I'm an architect's daughter, and one of the very first toys we had lying around our house were blocks. Different brand...

       Print and cut out sheets of signs for road rugs. Glue a toothpick to the back of each sign and stick the lower end into a piece of ...

Above are traditional wooden versions of Pattern Blocks. There are educational, toy companies that now manufacture Pattern Blocks in p...

Above is the light table in our early learning center. The table is softly lighted with special bulbs that do not harm the children'...

      If more than one set of tangrams is used to make a single figure, the combinations are almost endless, but one set to each figure is...

       One of the oldest and most fascinating puzzles comes, like so many quaint things, from the Far East where, over four thousand years...

The 'Tangram Story'       The tangram (Chinese: 七巧板 ; pinyin: qī qiǎo bǎn ; literally "seven boards of skill") is ...