Health + Development/Ages 0 - 2

14 Toys to Help Prepare Your Child for Preschool

Wooden alphabet toys, learning puzzles and more

Shar Petit

By Shar Petit

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Published on: August 12, 2024

14 Toys to Help Prepare Your Child for Preschool

DIY control panel is a fun project and great educational preschool toy
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Abernathy Crafts

DIY control panel for kids

Round up all those doodads from the junk drawer to create a fun control panel for the kiddos like this one by Abernathy Crafts. Anything that can make a knob, switch or button will do (take caution for potentially sharp or rusty things). Let the kids decide what each object’s purpose is. On/off, up/down, louder/softer — imagination required!

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Shar Petit

By Shar Petit

Sharlyn Petit is a Northwest-obsessed, annoying iPhone food-documenting, day-tripping fool. By day, she's an HR communications specialist, but she spends every other waking minute as a freelance writer and editor for food, travel and lifestyle content. Born in Hawaii and  raised in Alaska, she left the coconuts and survival camps behind long ago for a quiet life in the Emerald City with her French husband.

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