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Our roots are firmly planted in the educational market. Indeed since 1964 we’ve crafted quality educational products and it’s still the core of our business today. That’s why we are truly honored to introduce to you our new Guidecraft Educator blog group. We’ve assembled 7 top notch educators from all walks of life with varied experiences that over the next year will, inform, inspire, and excite you with reviews of Guidecraft’s educational focused products.
Our Educators blog group is designed to give Early Childhood Educators hands-on, inventive, and creative new ways to integrate Guidecraft’s products into your classroom. However, this group is also for parents, grandparents, care givers, homeschoolers, and all others who daily interact with children and who struggle to find new ways to challenge and motivate them.
You can find a brief bio of each Educator along with a link to their blogs from our Guidecraft home page online (click on Guidecraft Educators along the left side). Make it a point today to subscribe to their blogs, “Friend” or “Like” them on Facebook and follow them on twitter. Believe us; you won’t want to miss a single article or review!
Are you an Early Childhood Educator? Do you currently have a well followed Social Media presence? Are you interested in reviewing & blogging about Early Childhood specific products? If yes please see our blogger requirements below and if you meet them, please reach out to us at ProductReviews@guidecraft.com for more information about our New “Guidecraft Educators” Group.
***BLOGGER REVIEWS***
Please note that all Guidecraft Blogger Review requests will be subject to the following Prerequisites:
• 150+ Linking Root Domains/root domains with links to your blog url
• 3500+ Twitter followers
• 2500+ Facebook friends
• Should have a blog focusing on parenting, children, or children’s products, and a Google PR of 2 or higher.
If you meet these requirements, please email:
ProductReviews@guidecraft.com for more information and guidelines.
Blocks are incredibly versatile. You can make anything with blocks. And you can use anything as blocks: books, cushions, even plastic food containers. Which make them the perfect toy choice for a home environment where space is at a premium.
So, what does your child learn from blocks?
Motor Skills:
Block play is all about eye-hand coordination and visual perception. Want to take it up a notch? Stack soft blocks or cushions as high as your preschooler can jump over them. Make an obstacle course or maze with blocks, and then knock a ping pong ball along the course with a golf club or clean fly swatter.
Math:
You can pattern blocks by shape or color. Blocks can be used as units of measure. It’s easy to see how a 6-block-high tower is taller than a 4-block-high one.
Science:
You can demonstrate levers and inclined planes with blocks. One of our favorite science experiments involved making different types of block buildings on a movable table and then creating an “earthquake”, observing which types of buildings sustained the least damage.
