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Block Sets
Learning Materials Workshops designs and produces award-winning hardwood blocks and open-ended construction sets that are carefully crafted in a variety of color, sizes, and shapes. These unique building sets stimulate and develop perceptual, motor, and language skills, mathematical and scientific thinking and aesthetic awareness -- inviting children to explore, to invent, to represent and to test their theories about the physical and social world, and the world of their imagination.
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Non-toxic, child safe
Conforms to the highest Toy Safety Standards:
ASTM F963, -USA
EN71- Europe
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NEW! Color and Form Blocks: A Bauhaus Inspired Toy
$35.00
Dr. Toy Award - Best Picks 2009
A classic, open ended building toy has a new twist
Building with vibrantly colored, wood cylinders, cubes, and triangular prism blocks and little wood trays, builders of all ages can create an infinite number of abstract and representational structures and play with the connections between color and form. The design was inspired by a survey conducted at the Bauhaus by the artist and teacher, Wassily Kandinsky, on the relationship between basic forms and primary colors
Designed by Karen Hewitt for the Museum of Modern Art [MoMA] Design Stores in conjunction with the Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity exhibition.. Color and Form Blocks are sold exclusively at the MoMA Design Stores in NYC for the month of November.
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NEW! Torno Torno
$49.99
Dr Toy Award – 10 Best Toys – 2009
Young toddlers will delight in placing the dowel/balls in the holes, turning the base, and watching the whirling forms turn around.
Older toddlers will start to build with the hardwood squares, put “red hats on the red heads”, stack colored shapes into sturdy towers, and explore how motion changes the appearance and stability of forms. Toddlers are curious explorers of the world around them.
Ages: 1 and up
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TINTE
$189.99
An Art & Play Object
"On and Off the Wall"
Tinte is a changing work of art and a building set rolled into one.
The set of notched hardwood building blocks, painted in 42 different colors are housed and displayed in a wood frame.
Hang it on the wall (ether horizontally or vertically) and it becomes a changing work of art.
Take out the blocks from the frame and now you have a unique building toy creating a never-ending variety of richly colored three-dimensional architectural forms and structures.
An explanatory guide introduces the builder to color theory and the basic attributes of color - hue, value and intensity.
Ages 5 - Adult
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DWELLINGS 1 (COLOR)
$19.99
Building with Light, Color, and Shadow
Four, jewel-like, transparent, acrylic prisms are housed in a natural hardwood tray with a series of color optical filter and reflective mylar squares. The opportunities for experimenting with color mixing and constructing brilliantly colored architectural and sculptural forms are endless.
Ages 5 - Adult
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DWELLINGS 2 (PATTERN)
$19.99
Temporarily Out of Stock
Building with Optical Illusions, Patterns, and Reflections
Four, jewel-like transparent acrylic prisms are housed in a natural, hardwood tray with a series of dot and line patterns and reflective mylar squares. The opportunities for playing with optical illusions and constructing fanciful architectural and sculptural forms are endless.
Ages 5 - Adult
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MINUTA 1 (with mylar)
$14.99
Construct, design or tell a story with nine little boxes that fit neatly into a larger wood tray.
Build a reflecting skyscraper, a cabin by the water, an abstract sculpture or a shiny home for nine little animals.
Add your own photographs of children, animals, or objects to create a family portrait, a zoo façade or reflecting images.
Fill the boxes with small animals and objects for creating stories or counting games.
Ages 3-8
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MINUTA 2
$19.99
Multiple, little boxes can be used to create secret, enclosed spaces or tall skyscrapers. Add your own photographs and images to begin imaginary conversations between neighbors, friends and animals.
Ages 3-8
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ARCOBALENO
$49.99
Parents’ Choice Award, 1995
Dr. Toy, Best Classic Products of 1998
Arcobaleno is a puzzle and a construction toy rolled into one. Children nest the asymmetrical arches into a round tray and build cones, towers, tunnels, and other creative structures.
Ages 3-8
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COLORFRAMES
$54.99
Children discover how color works as they construct with 42 different colors, notched units that allow for various combinations of hue, value, and intensity--the basic attributes of color.
Ages 3-8
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CUBES, BOBBINS, BEAMS
$49.99
Parents’Choice Award, 1981
Sturdy cubes, bobbins, and beams slide easily onto the dowels as children experiment with balance and form, design new architectural structures, investigate motion, and create machines.
Ages 3-8
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CURVILINEAR
$49.99
Dr. Toy Award, 1995
Children combine soft, flexible color tubing with hard, rectilinear block and dowels as they explore, construct, and compare flexible and stable forms.
Ages 3-8
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FRAMEBUILDER
$32.99
Red, yellow, green, and blue notched units and connecting dowels inspire children to construct buildings, design patterns, and explore geometric forms.
Ages 3-8
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PRISMATIC
$54.99
Parents’ Choice Award, 1985
Children create simple and complex designs and structures as they build with wood and acrylic prisms and delight in the beauty of the color spectrum.
Ages 3 - Adult
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PYRAMID
$34.99
These rainbow- colored angled blocks inspire children to play with patterns, symmetries, mazes, as well as to create ideas from their imagination.
Ages 3-8
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SIMMETRICO
$24.99
Constructing with clear domes, dowels, colored hardwood squares, and reflective Mylar, children are immersed in the beauty of symmetrical design.
Ages 3-8
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SPECTRA
$29.99
This construction set and puzzle contains a variety of brightly colored, hardwood prisms and hand-polished acrylic prisms housed in a rectangular box that can also be used as a platform for building.
Ages 3 - Adult
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STACKBUILDER
$34.99
Young children enjoy stacking the notched units, matching colors and sizes, and creating simple enclosures. Older children are challenged by the possibilities of complex patterning and creating imaginative structures.
Ages 3-8
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THINGAMABOBBIN
$34.99
Grooved bobbins, a firm base painted with colored squares, the dowels, and rubber bands encourage children to construct simple machines, and to design other imaginative structures.
Ages 3-8
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Display Trays (5 Trays)
$18.99
Square, hardwood trays can be used to display collections and for individual building platforms.
Ages 3 and up
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Crazy Quilts
$29.99
An open-ended building toy
designed by Karen Hewitt in collaboration with the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC
Ages: 5 and up
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MAD Constructs
$19.99
An open-ended building toy
designed by Karen Hewitt in collaboration with the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC
Ages: 3 and up
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Non-toxic, child safe
Conforms to the highest Toy Safety Standards:
ASTM F963, -USA
EN71- Europe
Learning Materials
Workshop
274 North Winooski Avenue
Burlington, VT 05401
800-693-7164 802-862-8399
info@learningmaterialswork.com
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