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Wee Waffle Castle – Little Tikes

 

Junior Stacking Pegs - Jigsaw

 
Toy No: 21.1    Toy No: 21.5 
Notes: A 48 piece medieval castle that pieces together for role play or open ended play.   Notes: Counting, sorting pattern making, colour recognition. Teaching simple concepts such as under and over are just some of the many uses of this toy.
Ages: 2+ years   Ages: 1 – 3 years
Location: Construction   Location: Construction
     
     

Modular Daisies - Jigsaw

 

Stacking Clown – Plan Toys 

 
Toy No: 21.6   Toy No: 21.8
Notes: An introduction to two handed activities for both imaginative free form constructions and threading. Learn to repeat a pattern, count, recognise and sort colours. Pack of 42 daisy shapes with a long threading lace.   Notes: Each shape consists of two sides for colour and shape matching. This enables the child to build up the clown step by step.
Ages: 3 – 5 years   Ages: 2+ years
Location: Construction   Location: Construction
     
     

Balancing Dolphin

 

Workshop Building Set – Little Tikes

 
Toy No: 21.9   Toy No: 23.1 
Notes:  Six different shaped and coloured pieces to provide the fun of stacking and balancing. Helps the sense of balance, technical skill, logic and hand-eye coordination.   Notes: Imaginations are put to work creating a race car, aeroplane, helicopter or whatever vehicle the little inventor comes up with. Easy to assemble set includes wheels, propeller and bolts to hold the pieces, plus a screwdriver and nut driver.
Ages: 3+ years   Ages: 3 - 6 years
Location: Construction   Location: Construction
     
     

Wooden Tanker Truck – Child’s Play

 

Wooden Doll Dress Up

 
Toy No: 23.2   Toy No: 24.1
Notes: A sturdy wooden pull along truck to disassemble and rebuild with the wooden screwdriver.   Notes: Children can match the dress, head and feet or simply pretend play.
Ages: 3 - 6 years   Ages: 2 – 4 years
Location: Construction   Location: Construction
     
     

3 Lacing Activities

 

Magnetic Activity Blocks

 
Toy No: 24.2   Toy No: 25.1 
Notes: These three activities encourage development of fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Perfect for anyone learning to use their hands.   Notes: A versatile 3 dimensional construction system which can easily be put together to create numerous interesting models. The magnet system ensures that the pieces stay together firmly and will need no great effort to take apart. The blocks are washable.
Ages: 18+ months   Ages: 18+ months
Location: Construction   Location: Construction
     
     

Magnetico Junior Plus

 

Kindergarten Project Block Set

 
Toy No: 25.2    Toy No: 25.3
Notes: A versatile 3 dimensional construction system which can easily be put together to create numerous interesting models. The magnet system ensures that the pieces stay together firmly and will need no great effort to take apart. The blocks are washable.   Notes: A sturdy wooden block set designed for 5 children at a time to play with. Contains 13 different shaped blocks in varying quantities.
Ages: 18+ months   Ages: 3+ years
Location: Construction   Location: Shed
     
     

Fantasy Blocks

 

Post Office - Duplo

 
Toy No: 25.4    Toy No: 26.1
Notes: Stack and sort the shapes in many different ways to create a different look each time.   Notes: Create a post office and deliver the mail.
Ages: 1+ years   Ages: 3+ years
Location: Construction   Location: Construction
     
     

Maxi Colour – Quercetti

 

Super Baby – Lasy Baby

 
Toy No: 27.1    Toy No: 27.2 
Notes: A system of rounded gears which can be put together in many different ways, either on a flat surface or vertically. The base plates are slotted together and the white pins are inserted into the holes, then the gears are inserted. The gears are decorated with different colour designs and when set in motion will create a chain reaction displaying movement and colour.   Notes: This is a construction set that has been developed to meet the needs of children from birth to 3 years. The pieces are designed to fit into the small hands of babies and young children.

Ages: 3+ years

 

Ages: Birth - 3 years

Location: Construction   Location: Construction
     
     

Duplo Toolo Construction Set

 

Butterfly & Bee Garden

 
Toy No: 27.3 & 27.4    Toy No: 27.5
Notes: A great variety of elements are constructed using the wrench and screwdriver.   Notes: These brightly coloured wooden pieces enable loose stacking. Develops fine motor control and creative skills.

Ages: 3+ years

 

Ages: 18 months - 10 years

Location: Construction   Location: Construction
     
     

Wedgits Triangle Puzzle

 

K’nex Bug Eyed Buddies

 
Toy No: 27.6    Toy No:  27.7 
Notes: The colourful pyramid can be pulled apart into progressively smaller pyramids and then into separate shapes. Balance, stack and build with the three dimensional pieces. The expansion pieces allow for designs in different dimensions. The design cards specify the level of difficulty and the number of pieces required   Notes:  With easy snap large pieces young builders can create lots of fun characters with big buggy eyes. The flexible design of the parts allows children to build in any direction. The large pieces are easy to grip with little hands and fit together with a minimum of ease. Models stay together during play and can be easily dismantled.

Ages: 3+ years

 

Ages:  2+ years

Location:  Construction

 

Location:  Construction

     
     

K’nex Rovin Rollers

 

Mobilo

 
Toy No: 27.8    Toy No: 27.9 
Notes: This pack contains a quick start frame for beginners. The flexible design of the parts allows children to build in any direction. The large pieces are easy to grip with little hands and fit together with a minimum of ease. Models stay together during play and can be easily dismantled.   Notes: Children will learn to stack and balance, to join systematically and to utilise the manifold possibilities of motion. The cube shape forms the basis of Mobilo building and a wide variety of further components including wheels and axles provides ample materials for creative play. The strong plastic pieces are moulded in bright colours and clip together securely with minimum effort. Includes design work cards.

Ages: 2+ years

 

Ages: 2+ years

Location: Construction

 

Location: Construction

     
     

Kid K’nex Creatures

 

Lego Tech Machines

 
Toy No: 27.10    Toy No: 27.11
Notes: This set allows children to quickly translate their ideas into large models. Models are easily assembled, stay together during play and can be quickly dismantled. The design cards can be used to transform 2-D drawings into 3-D models.   Notes: This super set is perfect for creative young designers. Based on popular themes such as air, sea, land and space travel, this set is ideal for free play or as a tool to get children excited about simple science and technology. They learn about tools and investigate the functions of basic components.

Ages: 2+ years

 

Ages: 3+ years

Location:  Construction

 

Location: Construction

     
     

Zoob Car Designer Kit

 

Superstructs Deluxe Set

 
Toy No: 27.12   Toy No: 27.13
Notes: Zoob pieces snap, click and pop together 20 different ways so there’s no limit to what kids can build and because Zoob pieces can move, children can play with their creations. Zoob’s open-ended building makes for stimulating play. Create dozens of vehicles or unlimited creative building. Instructions included to create 13 models.   Notes: Superstructs is smart constructive play. This set includes an illustrated guide to make 10 models as well as nearly endless play possibiliites. Build a ferris wheel, truck, plane, lawn mower and more.

Ages: 6+ years

 

Ages: 5+ years

Location: Construction

 

Location: Construction

Crazy Forts Construction

Toy No: 27.14
Notes: Simply connect the sticks and balls and cover the structure with bedsheets to create places where imaginations flourish

Ages: 4+ years

Location: Construction

Galt Marble Run

 

 Quadrilla Wooden Marble Run

 
   
Toy No: 28.1   Toy No: 28.2
Notes:  Brightly coloured pieces in 4 different shapes to slot together into a marble run. Children will enjoy devising a variety of routes for the marbles to roll along as they descend to a home base, marbles included.   Notes:  Quadrillia is the next generation of marble runs. Quadrilla allows children to determine the marble's path with endless options. It is a system of blocks and tracks that allow the energy of a marble to travel along the path. The blocks have 9 different functions and allow for simple or complex, multilevel, multidirectional layouts depending on the builder's understanding of the function of each piece. Children can draw plans for their constructions and adjust them as they find systems that work better along the way.  

Ages: 4 - 8 years

  Ages: 3+ years

Location: Construction

  Location: Construction 
     

Wooden Patern Blocks

Magna Tiles

Toy No: 31.3 Toy No: 31.5
Notes: These wooden blocks come in classic shapes and colours. Can be used for patterns, shape play, area, angles, and games. Visit the website edex.com.au/ideas/teachnotes. Notes: Magna Tiles are unique in that they are able to attract on all sides, even when flipped around. Children will explore geometric shapes, symmetry and other basic maths concepts with these colourful pieces

Ages: 3+ years

Ages: 3+ years
Location: Construction Location: Construction
     

Basic Mosiac Classroom Pack – Diset

 

Modular Maths – Jigsaw

 
Toy No: 31.4    Toy No: 35.4  
Notes: Large brightly coloured plastic shapes create beautiful mosaic designs. There are 4 trays and an instruction sheet   Notes: 120 multi-coloured pieces, some of which feature mathematical symbols.

Ages:  2 – 6 years

 

Ages: 4 – 12 years

Location: Games

 

Location:  Construction

     
     

Duplo Fire Station

 

Magnet Attraction

 
Toy No: 44.2   Toy No: 61.1
Notes: Sound the alarm bell and let the firemen slide down the shute.   Notes:  What attracts and doesn’t attract in this magnetic fun set.

Ages: 2+ ages

 

Ages: 8+ years

Location: Construction

 

Location:  Construction