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Educational Play
by Hape
Hape Magnetic Animals help easel drawings become little animal stories.
Before long, the animals start turning up in familiar places. One day they need a forest. Another day they are crossing water, hiding behind tall grass, or waiting outside a drawn shelter. Your child is still creating at the easel, but the magnets give the picture a cast of characters, so the play keeps moving long after the first lines are drawn.
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Who this product is particularly well suited to.
Best for families who already use creative play as part of the day and want the easel to become more than a place for finished pictures. It suits a child who likes adding characters to their drawings and telling little animal stories around them.
2–6 years
Product overview
Some afternoons, the easel becomes less about finishing a picture and more about keeping a story going. At first, your child may place one animal on their creation and draw a patch of grass or a tree nearby. Soon, there is a path, a cave, a river, or a place to sleep. Other days, the animals arrive before the drawing starts, and the whole page grows around them. Without anyone really noticing, ordinary drawing time becomes a repeatable little world they can change again and again.
Product details
It helps creative play move naturally into pretend play.
The value is in the repeat play pattern, not one finished picture.
It gives pretend play an easy starting point.
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