Build It Up Beautifully With Magna-Tiles
Posted: January 13th, 2010Today’s post written by Annie
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Remember the hours you spent as a child building different things with blocks? I remember building houses and police stations with my brothers (or anyone else who was willing). Now whilst it was a lot of fun the shape of the blocks really restricted what I could build.
In 1997 the smart people at Valtech! Co. found a way to remove this restriction with Magna-Tiles – www.magnatiles.com. The different sized large square and triangle tiles in these sets will allow you and your children to build amazing shapes and objects you wouldn’t be able to with conventional blocks. The only limit to the endless building possibilities is your creativity and imagination.
Designed for children ages three and up, these innovative tiles are designed specifically with little hands and imaginations in mind – they are bright, colourful and incredibly easy to use. Each tile is made with small magnets on every side to ensure the pieces will always come together at the edges making construction both easy and rewarding. Start by building two-dimensional objects like boats, flowers, fish and ice-cream cones then, as your child grows and develops, move on to building three-dimensional objects like cubes, pyramids and even a soccer ball. (Check this piece at Strawberry Mountain blog to see one kid’s fab creation).
Magna-Tiles will enhance your child’s fine motor skills, shape recognition, magnetic principles, building skills, 3D thinking and patterning and the best part is the kids will be having so much fun they won’t even realise they are learning!
You can buy Magna-Tiles here in Australia from Educational Experience – www.edex.com.au. Available in either standard or crystal colours. Each set contains 32 pieces but if you don’t think that will be enough of a challenge, or if you have a few children to occupy, buy a couple of sets – they are all compatible. The largest piece in each set is 15cm x 15cm and all sets come with an instruction sheet and ideas guide to get you started.
Top left, Magna-Tiles 32 piece standard set – $98.89
Other pictures, Magna-Tiles 32 piece Crystal Colours – $109.89
Educational Experience charge from $12.10 postage within Australia. Please check the full postage and delivery charges schedule here.
