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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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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Proverbs31 Loves eeBoo’s Educational Activities!

Blogger TheProverbs31 reviewed 3 of eeBoo’s top sellers! Alphabet & Numbers Tot Towers, I Never Forget an Animal Face Matching Game, and the NEW Pattern Scratch Papers. This blogger raves that she loves eeBoo toys for their educational value. Like most moms, she’s says she’s always looking for ”toys that will help me teach my kids.”

The first product TheProverbs31 reviewed was the Alphabet & Numbers Tot Towers. This particular product is rich in developmental benefits. Children actualize their fine motor skills with each block they stack, while acquiring improved spatial reasoning skills as they mentally negotiate how to build a tower that won’t fall down.

Teach your little one (ages 2+) the alphabet, numbers 1-10, animals, motor skills like stacking, building, etc.

The benefits for this product, however, don’t end there! The numbers and letters on each block act as the perfect tool for parents to help their children learn the alphabet and how to count. The pictures with simple words beginning with each letter also act as the perfect first introduction to reading.

Next, Proverbs31 reviewed eeBoo’s I Never Forget an Animal Face. Concentration or Memory games are played by facing all pieces face down in a grid and then lifting up a pair at a time while trying to find a match. Fun to play, this game heightens focus and attention to detail while enhancing spatial memory. The artwork on I Never Forget an Animal Face was beautifully drawn by acclaimed children’s book illustrator, Stephanie Graegrin. Each set has 48 thick durable tiles, making 24 pairs to match!

This game is great for enhancing your child’s spatial memory.

Lastly, the blogger Proverbs31 reviewed eeBoo’s new Pattern Scratch Papers! This craft activity is sort of like “Drawing 2.0.” While children can create a picture, poem, or prose as they would on normal paper, every etch they make reveals an exciting array of colors and designs. This is an excellent tool for parents to use who wish to teach their children the names of colors! eeBoo also produces Foil and Fluorescent Scratch Papers.

What a nifty, creative idea!

You can read the review here!

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Toys are Tools blog is doing an eeBoo Art Book giveaway!

The Learn to Draw Art Books are among eeBoo’s top-sellers, and from Toys are Tools review, it’s not hard to see why! eeBoo commissioned 3 acclaimed children’s book illustrators to  design books that teach children how to draw. The Art Books are open ended, and do as much to playfully encourage children to try something new as they do to provide parameters and instruction.

eeBoo’s Learn to Draw Art Books are in ascending difficulty level, but can be used in any order. The first one is Learn to Draw Simple Forms in the Home and Garden with Lizzy Rockwell for ages 5+, then Experiment with Light, Form, Type, Portraits & More! with Melissa Sweet for ages 5+, with the highest level of difficulty being Learn to Draw Animals with Kevin Hawkes for ages 7+.  Regardless of the recommended ages, children (or adults) in any stage of life are sure to find something useful and inspiring in each of these books.

Petra Pankow, educator at such esteemed museums as the MoMA and Guggenheim, “said that it was a generous gesture on the part of the book to make fun of mistakes. “It gives the book a lightness,” she said, noting that the book encouraged kids to celebrate trying things out.”

“We are focused less on performance and more on enjoyment and usually it’s in this dimension that the magic takes place.” – Blogger at Toys are Tools

“The Learn to Draw book also skillfully uses familiarity to help the kids get drawing.  The kids learn to draw the things they see everyday like things in their room, their kitchen, their backyard… it’s so cool!!” – Blogger at Toys are Tools

Toys are Tools is doing an eeBoo Art Book giveaway!

Enter to win, here, now!

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Canadian Family Reviews eeBoo Juggling Balls!

Canadian Family Magazine featured eeBoo’s new Juggling Balls this month! This classic activity uses not only your body, but your brain, too. Studies have shown that Juggling helps to awaken the part of the your brain that deal with Math. The fun colors, embroidered designs and smooth non-slip velvet covering will entice kids and adults alike. eeBoo produces 6 different color choices: yellow (pictured below), green, purple, pink, orange… and the top seller, blue!

Never in the history of performance have juggling balls been so eye-catchingly
pretty! Novice and master jugglers alike will delight in eeBoo’s soft and
perfectly weighted juggling balls – inspiring enthusiasts of this classic hobby
to reach new heights! Each set of 3 balls is beautifully designed with brightly
colored velvet and festive, stitched designs. The set includes a colorful
instructional poster featuring simple step-by-step instructions guiding young
jugglers as they dazzle friends and family. Diameter of ball is approximately 2.5”.

eeBoo’s Juggling Ball set include a beautifully illustrated instructional poster.

Did you know?
Juggling builds more than hand/eye coordination. Juggling and mathematical
thinking are intricately linked! Moreover, scientists have found that juggling is
associated with an increase in white and gray matter in the brain! Perhaps this
explains why juggling has become a favorite activity of computer programmers,
academics and engineers, and is a popular hobby at brainy schools like Caltech
and Cornell!

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See What Green Door Magazine Recommends from eeBoo

Green Door Magazine recommends eeBoo’s Gathering a Garden board game.

Hurry round to every vendor
So you can be a garden tender.
Get your flower, herb and tree,
vegetable and bird. (They’re free!)
Your garden is completely done?
Get home first, and you have won!

This luscious game is a breath of fresh air! Take a trip round to each vendor to gather some flowers, vegetables and more for your bounty of garden delights. This green game features no plastic pieces, and a cloth cotton bag to store game pieces. Gathering a Garden is produced using 90% recycled greyboard. To top it all off, Gathering a Garden has won the Oppenheim Best Toy Award!

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