Retail Price: $22.00
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2008 Dr. Toy 10 Best Active Products
2008 Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products
2008 NAPPA Winner (National Parenting Publications Award)
2008 National Parenting Seal of Approval
2008 Early Childhood News Director's Award
2008 Preferred Choice Award - Creative Child Magazine
2008 Exceptional Parent Symbol of Excellence
Dado Squares are the newest addition to the Dado toy line inspiring complex thought through its simple design. Whether you favor art or science as you explore architectural principles . . . proportion, balance, structure and color, Dado Squares are sure to stimulate and entertain your mind. Create any number of three-dimensional structures and explore visual spatial development and problem solving with this simple toy.
Educational and fun!
Each set features 35, 3" squares and can be used to create structures over 3' high!
Made of durable, heavy-duty plastic
Developed and manufactured right here in the USA!
Dado Squares and Visual Spatial Learning
Visual Spatial Learning has captured the attention of scientists and educators as being highly valuable in child development. Visual Spatial Play refers to the ability to mentally picture things and is characterized by the ability to appreciate patterns & form in very large or small areas of space. Children with profuse Visual Spatial Intelligence can construct three-dimensional mental images and visual them from multiple perspectives. A keen eye for form, design, color, size, shape and space enables these gifted children to create realistic representations of real world images.
Dado Squares are Simple...Simple Design that Inspires Complex Thought
In Tom West's book, In the Mind's Eye, he suggests that in the 21st Century, strong visual skills will be crucial elements to success: "Ready recognition of larger patterns, intuition, a sense of proportion, imaginative vision, the original and unexpected approach, and the apt connection between apparently unrelated things...". Through Dado's simple shapes and intuitive system of construction, people of all ages find Dado engaging.
TOY SAFETY INFORMATION
In response to recent toy safety concerns, we're providing the following documentation that demonstrates that Dado Cubes meets or exceeds the following safety specifications:
The mechanical hazards requirements of 16 CFR 1500, "Federal Hazardous Substances Act Regulations".
The mechanical hazards requirements of ASTM F963-03, "Standard consumer safety specification for toy safety".
Toy Value Index: 9.19
The Toy Value Index is a Fat Brain Toys exclusive intended to quantify the overal play value of a given toy or game. We do this by taking our customers' feedback on (QUALITY + TIME PLAYED + AGE TRANSCENDENCE)/PRICE.
Fat Brain Index: 8.54
The Fat Brain Index is another Fat Brain Toys exclusive that factors in 14 different traits that we've identified that make a toy "Fat Brain Worthy".
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Skills and creativity
Posted yesterday by pauline gennis
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I ordered Dado Squares for my Pre-K class. Although the children can recognize the different geometric shapes, they do not know their properties. By building with Dado Squares and by creating different designs they are discovering on their own the properties of a square and mathematical patterning.
I advise before it is given to the children the teachers or parents take the time to play with the materials and than presented to the children. It will help you as a teacher in observing the skills that you want your children to learn and, quiet often, ways that the children discovered in using a particular material. Creativity!
I hope that helps.
Pauline Gennis
So far so good!
Posted 16 days ago
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After a few days of play, our 3 year old loves these. I'm curious to how long their going to last in her little brutal hands, but we'll see. So far so good though. I really enjoy watching her learn and build new things with these.
Product review of Dado Squares
Posted 17 days ago by angela fleyzor
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Setting: Counseling Sector
great .Allows for constant changes to designs. Never repeats building shapes so child does not become bored.
Not very sturdy
Posted 28 days ago by Alissa Sugrim
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Setting: Home
We ordered both the Dado Squares and the Dado Cubes. The cubes are great and fit together like they should. The squares just will not stay put together- they constantly slide off each other, like the grooves were made too big, so they just slip off one another. Quite frustrating to a child who is trying to build something..... (Note from Fat Brain Toys: The grooves of Dado Squares are precise measurements so when placed at a right angle, the squares hold together neatly. Dado Squares were carefully designed so that children think logically in assembling pieces and also, do not struggle with a tight fight. We contacted our customer with this information, along with the option of returning the product if desired.)
Some alternate spelling variations of this product:
Dado Squares, Daddo Squares, Dato Squares, Daydo Squares, Day Do Squares, Day To Squares, interlocking squares, construction squares, building squares, Dado
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Elkhorn, Nebraska USA 68022