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Love play. Learn. Hape toys are designed first and foremost for children. Each product is developed to enhance a child’s developmental skills. Neither language, nor culture, nor gender impedes the intuitive play patterns. What children see as fun, parents and educators recognise as age-appropriate learning basics—social, sensory, physical, and emotional skills. Using natural materials, waterbased paints, strict quality and safety standards make every Hape toy an investment kids, parents and educators will love and trust.
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With over 30 years’ experience in the education market, edx education designs and develops innovative and quality educational products for a broad range of markets including early childhood, kindergartens and primary schools.
EARLY CHILDHOOD
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TopTrike designs and manufacture quality trikes, scooters and ride-ons perfect for any early learning environment. With key developmental benefits in mind, the TopTrike team of designers strive to deliver a product that is not only durable, but fun! EVA SOLID TYRES • ERGONOMIC SEATS • NON-SLIP PEDALS QUALITY IMPACT-RESISTANT POWDER COATING
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PLAY • EXPERIENCE • LEARN We are a family business and have a tradition in the toy industry for more than 50 years. Guided by our motto “Play – Experience – Learn”, we create, develop and distribute educational toys and equipment for children in kindergarten and day care between the ages 2 to 7 years. We believe that children do not play to learn, but they learn because they play. Therefore, beleduc products are more than educational toys, through the “playful” learning approach, our products provide a high incentive to play and are fun for kids so learning happens incidentally on the way. A beleduc product is a pedagogical learning concept with the child as the main focus that is developed based on current curriculums and with experienced pedagogues. By doing so, we pay great attention to the holistic education approach which is explained in additional product materials for teachers and caretakers. It is our continuous ambition to create and develop educational toys that enable all children around the world to call and expand their potential.
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George Luck is a range of timeless collectable wooden puzzles for young children. George Luck puzzles are colourful, layered, wooden crafted jigsaws. They are cut using fine blades to give greater detail to the shapes of the pieces. The puzzles are comprised of several layers providing added complexity and dimension for endless play and development experiences.
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EXPERTLY DESIGNED QUALITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS BEGIN WITH ED & CATE™ Clean lines, high quality and fun! The ed & cateTM furniture range and the ed & cateTM naturals range work perfectly together to create an environment that encourages children to explore, solve problems, collaborate and most importantly, play! From tree blocks to bamboo channels to multipurpose furniture pieces, you will not be disappointed with Educational Experience’s own ed & cateTM range. Educational Experience have sourced high quality materials that not only support sustainability but also make creating quality learning environments just that little bit easier. ed & cateTM … naturally awesome!
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PLAY WITHOUT BOUNDARIES Tegu is a toy company on a mission to be a champion for Boundless Play play that is open-ended and free of an agenda while bringing lasting change to developing nations through economic growth. That is why we wholly own and operate our factory outside of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, which now employs more than 200 people. Since launching in 2009, Tegu's magnetic wooden blocks have won multiple product awards, and have been featured by the New York Times, Oprah Magazine, USA Today, Entrepreneur, and the Today Show.
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We build 100% of our products within our own factory in Thailand. Our toys are made of replenishable rubberwood. Rubberwood is an eco-friendly, sustainable and high quality wood. With efficient machines, skilful craftsmanship and non-toxic paints, you can be sure that every toy we deliver to you meets the highest quality and safety standards.
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All dantoy速 products are durable and have outstanding play value. Made in Denmark from top grade raw materials, they ensure a consistency of quality as well as colour. The entire line conforms to EN71 and carries CE-marks accordingly. All dantoy速 products are food safe and those without print or labels are dishwasher safe.
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The word Mojo literally means “inner magic�. Our aim is to awaken that inner magic in everyone, to reveal the child that lies within us all. Creating models that inspire the imagination, promote positive role play, educate, and raise awareness of this beautiful world we live in. If this can be a positive force and in some way help to nurture a love of animals and nature then we have succeeded.
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MAKING LEARNING FUN! The Freckled Frog is an Australian owned and operated company designing, manufacturing and wholesaling a unique range of educational toys for children. Offering over 100 products, across 21 distinct product lines and in four important learning and play categories of Construction, Music and Movement, Skills Development and Imaginative Play, there is something for everyone. Adhering to strict quality control guidelines, you can be confident your Freckled Frog products can be enjoyed for years to come.
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BodyIQ速 is a series of floor games designed to engage children and students in active, collaborative learning about their bodies, healthy food and physical activity choices. The best way to teach children is through play and the games give children the opportunity to learn how fantastic their bodies are, whilst giving them a broad knowledge about body and nutrition whilst encouraging children to think and eat healthily.
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At Les Pluminis it is our passion to design and manufacture high quality dolls and dolls clothing that will inspire and delight children. Our extensive range includes soft bodied and anatomically correct dolls of different sizes and ethnicity. Our dolls and dolls clothing encourage inclusion and diversity to help children develop their sense of identity and belonging. All Les Pluminis dolls and dolls clothing are made with care in Europe from the highest quality materials.
It’s all about the quality!
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We create products to improve the lives of children worldwide. Our philosophy is not about what we do but about why. We help the teacher fulfil their covenant with the child, to care for it, to aid its development and to nurture its growth. Care, Develop, Grow, these three words are woven into all that we do. In doing so we have created a bedrock of excellence. We just happen to make great educational products. We want to work with people who believe what we believe.
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BUILD CREATE LEARN The Coko brand has been selling in the Australian educational market for over 30 years. During this time Coko has gained excellent acceptance and recognition from school teachers and parents alike for its excellent designs, precise mouldings, extremely high quality and affordability across the range of Coko products.
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and find your inner “Woo” with The WorryWooTM Monsters
Ever been lonely; ever been sad? Ever been happy; ever been mad? Of course you have, and the WorryWoo™ Monsters are here to help!
Created to promote social emotional learning, each WorryWoo™ adventure concludes with an upbeat message of “Hey, it’s OK” and presents the perfect opportunity to openly discuss topics that don’t have easy answers.
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Castorland速 Puzzles are manufactured in Poland by Castor, a company well recognised in the market for the last 25 years. Years of experience focused primarily on the development of the self-designed manufacturing technology, using exclusively the top of the range European materials, made it possible to come up with a real world-class product. Castorland速 Puzzles are very popular and appreciated for their outstanding quality in over 50 countries throughout the world. Castor has always been renown for the strict selection and graphic processing of its images stock, as well as for an outstanding richness of detail that almost leaps to the eye from every piece.
QUALITY TRUST REPUTATION
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Masterkidz速 toys encourage creative and imaginative play for our kids in their early learning years. Growing up and learning should be fun. Masterkidz速 are dedicated to creating and making toys that are playful, innovative, educational, inspiring and safe for our children.
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Masterkidz Education速 encourages creative and imaginative play with added durability for our kids in their early learning years Masterkidz Education速 is an eco-friendly range designed to be playful, innovative, educational, inspiring and safe for our children. Masterkidz Education速 provides this without compromising the environment, leaving a safe and clean world for our children.
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MORE TO EXPLORE! TOLO速 toys is the unmistakable collection of developmental toys which offers unsurpassed educational benefit for children during their formative years. There is always more to explore with a TOLO速 toy and the more a child plays, the more activities they will discover! The bright, engaging colours of all TOLO速 toys ensures further educational value. At TOLO速 we take every care to ensure we develop educational toys that provide exceptional development and play value along with fun and excitement for a child's early years.
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NEST-iT!
STACK-iT!
WEDG-iT! WEDGiTSTM are fun and challenging, multi-dimensional building sets. WEDGiTSTM can be nested, stacked, linked and wedged together to create hundreds of designs. Encouraging imagination, creativity and group participation, WEDGiTSTM offer endless hours of creative challenge and entertaining fun.
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EduQuest’s m ultimedia cour seware and dual-control in teractive keyb oard together with hands-on didactic mater ials and complete less on plans crea te a total learning pack age which plac es the child at the center of the learning experience.
EduQuest is the complete integrated learning environment designed specifically for today’s early childhood classroom.
Meet Spark. Exploring 10 key pedagogic areas, students join Spark and his friends on an interactive journey covering all major learning areas and key facets of a child’s development. Via the dual-control activity table, students will be immersed in hundreds of activities designed to develop key cognitive, psychosocial and motor skills.
Coupling technology with didactic resources. Compatible with interactive boards, televisions, computers and touch screens, EduQuest develops a full spectrum of skills in young children; building understanding of abstract concepts through concrete elements. Using activity mats, blocks, cards, shapes and puzzles, students will explore concepts including families and friends, neighbourhood and community, gardens and nature as well as colours, maths and language.
Tailored learning for tomorrow’s world. Multiple degrees of complexity allow educators to adapt the content to a particular curriculum or to deliver specific educational goals. Through the user-friendly Learning Management System and Authoring Tool, educators can design and add new activities, tailored to meet the needs of their classroom or even extend the learning to student’s homes through use of the online portal.
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Plug & play, peace of mind. Supported by a team of trained education and technical professionals, and with annual software updates included, EduQuest is a fully immersive education platform, developed and proven over several years of research. From handy teacher tips and prompts built into the courseware, through to an all-encompassing teaching manual, EduQuest empowers today’s educators with the skills, confidence and tools to bridge the gap between traditional resources and modern technology.
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An adventure in every pack! Studio Play™ aim to extend and enrich children's younger years with a specific emphasis on play based learning. Each themed costume category pack contains children's costumes, an educator's costume, props, activities and learning story templates. Studio Play™ is part of the Studio Kids Group which has been operating for 20 years in the clothing industry. All products are manufactured to Australian Standards and are of the highest quality. Our costumes are a relaxed fit and are also nappy friendly.
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To Play. To Build. To Measure. To Dream. 100% earth friendly play! The story of Unit Bricks® began with a family of builders who were always building and designing together. They got a kick out of watching their children start building with blocks. This got them thinking. "What if we could create an affordable, multi-sensory, sustainably-made and durable unit block set". After five years of research, development and testing with educators, they created Unit Bricks®. Already at work in schools across the United States and Europe, the expertly designed size, shape, weight and feel of Unit Bricks® has ignited children's creativity and set the stage for intellectual and cognitive development. Unit Bricks® are made of 100% sustainably grown, solid, hand carved and organically dyed solid wood. And by using the entire tree, roots and all—they strive to produce environmentally friendly products by reducing energy usage during production and creating minimal waste. Unit Bricks® only use organic water-based colour and non-formaldehyde glue. Unit Bricks® contain zero plastics and are completely non-toxic.
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