Top Educational Products for Toddlers

These days there are so many mindless toys and cartoons out there, that it is refreshing to sometimes give a child an educational toy among the Barbie and Disney Princess Dolls or the XBOX 360 war games. I have looked around and found some of the best educational toys and products for children in my sons age group which is 3-5. These are what I have come up with as what I think are the best to choose from.

Word Whammer Fridge Phonics Set from Leapfrog. At $24.99 this is my favorite product so far. It is a letter magnet holder that you place on your fridge. There are three slots in the holder that you can put any magnetic letters you want in to make a variety of three letter words. The Word Whammer plays songs, sounds out letters and has three modes of play. Which are :

Letter Hunt - Learn letter names and sounds through fun songs.

Word Builder - Explore letter combinations and create over 325 words.

Word Hunt - Spell three-letter words, then replace letters to make rhyming words.

The Word Whammer Fridge Phonics Set from Leapfrog also includes six additional letters, such as an extra E, O, D, G, M and P so they children can spell the popular three letter words with these letters ( Such as Mom, POP. DAD, etc.)

Fun 2 Learn Laptop from Fisher-Price would be next on my list. My son sees me working on the computer a lot and often times wants to play with the keyboard. I think it would be very cute if he had his own little laptop to sit next to me with. The Fun 2 Learn Laptop is $30.00 and has a lot of neat features. Games, music, mazes, teaches phonics and math skills and kids can even check their own e-mail.

Jr. Globe Explorer. At $14.98, the Jr Globe Explorer from LeapFrog teaches children beginning geography, animals of the world, major landmarks, compass directions, music and foreign languages. The globe itself talks, sings and even raps.

The V.Smile Learning System. This $59.99 video game system teaches children pre-school aged learning skills and has three different modes of play starting from beginner to advance. Popular games for the machine would include Dora, Thomas The Tank Engine and Blues Clues.

LeapFrog ABC Learning Screen Karaoke, Bilingual. For about $35.00 this machine is a sing-a-long music station that teaches numbers, letters, rhyming, phonics, counting, English and Spanish, music awareness and sings over 80 songs. You really can't beat LeapFrog, can you?