Learning Resources + Educational Insights Gift Guide

2017 Holiday EDUCATIONAL GIFTS

This holiday season, remind your readers that some of the greatest learning occurs through playtime.

These best-selling holiday gifts from Learning Resources & Educational Insights stimulate thinking, build imaginations and set young minds up for a lifelong love of learning!

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CODING

DRESS UP

NUMBERS

GEOGRAPHY

COLORS

ABC’S

ASTRONOMY

Younger Kids

2-5+

NUMBERS

1-2-3 Build It! Car-Plane-Boat | $14.99

• 2+ • Budding engineers will love using these mix-and-match pieces to build three different modes of transportation—an airplane, a tugboat, or a car.

Pretend & Play Calculator Cash Register $31.19 • 3+ • This award-winning toy is perfect for playing shop and teaching early number and calculator skills.

DRESS UP

Pretend & Play Doctor Set | $39.99

• 3+ • Features enough medical tools for the whole junior surgical staff to operate, plus it is great for easing anxiety about trips to the doctor!

Gears!Gears!Gears! Super Set | $34.70

• 3+ • Kids will love this 150-piece tub of gears! Goes with all other Gears sets.

Younger Kids

2-5+

NUMBERS

Pretend & Play Teaching ATM Bank | $29.99

• 3+ • Children will learn money skills while they withdraw, deposit, and save money just like their parents with this electronic ATM bank.

GEOGRAPHY

Puzzle Globe | $24.99

• 3+ • Little ones will spin their way into geography with this Puzzle Globe, which highlights landmarks and animals.

ASTRONOMY

Shining Stars Projector | $16.99

• 3+ • Young astronomers can explore early space science by beaming images of space onto any surface for a close-up view of stars, planets, and more!

ABC’S

Alphabet Acorns | $28.92

COLORS

• 3+ • Children can match uppercase and lowercase letters as they put the acorns together, plus play hide-and-seek by finding a surprise inside each acorn.

Younger Kids ABC’S

2-5+

NUMBERS

Smart Market | $22.55

• 3+ • Whether your child wants to be a shopper or a grocer, they will love playing with the items in the Smart Market!

ABC’S

Playfoam Shape and Learn Alphabet | $9.83

• 3+ • Preschoolers can practice making letters and more with this all-new Playfoam set featuring 8 colored bricks and 13 double-sided cards.

NUMBERS

COLORS

Sneaky Snacky Squirrel Game | $14.62

• 3+ • Your forest friends are hungry and they need your help! Spin the spinner, squeeze the matching colored acorn and place it into your log.

Sneaky Snacky Squirrel Book | $9.55

COLORS

• 3+ • The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel needs help finding his hidden acorns in this bright, colorful board book based on the bestselling children’s game.

Younger Kids

GeoSafari Jr. Kidnoculars | $11.99

• Ages 3-6 • Kid-friendly binoculars, perfect for the youngest explorers. With enlarged focus-free eyepieces and a break away neck strap, the Kidnoculars are build kid-tough and designed to last for years.

ASTRONOMY

GeoSafari Jr. My First Telescope | $20.49 • Ages 4-6 • Little ones can explore the moon with this focusfree telescope, built specifically for little hands and growing minds.

2-5+

GeoSafari Jr. My First Microscope | $21.99 • Age 3-6 • This fully functional microscope is a real working science tool designed with preschoolers in mind, with two extra-large eyepieces and a chunky, kidsized focusing knob.

Older Kids

4-8+

CODING

Tree House Engineering & Design Building Set $16.99

• 5+ • Kids can design and engineer the tree house of their dreams with this one-of-a-kind building set.

STEM Robot Mouse Coding Activity Set | $38.50 • 4+ • Build your maze, and then use the coding cards to create a step-by-step path for the programmable Robot Mouse.

Perfect for screen-free coding skills!

ASTRONOMY

Talking Microscope featuring Bindi Irwin $38.84

• 4+ • Look, listen, and learn as wildlife warrior, Bindi Irwin, shares kid-friendly facts about nature!

GeoSafari Motorized Solar System | $40.79

• 8+ • Watch the planets rotate just like they do in space with eight motorized planets and a glowing light-up sun.

Older Kids

4-8+

ASTRONOMY

Nancy B’s Science Club® Moonscope™ & Sky Gazer’s Activity Journal | $39.99 • 8+ • Grab your MoonScope and take a tour of the nighttime sky complete with visits to the stars, Saturn, Jupiter, and the moon!

Older Kids + Family

Sculptapalooza | $39.99

• 10+ • Arts & crafts meet game night in this fast-paced, handson party game! Two teams take turns drawing cards and using squishy, squashy Playfoam® to sculpt what they see.

But hold on tight! You might have to sculpt with your eyes closed, use your sculpture as a charades prop, or tag team with another player.