Neptune from Montessori Ici was kind enough to share her recent blog post all about our Smiling Moon balancing toy. Her two little ones are having a blast with it, and they're learning all about balance, colors, stacking, and sorting while they play. Read on to hear all about Neptune's experience with this toy, and enjoy her gorgeous photos...
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Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Balancing
For summer, I have tried to find a few toys that I could play with the kids when they either need to get way from the sun, or during a rainy day. Although these have been scarce lately, we have found ourselves going inside a few times to get away from the heat.
This week, I got this toy out. It is a balancing moon game by Smiling Tree Toys that I found on Etsy. I like that it is handmade, with natural material, the quality is outstanding, and it is very inviting to play with.
We have been playing many ways with this toy. Alone, or together, as a game or just an activity of balancing. E has even found his way of playing with the parts of this toy: by using the wooden rods to pile them up, and even sort them by colours (and of course, trying to balance them on the moon, with a lot of success I might say!).
X and M have been playing together a lot at this, but I have also seen X trying to make patterns and montage of his own...which are not always successful...but still loads of fun
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The kit comes in a drawstring bag, and contains the moon and 14 wooden dowels to balance on the moon.
It is simple yet fun, it is open ended enough to be able to make many variation of the game, portable, and playable about anywhere. We are totally happy with this toy, perfect summer game.
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