s Juggling Balls!

Juggling is an engaging tool, it grows your brain! It helps in school!

 Family Review Center loves eeBoo’s Juggling Balls! eeBoo’s Juggling Balls are one of the top-selling products that were rolled out this season. The Juggling Balls are available in 6 colors: Green, Yellow, Orange, Pink, Purple and Blue! Each style has a unique embroidered pattern, and are covered in a soft velvety fabric. The non-slip fabric serves both the practical purpose of helping the juggler maintain grip, while adding a gorgeous aesthetic value to the Juggling Balls.

I love the material they are made of, because it helps you to hold on to them better, without losing grip. This makes a lot of difference when you are trying to juggle. – Family Review Center

Each set includes an instructional poster. The poster is beautifully illustrated, with hints of inspiration drawn from vintage circus posters. 

My other favorite feature of this set is the poster. It guides you along step by step, with illustrations, to show you how to successfully learn to juggle. Hang this up where you will be practicing, follow it, and soon you will be juggling like a pro. - Family Review Center

You can read the full review here. 

MAC&Toys Has a eeBoo New Favorite: Obstacles!

Blogger MAC&Toys has found a new eeBoo favorite: Obstacles! The new review raves about the developmental benefits, and laughs, that it brings. Obstacles provides children with an assortment of Obstacles to overcome during the game, in order to get back to Home. Tool cards are provided, with wide ranging ideas like a Propeller Hat, Puppet, or a Peanut Butter Sandwich. Each child must mentally negotiate which Tool card is best in each scenario. Obstacles encourages problem solving, cooperation, and imagination.

My favorite way to play the game with a small group of kids is to have them each put down a tool on each obstacle and explain how they would use it.  After each of them has finished explaining how they would use their tool, the group has to decide which tool would be most effective for that given card.  It might take time to negotiate and come to a decision but I think it is a tool that will help our kids in so many life situations.  Learning how to negotiate can be a difficult thing to teach kids, especially the ones that I work with.  Doing it in a fun and lighthearted way may be a good non-stressful way to practice the skill before generalizing it to other life situations. – MAC& Toys

…what I love most about this game is that you can never be wrong and that you are required to really think outside of the box.  - MAC&Toys

You can read the full review here. 

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Summer Collage

Here at eeBoo we want to inspire creativity. We’ve put together some projects just to get you started—use the skills and ideas in these projects to create your own wonderful creations, the possibilities are endless!

Some Tips Before You Start:

Sometimes we start crafting by making lots of simple shape and combining in different ways. For this craft we made A LOT of sparkly blue stars

Gather everything you need first!

You can always choose different colors, add new parts or take things away, there is no right or wrong way.

Click on the image below to make it bigger, then save and print!

Click here for materials used in Summer Collage!

Happy Crafting!

eeBoo

Mac&Toys Finds an Educational Goldmine in eeBoo’s Mosaic Game!

Blogger Mac&Toys has reviewed eeBoo’s Mosaic Game! eeBoo’s Mosaic Game is a fun-yet-educative activity, that is heavy with developmental benefits. Arranging the felt triangles to recreate the picture on a given card elicits spatial reasoning while providing a space to boost hand/eye coordination.

For the youngest children, the beautifully dyed felt triangles are a perfect tool for teaching color and shape identification. As kids begin to age, eeBoo’s Mosaic Game introduces fractions as players mentally negotiate how many triangles are needed to make a given shape.

Children and adult art students alike can improve their sense of design and exercise innate creativity while mastering the process of making images on the cards — and coming up with new designs of their own!

“With a hands on approach, you can use the triangles to teach younger children about colors and a variety of shapes.  You can also work on improving fine motor and grasping skills when picking up and releasing the different shapes.” – Mac&Toys

You can read the full review here.

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