Laugh & Learn® Smart Stages™ Puppy

Product Description

Cognitive 4

Skills

• The Smart Stages™ technology creates a plethora of learning opportunities to allow children to learn as they grow and advance play with the puppy.
• With labels for puppy’s hand, foot and ear, children can work on understanding of basic body parts.  
• The interactive nature of the puppy promotes cause and effect learning as kids realize their actions will make the puppy react.
• Object, number and letter recognition and identification are honed and encouraged as children interact with the puppy.  

Play Ideas

• Take the puppy outside for a trip to their very own “dog park.”
• Imagination can bring puppy to life! Kids can nurture and care for the puppy by petting, walking, feeding and cleaning up after him.
• Gather plush animals from around the house and let them interact with each other during tea time or another pretend play activity. 

Communicative 4

Skills

• The 50 different songs, tunes and phrases of the Smart Stages™ Puppy allows encourages speech and language through vocalizations and verbalizations.
• Using Level 2 on the Smart Stages™ Puppy promotes both receptive and expressive language skills as puppy asks questions.  
• The labels on the puppy provides children with common words to practice early literacy like word recognition and beginning spelling.

Play Ideas

• Write, draw or tell a story with puppy as the main character.
• Create a name and personality for puppy! Practice playing pretend with his characteristics.
• Use instruments to sing-along with puppy and encourage communication through singing and humming. 

Social/Emotional 4

Skills

• The open-ended nature of play allows children to become creative in dictating their own playtime with puppy.
• Puppy can adapt to each child’s individual abilities enhancing self-esteem and encouraging continued play. 

Play Ideas

• Kids can pretend to be the puppy and do their best dog impressions.
• Children can use the puppy to talk about feelings and emotions. For example, a caregiver can give a scenario and the child can explain how puppy might feel in that situation.