What's the Play Smart secret? Learning should be fun!BOOK FEATURES - 70 pages includes over 80 stickers, and a wipe-clean activity board
- For ages 2-4
- 8.25" x 11.875"
Play Smart Skill Builders Age 2+ is full of age-appropriate maze activities that are perfect for strengthening children’s hand-eye coordination and focus.
Maze activities help develop and improve perception, visualization, and reasoning skills. Children will also trace the lines of mazes and drawings to improve pencil skills and build the foundation of letter and picture drawing. Through trial and error, children will build fine motor skills and increase attention span.
What’s Play Smart Workbooks - Over 48 million Play Smart Workbooks sold worldwide.
- Educational method with over 60 years of experience.
- Age appropriate activities: Activities are carefully developed to match the level of specific age group.
- Step-by-step method: The instruction and the activity gradually get challenging throughout the workbook.
- Wide variety of activities: Variety of activities from different approaches help children strengthen critical thinking skills and creativity, which help them to be able to solve practical problems on their own. It also helps keep their interest and focus.
- Stickers: Uses stickers within the context of certain activities and also as rewards for completed work to keep children motivated.
- 4 colors throughout the book with variety of fun illustrations: The cute and colorful illustrations engage children in activities. Fun illustrations help children understand the activities without reading the instructions.
- Support children’s learning: “To Parents” sections explain the effective ways for parents to support children’s learning.
- School readiness: Children can acquire basic academic skills before entering preschool.
- Play Smart Series has won National Parenting Product Awards, Family Choice Award and Mom’s Choice Awards®.
About Gakken Gakken is the number 1 educational publisher in Japan. Founded in 1946 by Hideto Furuoka, the mission of Gakken has always been to produce fun-first, educational materials for children.
Gakken is well-known to Asian families for its bestselling workbooks. Gakken is also well-respected in academic circles - publishing popular teaching materials for preschools, kindergartens, and primary schools. In addition to its substantial publishing business, Gakken also runs 14,000 learning centers called “Gakken Classrooms” and operates nursery schools - all inspired by the successful formula used in their workbooks.
Play Smart’s philosophy rewards success and builds confidence. Created by educational experts, this award-winning Play Smart series uses Gakken’s unique fun-first method of completing age-appropriate activities that are progressively more challenging, building on small achievements, and fostering an eagerness to learn. The variety of activities leads to creative problem-solving skills and prepares children for the journey of lifelong learning
Industry Reviews
"Each one puts the emphasis on fun, so much that kids won't even know they're building important skills while they trace lines and shapes, cut and paste objects, solve mazes and tackle other simple projects."--Red Tricycle
"They're created in a way where kids can play through the pages, rather than making it seem like they're "working."--Sweet Tooth Sweet Life
"I especially appreciate that the workbooks include notes to parents on every page, offering advice on how to help children get the most out of each challenge...All the pages are colorful, engaging, fun, challenging and educational"--Outnumbered 3-1
..".go above and beyond anything I've ever seen before in other workbooks I've had for our kids. The biggest way for me to know how successful they are is to see the excitement and joy on the kids' faces every time we pull them out! Learning + fun = amazing success!"--Emily Reviews
"I highly recommend these workbooks. They are perfect for the different ages and they are colorful and fun. The stickers are of the highest quality that I have seen and I can see, as a former school teacher and a homeschooling mom and reviewer, that a lot of thought went into creating insightful, practical and relevant topics for little ones."--The Natural Home School "They're created in a way where kids can play through the pages, rather than making it seem like they're "working."--Sweet Tooth Sweet Life
"I especially appreciate that the workbooks include notes to parents on every page, offering advice on how to help children get the most out of each challenge...All the pages are colorful, engaging, fun, challenging and educational"--Outnumbered 3-1
..".go above and beyond anything I've ever seen before in other workbooks I've had for our kids. The biggest way for me to know how successful they are is to see the excitement and joy on the kids' faces every time we pull them out! Learning + fun = amazing success!"--Emily Reviews
"I highly recommend these workbooks. They are perfect for the different ages and they are colorful and fun. The stickers are of the highest quality that I have seen and I can see, as a former school teacher and a homeschooling mom and reviewer, that a lot of thought went into creating insightful, practical and relevant topics for little ones."--The Natural Home School
