Fall is in the air! Whether it's back to school, waiting on the sidelines of sporting events or just a long weekend, as always Keke's educational activities are here to entertain and engage your kiddo.
Our Fall pouch subscription contains 3 new pouches and 1 loose creative.
(PS, don't have a pouch subscription yet? You can sign up anytime here. Our pouches ship every 3 months, depending on when you first place your order. The activities in our pouches change after those 3 months to ensure you always get new activities, no matter when you signed up).
What's Coming This Fall?
Pouch 1: Shoe- Tying Activity
Our shoe-tying activity is designed to help kiddos develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and independence. This educational activity features a sturdy wooden shoe with bright, engaging colors and durable laces that mimic a real shoe. As your kiddo practices threading the laces through the eyelets and tying them into a bow, they refine their finger dexterity and strengthen the small muscles in their hands, which are crucial for writing and other tasks. This activity also fosters patience, problem-solving, and self-confidence as children master the essential life skill of tying their own shoes. We love this for building readiness for school (it’s already that time again!) and promoting a sense of independence in kiddos. Our shirt lacing toy with buttons is designed to support developing their hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and sequencing abilities. The wooden shirt comes with a series of colorful buttons and an oversized lace that children can use to practice threading the lace through holes in a pattern that resembles real-life lacing tasks. By manipulating the lace and buttons, your kiddo will enhance their ability to follow sequences and improve their concentration and focus. This toy is perfect for developing the foundational skills needed for dressing independently, such as buttoning a shirt, zipping a jacket, or fastening other clothing. It encourages self-reliance and boosts self-esteem as children gain confidence in their ability to manage these daily tasks on their own. Both toys provide engaging, hands-on learning experiences that are ideal for supporting emerging skills and fostering a love of learning through play while preparing them for greater independence and success in their everyday activities.
Emerging Skills Focus: [PS- what do we mean by emerging skills? Check out the education behind our company here!]
- Fine Motor Skills
- Problem- Solving
- Concentration
Pouch #2: Egg Emotion Wooden Toy
Our Egg Emotion Wooden Toy is an egg-cellent and activity! We love this for exploring and understanding a range of emotions in a fun and interactive way. This set includes a collection of wooden eggs, each featuring different facial expressions that represent various emotions, such as happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, and more. Your kiddo can mix and match the top and bottom halves of the eggs to create new expressions, encouraging creativity and imaginative play. This activity is particularly valuable in supporting social-emotional development. By manipulating the pieces and discussing the different faces, children learn to recognize and identify their own emotions as well as the emotions of others. This helps to build emotional literacy, empathy, and communication skills, which are essential for social interactions and relationships. This activity also promotes fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination as children handle and manipulate the wooden pieces. It provides an excellent opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations with your children about feelings, helping them to develop a better understanding of how to express themselves in healthy ways. This activity fosters both emotional growth and self-awareness in young learners through playful exploration.
Emerging Skills Focus:
- Fine Motor Skills
- Social-Emotional Development
- Emotional Literacy
Pouch #3: Colorful Wooden Puzzle
Our colorful wooden puzzle with corresponding cards is an engaging and versatile educational activity designed to develop foundational skills in shape and letter recognition. This set includes a collection of vibrant, wooden puzzle pieces that come in various shapes. Accompanying these pieces are a series of corresponding cards that guide kiddos in fitting each puzzle piece into its correct shape or letter outline. This puzzle set supports the development of fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination as your kiddos grasp, manipulate, and place the pieces together. The bright, colorful pieces are designed to attract and hold a child's attention, encouraging focus and concentration. As they match each wooden piece with its corresponding card, your learners are also working on their visual discrimination skills, an essential pre-reading skill. In addition to cognitive development, this puzzle set encourages problem-solving and logical thinking. Kiddos are challenged to identify which pieces fit together and in what sequence, promoting spatial awareness and understanding of geometric concepts. The inclusion of both shapes and letters allows for a range of learning opportunities—from recognizing basic shapes to familiarizing themselves with the letters of the alphabet, supporting early literacy skills.
Emerging Skills Focus:
- Fine Motor Skills
- Spatial Awareness
- Problem-Solving
- Logical Thinking
Loose Creative: Colorful Playfoam
Our colorful playfoam offers a unique, sensory-rich experience that sparks creativity and imagination in young learners. This "fun in a ball" is a squishy, moldable material made up of tiny, colorful beads that stick together without sticking to hands, clothes, or surfaces. This tactile experience allows kids to squish, squeeze, roll, and mold the foam into any shape or form they can imagine—from animals and buildings to letters and numbers. This super fun loose creative encourages creative expression and imaginative play, giving kids the freedom to create without the pressure of a specific outcome.
