Learning Through Play with Teach My
Now more than ever parents need all the tools they have at their disposal to not only keep their children entertained at home but to encourage and develop their learning skills. As parents we love to see our children playing, it’s a great opportunity to see how creative children can be while they put their imaginations to the test. It’s also an opportunity for them to explore the world around them while learning through play. 
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Did you know that learning through play can help your young child develop an array of valuable skills? They can learn cognitive skills like math and problem-solving. How you might ask? Have your children ever pretended to be the chef or go grocery shopping with their own toy cart at home and groceries? Simple things like baking, “paying” for groceries and more can teach them math skills and more.
Play is far more powerful for children, however, than many parents realize. It’s actually the key to learning. Researchers and educators across the world have found that play can help enrich learning and develop key skills such as inquiry, expression, experimentation, and teamwork.1
Learning through play is far more powerful than parents might think, you don’t want to underestimate its value. The next time you’re tempted to pull your younger kids away from their playing to do homework you may want to consider that play helps children in a variety of ways. It can help reduce their stress as they’re enjoying themselves, using their imaginations and their imaginations are unlimited. A wonderful way to exercises their brain explores their creativity and they get to enjoy themselves which makes them less self-conscious and more open to learning (even if they don’t realize that they’re learning).
Teach My has many wonderful learning kits that can help your children many basic skills all while they have fun learning through play of course.
For example the Teach My Preschooler an award-winning, all-in-one learning kit designed for preschoolers ages 3+. Screen-free, the kit contains unique and coordinated tools to teach reading, printing, numbers to 100 and early math.
From readers and a magic drawing board to flashcards, posters and counters, the kit is full of learning toys to give your mini scholar a head start. Teach My Preschooler promotes kindergarten readiness, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, parent-child interaction and self-esteem in just 20 minutes a day!
How Do Children Learn Through Play?
In her TedX Talk talk, Professor Doris Fromberg, Director of Early Childhood Teacher Education at Hofstra University, explains why play is such an important part of the learning process for children.
We need to consider that young children learn in quite different ways [than adults]. They learn by comparing physical experiences, by interactions with other people and their own feelings. And they learn an enormous amount through their imagination…. Play is what pulls together the logical and creative parts of the brain. 2
The best thing you could do for your baby, toddler, and/or preschooler is to nurture their creativity and encourage learning through play like the Teach My learning kits. Once they get started let their creativity and imaginations lead their playtime, the potential for them to learn is limitless. Let them choose the activities though as this will make them more inclined to want to do the activity.
Play provides the opportunity to learn essential social skills: to take turns, to share and to cooperate. Play helps children develop friendships with their peers good interpersonal skills are essential to children’s lifelong success. Play environments produce natural opportunities for children to learn self respect and how to treat others with respect. By allowing children to select their own learning activities, they become the leader of their own learning. 3
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Let your kiddos have playtime and you can even join them, knowing that they are having fun, exploring their imaginations and learning invaluable skills. Learning kits are a great way to start and make for wonderful gifts any time of the year. Make sure to stop by and check out the various learning kits from Teach My on their website. They have made it on to Powered by Mom’s holiday gift guide because we think these are fabulous toys for kids to receive, enjoy and of course learn from.
I love this! Takes me back to being a child and my mom playing school with me and having me do “worksheets”. Sooo fun!!
I am a firm believer that play can be a learning thing with kids! I am a mom of 4 and have taught all my kids with play time
I like that this is screen free. I paid for an online learning program that my son barely used.
I am all about kids learning while playing. Heck my great niece learns something new ever time she watches Mickey or Blue’s clues. All of the family make her learn with the simple things. STEM toys are toys but they are learning toys and we need kids to fall in love with STEM
I really like this idea, learning should be fun, but not all about being on zoom or technology, lets get the kids to use their minds, their hands and their imagination.
It looks like a helpful kit & I like how colorful/fun it looks too. This would be a great kit for various ages.
I learned that kids learn through play. My kids love to play.
I love how interactive these kits are and how they incorporate real world activities. The variety of activities to encourage and engage children is excellent as well.
Wow I never knew just how Minch a child can learn through play. This makes me so happy and I will now make sure they get all the play time they can.
Looks like a great learning tool for the kiddos. Can’t wait to try it!
I think that all these kits look great! I like that they have appropriate activities for all ages and stages of young children!
this is such a great idea, because learning IS fun and kids just see it as a chore!
I love how many different ways you have featured to teach your kids. Learning through play is great!
Learning through play is an amazing way to learn hands on! What a great product!
These kits look absolutely amazing!! I have four kids! One of them is in kindergarten and another just turned one! One of these kits would be so helpful to them!! I love that the kits range from baby- kindergarten!
Love how this replaces technology to spike a love of learning.
Love how they can use math and problem solving in so many things
I would choose Teach My Preschooler for my son who will be 5 on Xmas. I like the kit idea as I’m not a very playful parent.
I love the idea of teaching kids through play. Make learning fun.
I love that these kits focus on imaginative play which is super helpful for developing brains! I like that the kits come in various age ranges.
These kits look like so much fun. I feel this would for sure push my baby to learn and have fun while doing it!
Kids learn so much through play not only by themselves but with others. I love how much information is in these kits and that they don’t take up a lot of room.
“entertained at home but to encourage and develop their learning skills’
I think playing and entertaining a child lets them learn with out realizing. My niece decided to not start her daughter in prek this year because of covid and because it would not be fun. She would have a teacher with a mask who could not touch or hug or………….. learning at home for now
Learning through play is so important. I feel like almost all kids learn this way when there young.
i love that these are fun for kids to learn. I also like they have a variety of kits for kids at different ages to choose from.
My kids love learning through play. It makes it more memorable.
I think these are fabulous kits to have. I ran a daycare & used the preschool kit with a couple of my kids. They loved the fun we had with it.
I love that it improves your child’s self esteem. It teaches problem solving which we will use for the rest of our lives
I learned that they can learn math and problem solving by playing! I also learned that they can learn self respect as well as respect for others just through playing!
Right now my niece is remote learning with 2 of her children and still has a 2 year old that wants to learn like her big sister and big brother. This kit would be great for the 2 year old to learn from. My niece would appreciate the kit to show her how to teach her two year old 🙂
Play definitely is so important! I love the idea of using cupcake liners and food for counting games! The buttons and numbers activity looks awesome too. I need to make sure I incorporate learning through play with my kids daily!
I was a preschool teacher so this is spot on. Kids do learn through play