Learning Resources Counting Surprise Party - Toddler Montessori Toys, Stacking Preschool Activities, Matching Color Game, Homeschool, Fine Motor Skills, Gifts For Boys And Girls, Manipulatives

I’m a licensed home child care provider and this is one of the Childrens favorite manipulatives! I put it out for each of their birthdays and Christmas, but it stays on a shelf for them to ask for it and they play with it constantly. It’s extremely durable and well-made. It does have small pieces so I sit with the younger children as they play, and the pieces are perfect for the preschoolers.

BEST TOY EVER!!! I love Learning Resources and have a lot of their products at my office!! This one is so cute and fun! It’s perfect for birthdays or any day!! The cute characters inside are a fun surprise and are color coordinated for each box. This toy teaches numbers, colors, prepositions, labeling and more!! I would LOVE it if Learning Resources came out with another set with numbers 11-20!! I’d be first in line to buy it!!

This toy is FANTASTIC for so many reasons! The present boxes open and close easily for surprise egg play, but they also double as present toys for all of our other playsets and toys! Peppa pig, Mickey mouse, Barbie, Calico Critters-- everyone has presents for pretend birthday parties and Christmas! Also, the trinkets inside of the present boxes are really great quality. We use them in play with our other playsets, too! My daughter received them when she was 2 years old. My kids are STILL playing with these every day (daughter 3, son 7) because of the versatility! The ways to play with this toy are literally endless. Get it to have accessories and present boxes for all of your other toys, it's worth it for that alone! Get it to have "surprise egg" containers that actually work for small hands to open and close by themselves! Either way, just get it. This is one of those sets that is a MEGA WIN no matter how you slice it. It's perfect for play!

Fantastic fun product.sturdy materials.excellent for speech therapy

This is great to work on speech therapy with little ones. You can also work on object permanence too! Fun toys to practice sound imitation, colors, counting and sound production. Would only recommend for 3+ with supervision for little ones.

I love this toy! I am an Early Childhood SLP and have used this for several days now to encourage expressive language with both my granddaughter and my ECSE students during speech and language therapy. The lids are somewhat tight, which I like to encourage children to ask for help if they can't get the lid on or off. The objects are easy for children to identify and name. I plan to use this as a reward system for children during speech/language therapy, to hide small objects for children to work on specific sounds during speech therapy, to work on vocabulary development with children, to work on simple spatial concepts, and to use to extend words into phrases and sentences. It would be awesome if they sold an extended batch of miniature items, but I can likely find things to use elsewhere. It would also be nice if they came in a storage container. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because of the strange colors they used. It would be much more beneficial for toddlers/preschoolers if they were standard colors: red, blue, yellow, green, purple, orange, pink, brown, black, white, and gray. It would also be nice if the items that went in the box had something that coordinated with the number on that box. This is fantastic for working on pre-academic skills, such as matching colors of the lids with the boxes, recognizing numbers, one-to-one correspondence, subitizing, etc. Bilateral hand skills are used when children hold the box in one hand and use their other hand to remove and put on the lid. Overall, I highly recommend this toy for children who do not put things in their mouths. Children should probably be supervised while using this since the small items are a choking hazard.

I am a speech therapist and purchased this after seeing a lot of Instagram SLPs using it in teletherapy sessions. It is great for creating communicative incentives and targeting words and concepts like (put) in, (take) out, open, more, colors, numbers, etc. My nephew recently had a 3rd birthday and I had to order him a set too. He immediately ignored all his other birthday presents and demanded it be opened and played with immediately. Since his birthday, my sister tells me it's great for independent play time as he'll sit quietly putting different items and lids on each box. So it was definitely a hit and I highly recommend it!

Durable product at a great price. Would make a great gift for a young child. I use with my preschoolers for speech therapy and they love these toys so much! Promotes so many early learning skills!