Children are natural storytellers, but often their stories remain locked in their heads because they lack the ability to express themselves.

Hands On! Educational Resources helps parents and teachers bring back creativity and imagination to the children in their lives through beautiful products such as felt board story figures, activity books, dress up dolls, wall charts, puppets and other educational items, all maintaining a hands on approach!

Our felt story products are constructed using the highest grade felt available, and are printed using a heat/pressure system that dyes the colours to the fabric, meaning it wont crack or peel off! We have also made our products with kids in mind, making them durable and colourfast!

Some of our products require assembly and/or cutting. Please check this as each product varies! Most of the products that require cutting will have the option for you to purchase it "Pre-Cut" however assembly is not included for those items that require assembly (felt activity books, etc).

   Why Play is Important

• Felt play can be used to stimulate tactile, visual, creative and intellectual experiences.
• Felt play promotes language, memorization, sequencing, auditory, fine and large motor skills.
• Felt play provides experiences in lifeskills, social/emotional and spiritual/emotional development.
• Some of our products feature audio tapes and studies show that when we use a multisensory (see, touch, listen) approach to learning, children remember better.
• Our educational products come with lesson ideas, play activities, background information, literature references and teacher resources. All inserts are developed by professionals with maximum learning in mind.

Children learn best when they are free to:

• see the bright colours on the printed felt
• touch the soft felt
• listen to the stories and songs on CDs
• move and rearrange the felt story pieces
• retell felt stories in their own words

Thinking and creativity is developed by:

• repeat sounds of rhymes and stories
• tell familiar felt board stories
• invent new felt board stories
• solve problems creatively through stories
• match and sequence story items
• use the felt products in new way

Social skills are developed as children:

• share felt stories and play
• explore values illustrated in the stories
• develop oral language and storytelling

Adults will love our quality felt products:

• thick, washable and colourfast
• bright colours that hold attention
• durable, safe, and tear-resistant

   Our products are ideal for: