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Innovative Parent-Teacher Store Offers Educational Gift Ideas for Children, Kids

Innovative Parent-Teacher Store Offers Educational Gift Ideas for Children, Kids

The Teachers' Lounge, an innovative retail store for smart supplies in St. Louis, Missouri is offering an array of children's learning toys this holiday season.

St Louis, MO (PRWEB) November 26, 2008

The Teachers' Lounge, a unique school supply store in St. Louis, Missouri is offering an array of learning toys for kids this holiday season. If you want to make your child's Christmas gift educational, The Teachers' Lounge carries products ranging from toddlers' educational toys to games for kids 8 and up.

For infants:
Soothe your little one to sleep with these gorgeous lullaby songs from around the world. The Dreamland lullaby CD collection from Putumayo Kids ($15.99) introduces even the youngest child to other cultures and languages. Babies and parents will love listening to these calming little songs over and over again.

Best toddler toys:
Ready-2-Learn Giant Stamper Set ($7.99-$24.99) - Among the best of kids' arts supplies are these giant rubberstamps. They feature a large, color-coded knob, making them easy to hold and easy to sort; a clear plastic guard to keep little hands clean, and a directional arrow for perfect placement on the paper. Kids will love these. Ready-2-Learn Stamps come in several themes, including letters, numbers, animals and more. Jumbo washable stamp pads are also available. Exceptional products like the Ready-2-Learn Giant Stamp Set not only create cool kids' projects, but also make kids want to learn.

Smart Splash ($18.99) - These bath water toys help pre-schoolers learn letters with the Linking Crabs, Shapes with the Shape Shell Turtles and will boost their memory skills with the Memory Match Clams. These are great tools for learning. Kids will hone their cognitive skills while they get clean. Sets are made from mildew-resistant plastic and come with a mesh bag for storage.

For kids ages 5 - 7:
Floor Puzzles ($11.99) - One of the best among kids' puzzles. Games like this help your child work on problem-solving skills as they piece together sturdy cardboard pieces to form a beautiful illustration. Choose from titles like Rainforest, Pirate's Bounty and more. Floor Puzzles will provide your child with hours of educational fun.

Sight Word Space Station/Fire Station Dalmatian ($18.99) - These two new games from Carson Delossa offer a clever way for you to help your child review crucial school skills. Match up sight words on Sight Word Space Station and add and subtract the Dalmatian's spots in Fire Station Dalmatian. These are enjoyable and stimulating games to play: kids won't even know they're learning.

Ages 8 and up:
Set ($11.99) - An award-winner among educational card games, Set will definitely challenge your child's critical thinking skills! Players place twelve cards marked with shapes in various colors and patterns face up on the table. They then race to find sets of three cards that are linked by their similarities or differences.

Bananagrams ($14.99) - This educational word game is a great vocabulary builder. Race against opponents to create a crossword puzzle from drawn letter tiles. The first to use all of his or her tiles wins.

The Teachers' Lounge also offers lower price point learning toys for kids that make perfect stocking stuffers:

Preschoolers
Do-A-Dot Art Dabbers ($2.69) School Zone Flash Cards ($2.99) Wind Ups ($2.99-$3.49) Folkmanis Finger Puppets ($3.40-$7.99) Animalz ($7.49)

Ages 5-7
Itty Bitty Phonics Readers ($0.99) Trend Card Games ($2.99) Home Workbooks ($3.49) Trend Stencils ($6.99) Toobs ($8.79)

Ages 8 and up
Fun-N-Nuf Bookmarks ($1.75) Super Tubes ($3.99) Learning Wrap-Ups ($8.99) Mark My Time Bookmark ($8.99) BrainQuest ($10.99)

Located in the South County area of St. Louis, Missouri, The Teachers' Lounge is a retail store offering a comprehensive selection of education supplies to teachers, parents and children. We provide our customers with a welcoming, comfortable environment where everyone--teachers, parents and kids--feels free to hang out, share ideas and learn something new. The goal for our store is simple: To provide quality educational products that will help instill a love of learning in every child. To learn more, visit http://www. the-teachers-lounge. com (http://www. the-teachers-lounge. com)

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