Learning Toy for Kids For Early Learning Skills

Educational Ball Creates an Interactive Way for Children to Learn

Sep 10, 2009

Thumball is a new fun learning toy that takes a ball and makes it into a fun educational activity that can be shared between kids, parents and kids, or used by educators.

A new learning toy has been catching on among educators and parents. The Thumball, by Answers in Motion, is a new learning toy that makes it fun to learn. It can be used to stimulate conversation, enhance memory, improve speech and vocabulary, better problem solving skills, and much more.

What is Thumball?

The short answer is that it is a ball. Something that children have enjoyed playing with for centuries. But the huge difference is that it is a ball that is also a fun learning toy. The premise is simple: each ball contains twelve or thirty-two panels, depending on the size. Each panel has a question, a graphic, or a photo, depending on the type of Thumball being used. The ball is then tossed or rolled and then caught. Whichever panel is under thumb indicates an activity the child needs to do. To learn more about this fun learning toy go to Thumball.com.

Fun Learning Toy with Many Possibilities

The Thumball has many different styles of balls to educate kids. The Original Thumball is a ball for the "It's on the Tip of My Tongue" disorder. Throw it, catch it, and say the first word that comes to mind in the category under the thumb. For example, if "Furniture" or "Color" is under the thumb, then the kid would have to say "sofa" or "blue". The levels of difficulty increases by adding more words per category.

For kids learning how to read. It is Letter Mania Thumball is an educational toy for learning letter sounds and improving phonological skills essential to reading development. Each panel on this Thumball has a letter that will require the child to say the letter, give the sound to the letter, or create words or sentences with the letter.

Another Thumball is the Emotion Mania Thumball, which is a fun way to learn emotions. This learning toy has a cartoon mascot showing different emotions with words indicating different emotions. A child would then, depending on the difficulty level, need to read the word, define the word, act out the word, or identify what another child is acting out.

Finally, the Who Are You? Thumball is an icebreaker toy for children. It provides a fun interactive way for kids to get to know each other. Each panel has a question, to either ask or give an answer to, in order to give each child more insights into each other.

This is only a taste of the different selection of kids educational balls that the Thumball has. There is also an ABC Thumb Ball, and ones for numbers, animals, shapes, and more.

The Thumball is catching on because it allows the child to have fun, learn, interact with each other, and interact with their parents.

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