Worm-on-a-String

The Worm-on-a-String brings a rewarding sensory element to the gift box. The Worm-on-a-String can be viewed as a fidget toy that children love to hold and weave in and out of their fingers. The soft texture is incredibly satisfying for them and they find lots of ways to play with this trendy toy. Our community of kids of all age groups (young and old) had fun naming the worms and even building them houses out of cardboard and treating them like a pet. The house building alone has meant many hours of imaginative play and fun with this particular toy!

Flippin Dolphins Brain Teaser Puzzle

The Flippin Dolphins brain teaser puzzle is another quality educational toy from Smart Games, which was rated highly by our panel of kids as a fun activity. Developmentally, it brings problem-solving, planning and spatial relations into the mix, as your child learns how best to arrange the dolphins under the water, so that they all fit in the grid. Each of the 7 pieces is magnetised with a snap to grid feel, making the experience quite unique and also highly rewarding for developing brains. The activity is also graded from easy to expert (48 challenges in all) and thus provides a good mix of both quick wins and a sense of accomplishment, helping to create that healthy screen-free, feel-good factor/feelings of reward, while still encouraging children to challenge themselves further! Best of all – it can be played over and over again!

Roblox

This Roblox book is on-trend and in demand. This Search and Find book scored 5/5 for the fun factor, by our panel of kids, as they loved searching for their well-known Roblox characters from their on-line world. It is well illustrated, with just enough of a challenge for this age group. Your child should enjoy the quick wins of the ‘look and find’ experience, creating feelings of reward in a healthy and off-screen way. Developmentally, this book is excellent for sharpening those visual perceptual and concentration skills. This is bound to provide hours of off-screen fun!

The Human Body

Learn about the human body with this activity packed box set. It includes a 72 piece jigsaw puzzle; 48 x 72cm poster; 25 double sided trivia cards and a 3D wooden model kit of a human skeleton. This box set provides the perfect opportunity for fine tuning fine motor skills, visio-spatial perception and concentration skills with fun educational trivia cards for learning. These activities provide both quick wins and progress wins, allowing a child to feel a sense of accomplishment. This is therefore a wonderful screen-free addition to the box, that not only delivers those feel-good neurotransmitters/feelings of reward, but also encourages perseverance and sustained engagement in play.

Bubble Pack

This box includes a bubble pack for creating bubbles. Inside are two 236ml bottles of Premium/Ultra Premium bubble solution and a giant wand to create long lasting giant bubbles. This is a fantastic activity for children, as it is an enormously satisfying sensory experience to see the bubbles grow extra large, and then be able to touch them. They also get great satisfaction out of mastering the art of bubble making! The large wand creates an over the top experience that is fun! Best of all it gets kids outdoors and away from screens. They are also practicing their fine-motor skills in carefully sculpting the bubbles with the wand. The quantity and quality of the bubble solution means this activity should be repeatable a number of times throughout the month.

Nature Word Search

This Nature Word Search book has a similar effect, as a Look and Find book, providing quick wins to captivate children’s attention and provide feelings of pleasure and reward, as well as progressive wins for that sense of achievement. Good for visio-spatial skills and attention and better yet, it’s educational! Beautifully illustrated and presented, children will enjoy searching through this book.