super-fun learning (playing)!!!!

After D's OT today, we spent well over an hour shopping & playing in a learning store we hadn't shopped before...as I had to get a few things for one of the classes I'm teaching at co-op (good excuse to shop, I know :o).

Color Mixing Glasses...funky blue frames with 2 slots in front to place colored disks...red & yellow disks create orange tinted glasses. The kids loved trying out the various color combinations. ;o) What a face!This is a neat magnetic mosaic "picture maker" - the colored tiles are sparkly which K LOVED!

These Magnetic Match Rings are awesome! D&K spent 10 minutes playing with it in the store. Here's puzzle #2 D solved at home...don't you just love how the magnets repel each other (alike poles) and it looks like magic?!?! This is Marbletick ~ K and C loved playing in the store (the price on the webpage I linked to is NOT what we paid for it :o). The tiny buttons are underneath clear plexi-type-glass and the wand is a magnet used to "pick up" the buttons and place them in the empty holes. I thought it's a great activity for the car, too! We bought the extra pattern cards - K and C will grow into following the patterns.
I also bought a set of prisms to help with the class I am teaching and two large magnets with handles. D&K are going around the house finding things that stick! :o)

And for C's birthday (shhhh, don't tell her ;o), I bought her a magnetic gears set that can easily be used on the fridge or dishwasher. She played with it in the store and LOVED it!

It was a super-fun day of learning & playing...we'll double-up our HOD tomorrow. :o)