Lions, and tigers and bears-Oh my!"
And that isn't all you will find meandering through the emerald forests, dusty African plains, oceans deep and wide, down on McDonald's farm, over the western prairies, through the lands of the behemoths, around and about the castles of yester-year, under the mushrooms of mythical legends, and all around the family homestead. With over 500 animals, fairies, Smurfs, humans, vehicles, buildings, foliage, dinosaurs and Knights, you will find many, many choices to choose from to build your collection of action figures for your family.
I have been eyeing several of the Schleich critters for years. On many occassions, I spotted them while at our local Tractor Supply store. I am always one to stop to pick them up to admire the high quality, attention to details, and adorable figures they have available. Sadly, since our objective was not critters, but quick missions to buy or esteem manly-man items, I never purchased any. What a shame...as all along my kids could have been playing with these beauties to expand and encourage their imagination. Luckily, we received a nice sampling to review for the Schleich company, and are now convinced we need to start building up our collection.
Not only are these well made, they are accurate (so here is your opportunity to discuss the differences in the male and female kinds the Lord created) and they afford themselves to several "teaching" moments that homeschooling folks just seem to think of. What is even more exciting is that Schleich is expanding their educational components (they currently do offer booklets that describe and offer some information regarding some of their animals already) to accompany the products they make. A homeschooler's dream!
My children (and myself) have been playing with our new friends ever since they arrived. I am also very excited to see that I can tie in our new tigers into the Tiger Lapbook we will be making (available for free at Homeschool Share-just scroll down to the tiger one) this coming week! I can think of a lot of different applications for these babies-not just for play time, but for using as visuals for our science, art, history and geography lessons. Those adorable tigers (we received 2) just spoke to us, as we are major fans of this big cat. Our first purchase is going to be the White Tigers they offer, and again-tying those into our lapbook lesson will just weave this together seamlessly.
You have to know too, that I am already thinking ahead to next year's history course, as we will be moving into studying Early America. I was like a kid with a $5 bill at a candy story, when I saw the pioneers, covered wagon and other figurines from the American Frontier Collection. Some of these will be in our home by next fall, to offer up extra visual, and tactile experiences to bring that time period alive. Well, and of course we'll use them to just play with, as that is the most fun of all!
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Schleich Homepage
Prices vary depending on size of the animal, check your local retail store for details
Sold at Tractor Supply, Target, Toys "R" Us and other fine retailers
Shop On-Line
Not all available on-line, but I did see the Hippo for $6.49, Tiger $5.49, Gazelle Fawn $2.49, Arabian Foal-grazing $3.99
See what my crew mates have to say about this and several other homeschool products at out TOS Crew Homepage.
**Schleich Action Figures provided me with free samples of their animal product line, The tiger, hippo, foul, gazelle, and fawn, in order to test and use it with my family, so I could write this review.
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