Playworks sells toys that invite play and enhance development in children from birth through age five
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PLAY is serious business for children - it's where they experience the joy of discovery and learning. Child appeal is our first consideration in selecting toys - developmental toys that engage, entertain, and educate. And, all of our toys are child approved.
"Playworks offers excellent quality toys at competitive prices with something else you don't often get: individualized, personal attention based on knowledge and experience."
Tori Schladen
Family Resource
Project Center
for the Partially
Sighted
We also choose developmental toys that lend themselves to adult/child interactions where the child gains social, cognitive, and language skills by interacting with adults who provide words to describe the child's experiences.
WORKSHOPS. In addition to our toys, Christina Wallerstein, founder of Playworks, offers workshops in selecting and using developmental toys with special children from birth through age five. Our hands-on learning sparks enthusiasm for special needs toys as tools of play and enables special educators to make better selections for new toys and to use the toys they already have more effectively. Contact Playworks for more information on our workshops in selecting and using special needs toys.
OUR COLLECTION. You can buy with confidence knowing that every toy in the Playworks collection fills a developmental need. We save you time and money because all the toys we carry have repeatedly proven their value in early childhood and early intervention programs.
Make Playworks your source of developmental toys for children from birth through age five - we look forward to working with you.
Early Toys
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Manipulatives
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Special Needs Toys
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Other Toys
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First Toys Introduce color, shape and texture exploration. Next Toys Build on experience and familiarity. Later Toys Provide more discovery opportunities with greater skill integration. |
Manipulatives provide opportunities for combining emerging skills to gain mastery, exercise imagination, learn to plan, & practice problem solving & self entertainment. | These toys are selected with the requirements of Special Needs children in mind. Choose from a variety of special needs toys that stimulate senses in ways that enhance development. | We have a variety of developmental toys to delight and engage your child's senses and stimulate emerging imagination. Here we have some toys grouped by primary classification. |
| First Toys | Blocks & Building | Distraction Toys | Music |
| Next Toys | Stringing & Threading | Light Up Toys | Games and Puzzles |
| Later Toys | Mazes & More | Sound Toys | Balls |
| Impulse Toys | Sound and Light Toys | Puppets | |
| Texture Toys | Books/Audio/ Video |
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| Oral-Motor Toys | Imaginative Play | ||
| Multi-Purpose Toys |