Color A Flower Bag by Alex Toys

Get colorful with Color A Flower Bag!

We at The Learning Tree love anything that encourages a child’s creativity. That’s why we love the Color A Flower Bag by Alex Toys.

Color A Flower Bag is covered with dazzling flowers but it’s up to kids to make ‘em bloom. This cool messenger bag has a shoulder strap and a built-in pouch to carry the 6 permanent markers that are included. A great gift for your little artist on the go!

The bag measures 14”W x 11”H x 4”D. Plenty big enough for books, binders and a snack.

Color A Flower Bag by Alex Toys for Ages 7 to 13 is our Learning Tree Toy of The Week!

It’s 20% Off through November 15th. Limit 3 at this price. Click on the photo for more info or to buy.

ZOOB Sparkle 60 Building Toy

Let your creativity soar with ZOOB Sparkle,

our Learning Tree Toy of The Week!

Girls and boys can build anything from animals to space rockets to thingie-majigs! Your cheetahs will run fast, space rockets will blast off in the sky and the thingie-majigs will bend and jump in every which way imaginable!

Then, when you’re all done, just take it apart and build something new! ZOOB Sparkle 60 piece set is a great addition to your ZOOB collection or you can start a brand new one!

ZOOB Sparkle is great for kids 6 years old and up. It’s made by Infinitoy. Check it out now while it’s on sale!

Limit 3 at this price.

Gbaby Sea includes magnetic creatures and shapes for infants.

Babies can go to sea with Gbaby! This 11 piece Sea set features soft, super safe materials, making it perfect for teething as well as playtime fun.

The set includes a star, a turtle, a crab and a fish – as well as fun shapes that make a rattling sound when shaken, and the magnets inside attract or repel as if by magic, making it great fun for infants 10 months and up.

Swiss-made Gbaby uses simple ergonomic forms, helping infants develop their motor skills,  hearing and touch.

All the pieces have soft edges and are hermetically sealed, so they double as a bath toy. And if they get dirty, and they will with baby around, toss them in the dishwasher and they’ll hold up just fine.

Includes 11 pieces: 4 half round, 2 disks, 1 square, a star, a turtle, a crab and a fish. – and it’s our Learning Tree Toy Of The Week, so it’s 20% off through Saturday, October 31st.

None other than Mrs. Fisher Cat from the Calico Critters Fisher Cat family!

Storytime was lots of fun today. We had a nice group of kids at our Corinth store to hear Miss Kathleen read Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert.

Leaf Man, published in 2005, is a beautiful and very creative book. Ehlert collected leaves in a plastic bag and photocopied them to keep their beautiful colors. She found leaves of all shapes and sizes around the country – even in Kansas City! Then she made the leaves into colllages, creating chickens, ducks, geese, pumpkins, turtles and lots more. Ever page is a different collage of brightly colored leaves.

The story is about finding the Leaf Man that blew him away and where the wind took him. The book allows kids to use their imaginations and intelligence to spot all the animals, vegetables and plants created with the leaves.

It’s a great story and picture book for kids ages 4 to 8, published by Harcourt Inc. The Leaf Man is a Junior Library Guild selection. It sells at The Learning Tree for $16.00.

After Storytime, Miss Kathleen and the kids made leaf collages to take home. They also got to meet and talk to Mrs. Fisher Cat. And of course we have LOTS of Calico Critters for sale! Come on in to either store to take a look!

North Pole Camouflage is a very cool game.

Here’s how to play:
-Arrange six transparent puzzle pieces over one of the 48 background cards, starting with beginner and working your way up to expert
-The puzzle pieces have pictures of polar bears and fish on it
-Objective: Put the polar bear in the snow and the fish in the water without covering up the people

There are 48 challenges with 4 levels of difficulty. This game is part of Educational Insights Smart Games series. Puzzle pieces and cards store in the game board’s pull-out drawer, making this a great travel toy.

This game is not only enjoyable, but it helps kids develop problem solving skills, high cognitive thinking and spatial perception. It can be played with the whole family or by yourself.

North Pole Camouflage is easiest to use by seven-year-olds and older players, but kids as young as 5 can have lots of fun matching the pieces.

It’s our Learning Tree Toy of The Week and it’s on sale through October 24th.

Kid's Grocery Cart

Kids have boundless imaginations and we love to encourage them with pretend play toys.

That’s why we love Melissa and Doug’s Grocery Cart…and we know kids love it too because they make a beeline for our carts every time they come in to our stores.

Children love finding the big things that mom and dad use shrunk down to their size! They have lots of fun imitating grown-ups and this very realistic grocery cart is a great way for them to do that.

The cart is metal, has pivoting wheels and even corner bumpers to protect furniture.

This grocery cart is sized for kids ages 3 to 6.

Melissa & Doug’s Grocery Cart is our Toy Of The Week this week AND 20% off through October 10th .

Click on the photo for more info or to buy.

Snap Circuits Alternative Energy Kit

Go Green With

Snap Circuits Alternative Energy Kit!

Snap Circuits are one of our favorite groups of science toys at The Learning Tree. Made by Elenco Electronics, these kits offer endless projects for kids to learn about electricity. And now, they’re teaching kids about alternative energy sources with Snap Circuits Alternative Energy Kit – Green Addition.

Kids of any age will love learning how to “go green.” They can build over 125 projects and have fun learning about environmentally friendly energy. And this week only, it’s 20% off!

Snap Circuits Green Edition includes a full-color manual and a separate educational manual. The educational manual explains all the forms of environmentally friendly energy including:

geothermal

hydrogen fuel cells

wind

solar

tidal

hydro

…and more.

This science kit for kids from 8 to 108 won the Dr. Toy Green Toy Company award, and made Astra’s Best Toys for Kids 2009 list.

The kit includes:

Come in to The Learning Tree at Corinth Square or Park Place and take a look at all the new marble assortments that just arrived! They’re not just pretty…they are super fun to play with!

Mega Marble Display at The Learning Tree Corinth Square

Our selection of Mega Marbles is huge! The names of the sets are very descriptive of what the marbles look like. We have Jupiter marbles, Mars marbles, Cat’s Eye, Steely Torpedo, Fiesta, Jungle….you name it!

Each net has 24 marbles (mibs) and 1 shooter. The mibs are 5/8″ and the shooter is 1″. It also has 2 plastic display rings for showing them off.

Marble games have been around for generations…But how do you play marbles?

The most popular marble game is Ringer.

Each player (2 to 6 per game) has a shooter, which is a larger sized marble than the others.

If you’re playing outside, draw a circle on the sidewalk with chalk. (or use a stick in dirt) that’s at least 3 feet across. The bigger the circle, the harder the game will be.

To see who plays first, one at a time, each player stands behind a line drawn at the edge of the circle and tosses their shooter into the circle, trying to get as close to the opposite edge of the circle as they can. whoever gets closest, goes first. This process is called lagging. They can also “knuckle down” when they lag if they want to.

This photo shows a player knuckling down. Your knuckle must touch the ground when you shoot the marble.

Knuckle down

13 marbles are placed in the circle in a cross formation in the middle.

The first player knuckles down and tries to knock one of the 13 marbles out of the circle. If he does, and his shooter stays in the circle, he or she gets another turn. He can shoot from inside the ring which gives him an advantage since he can get closer to the marbles.

A player can’t go inside the circle unless their shooter stayed in on their turn.

If he don’t knock another marble out of the circle and his shooter stays in the circle, the next player stays at the edge of the circle and knuckles down and shoots. She can aim at the other players shooter and try to knock it out. If she does, she wins all the marbles and the game.

Or, she can try to knock out another marble. If she misses, the next player shoots from inside the circle where the shooter landed from his previous turn.

The best strategy is to try to keep your shooter in the circle to stay closer to the marbles you are trying to knock out. Whoever knocks out the most marbles, wins the game.

You can also make up your own rules. There are tons of variations to marble games.

Also, the players need to decide up front what the rules are. Including whether to play for “fair” or for “keeps”. If you play for fair, when the game is over, everyone gets their marbles back. If you play for keeps, the winner keeps all the marbles.

Marbles is a classic, fun game that’s been played all over the world, generation after generation. You can play indoors or out, on any flat surface, with just a circle, some marbles and some friends or family.

Join the fun and start playing marbles today!

Bags of Mega Marbles from The Learnning Tree

Your tiny tots will play and discover in this portable fabric frame house for hours and hours. It’s really easy to set up and take down too so you can take it to the sitter’s house or off to grandma’s with no trouble at all.

Ball play, key play, shape sorting, posting and peek-a-boo games, this dome’s got it all. It sets up in a flash into a big, roomy environment, making it perfect for multiple kids all playing at once.

Discovery Playhouse comes with 5 balls for popping into all the different types of chutes, a set of keys that attach to the fabric wall when not in use, spinners, mirrors, peep-holes, numbers, – lots of stuff to keep kids busy and learning for hours.

See more photos and get more info on our store. Just click here.

If you haven’t seen it, be sure to check it out! Click here for the interactive version of our catalog….