Dado Squares
Retail Price: $22.00
Normally $21.95
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Item: FA030
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2008 Dr. Toy 10 Best Active Products
2008 Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products
2008 NAPPA Winner (National Parenting Publications Award)
2008 National Parenting Seal of Approval
2008 Early Childhood News Director's Award
2008 Preferred Choice Award - Creative Child Magazine
2008 Exceptional Parent Symbol of Excellence
Dado Squares truly inspire complex thought through simple design.
Set a pile of Dado Squares out and stand back. What happens? Children reach out and take hold of a learning toy that's a perfect fit for busy hands, unlimited imaginations, and problem-solving growth of young minds!
Little kids reason for themselves how to create incredible three-dimensional structures. Visual spatial development and problem solving come along naturally! Your child gets to know architectural principles intuitively... proportion, balance, structure and color.
From 35 two-dimensional pieces, kids devise amazing three-dimensional designs. Given a few minutes with Dado Squares, they become parking garages for matchbox cars, fences for animals, angular hats, and space rockets. Designs are improvised and revised.
Every step along the way, the concentration in your child's eyes builds. Take note! This is the most impressive feature of Dado Squares - the imagination, reasoning, and visual skills that show up in playtime.
At last - the masterwork is finished! Then come genuine smiles and beckons to "Look!" - at a small person, beaming with pride, over effort well spent.
Dado Squares
Inspiring complex thought through simple design
Facilitates unlimited imaginations, problem-solving growth
Explore architectural principles -proportion, balance, structure, color
A perfect fit for child hands - generous size, easy to connect
35 three-inch interlocking squares within each set!
Made of durable, heavy-duty food grade plastic
Developed & manufactured in the USA!
Also discover Dado Cubes, Dado Planks & Dado Bricks (sold separately)
Dado Squares and Visual Spatial Learning
Visual Spatial Learning has captured the attention of scientists and educators as being highly valuable in child development. Visual Spatial Play refers to the ability to mentally picture things and is characterized by the ability to appreciate patterns & form in very large or small areas of space. Children with profuse Visual Spatial Intelligence can construct three-dimensional mental images and visual them from multiple perspectives. A keen eye for form, design, color, size, shape and space enables these gifted children to create realistic representations of real world images.
Dado Squares are Simple...Simple Design that Inspires Complex Thought
In Tom West's book, In the Mind's Eye, he suggests that in the 21st Century, strong visual skills will be crucial elements to success: "Ready recognition of larger patterns, intuition, a sense of proportion, imaginative vision, the original and unexpected approach, and the apt connection between apparently unrelated things...". Through Dado's simple shapes and intuitive system of construction, people of all ages find Dado engaging.
TOY SAFETY INFORMATION
In response to recent toy safety concerns, we're providing the following documentation that demonstrates that Dado Cubes meets or exceeds the following safety specifications:
The mechanical hazards requirements of 16 CFR 1500, "Federal Hazardous Substances Act Regulations".
The mechanical hazards requirements of ASTM F963-03, "Standard consumer safety specification for toy safety".
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Toy Value Index
8.90
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Toy IQ
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High Genius
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UPC
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182129532553
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Manufacturer SKU
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FA030-2
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Manufactured In
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 United States
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Manufacturer Recommended Minimum Age
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3 years
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Fat Brain Toys Sales Ranking
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#251
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Great gift
Posted 12/18/2011
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Great fun to play along with my nephew
Product review of Dado Squares
Posted 11/26/2011 by MJ MINNICH
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We bought this as a gift for a giving tree.
Fun!!!
Posted 11/15/2011
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My two year old is fascinated with it. My five year old daughter is loving to build sky skrapers
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A rating of Dado Squares
Posted 9/14/2011 by sonia gandhi
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Loved the product...but it should come with a designs manual. thought it evokes a lot of imagination but having a manual helps u getting started with. good quality, pretty colours....everything is perfect but a manual with lots of designs is a must.
Dado Squares
Posted 8/10/2011
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Setting: Home
I bought this toy for my granddaughter who is four. She has amazing spatial skills and I'm always looking for toys to further develop this ability. The first time we worked with the squares together and built a number of structures. As we only had one set of the squares, we had to disassemble and reassemble the structures so having more sets would have been helpful. She had to use her imagination to create uses for the structures as they did not make anything instantly recognizable. She enjoyed playing with them, but as she has many "building" toys, she goes back to these only once in awhile.
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Some alternate spelling variations of this product:
fao3o, fao30, Dado Squares, Daddo Squares, Dato Squares, Daydo Squares, day-do, day-doe, day doe, Day Do Squares, Day To Squares, interlocking squares, construction squares, building squares, fat brain toy co., Dado
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