Advantages: Good play opportunities Disadvantages: the 2 d animals
with had the addition of other toy animals and perhaps not all of the Bigjigtoy animals that should come with this farm. However most of the Bigjig animals were there.
The big jig animals like the frees are not 3D they are flat, about 1cm thick so they do stand up reasonably well.
There are a couple of pink pigs, a couple of sheep, two cows two horses,, two chickens a dog and a ginger cat. There is a wooden 2 dimensional farmer and his wife too. There is a tractor and a wooden lawn mower (at least that's what I think it is.)
Then there is a wooden 3 dimensional wheelbarrow with a wooden spade. There are a couple of wooden tubs for animal feed
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Then there are a few wooden trees these stand on a firm base, they are not 3d though they are flat, probably about1cm thick I seem to recall. A couple of the trees are fruit trees ...
Advantages: durable , good toy Disadvantages: none
Its lunch time Teddy, Lets get out that new wooden box/crate from Bigjigs. It measures 14x20cm. It has sliding Perspex lid easy to open. There are 10 pieces in this box.
First let?s get that wooden knife out. There is a wooden cutting board too just like mummy?s, only a bit smaller. . Now there are some wooden slices of bread, these have a small piece of Velcro stuck to the centre of them.
Now what do you want in your sandwich. There is a slice of wooden ham or a slice of wooden processed cheese. There is also a slice of tomato. And a bright green lettuce leaf each of these has a piece of Velcro attached to it. Making a sandwich is easy just choose your desired filling and Velcro it on to the slice of wooden bread then close the sandwich by putting another piece of bread on top line it up so the bread Velcro?s to ...
Advantages: Good for learning shapes Disadvantages: None
Today I will tell you about this shape puzzle .We have one at my work place and at a school I worked in previously.
This puzzle is a 21cm square non toxic wooden tray puzzle. It is suitable for children aged 3 and over. This is a thick woodenpuzzle should will last many years. It is ideal for a school /early years setting it is very durable. Would I recommend for home well yes but it?s a bit boring maybe.
9 shaped holes have been cut out of the natural coloured wooden base. There are 3 rows of three shape holes across the woodenpuzzle base. There are 9 wooden shapes that fit these holes. These have been coloured with a wood dye. These shapes do not have a peg on them to assist putting the puzzle pieces in place.
The shapes are a red circle, yellow triangle, Blue Square, and next row green oval, blue pentagon orange rectangle ...
