Learning ResourcesCounting Surprise Party, Homeschool, Fine Motor, Counting & Sorting Toy, Ages 3+

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!

I LOVE this toy and my little clients do too!! I am a pediatric speech language pathologist and use this toy in many ways, but my favorite is to hide the boxes in a sensory bin and depending on the objectives of each child, so incorporate the words or sounds. Even if I don’t have the activity planned, my little ones choose it! They love finding what’s inside and then we match the objects with the colored boxes. The boxes and the toys are well made and the perfect size!

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!

I’m a pediatric occupational therapist. This toy is fantastic to entice little hand to work and explore! The box rattles with the surprise inside when you shake it. The kids get really excited to find out what is inside. They have to incorporate both hand to accomplish the task of opening it or placing the lid on which is great developmental practice for hand skills. The numbers on the outside as well as the corresponding dots on the inside of the lids as well as the colors makes for a variety of language and cognition okay. This toy is hands-down one of the best way to go learning resources!!

These are one of my favorite materials for working on language skills with small children.

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.

As an educator I love a good manipulative for teaching and strengthening math skills and concepts. Especially for younger children. That in itself makes this item a win because it actually helps disguise learning as playing.I love how the little surprise boxes have the written number PLUS the dice pips ( spots on dice) . Recognizing the number of pips without counting is a very valuable skill in early childhood education.In addition to the number practice, the little gift boxes and the gifts inside are the same colors. That is 4 key learning objectives right there because obviously language is being incorporated! With a little imagination you you can incorporate science/motion/movement lessons, directional activities, and so much more. The possibilities are only limited with your own imagination.Also, an obvious is the fine motor practice when opening and replacing the lids.My daughter just thinks they are fun toys that she and I play with each day. She has no idea she is learning so much.