Make Summer "Smart" With ArtSkills Teaching Tools at Dollar General

 ***Complimentary product received in exchange for an honest review***

 

Make summer “smart” and get little minds ready for school using ArtSkills’ teaching tools and playing games.

 

ArtSkills (www.artskills.com) helps parents teach, motivate, and reward kids with unique, new products available for $1.00 each, exclusively in the Learn, Motivate, Reward section at Dollar General (www.dollargeneral.com) locations across the country.

MAKE LEARNING FUN! Examples of Learning Activities / Products and Benefits:

• U.S. Coins & Bills – Play money (printed to look like the real thing!) teaches currency recognition and counting and kids LOVE it.
• Bingo Challenge – This is a beloved game with an ArtSkills twist to help kids become better readers by encouraging letter recognition, phonics strategies, reading readiness skills, and interactive play. Enjoy this game everyday, as your early reader improves and gains confidence before your very eyes.
• Puzzle Sequencing – Teach and reinforce logical thinking and positive social skills with this 24-piece interactive play puzzle that encourages good behavior, manners and social interaction. Finally, a fun way to help children learn to say “please” and “thank you,” to clean up after themselves, to share and many other important lessons 

CATCH ‘EM BEING GOOD! Examples of Motivate & Reward Products and Benefits:

• INTRODUCING: Make Your Own Scratch Off Coupons – Parents create their own prizes for their kids to discover under scratch-off coupons. An ice cream cone, movie night, day of no chores – it’s up to you! Write any reward on these six original coupons, cover it with a scratch-off sticker, and give it to your child to reveal your special prize. 
• “GET CAUGHT BEING GOOD” with ArtSkills’ new Dry Erase Incentive Kit – This encouraging chart lets parents recognize and reward their child’s good deeds and decisions. Track sharing, helping, listening, manners, and kindness on this dry erase chart, using the included stickers. See your child’s progress everyday as he or she gets closer and closer to meeting exciting goals. Look for the “Try a New Food” version to encourage this important healthy behavior.

My Thoughts

In the summer months, kids can get lazy and forget a lot of what they learned in the school years.  ArtSkills Learning Tools are an affordable way to get your children to practice math and writing skills, but still have fun doing it. We were lucky enough to get two of the ArtSkills products to try out. The first was the dry erase activity board. This one small board has the entire alphabet, numbers, and even shapes that can be traced and drawn independently. Its the perfect way for preschool kids to tighten up with skills because practice makes perfect. With this board they can practice over and over again. There's even a section to draw pictures which I used as a reward when my daughter completed one of the tasks. The book does not come with a dry erase pen, but I found regular, washable markers worked just fine and then there is no worry about getting the markers on their clothes.

The second item we tried out was the U.S. Coins and Bills. It comes with a variety of paper bills and coins that will help children learn the value of a dollar. They can count the money and learn to recognize how much each piece of currency is worth. For us, this came at the perfect time because my daughter received a toy cash register for her birthday. Now she has some money to use in it, and her older sister is helping her learn to count it while they play grocery store with their toy food.

The best part about these items and all the new ArtSkills products available at Dollar General is the price. Each of these educational toys are only $1 each. You can't ask for a better price,  especially when they are quality items that have held up to hours of rough play already and are still going strong. I definitely recommend these learning tools and will be headed to Dollar General soon to see what else they have available.

***Please note I received no monetary compensation for this review. Opinions expressed in the review are my own and have not been influenced in any way!**