Educational toy designers have taken the childhood development and educational benefits of building blocks and other similar ‘traditional toys’ and enhanced them in the development of Magna Tiles (Magna Tiles®). Few toys can offer the same level of educational benefits. So, let’s look at what they are, and what play with magna tiles can do for your child’s mental, social and physical development as well as their educational potential.
What are Magna Tiles?
Magna Tiles® is a brand name for a range of magnetic tile toys, which are also called ‘magnatiles’ or magna tiles.
Magna tiles are magnetic building toys that allow children to build in three dimensions. A ‘toy generation’ up building blocks and similar toys, magna tiles are rated one of the top, if not the No. 1, STEM toy for pre-schoolers. Designed for children from around 2 years old up to the age of 10, magna tiles stand out among educational toys for their educational benefits and the extent to which they encourage creativity and calm, imaginative play.
Magna tiles are comprised of transparent, colourful squares and triangle in different sizes that lock together magnetically. Children can use magna tiles to build almost anything in 3D – from houses to trains, aeroplanes to rocket ships. If it can be built, imagination is the only limit with magna tiles.
Suitable for both sole and group play, magna tiles offer fun-filled, engaging, and absorbing play with safe, age-appropriate, non-toxic high-quality educational toys.
The Benefits of Magna Tiles:
Magnetic tiles are a great way to encourage creativity and learning and maximise the learning potential of pre-school and primary school-age children.
Magna tiles offer several educational benefits. Through ‘imaginative building play’, magna tiles promote:
- Creativity: creative skills, creative thinking, imagination, and confidence
- Critical thinking: magna tiles encourage creative problem-solving, while teaching children the skills and benefits of patience and perseverance tin the pursuit of a goal
- Learning of spatial relationships: enhances the development of spatial awareness
- Learning the foundational STEM skills – skills related to maths, science, and engineering – through encouraging the creativity and complex ideas
- Overall learning and capacity to learning
Benefits in the Pre-school Classroom
When magna tiles are used in group play, they also promote teamwork and the development of co-operative social skills. Children learn how to interact with each other and the world through play.
Many of the benefits offered by educational toys are enhanced in group play situations. The better the play experience and educational benefits of the toy in general, the greater the benefits of that educational toy in group play and learning situations.
Magna tiles are therefore ideal for pre-school classrooms and other group learning situations.
The STEM educational and developmental benefits of magna tiles are enhanced by the type of play they encourage – free of often undesirable sources of over-stimulation such as screens and noises.
There’s no doubt that magna tiles (magnetic tiles or brand name Magna Tiles®) are an excellent investment in your children’s future.
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