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Learning Resources - Smart Snacks Gingerbread Sort & Snap

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This is a wonderful toy for learning many beginning math concepts. At first glance you don't realize how much learning these little gingerbread people can inspire. There are a multitude of ways to sort and pattern with these. I bought them for my 2 1/2 year old, but my 7 year old loves them just as much. There is a short learning guide that comes with them with some great ideas for other activities. I worked with my youngest for about 15 minutes with these and in that amount of time we sorted them about 4 different ways, counted different sets and patterned. As a teacher and a mother, these should be in every child's playroom! I even bought a set for my morning kdg. class!

My son is 14 months, and really enjoys playing with these. Although we aren't to the sorting stage yet, he likes collecting them and putting them in different places. I don't have any trouble snapping them together as one other reviewer mentioned. My son can't do it yet, but my 3 1/2 year old daughter can.

I also really like the material of these gingerbread people. The look like a hard plastic, but are actually somewhat bendable, although they won't stay in the position you put them in. We have several other Learning Resources food toys, and they have all been huge hits (the cookies are a definite MUST!). I would definitely recommend this toy!

My 22 month old daughter really likes these. When she plays with them by herself she treats them like any other doll, using them for imaginative play, having them talk to each other and such. When we play together she has a great time finding the "friends". I'll have her find the two green hats or any two girls. She likes to label each of the parts as well.

She is not able to snap them together herself yet, but she hands me the two that go together and I snap them for her. A couple of the holes were a little snug when we got them, but if you put something like a pen through the hole a couple of times it stretches right out (the pegs from our puzzle set were a good fit).

All in all I think this is a great toy, portable, fun for independent and family play and I can already see that it will grow with my daughter.

I bought these for my niece for her 3rd birthday. She, her 5-year-old brother, and her 22-month sister all have fun sorting and combining them. Even the baby can snap them together pretty well now.

The kids love these little guys! Very durable. They work in the bath tub too.

This toy is very interesting. Everyone who comes over and sees them remarks on how cute the little cookie people are and how fun they look. My daughter likes to group them into boys and girls as well as sorting them by different colors or designs. They aren't hard to snap together either. She can and isn't even 3 yet. This is a toy I highly recommend. It is also good for imaginative play.

while this is a cute game, it is a little hard to get the pieces to snap together.

"The Gingerbread Man" was my daughter's favorite story about this time last year (she was about 18 months old). He sort of became our theme for Christmas. These "Smart Snacks" now reside in her play kitchen, but also are used just by themselves in various forms of play. They are very sturdy and I can see them lasting and being played with for many years. (Can even stand up to teething, though we make sure to only "pretend" eat them!)

I thought these would be great in my daycare but they are only used for pretend cookies. We tried playing memory match and it was hard because none really "match up".they do have different colors and embelishments but my kids really do not actively play with these, they are a little tough for little hands and fingers to snap together.