50 Wooden Blocks by Camden Rose

Product Description

50 unfinished, wooden blocks by Camden Rose make up this all-time classic. It is a great educational toy. Wooden blocks have traditionally served as the building blocks of children's creativity. Kids can build castles, forts, roads, just about anything they can dream up. When used during cooperative play, they are good for developing social skills like sharing, taking turns, and building strategies together. They are good for learning how to count and a number of other educational activities. Parents and teachers have been known to help children understand physical dimensions by demonstrating width, length, and height through the blocks. Enterprising educators use the open-ended wooden blocks to help demonstrate mathematical problems such as additions, subtractions, and even fractions.

Benefits

In addition to helping develop kids' imagination, research finds that playing with toy blocks have a strong link to literacy development. A recent study reported in the October 2007 issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine shows a strong association between playing with building blocks and a significant increase in language scores in young children. On average, kids who played with blocks scored 15 percent higher on their language assessment than those who did not. Researchers speculate that such a measurable increase is partly due to creative block play replacing other time spent in activities that do not encourage language development, such as watching television. They also maintain that child and parent playing together remains the strongest way of promoting children's development.

Made Of / Made In

These unfinished wooden blocks by Camden Rose are made of birch wood. They are proudly made in the USA using organized sustainability programs. They come in an all-cotton muslin storage bag.

Manufacturer / Safety Compliance

Camden Rose is a U.S. company located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is made up of teachers, artists, musicians, craftspeople, and parents. Camden Rose is known for its fine woodworking and high quality products. Their toys are made of cherry, maple, birch wood, or natural materials such as cotton and wool. Many of the wooden toys are finely sanded to reveal their unfinished beauty. Others are polished with beeswax or painted using natural, non-toxic dyes. The company is committed to the preservation of the natural environment, uses sustainable production practices, as well as embraces fair trade agreements. Many of their products are made by expert woodcrafters from an Amish community nearby.

Camden Rose follows the guideline set by the European Toy Safety Standard EN 71-1-2-3-6 – standards that are often higher than those set in the U.S.

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