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Where smarter play takes off

Discover the how and why of smarter play. Take-It-Further ideas for toys and games, bonus activities that are Fun + Free, and the voice of the experts behind our products. All with frequent updates and new features. Join us to get more out of everything from SmarterKids.

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Fun + Free Activities

Liquid Watercolor Rice

Brightly colored rice is a kid favorite. It is bright, engaging, and sensory fun. So easy to make and provides hours and hours of fun and play.

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Your SmarterKids Home

Home is Where the Science Is (Part 2)

In our Part 1 post, we discussed some great ways to create a science-friendly home inside the house. In this post, we take it outside. The backyard is a wonder of discovery and provides many opportunities to explore science.

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Your SmarterKids Home

Home is Where the Science Is (Part 1)

To boost interest in science, create a science-friendly home. Kids will become inquisitive seekers of knowledge. If you’re a science geek, great! But, you don’t have to be one to bring the fun of science into your home.

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Take-It-Further

Stretchy Pop Tubes

Stretchy Pop Tubes are twisty, stretchy, and bendable. The flexibility of Pop Tubes gives kids options to explore building different creations. Discover a few more ways to play.

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Take-It-Further

Pointillism Art Technique with Dabber Dots

Explore the master artist painting style of Pointillism using Dabber Dots! Vibrant Dabber Dots are easy to hold with thick felt tips perfect for making dots.

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Insights & Expertise

Bump Up The Fun & Brain Development

Kids develop important cognitive, language, emotional, and fine and gross motor skills through sensory play. Most importantly, sensory play is building nerve connections in brain pathways preparing kids for more complex learning activities.

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Fun + Free Activities

Maze Building

Take construction play to new heights with Maze Building. Kids will be designing, planning and problem solving in a whole new way.

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Insights & Expertise

The Importance Of Play

When you hear the word play, what do you think of? There’s one thing that may not come to mind. Do you have any idea what that could be?

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Your SmarterKids Home

Your SmarterKids Home

With some intentional attention, your home can be a place where kids are playing and learning and having fun throughout the house. Let’s take a look.

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Fun + Free Activities

Color Changing Milk Experiment

Some very unusual interactions take place when you mix a little milk, a bit of food coloring and a drop of liquid soap. Try it and uncover amazing scientific secrets.

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Fun + Free Activities

Dragons + Tacos: Taco Making

Hands-on activities will make the book, Dragons Love Tacos, come alive. Let’s make some play tacos for the Dragon Hand Puppets to eat.

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Take-It-Further

ABC Picture Boards

There are countless ways to play with ABC Picture Boards. Playing with letters leads to an interest in how they sound and in reading.

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Fun + Free Activities

Pattern Hunt

Patterns are things that repeat in a logical way and can be found in math, nature, music, art, and literature. They’re everywhere.

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Fun + Free Activities

Seek & Find Sticky Notes

Kids love a good hunt, and this Seek & Find Sticky Notes activity has many play possibilities to keep the fun going.

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Insights & Expertise

It’s Never Too Early To Learn To Code

Coding has become a fundamental need and having an understanding of it will be essential. An early introduction to coding can help prepare kids for the path that interests them.

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Take-It-Further

STEM Bendy Builders

Bendy Builders really sparks imaginations with its bendy, twisty tubes. Try some of these ideas to take the learning and fun even further with STEM Bendy Builders.

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Fun + Free Activities

Color Spray Mural Art

Let the kids be creative on a grand scale by making beautiful spray mural art. They’ll be expressing themselves and building motor skills too.

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Journal Making

There are so many different ways to journal. Journaling can help your kid pursue their interests, explore their feelings, build writing and communication skills, and be creative.

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Coding Activity

Almost any path your kid takes in life will be touched by code in some way. Kids as young as 4 can begin with this no-computer-needed coding activity.

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Insights & Expertise

The Case For Prioritizing Soft Skills

If you had to choose between smart kids or nice ones, which would you prefer? See what most parent chose and why nice may be the key to success.

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Fun + Free Activities

Pointillism Art Activity

There are so many fun ways to create art. Learning new techniques like Pointillism allows kids to explore and discover new ways to be creative.

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Fun + Free Activities

Paper Heart Mobile

Kids can make a paper heart mobile as a decoration or a gift anytime of the year but they are particularly fun to make for Valentine's Day.

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