About Them: Learning Resources is a leading global manufacturer of innovative, hands-on educational products trusted by teachers and parents and loved by children. The Company’s 1100+ high-quality products are sold in more than 80 countries, serving children and their families, preschool, kindergarten, primary, and middle-school markets. Among the Company’s brands are Pretend & Play, Smart Snacks, New Sprouts, Gears! Gears! Gears!, Primary Science, now!Board, simple technology, Hands-On Standards publications, Rainbow Fractions and Reading Rods. Learning Resources is headquartered in Vernon Hills, IL, with a European office based in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England.Learning resources is one our favorite places to shop, and we just hit up the store in Bellevue for Christmas and there stores are amazing, and the prices are so perfect.
The Gears one was a huge hit, and the price for it, is pretty high but once we got it open and set up, was so much fun to play and make the one on he box. Though we also built some other ones on the fly. You get a ton of gears to make many different designs. This is the pet play land building set, so comes with cute pets, pieces they can swing in, spin in, and more. Pieces are all huge so no worries of little ones chocking on any of the pieces, even the flags are huge. Comes with flags, pets, cups, board pieces, flowers, & much more in the box. The box is durable and holds the pieces inside it for later playing, so they won’t get lost.
The create a maze was really weird, comes with a giant black round board, has two pieces to hold it together underneath, and then you can have fun making mazes, or what we did was using the red and blue goal to make a maze to the goal and see who got to theirs first which was really fun to do. Not much maze pieces, 4 balls, and some random pieces. The kids got bored of this pretty fast, I think it needs more pieces and more of a game playing. Great for when you’re bored and want to build something real quick.
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