Kids' lacing activities have been around for generations but Chicken Socks have worked with early education specialists and genuine young kids to brainstorm ideas for each page. They commissioned their best illustrators to do glowing, full-colour work. And, finally, hunted around to find the coolest lacing material on the planet (no boring shoelaces need apply). The result? A long-overdue update on a classic activity. A tried-and-true play pattern made better. An imaginative and beautiful lacing book. Amazing. Comes with punched, die-cut pages for easy lacing and 10 easy-to-use laces in a variety of materials and colours.

Imagine taking a regular old boring colouring book and slipping pieces of super-bumpy sand paper between the pages. Now use special sparkly crayons to do your colouring. The results are multi-dimensional, multi-cool, multi-bump crayon rubbings. Sand papers are durable plastic designed with stars, swirls, waves and other cool textures. 'Crayon Rubbings' comes complete with eight different kinds of plastic rubbing textures and 36 pages of colour-them-yourself pictures. It's art that goes bumpity bump bump, right off the page.

The small muscles of the fingers are highly dependent upon feedback from the tactile (touch) system in order to function with speed and control. The additional touch feedback provided through the "bumping" of rubbing over the textured plate gives these muscles important feedback to help them develop. This in turn will help the child develop a more functional and effective grasp and fine motor skill as they develop.

What will you pop together with these amazing pop beads? A necklace? A crawly octopus? A wriggly caterpillar? A pretty puppy? The kit includes a 20-pp book, snap-on animal bodies, and an assortment of round and fancy beads. Perfect for little fingers - Chicken Socks recommends for ages 4 and over.

Developmentally these small little pops are a great way to develop strength with the thumb/index finger web space which is so important for a mature well developed pencil grasp. As an addition try hiding the little beads in theraputty then the kids can find them in the resistive material to provide a creative fun way to work the strength of the small muscles of the fingers.

Fun item to develop fine motor skills.
Use while eating, or to pick up small objects during games or activities. Great for developing index/thumb web space stability and division of the hand skills.

Fun item to develop fine motor skills.
Use while eating, or to pick up small objects during games or activities. Great for developing index/thumb web space stability and division of the hand skills.

8 different zoo animals.

Children can create an amazing clickity wave sound as they use an authentic Japanese musical instrument, "Kokiriko". Hours of fun, playing alone or as part of a musical band.

This simple toy provides an interesting opportunity to develop motor planning and bilateral coordination skills and it needs to be smoothly moved up and down in reciprocal motions of two hands. Also since it needs to be held in both hands but away from the body provide opportunity to develop the shoulder stability needed for more refined fine motor coordination.

Colours will vary.

Manufacturer recommends for ages 2 years plus.

Fun way to create a range of textures and shapes with playdough and clay. Roll a thin piece of dough, place it in and squeeze it through. Comes with a range of inserts to create different shapes in the dough extrusion.

Children will naturally develop bilateral coordination and fine motor manipulation skills as they explore and use this piece of equipment and if encouraged to position index and middle fingers of one or both hands on the cross bars while thumbs push the top it provides an additional opportunity to develop thumb/index finger web space stability - a skill necessary for mature handwriting abilities.

The perfect way to learn about electronics as you construct doorbells, alarms, flashing lights and much more using series and parallel circuits.

Pieces are colour coded and numbered to identify easily in the manual and graphics on each component show its electronic symbol to help illustrate how the current travels through the circuit you build.

Following patterns provides opportunity for development of bilateral coordination and sequencing skills, together with motor planning and organisational skills. This toy provides that harder to find engaging activity for the development of these motor planning skills while also providing opportunity for thinking and problem solving for boys and girls as they move further into their primary school years.

All components easily clip together - no soldering involved.

Requires 4 x AA batteries (not included).

WARNING: Choking hazard. Not suitable for children under 3 years. Manufacturer recommends for ages 7 years plus.

Assorted letters A-Z. Plastic beads measure approximately 1cm with a lacing hole. Use these with spaghetti lacing string (sold separately) is a great wall to develop hand division and intrinsic hand muscle development. A great way to work on letter recognition or on spelling words while also developing, bilateral coordination, hand and visual motor skills.

WARNING: Choking Hazard. Unsuitable for children under 3 years due to small parts.

Insert foam dart into the croc's mouth and squeeze. The harder you squeeze, the farther the dart will fly! Great opportunity to develop proprioceptive awareness in the hand, with the distance the dart flies giving kids a clear visual example of the amount of pressure they are using. Add a target, like a container or a shape on a wall and you can add directionality to this activity which means you can also develop visual motor skills and since the use of this little guy requires you to hold the arm away from the body you can add shoulder stability development into the mix.

WARNING: Unsuitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Manufacturer recommends for ages 5 years plus.

Do not aim at people or animals. Do not substitute the foam darts with any other projectile.