Life Cycles on Board is an educational game for children from Minisko. 

The practical wooden kit comes with one board and 6 diverse sets of life cycles. Each consists of 4 basic circles of life. The goal is to place the wooden disks in a chronological order, based on the growth progression over time.

Children work with the following life cycles:

Frog metamorphosis – an amphibian
Life cycle of a butterfly – an insect
Corn cycle – a plant
Apple seed life cycle – a tree
Sunflower seed life cycle – a plant
Life cycle of hen – a bird

Increasing child development with life cycle toys:

Knowledge about nature. By working with the Minisko’s set, it brings awareness to children about the world around them and connects them with nature. Teaching children about stages of life is a perfect way to help them understand about the birth, patterns of growth, transformation, reproduction and adult stages.

What we love about this set is that it delivers a basic and straight-forward illustrative explanation, which is perfect during an introductory phase. Explaining about life is an important milestone for children. We help them to learn how to respect and care for those around them. Moreover, by educating kids about stages of life, we lay down a good visual foundation to talk about end of life, thereby exploring and possibly stirring new emotions that might come along.

Cognitively beneficial play with the life cycle board. Apart from promoting fine-motor skills, with inserting and extracting back and forth wooden disks, kids get to explore a complex topic. Playfully, yet structured. They need to process differences and similarities of totally different living things. Amphibians vs. birds, apple trees vs. butterflies. Children learn to associate, relate contexts, sort and combine. The activity fosters their logical reasoning, they learn to apply their critical thinking skills. Children build their own frames of references, to which one day they return, we can only hope with success! 😉

Particular focus on sustainable life cycle toys

Play with wooden educational toys has a sensorial value. They have a natural grainy texture that little hands like to feel. Be it smoothness or roughness, bumps or rounded corners on the wood. Wood changes temperature, children feel it. The raw sent is pleasing to smell, “transmitting” kids closer to nature. Such unique tactile play transforms learning experiences more effectively into memory compartments. And when needed, chances for the brain to retrieve life cycles stages will be easier – in more precise blocks of images and facts.

The set is hand made, ethically produced and will last a lifetime.

Give a memorable experience to children as a part of their learning momentum about lifecycle stages of animals, plants and insects with this lovely drawn collection from Minisko.

Age: 3-10 years
The eco-friendly set includes: 1 plywood board and 24 plywood circle disks with 6 life cycles
Language: English, German
Dimensions: 22 x 22 cm