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School Zone interactive products

Schoolzone_interactiveSebastian has so much fun with his School Zone Puzzle Play workbooks. I’m a computer geek so I love to see Sebastian doing something constructive on his computer.

The School Zone Interactive products include a workbook and a CD-ROM.  The workbook is full of colorful mazes and the software provides 30 creative backgrounds on which Sebastian can create his own maze puzzle. Sebastian designs the path of his maze from a "Start" point to the "Finish." Children can use a mouse to design their maze path or they can use the arrow keys. I love this feature. Some kids get frustrated with the mouse, so having the option to use the keyboard keys is great.  When Sebastian finishes his path, the computer fills in the rest of the maze with misleading and dead-end pathways.

After Sebastian creates his maze, he can solve the puzzle with a race against the clock, or a little computer guy which Sebastian prefers.

Sebastian’s second favorite Puzzle Play workbook is the Hidden Pictures. The workbook comes with over 50 colorful hidden pictures pages. The CD-ROM is a little more challenging to figure out but once your child gets it, he will have a blast!  Your child adds objects on top of a picture and then the objects magically sink into the picture. To solve the puzzle, the person playing it is shown the picture with a grid on it. By selecting coordinate points, the player can direct a funny character to dig at the point he or she selected.
To add some excitement (even more!), your child also embed goodies and gags.

School Zone Puzzle Play workbooks are geared for children ages 6-8 but we have a few 5 year old product testers use the workbooks and software and they did just fine with a little supervision.

Where to buy: School Zone

School Zone has a new product line just for BABIES!

Madelyn’s newest favorite thing is her little pink mouse. She loves to chew on its tail. No, it’s not a real mouse.. Do you really think I would let a real mouse in my house?  It’s a ‘Clever Baby Card’ mouse from School Zone’s new product line just for BABIES! Yeah!! We love you School Zone!  The products are colorful, have purpose and are durable. Madelyn has tested them well. The products that we received have been chewed on, spit up on, drooled on, thrown, and dropped and so far, they have all survived their dramatic callings.

Madelyn loves to play with the Clever Baby Cards (for babies 6+ months) which come in a set of 5. Each card is double sided, printed with bright colors and each has some kind of texture or fabric attachment. Textures and attachments include crinkly areas, fur, rope, googly eyes, fuzz, and leathery material. The cards are just the right size for baby to hold and each card has an "easy to hold" area such as legs, a tail, a tongue and so on. The cards can be wiped clean.

A couple of other products in School Zones new baby line are the Happy Faces Infant
Mirror Cards and the Peek a Boo cards. Both of these products are for babies 9 months +.  Madelyn (now 7 months) loves to look in the mirror of card and she really enjoys when I read what’s on the cards to her. She is starting to get very excited when we play peek a boo and she smiles just as big when we play peek a boo with her School Zone peek a boo cards. She thinks they are so funny!

The Clever Baby Cards come in 2 ‘styles’: fuzzy animal and fuzzy farmyard friends. Because she loves her first set so much I will probably get her the farmyard set for Christmas.

Visit School Zone today to find fun new toys for your baby!