Welcome to The Planner Play Kit for 4-year olds

The more your almost-5-year-old understands about the world around them, the more aware they become of how things work and the sequence in which things happen. Being able to plan is an important strategy skill your child needs to set and achieve goals.

The Planner Play Kit taps into your child’s growing awareness and offers ways to practice thinking ahead. In the Rover Route game, for example, your child must navigate around rocks and rovers to collect a gemstone and return it safely to their home base. Through play, your child learns to map out a sequence of steps to reach their goal.

Another skill needed for planning ahead is time management. Even though your child wants to understand it, time is confusing and abstract. The Plan & Prepare Clock is a working clock that includes 5-, 10-, and 15-minute time increment bars that attach to it. These bars give your child a visual, tangible way to track time passing. 

Inside the Play Guide you’ll find helpful tips on how to help your child practice predicting outcomes, along with ways you can model your own time management. You’ll also find expert tips and activities that you can do with things around the house to bring fun and learning to your child’s play as they transition to a 5-year-old.

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The Planner Play Kit

Plan & Prepare Clock with Mini Clock

Use the time increment bars to visually track time on this real working clock—set the mini clock to compare to the big one.

Energy-In-Motion Wooden Ball Ramps

Discover the fun of physics with this modular set of 6 wooden ramps, and form hypotheses about what will happen.

Rover Route

Create a path for the Rover using visual planning and sequencing in this pre-coding game.

Flex-Four Pattern Match

Explore shape manipulation by moving the flexible color links to align in different patterns to match the cards.

Subitizing Dominoes

Practice subitizing, the ability to identify the number of things by quickly looking rather than counting.

‘Savy’s Scavenger Hunt’ Book

Encourage empathy by learning about the effect our reactions can have on others.

The Play Guide

Ways to play, expert tips, development information, and at-home activity ideas during months 58, 59, and 60.

The Planner Play Kit

The Planner Play Kit helps your child learn to experiment, predict, and plan ahead as they learn to connect their actions to outcomes. See what’s inside!

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