If you are looking for something for your small child to stay busy with, or if you are trying to homeschool older kids and you have a small child too you’ll love these Best Educational Entertaining Toys For Pre-K!
I began learning more about educational and entertaining toys for pre-K kids quite a few years back. We were a growing family in less than 1000 square feet of space and toys were overrunning our home.
It’s then I started looking into how to minimize toys and I developed the idea’s that you can find IN THIS POST ON MINIMIZING TOYS.
Since then I’ve always got an eye open for toys that fit the Montessori and Reggio Emilia criteria.
You’ll want to head over to my YouTube channel to get a nice close up and description of all the toys I feature!
What Is The Reggio Emilia Approach?
This is an educational method developed by a pedagogist in Italy for preschool and very early elementary education. It emphasises experiential learning, relationship driven environments, and self guided curricula.
According to this pedagogy, children have 100 languages, or ways of expressing, understanding, thinking and encountering experiences and others.
With Reggio Emilia, children must have a bit of say over what they learn, sensory activities are used, and children get to be very hands on (kinesthetic). Children are also encouraged to interact with others and explore, and given resources to do this and express themselves. You can read more about this teaching philosophy HERE.
What Is the Montessori Approach?
You gotta hand it to those Italians. They’ve really got it going on with the early elementary education philosophies!
Montessori Education was developed by an Italian doctor, and is another child centered educational approach based on scientific observations of children. This involved mixed aged classrooms (perfect for homeschool families), allowing students to choose activities, encourages discovery, freedom, and specialized educational materials that are natural instead of plastic.
With Montessori the teacher or parent prepares environments and spaces where things are organized by subject area within reach of the child.
Another important aspect to Montessori method is observing the child, watching closely to see exactly WHERE and with WHAT they need when it comes to education, and then assisting them with the area’s they need to learn/master. There is more, you can read all about it HERE as well and I found a great video on it HERE (FYI we all really enjoyed the video-it’s delightful)!
Aesthetics to Best Educational Entertaining Toys For Pre-K
As a parent, I have to admit that one of the bonus points of these toys is that they are not eyesores! In fact, most of them are so pretty to look at that I keep them on display (in keeping with Montessori principles).
Of course this is great for the kids because when the toys are on display they are encouraged to play with them.
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References;
https://www.verywellfamily.com/reggio-emilia-approach-2764968
These toys are the best, I bought a lot of them for my nieces and they really enjoy them!
xx, Theresa
I absolutely love toys like this. Oscar would happily play for hours with them 🙂
Louise x
That rainbow stacking toy is INCREDIBLE! Such a great addition for play and art!
These toys are really amazing. I wish I knew about them before. I would definitely bought them for my kid.
Wow! These toys looks amazing! My son would love these!
Really love these approaches! We’re fighting a losing battle against plastic toys in our house, but we can’t really afford to replace everything with wooden toys. Definitely need a downsize though. Toy rotation has been useful.
I love wood toys like this. These are great. Also, if those are your kids. So cute and I love your style.
I love every single one of these!
These are such great toys! I’d like to get it for my Twinkle!
Wow! All of these toys are so beautiful!
I love these toys! So cute and practical!
These are all so great toys!! I will be adding some of these to my list!
I’ve seen that letter tracing board on Pinterest and have been admiring it. That’s so fun!
I love this post! We used to use both approaches when I was teaching and the kids love it!
These do look like great toys for prek. Heck, I want the rainbow one and I’m an adult.
I love that all of these are functional yet stylish!
We love the Montessori approach and wished we used it for our first born. We’re definitely applying it with our son and seeing such progress in his understanding and communication. We’re excited to see how this will all work out for our toddler/preschooler. Great post!
These are great toys. Would love to buy fir my little one
I love the wood alphabet to trace. My kids would love that.
It’s always the wooden toys that are fun for the kids. They give kids the ability to use their imagination.
I always wanted my young children to have educational activities around them to choose from. I loved the whole Montessori philosophy, and the Reggio Emilia approach sounds like what I did as well, interacting relationally while giving my kids some say in what they were learning.
I’m loving this toys! I love how there’s functional and stylish at the same time. I’m definitely going to be looking into there for my daughter. Thanks for sharing.
These are wonderful toys to have for pre-k kids. It can be tough to keep little ones occupied and it is good to have toys that are educational.
My daughters love the wooden stacking rainbow Kindergarten!
both my kids spent their preschool years at a Montessori and it was a rewarding experience… and I love, love, love the pics.. inspiring..
I love these pretty educational toys. I love that it’s functional and stylish that I don’t really mind leaving it around the house after use. I also agree with you that these entertaining toys can also motivate our children to study and learn. Thank you for sharing this. Looking forward to watch your videos.