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  • When can a Ball be a Block--When It is a Babal!

    Here is another great innovative toy manufacturer, Active People. They make Babals . What in the world is a Babal you ask? Well, Babal is a ball. No wait, it is two balls. No wait, it's a block to stack. It can't possibly be all those things, but it is. According Babal USA's website "Like much of what is most interesting and attractive to children, Babal is simple and also surprising. Developed by Swiss toy designer Alex Hochstrasser, it is one ball which is actually two balls. In...

  • Dado Cubes from Fat Brain Toys

    Mark and Karen Carson created a wonderful on-line toy store in 2002, Fat Brain Toys . (It's wonderful in my opinion because they have all the same opinions and thoughts about toys that I do.) Now they have created a new line of toys that has won almost every toy award that is out there. Dado Cubes and Squares are another type of block/construction toy. According to Fat Brain Toys' website, "Dado combines art and science as you explore architectural principles . . . proportion, balance...

  • Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852)

    Some of the every best blocks and block concepts were devel oped in 1800 and we still buy and use them today. Friedrich Froebel, the German educationalist, is best known as the originator of the 'kindergarten system'. He went on to develop special materials (such as shaped wooden bricks and balls - gifts), a series of recommended activities (occupations) and movement activities, and an linking set of theories. Froebel went on to influence one of the greatest architects. Frank Lloyd Wright...

  • WEDGITS

    "The brightly colored plastic wedge-edged open squares of Wedgits nest, stack and balance in such surprising and satisfying ways, who wouldn't want more of this open-ended manipulative masterpiece? As your children explore ways of building and balancing structures or stacking and nesting with these five geometric shapes they will be amazed with how the plastic molded pieces fit perfectly together without interlocking. They will find that it's possible to make the blocks "wedge"...
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