Rokenbok Toys

When kids play with Rokenbok toys, they use creativity and imagination to build new designs. In the process, they reap real educational benefits. From cognitive skills to finger dexterity, children’s development is influenced positively through constructive play with these toys. Rokenbok construction toys help foster a whole range of developmental benchmarks in preschool to elementary age children. 

Here are 5 ways kids learn by playing with Rokenbok toys:

1. Kids develop motor skills and eye-hand coordination by manipulating the track, vehicles, plastic balls and cargo, by fitting track pieces together and by navigating the remote control vehicles using the control pad. These activities strengthen the small and large muscles of the hands and arms.

2. Through cooperative play opportunities in groups of children, Rokenbok toys encourage social relationships and teamwork. Children work together on large projects or negotiate to use the same resources for individual work. This is a great opportunity to teach and practice sharing, communication, and other valuable social skills in young children.

3. Playing with Rokenbok vehicles fosters linguistic ability as children discuss the specialized vocabulary of vehicle activities and track layouts, or just learn to describe in sequence the steps of the process.

4. Rokenbok offers a fun way for children to develop early math skills such as recognizing size relationships, shapes, colors, spatial relationships, grouping, adding and subtracting.

5. Constructing the track and accessories helps expand children’s natural creativity, encouraging them to imagine new possibilities and giving them the tools to see their ideas through to satisfying completion.

Before purchasing any construction toys, here are a few pointers to keep in mind to make just the right choice for lasting fun and learning.

1. Is this the right set for the child’s age? Younger kids require larger easy-to-handle toys such as wooden blocks are best for toddlers and young pre-K kids. Any toys with small pieces present a choking hazard for very young kids. These sets come with small plastic balls and cargo pieces which could present a choking hazard. Therefore, playing with Rokenbok toys is not safe for toddlers unless they have close adult supervision. On the other hand, it is ideal for older preschool kids all the way through kindergarten and on to first grade through middle school.

2. Do the construction toys support “open ended” play? Rokenbok allows kids to create their own world, fostering their imagination, cognitive development, creativity, and problem solving skills.

3. Does this toy spark conversation and imagination? Rokenbok is great at sparking conversation, as children excitedly tell about their latest creation, or devise a story acted out by their forklift driver.

4. Does the construction develop skills or scientific concepts? Rokenbok challenges kids with new concepts for their age, whether it is size relationships and stacking ability for pre-K or the scientific intricacies of structures that use mechanisms such as gears, levers, and pulleys for third grade and up, or even adding motors as they move toward to middle school.