Playgro + LEARN

STEAM is an educational approach to learning and development. It incorporates key learning areas such as Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. STEAM encourages babies and children to investigate, discover, connect, create and reflect – and set the foundations for learning and experiencing the world in which they live.

Playgro + Learn toys are purposefully designed for 1-3 year olds, with play features aligned to STEAM principals that stimulate wonder, engage young minds and promote:
• Observation and critical thinking, • Prediction and analysis, • Role play, creativity and experimentation, • Building and mechanics, • Order and sequencing, • Language and social interaction

Through play, crucial cognitive processes are developed and refined, assisting babies and toddlers to form the foundations of life-long learning skills.

STEAM for Toddlers

By their first birthday most babies have mastered many of these essential skills and now possess the curiosity and will to engage with the wider world.

Playgro + Learn STEAM toys build on this foundation, introducing fun activities with greater intent; challenging toddlers to ask questions and seek answers, innovate, test, analyse, build and make, explore relationships between objects, places and living things, expand their language skills, socialise and role play.

Science is described as the intellectual and practical activity of observation and experiment.

Toddler Application: Push & Pull, Cause & Effect, Action & Reaction, Problem Solving, Trial & Error

Technology is described as machinery and devices developed from scientific knowledge.

Toddler Application: Role play with devices and new technology, encouraging new ways of thinking.

Engineering is a branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building and use machines and structures.

Toddler Application: Twisting, Turning, Movement, Music & Lights, Building, Stacking and Linking.

Arts are described as the expression of creative skill and imagination.

Toddler Application: Mix & Match Games, Creative Thinking, Encouraging Imagination, and Role Play

Mathematics is described as the abstract science of number, quantity, and space.

Toddler Application: Count, Add, Subtract, Recognize Relationships, Symbols, and Spatial Awareness.