Hide & Seek Vegetable Garden

Five numbered flower pots, each with a little surprise inside. Is it garlic, a beet, or perhaps a cheeky bunny hiding in pot number 4?

Use the set for fun little games where your child can practise counting or try to remember what was hiding in the third pot—or the one you placed behind number 4. A lovely way to boost working memory and get a feel for positional words like behind, in, and under. 

The activity is wonderful for your child's well-being and ability to learn new things:

• Benefits your child's fine motor skills.
• Develops visual perception.
• Stimulates your child's memory and retention while you play.

Suitable for children aged 18 mos. to 3 yrs.

This is a toy your child can just play with without first having to figure out how it works. Here, there is no wrong or right way to play, and there are no rules dictating what your child should do. The goal is simply playing and being in the present moment. At Toy Academy, we call this type of play intuitive play. It's also known as "open ended play". We recommend that you pause and watch how things unfold when your child plays following their intuition.

As opposed to types of play which are aimed at achieving a particular result, intuitive play will often let you have fascinating insight into your child’s independent problem-solving skills, thought process, and imagination.

Do you know Learning Resources?

Providing children with materials that make learning fun is essential for Learning Resources - as their name suggests.

In particular, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) is at the centre at Learning Resources. For example, your child can learn to explore and experiment, build robots, and learn to code. For educators and teachers, Learning Resources is a learning goldmine. Coding dinosaurs, sorting animals, and math games can really shake things up in the classroom.

See our selection from Learning Resources here.